Letter from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse, 23 Jan. 1880 includes: ff. 74-76 Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Robert Louis Stevenson: 1880.
Two Letters, one from Lady Jersey to Edmund Gosse, 29 Aug. 1897 (ff. 77-78), the other from Gosse to T. J. Wise, 17 Sept. 1897 (ff. 78, 79b), both concerned with the procurement for Wise of a copy of An Object of Pity, 1892, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lady Jersey and others, annotated by Lady Je...
Letter from Graham Balfour to T. J. Wise, 1 May 1929 includes: f. 80 Sir Thomas Graham Balfour, author and educationalist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter rel. to R. L. Stevenson's 'The Hanging Judge' (1887) to Thomas James Wise from Sir Thomas Graham Balfour: 1929.
Letters (3) from Sir Graham Balfour to T. J. Wise, concerning the authenticity of the 1887 edition of Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson, The Hanging Judge; 2 April-1 May 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 12, 14.]
1. Letter from Max Beerbohm to Edmund Gosse, thanking him for the gift of a copy of his Biographical Notes on the Writings of R. L. Stevenson, 1908; 4 June 1908. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi. p. 16.] 2. Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of R. L. Stevenson, So...
Chastelard: a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1860-1863]. Swinburne was working on Chastelard from the beginning of 1860 until October 1863 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, ii, 1928, pp. 261-262). Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. [55], 216. Early drafts, apparently of three discarded passages of Chastelard, are included in A1851, ff. 17, 17b. According to Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 273-274, Wise formerly possessed an autograph synopsis of Chastelard, but this is no longer...
Two Letters from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, the earlier concerning the bibliography of A. C. Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 1866, the later promising to look for 'the Coleridge Italian thing'; 18, 26 March 1913. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 58.] includes: ff. 86-88 Sir Edmund William Go...
A letter from Ford Madox Brown to A. C. Swinburne, 12 Jan. 1867, urging him to write a poem in order to arouse sympathy in England for the insurgents in Candia, Italy relating to 'Ode on the Insurrection in Candia'. includes: ff. 89-90b Ford Madox Brown, artist: Algernon Charles Swinburne, p...
'Dolores': a poem by A. C. Swinburne; [1865]. Early draft of lines 325-328, 365-368, 33-38, 41-48, and 19-24 in that order, written on one side only (f. 91a) of a quarto leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. An early draft is described in Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 71, where it is said to...
Postcard from Maurice Buxton Forman to T. J. Wise, [15 Oct.] 1933 includes: ff. 92, 92b Maurice Buxton Forman, bibliographer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Postcard to Thomas James Wise from Maurice Buxton Forman: 1933.