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161. Ashley MS 1622

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Ashley MS 1622
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Letter from Edward John Trelawny to Claire Clairmont, on the subject of Shelley's reputation; 26 April 1872. Printed in Forman, op. cit., pp. 238-239. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, pp. 123-124. Octavo; ff. i+3. Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: Edward John Trelawny, author and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1872
Extent:
1 item

162. Ashley MS 1639

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Ashley MS 1639
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Letter from A. C. Swinburne to Harry Buxton Forman, concerning Laura Matilda, Zofloya, or The Moor, said to be the model for P. B. Shelley's Zastrozzi, 1810; 22 Nov. 1886. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, v, 1962, pp. 174-175. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 131. Octavo; ff. i+3. Char...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1886
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1 item

163. Ashley MS 1755

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Ashley MS 1755
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Letters from Simeon Solomon to A. C. Swinburne, [Sept. 1869?]-[Nov. 1872]Octavo; ff. i+ 19. includes: ff. 1-18 Simeon Solomon, painter: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letters to Algernon Charles Swinburne from Simeon Solomon: 1869-1872.f. 19 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas Jame...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868-1872
Extent:
1 item

164. Ashley MS 1776

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Ashley MS 1776
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Letter from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse, 24 July 1879Octavo; ff. ii+3. Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letters to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Robert Louis Stevenson: 1879-1883.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1879
Extent:
1 item

165. Ashley MS 1788

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Ashley MS 1788
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Letter from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse, 26 Sept. 1883Octavo; ff. ii+5. Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letters to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Robert Louis Stevenson: 1879-1883.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1883
Extent:
1 item

166. Ashley MS 1840

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Ashley MS 1840
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Poems and Ballads. 'The Leper'; [1857-1860]. Draft, entitled 'A Vigil', written on writing paper of the Oxford Union Society, watermarked '1857'. Swinburne remained at Oxford in statu pupillari until June 1860. The draft, of eight stanzas, is evidently an early version of 'The Leper' (printed on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1857-1860]
Extent:
1 item

167. Ashley MS 1840, 1841, A1851, 1855, B1861

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Ashley MS 1840, 1841, A1851, 1855, B1861
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Poems and Ballads by A. C. Swinburne; 1857-1865. Autograph drafts of poems included in Poems and Ballads, 1866. The poems in this volume were composed at various dates between 1857 and 1865 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, tome ii, 1928, pp. 418-419). The drafts are printed, not entirely accurately, in Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 565-581. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 35-36, 42, 58-60, 63. Except where expressly stated, the drafts are not dated, entitled or signed. As foll...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1857-1865
Extent:
5 items

168. Ashley MS 1841

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Ashley MS 1841
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Poems and Ballads. 'The Two Dreams'; [1858?]. Quarto notebook, with ruled pages of white laid paper, unwatermarked, containing drafts, entitled 'The White Hind: from Boccaccio' (f. 1a), of two passages of the poem. 'The Two Dreams' is based on the Sixth Novella of the Fourth Day of Boccacio's De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1858?]
Extent:
1 item

169. Ashley MS 1855

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Ashley MS 1855
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'Faustine' by A. C. Swinburne; [1862?]. Imaginary pen and ink portrait, possibly by Simeon Solomon, on an octavo leaf of white laid mourning paper, watermarked 'Joynson / 1862'. Also included, ff. 2-3b, is a letter, 17 July [1883], from Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], thanking him for the gif...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1862?]
Extent:
1 item

170. Ashley MS 1860

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Ashley MS 1860
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'Songs Before Sunrise'. 'Ode on the Insurrection in Candia' by Algernon Charles Swinburne; 1867. Fair copy, with a few revisions, written on one side only of fourteen half-leaves of quarto white laid paper. Watermark 'Joynson / First [Quality].' The individual leaves are mounted on guards. Bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 item