Archive Reference (shelfmark): Ashley MS A17-5768 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262
Title:: 'Songs Before Sunrise' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Songs Before Sunrise, 1871. Swinburne composed this collection of political poems under the influence of Mazzini, whom he met for the first time in March 1867. Mazzini had already written to him on 10 March 1867, asking him to 'give us a series of "Lyrics for the Crusade" '. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 72-73, 94-95. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1867-1870]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1861
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'The Union'; [1893]. Draft of stanza III, beginning 'Lovelier than thy seas are strong', written on one side only of a scrap (97 x 173mm.) torn, after the stanza was written, from a folio leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. The final text found in the draft is ide...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1893]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1861, A1903, A1925, A1932, A4399, 4403,4404,5084-5086, 5088, 5268*, 5270, 5272-5275
Title:: 'Astrophel and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 73-74, 144-145, 174-176, 178-179, 182-185, 188-190; viii, p. 199. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1879-1894]
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1866
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Bothwell'. Trial printing, with autograph corrections and revisions, of Act I and Act II, Scene I, as far as Darnley's first exit (p. 109, l. 9, in the First Edition). No title page, no imprint. Collation: Octavo (190 x 125); B-E8 F4 Gl; 37 leaves; pp. 1, 2-32, 33, 34-64; ff. 65-69; $I (- D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261
Title:: 'Bothwell': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1868]-[1874]. Autograph drafts, and trial printings with autograph corrections and revisions. Included are a trial printing of Act I and the first half of Act II, Scene I, and fragments of a revise, the draft of the first two scenes of Act I from which the earlier of the trial printings was set up, a draft of the dedicatory sonnet to Victor Hugo, an autograph synopsis of Act V, Scene III, and a letter from Frederick Locker to Swinburne concern...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1868]-[1874]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1867
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Bothwell'. Fragments of the revise, with autograph corrections, revisions and additions; [1871?]-[1874]. According to Wise (Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 92) there also survived another, and complete, copy of the revise, containing 69pp., and covering the same portion of Acts I and II as the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1871?]-[1874]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1868
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Bothwell'. Letter from Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton] concerning work by the latter on the revision of Bothwell for its projected performance; 18 Oct. [1875]. The letter was dated 1872 by Wise in his Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 93-94, but the paper, a single sheet folded to form two oc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Oct [1875]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1869
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Songs Before Sunrise'. 'Blessed Among Women' by Algernon Charles Swinburne; [1868?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of eleven octavo leaves of white laid paper. Watermarks 'Joynson / 1867' and (f. 11) '1868'. The individual leaves are mounted on guards. On the evidence of the note 'Slip 5'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1868?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1872
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning his attitude towards his publishers and would-be publishers; 6 Dec. 1872. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 104-106. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, ii, 1959, pp. 203-207. Octavo; ff. ii+6. Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Dec 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1881
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning F. J. Furnivall, Swinburne's essay on Auguste Vacquerie, and his relations with the Examiner; 22 Jan. 1876. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., iii, 1960, pp. 125-127. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 113. Octavo; ff. ii+4. W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Jan 1876
Extent:: 1 item

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