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211. Ashley MS 2291

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Ashley MS 2291
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'The Rose Tree': a poem by W. B. Yeats; 1917. Fair copy, with one revision, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of grey wove writing paper headed '18, Woburn Buildings, W. C.'. The leaf is one of two formed by folding a quarto sheet. Watermark 'The Temple / Ancient Vellum' and lamb and fl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 item

212. Ashley MS 2376

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Ashley MS 2376
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'Romantic Ballads'. 1. 'The Death-Raven'; circa 1865. Fair copy, with a few revisions, written on both sides of ten quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'Cowan' and the figure of Britannia. The MS. is entitled 'The Death-Raven. From Oehlenslaeger' in Borrow's hand. The final text found...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1823-1870
Extent:
1 item

213. Ashley MS 2377*

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Ashley MS 2377*
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'Romantic Ballads'. 'The Tournament'; after 1843. Fair copy, written on both sides of seven quarto leaves of grey laid paper. Watermark 'Stowford Mill / 1843' and figure of Britannia. The MS. is entitled 'The Tournament' in Borrow's hand. The text found in the fair copy differs in more than half...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1843
Extent:
1 item

214. Ashley MS 2378

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2378
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'Romantic Ballads'. 'Vidrik Verlandson'; circa 1845. Fair copy, written on both sides of seven quarto leaves of blue wove paper and on one side only of an eighth. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'Vidrik Verlandson' in Borrow's hand. The text found in the fair copy differs by more than a hundre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1845
Extent:
1 item

215. Ashley MS 2381

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2381
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'Targum'. 1. 'Ode to God'; circa 1865. Fair copy, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of white laid paper, conjoined with another, blank, leaf. No watermark. Untitled. The text found in the fair copy differs by three lines and one word from that printed in the first edition, and has one ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-1914
Extent:
1 item

216. Ashley MS 2384

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2384
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'The Zincali'. Drafts of various portions of 'The Zincali', together with drafts of other works. As follows:― 1. Continuous draft corresponding to various sections of the intro-duction, written on both sides of four quarto leaves of white wove paper (ff. 1-4b); circa 1839. No watermark. The fin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-1875
Extent:
1 item

217. Ashley MS 2388

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2388
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'Lavengro'. Drafts; [1843-1848] . 1. Draft, heavily revised, and with several rejected passages, of parts of Vol. I, chapter xiv (ff. 1-7) and xv (ff. 7b-9b), written on both sides of seven quarto leaves of white laid paper, and on one side only of two part quarto leaves of the same (ff. 3, 7)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1843-1848]
Extent:
1 item

218. Ashley MS 2392

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Ashley MS 2392
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'Wild Wales'. 1. Autograph journal of Borrow's tour in North Wales; 2-6 Sept. 1854. The journal is written in a notebook, lacking covers, and formed the basis of chapters 41-50. ff. 1-18b. 2. Autograph drafts of portions of the introduction, and of chapters 1, 2, 18-20, 65-68, 74, 88, 90, 91,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 1854-6 Sep 1854
Extent:
1 item

219. Ashley MS 2393

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2393
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Curriculum Vitae of himself, by George Borrow; between 1862 and 1874. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on both sides of two conjoined quarto leaves of white laid paper, with a revised passage on a further scrap of the same. No watermark. C. K. Shorter, George Borrow and his Cir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1862-1874
Extent:
1 item

220. Ashley MS 2395

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2395
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Letters (12) from George Borrow to his wife; 1844-[1858]. Accompanied by an autograph dedication to his wife's memory (f. 1), and by the text of T. J. Wise, Letters to his wife Mary Borrow by George Borrow, 1913 (ff. 2, 3, 4, 7-9b, 11, 11b, 13, 13b, 16, 16b, 19, 19b, 22-23b, 26, 26b, 29, 29b, 32...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-[1858]
Extent:
1 item