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281. Ashley MS 3217

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Ashley MS 3217
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Letter from Edward Fitzgerald to George Borrow; 24 May 1857. Printed in The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, ed. A. M. Terhune and A. B. Terhune, vol. ii, 1980, pp. 276-277. ff. 1-2. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 120. The letter is accompanied by two verse fragments in Fitzgerald's hand, not men...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1857
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1 item

282. Ashley MS 3262

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Ashley MS 3262
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Journal of John and Maria Gisborne; 2 May-26 Sept. 1820. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and additions, written on both sides of twenty-nine leaves of a quarto vellum-bound notebook, and on one side only of two further leaves (ff. 9b and 39). The journal begins on f. 9b in John Gisborne's ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1820-26 Sep 1820
Extent:
1 item

283. Ashley MS 3263

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Ashley MS 3263
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Letter from George Gissing to Edward Clodd; 28 Aug. 1900. Printed in The Letters of George Gissing to Edward Clodd, ed. Pierre Coustillas, 1973,p. 69. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 80-81. For further letters from Gissing to Clodd see Ashley MS A784, Ashley MS A787, Ashley MS A3266. Octavo; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1900
Extent:
1 item

284. Ashley MS 3267

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Ashley MS 3267
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Letter from William Godwin to his second wife Mary Jane, formerly Mrs Clairmont, paying tribute to her character; 24 Sept. 1812. Endorsed by Claire Clairmont. Printed, slightly inaccurately, in Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, pp. 139-140. Octavo; ff. i+2. William Godwin, the elder; philosopher...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1812
Extent:
1 item

285. Ashley MS 3280

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Ashley MS 3280
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'The Challenge of the Brontës': an address given by Edmund Gosse to the Brontë Society; 28 March 1903. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and additions, written on one side only of twenty quarto leaves of ruled white wove paper. No watermark. An additional leaf (f. 1) bears a signed inscription...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1903
Extent:
1 item

286. Ashley MS 3299

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Ashley MS 3299
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Letters (22) from Edmund Gosse to A. C. Swinburne; 23 Nov. 1875-12 Sept. 1898. Among the subjects are Gosse's essay on Swinburne for Die Banier, 1876 (23 Nov. 1875), Swinburne's 'Erechtheus' (23 Nov. 1875, 5 Jan. 1876), Cardinal Newman's criticism of poets including Byron, Swinburne and Rossetti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1875-12 Sep 1898
Extent:
1 item

287. Ashley MS 3306

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Ashley MS 3306
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Two Letters from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise; 4 April 1906, 18 Nov. 1913. Bound up with a copy of Thomas Gray, The Candidate, 1764. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 160. Quarto; unfoliated. Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letters to Thomas James Wise from Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1913
Extent:
1 item

288. Ashley MS 3333

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Ashley MS 3333
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, giving, among other matters, an account of a visit to the grave of Thomas Gray; 1 June 1900. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 257. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 125. Quarto; ff. ii+2. Edw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1900
Extent:
1 item

289. Ashley MS 3334

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Ashley MS 3334
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, giving his views on religion as prompted by Clodd's Thomas Henry Huxley, 1902; 27 Feb. 1902. Printed in The Collected Letters, iii, 1982, p. 5. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 126. Quarto; ff. ii+2. Edward Clodd, banker and author: Thomas Hardy, OM; no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1902
Extent:
1 item

290. Ashley MS 3343

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Ashley MS 3343
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'To Shakespeare, After three hundred years': a poem by Thomas Hardy; 14 Feb. 1916. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of six large quarto leaves of white laid paper. Entitled as above, with a titlepage in Hardy's hand, signed and dated. The text found in the MS. is identical with that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1916
Extent:
1 item