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291. Ashley MS 3351

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Ashley MS 3351
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'At a House in Hampstead (Sometime the Dwelling of John Keats)': a poem by Thomas Hardy; July 1920. Autograph fair copy, with four revisions, written on one side only of two large quarto leaves of white laid paper. The MS. is entitled as above in Hardy's hand, signed and dated. The text found in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1920
Extent:
1 item

292. Ashley MS 3384

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Ashley MS 3384
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Letter from Thomas Jefferson Hogg to Percy Bysshe Shelley, speaking of J. H. Leigh Hunt, of Sunday dinners with T. L. Peacock, and of the Gisbornes; 25 Dec. 1820. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 188-189. Quarto; ff. i+2. Thomas Jefferson Hogg, friend and biographer of P B Shelley: Percy Byss...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Dec 1820
Extent:
1 item

293. Ashley MS 3389

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Ashley MS 3389
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Letters (5), four with envelopes (ff. 4, 7, 18, 23), from William Dean Howells to Edmund Gosse; 9 Sept. 1882-9 March 1885. Among the subjects discussed are a dinner in London with Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Bret Harte, John Hay, Clarence King, Charles Dudley Warner and Edwin Booth (ff. 1-2b), Howell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1882-9 Mar 1885
Extent:
1 item

294. Ashley MS 3393

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Ashley MS 3393
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Letters (9) from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his wife Marianne; 13 Feb. 1806-2 June 1813. Five of the letters (ff. 1-12b) were written during the period of Leigh Hunt's engagement to Marianne Kent, and chiefly contain news of his travels to Lincoln and Doncaster, and to Nottingham (13 Feb. 1806, 13 June...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1806-1815
Extent:
1 item

295. Ashley MS 3399

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Ashley MS 3399
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'Christmas: A Song for Good Fellows, Young & Old': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1835-1836?]. Autograph fair copy, with six revisions, written on one side only of three small folio leaves of grey laid paper, and on both sides of a fourth leaf of the same. Ff. 1 and 2 form a bifolium. Watermar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1835-1836?]
Extent:
1 item

296. Ashley MS 3409

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Ashley MS 3409
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'The Unknown': a short story by W. W. Jacobs; [1900-1914]. Autograph fair copy, with some revisions and corrections, written on one side only of thirty leaves of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. The text is preceded by an autograph title-page written on the same paper, signed and with an ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1900-1914]
Extent:
1 item

297. Ashley MS 3410

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Ashley MS 3410
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'James Payn': an appreciation of James Payn by Henry James; 1898. Autograph draft, nevertheless apparently marked up as printer's copy, written on one side only of sixteen quarto leaves of ruled white wove paper. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'James Payne' in James' hand at the head of the f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898
Extent:
1 item

298. Ashley MS 3428

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Ashley MS 3428
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'Ye treue and pitifulle historie of ye Poet and ye ancient dame': a series of eleven caricatures by Edward Burne Jones commenting on an incident in the life of Algernon Charles Swinburne; 1868. The caricatures are drawn on eleven irregularly sized and shaped scraps of white laid paper, without w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

299. Ashley MS 3475

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Ashley MS 3475
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Letter from Joseph Severn to Mrs Brawne written while he was with John Keats during his last illness in Rome; 11 Jan. 1821. Printed in William Sharp, Life and Letters of Joseph Severn, 1892, pp. 77-79. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 19-21. Quarto; ff. iii+2. Joseph Severn, painter: John Ke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1821
Extent:
1 item

300. Ashley MS 3476

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Ashley MS 3476
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Letter from Oscar Wilde to W. M. Rossetti, sending a monograph he had written on the subject of John Keats' grave, and asking Rossetti to support his proposal for erecting a monument to Keats; 14 July 1877 (so dated by the recipient). Printed in The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1877
Extent:
1 item