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571. Ashley MS 5720

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Ashley MS 5720
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'The Medium': a dialogue on the loss of a diamond ring, with grotesque water-colour drawings of the speakers, by Robert Browning, the father of the poet; circa 1860. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of twenty-one leaves of cream wove paper. No watermark. Entitled 'The Medium' by Rob...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

572. Ashley MS 5721

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Ashley MS 5721
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'Lessons for Stray Hours': questions and answers on the natural history of man and other primates, with water-colour drawings, by Edmund Gosse; written in his childhood circa 1857-1860. Autograph fair copy, written in pencil on both sides of two octavo leaves of cream laid paper, and one side on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1857-1860
Extent:
1 item

573. Ashley MS 5722

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Ashley MS 5722
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Notebook with notes of events in the life of William Congreve, by Edmund Gosse; 1888. On f. 1 is the note 'Began Feb. 20 1888. Finished May 29 1888'. Gosse's Life of William Congreve was published in July 1888. The book used is a Board of Trade ruled notebook. Also included is a letter from Phil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888
Extent:
1 item

574. Ashley MS 5723

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Ashley MS 5723
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Letters (11) from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd; 27 June 1891, 17 Jan. 1897, 13 July 1909, 22 July 1909, 6 Oct. 1909, 5 Dec. 1910, [24 Aug. 1911], 8 Oct. 1912, 18 April 1913, 4 June 1924, 26 June 1927. On f. 12b (a blank page of one of Hardy's letters) is a letter from Clodd to [James] Milne, 25 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891-1927
Extent:
1 item

575. Ashley MS 5724

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Ashley MS 5724
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, giving an account of his second marriage; 11 Feb. 1914. Printed in The Collected Letters, v, 1985, p. 9. Also included (f. 2) is a letter to Clodd from Florence Hardy, [1914]. Octavo; ff. i+2. includes: ff. 1, 1b Edward Clodd, banker and author: Tho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1914
Extent:
1 item

576. Ashley MS 5725

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Ashley MS 5725
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Letters (3) from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, concerning Hardy's 'Two on a Tower'; 4, 10 Dec. 1882, 21 Jan. 1883. Printed in The Collected Letters, i, 1978, pp. 110, 114-115. Octavo; ff. i+5. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letters to Sir Edmund William Gosse fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882-1883
Extent:
1 item

577. Ashley MS 5726

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Ashley MS 5726
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Two Letters from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, mentioning the last illness and death of William Barnes; 23 Nov. 1885, 30 Aug. 1887. Printed in The Collected Letters, i, 1978, pp. 137, 167. Octavo; ff. i+7. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letters to Sir Edmund Wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885-1887
Extent:
1 item

578. Ashley MS 5727

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Ashley MS 5727
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Two Letters from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, concerning a review of Tess of the Durbervilles, and an opera based on the novel; 18 Jan. 1892, 14 July 1909. Printed in The Collected Letters, i, 1978, p. 253; iv, 1984, p. 33. Octavo; ff. i+5. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Sir Edmund William Goss...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892-1909
Extent:
1 item

579. Ashley MS 5728

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Ashley MS 5728
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse; 25 Dec. 1927. Printed in The Collected Letters, vii, 1988, p. 89. Octavo; ff. i+1. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Thomas Hardy: 1927.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Dec 1927
Extent:
1 item

580. Ashley MS 5729

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Ashley MS 5729
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Letters (3) from Thomas Hardy to T. J. Wise; 1 March, 24 Oct. 1924, 11 Feb. 1927. In the second letter Hardy mentions that 'Mr. Sheridan who lives near here [Dorchester] ― the direct descendant of R. B. S., has the manuscripts of all his plays'. Printed in The Collected Letters, vi, 1987, pp. 23...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1927
Extent:
1 item