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591. Ashley MS 5738

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Ashley MS 5738
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'What I saw and heard. July - August 1914': 'a record of scenes witnessed and words heard almost at the centre of affairs' by Edmund Gosse; 1914. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of forty seven quarto leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. At the end of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
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1 item

592. Ashley MS 5739

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Ashley MS 5739
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Letters to Edmund Gosse from various correspondents; 1875-1927. The letters are arranged in alphabetical order. Quarto; ff. 448. includes: ff. 1, 1b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith; Prime Minister: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1927
Extent:
1 item

593. Ashley MS 5740

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Ashley MS 5740
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, enclosing violets from Keats' grave; 31 March 1887. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, i, 1978, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 163. Quarto; ff. i+5. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: John Keats, poet: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1887
Extent:
1 item

594. Ashley MS 5741

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Ashley MS 5741
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Two Letters from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Kent, in the earlier (ff. 1-2b) asking for his books, magazines, copy of Elia, needles, thread, penknife etc. etc. to be sent out, in the later (ff. 3-4b) commenting unfavourably on Mary Shelley; 1, 12 Feb. 1825. For another lette...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1825
Extent:
1 item

595. Ashley MS 5742

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Ashley MS 5742
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Letter from Walter Savage Landor to the Countess of Blessington; 21 July [1836]. The letter contains an autograph fair copy of a prose composition by Landor, 'The Dream of Petrarca', here entitled 'Dream of Gnomon of Priene'. ff. 1-2. Also included is a letter (f. iii) from Stephen Wheeler to T....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jul [1836]
Extent:
1 item

596. Ashley MS 5743

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Ashley MS 5743
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'The Mother's Tale': a poem by Walter Savage Landor; [1835]. Auto-graph fair copy. ff. 1-3b. Accompanying the MS. is a letter (ff. 4, 4b) from Landor to the Countess of Blessington, [1835]. Quarto; ff. i+4. includes: ff. 1-3b Tales: Walter Savage Landor, d.1864; author: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1835]
Extent:
1 item

597. Ashley MS 5744

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Ashley MS 5744
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Letters (9) from Walter Savage Landor to the Countess of Blessington; 1837-1846. The letters contain the following literary compositions:― 1. Autograph fair copy of the last scene of the drama 'Orestes'; [1837]. ff. 3b-4. 2. Autograph fair copy of a poem, beginning 'Why, why repine, my pensive...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1837-1846
Extent:
1 item

598. Ashley MS 5745

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Ashley MS 5745
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Letters from Walter Savage Landor to Mary Louisa Boyle; circa 1840-[1844], n.d. Printed in the Century Magazine, vol. 35, Feb. 1888, pp. 515-521. Also included are the following poems: 'War in China', circa 1840, f. 2b; poem beginning 'The leaves are falling; so am I', n.d., f. 12b. Quarto; ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1840-[1844]
Extent:
1 item

599. Ashley MS 5746

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Ashley MS 5746
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Letter from Walter Savage Landor to Mrs Margaret Hodson, containing an account of a visit to Southey; 13 Aug. [1832]. Quarto; ff. i+2. Walter Savage Landor, d.1864; author: Margaret Holford, afterwards Hodson; author: Letter to M. Hodson from Walter Savage Landor: [1832].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug [1832]
Extent:
1 item

600. Ashley MS 5747 A

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Ashley MS 5747 A
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'Politics and Literature'; [1893]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of thirteen quarto leaves of cream laid paper. Watermarks a crown and figure of Britannia. Entitled as above in Lang's hand. Printed in the Illustrated London News, 13 May 1893. Quarto; ff. 13. Andrew Lang, autho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1893]
Extent:
1 item