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631. Ashley MS 5768

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5768
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Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous Letters, etc.; 1721-1933. Quarto; ff. 108. includes: f. 1 Lascelles Abercrombie, writer: Kenneth Sisam, literary scholar: Letter to [K.] Sisam from Lascelles Abercrombie: 1930.ff. 2-3b Dr John Arbuthnot, physician and wit: Letter to — from Dr John Arbuthnot: 1721.ff. 4, 4b ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1721-1933
Extent:
1 item

632. Ashley MS A17

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A17
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'Empedocles on Etna' and 'Dover Beach': poems by Matthew Arnold; [1849-1850?]. Autograph notes for 'Empedocles on Etna', written on both sides of one quarto leaf of cream wove paper, and on one side only of a second. No watermark. The notes, which are printed with the exception of the first eigh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1849-1850?]
Extent:
1 item

633. Ashley MS A17-5768

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A17-5768
Title:
Ashley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts, chiefly literary, collected by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937). Includes poetry manuscripts and the literary correspondence of poets, novelists and critics, c. 1700-1936 (predominantly 1780-1936). The collection was named after the street in which Wise lived when he started acquirin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1700-1936
Extent:

c. 1,971 volumes

634. Ashley MS A20

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A20
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Scope & Content:
Letter, with envelope, from Matthew Arnold to Arthur P. Wood; 31 March 1875. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 10-11. includes: ff. 3, 4 Matthew Arnold, poet and critic: Arthur P. Wood: Letter to Arthur P. Wood from Matthew Arnold: 1875.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1875
Extent:
1 item

635. Ashley MS A22

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A22
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Matthew Arnold to Edmund Gosse concerning Arnold's poem 'Westminster Abbey'; 16 Jan. 1882. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 11. includes: ff. 5, 5b Matthew Arnold, poet and critic: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Matthew Arnold: 1882.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1882
Extent:
1 item

636. Ashley MS A25

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A25
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1. Letter from Matthew Arnold to John Churton Collins discussing Collins's proposals for Schools of English Literature at the Universities; 29 Dec. 1886. Printed privately by Wise in Letters from Matthew Arnold to John Churton Collins, 1910, pp. 8-10. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 12. 2. Let...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886-1910
Extent:
1 item

637. Ashley MS A36

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A36
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Scope & Content:
Letter from F. Britten Austin to T. J. Wise, 9 June 1927 includes: ff. 9, 9b Frederick Britten Austin, author: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Frederick Britten Austin: 1927.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1927
Extent:
1 item

638. Ashley MS A36, B39, B42, B44, B51, B57, B2277, B3652

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A36, B39, B42, B44, B51, B57, B2277, B3652
Title:
Letters (8) from Frederick Britten Austin to T. J. Wise; 3 June 1927-27 March 1935. The letters concern Ashley MS. 36 (A36, B44), Ashley MS. 51 (B51), Austin's Told in the Market Place, 1935 (B57), the price of George Meredith first editions (B3652), and the fact that Some Wordsworth Finds? Arranged and Introduced by James Medborough, 1895, was, unknown to Wise, a hoax by T. W. H. Crosland (B2277). For further letters from Austin to Wise, see 4685, 4686. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 6-7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
3 Jun 1927-27 Mar 1935
Extent:
8 items

639. Ashley MS A61

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A61
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Scope & Content:
Letter from J. M. Barrie to Edmund Gosse, 23 Feb. 1923 includes: f. 10 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Sir James Matthew Barrie, Baronet; author: Letters to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Sir James Matthew Barrie: 1892-1925.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1923
Extent:
1 item

640. Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692
Title:
Letters (12) from J. M. Barrie to Edmund Gosse containing, among other matters, congratulations to Gosse on his appointment as Librarian of the House of Lords (A66), a reference to Peter Davies's first production as a publisher (A63), and a request for help in securing a second grant from the Royal Literary Fund for Robert Buchanan, the calumniator of Swinburne and Rossetti (69); 8 Nov. 1892-11 Nov. 1925. A61, A63, B65, and B4689 are written with the left hand. A62, A66, B65, B68, both lette...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
8 Nov 1892-11 Nov 1925
Extent:
11 items