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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37945
Title:: Oscar Wilde, two typed versions of Mrs Arbuthnot, with autograph corrections
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Two typed versions of Oscar Wilde''s play Mrs Arbuthnot, later retitled, A Woman of No Importance, with autograph corrections. The second version (f. 92) is nearer to the final printed version. At folio 92 is a suggested cast, differing considerably from the a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1892-1893
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37946
Title:: Oscar Wilde, autograph draft of An Ideal Husband
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph drafts of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband. Includes Acts I, II (two versions), III and IV. Act IV appears to represent the earliest version, in which Mabel Chiltern is named Violet up to f. 216, where the change to Mabel is made. Acts I, II a an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1894]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37947
Title:: Typescript of An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde, with autograph corrections
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Typewritten copy of a draft of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, with autograph corrections.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1894]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37948
Title:: Oscar Wilde, early drafts of Acts II and IV of Lady Lancing
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph and typewritten drafts of Oscar Wilde''s play The Importance of Being Earnest, titled Lady Lancing. Acts II and III were compressed into Act II in the published version. At folio 1 is a draft in pencil of part of the final version of Act I, and at fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1894
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38068
Title:
Scope & Content:: PRELUDE and Fugue in G : no. 15 of "Das wohltemperirte Klavier," part ii., by Johann Sobastian Bach. Autograph. Paper; f. 1. circ. 1744. Oblong folio. Bound up with 35021. Johann Sebastian Bach, composer: Prelude and fugue: circ. 1744.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1744
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38182
Title:: TESS OF THE D''URBERVILLES, by Thomas Hardy. Original autograph MS.
Scope & Content:: Public Domain. The title has been changed from A Daughter of the D''Urbervilles. There are 39 leaves missing; references to these will be found on ff. 10, 15, 18, 19, 26, 32, 38, 44, 48, 50, 54, 81, 88, 92, 95, 96, 103, 106, 110, 141 ; f. 52 is also incomplete. With certain modifications and o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1889?-1891
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38530
Title:: JOURNAL of one of the crew of H.M.S. Resolution, and afterwards (see f. 153b) of H.M.S. Discovery, on the third and last voyage of Captain James Cook; 1776-1780. A note on f. 1 describes the writer as "George Gilbert, 1st Lieut. . . . on board the Discovery" and states that he "was made Captain after Cook was killed . . and died of smallpox on his return to England, aged 27." This however is evidently based on misconception. The name Gilbert does not occur among the officers of either ship, ...
Scope & Content:: Voyages and Travels: Narrative of Capt. Cook's last voyage, by G. Gilbert: 1776-1780. George Gilbert: Narrative of Capt. Cook's last voyage: 1776-1780. James Cook, Captain, RN: Narrative, by G. Gilbert, of his last voyage: 1776-1780. includes: f. i Emma M- H- Doran: Note on G. Gilbert's narr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1776-1780
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38988
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. LVI1-LXVI. General Correspondence (including minutes) of A. H. Layard during the years 1861-1869, while M.P. for Southwark, Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under (a) the 1st Earl Russell and (b) the 4th Earl of Clarendon, and First Commissioner of Works (Dec. 1868-Oct. 1869). Vol. LVIII (ff. 433). 1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: Manuscript, f. 433

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38989
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. LVI1-LXVI. General Correspondence (including minutes) of A. H. Layard during the years 1861-1869, while M.P. for Southwark, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under (a) the 1st Earl Russell and (b) the 4th Earl of Clarendon, and First Commissioner of Works (Dec. 1868-Oct. 1869). Vol. LIX (ff. 392). Jan.-Dec. 1863. Vol. LVII (ff. 431). Dec. 1860- 1861.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1860-1861
Extent:: Manuscript, ff. 431

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39255 M
Title:
Scope & Content:: M. Rupert Brooke. Two autograph sonnets, "The Dead" and "The Soldier," published in New Numbers and 1915 and other Poems (pp. 14, 15). f. 100. Presented by Edward Marsh, Esq., whose letter (f. 106) accompanies them.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [Early 20th century]
Extent:: 1 item

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