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91. Ashley MS 4351

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Ashley MS 4351
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'Queen Iseult': an unfinished poem of six cantos by Algernon Charles Swinburne; 1857. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, often extensive, written on both sides of forty-seven quarto leaves of white laid paper, and on one side only of a further three leaves of the same (ff. 20, 36, 50). No wate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

92. Ashley MS 4357

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Ashley MS 4357
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'The Loyal Servant': an unfinished play by Algernon Charles Swinburne; [1857?]. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on both sides of sixty-one leaves of a quarto notebook, and on one side only of another (f. 62). The paper of the notebook, which is bound in the original marbled bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1857?]
Extent:
1 item

93. Ashley MS 4442

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Ashley MS 4442
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Poetical Notebook by A. C. Swinburne; [1858-1859]. Autograph drafts, written on both sides of twenty-two quarto leaves of white laid paper. No watermark. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 61-62. As follows: 1. 'Lancelot' (thus entitled in Swinburne's hand). ff. 5-15. 2. Untitled poem on the d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1858-1859]
Extent:
1 item

94. Ashley MS 5095

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Ashley MS 5095
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'The Chronicle of Queen Fredegonde': an historical romance in prose by A. C. Swinburne; [1862?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of sixteen folio leaves (ff. 6-21b) of cream wove paper, and on one side only of another (f. 22). No watermark. The romance appears to be an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1862?]
Extent:
1 item

95. Ashley MS 5100

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Ashley MS 5100
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'Les Abîmes. Par Ernest Clouët': a burlesque review by A. C. Swinburne; [1862]. Autograph draft. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 41-42. Folio; ff. i+22. Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Burlesque review, 'Les Abîmes. Par Ernest Clouët' by Algernon Charles Swinburne: [1862]: Autogr. draft.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1862]
Extent:
1 item

96. Ashley MS 5156

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Ashley MS 5156
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Review of Ford's Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, 1845, by George Borrow; [1845]. Printed galley proofs, with autograph corrections. ff. 1-6b. Bound up with the proofs are the autograph fair copies of two poems by Borrow, 'To Scribblers' and 'To a conceited Woman', the first written on the rec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1845]
Extent:
1 item

97. Ashley MS 5256

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Ashley MS 5256
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'The Flogging Block': a burlesque heroic poem by A. C. Swinburne; circa 1862-1887. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, as follows:― 1. Prologue, written on one side only of five folio leaves of cream wove paper. Watermark 'Hieratica / (a vegetable Parchment) / J. S & Co.' ff. 2-6. 2. "Not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1862-1887
Extent:
1 item

98. Ashley MS 5257

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Ashley MS 5257
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The 'Kirklowes' Fragment: portions of an abandoned novel by A. C. Swinburne; [1861?]. Autograph draft, written on both sides of six folio leaves of cream wove paper, unwatermarked (ff. 1, 1b, 3-7b), one side only of another leaf of the same (f. 2), both sides of a folio leaf of blue laid paper (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1861?]
Extent:
1 item

99. Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861

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Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861
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Ballads and Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1871?]-1881. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in, and considered for, Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. Although the poems were composed at various dates between 1869 and 1881, it seems probable that, with the exception of 1407-1409 and 1420, the MSS. were written in 1880-1881 when Rossetti was preparing Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3857, 3859, 3860 and 3861 may well have once formed part of the same note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1871?]-1881
Extent:
11 items

100. Ashley MS 3845

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3845
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'Venus Verticordia': a sonnet written for his eponymous picture by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1868?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, entitled as above, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled cream laid paper, clearly a page torn from a notebook. Watermark stringed bugle on crowne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1868?]
Extent:
1 item