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111. Ashley MS 119

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Ashley MS 119
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Account of an Incident at Yarmouth in 1853 by George Borrow; [1853?]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of two conjoined octavo leaves of cream laid paper. No watermark. Printed in C. K. Shorter, George Borrow and his Circle, 1913, pp. 291-292. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 45. Octav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1853?]
Extent:
1 item

112. Ashley MS 3636

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Ashley MS 3636
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'Tardy Spring': a poem by George Meredith; 1891. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of four quarto leaves of white wove paper. No watermark. Signed 'George Meredith, Box Hill, Dorking'. The poem was first printed in The Illustrated London News for 20 June 1891 in a version identical t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

113. Ashley MS 5079

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Ashley MS 5079
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'Dedication To Alice Swinburne': stanzas iv, v, vi of the Dedication to Locrine by A. C. Swinburne; 1887. Autograph draft, written on one side only of a folio leaf of blue laid paper. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Superfine / 1879'. On the verso of the leaf Swinburne has written 'Cruces in Pur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887
Extent:
1 item

114. Ashley MS 113

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 113
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'The Zigany': a poem from the Russian of Pushkin by George Borrow; circa 1860. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of twenty quarto leaves of white laid paper formed by tearing folio leaves in half. No watermark. The poem, a drama in free verse for narrator and voices, is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

115. Ashley MS 4453

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Ashley MS 4453
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Poetical Notebook used by A. C. Swinburne; [1857]. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 68. As follows:― 1. Chorus, apparently from a longer poem; [1857]. Autograph draft. Imperfect. f. 1. 2. Poem, entitled by T. J. Wise 'Hyperion'; [1857]. Autograph draft. Imperfect. ff. 1b-12b. 3. Play, 'The L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1857]
Extent:
1 item

116. Ashley MS 5070

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Ashley MS 5070
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A Collection of Ballads compiled by A. C. Swinburne, and an intro-duction or short essay; [1859-1861?]. Most of the ballad texts, which Swinburne prepared by collating existing texts, are accompanied by his critical notes. The latest authorities cited are Child's third volume and Aytoun's Ballad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1859-1861?]
Extent:
1 item

117. Ashley MS 5072

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Ashley MS 5072
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'The Pilgrimage of Pleasure': a pastiche of a morality play by A. C. Swinburne; [1864]. Autograph draft, written on both sides of four folio leaves of blue wove paper (ff. 1-4b). No watermark. The play, or interlude, which was writ-ten to be incorporated into his cousin Mary Gordon's story for b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1864]
Extent:
1 item

118. Ashley MS B3516, B3650, B5304

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Ashley MS B3516, B3650, B5304
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Letters (3) from Luther S. Livingston to T. J. Wise, the earliest chiefly concerning the bibliography of Charles Lamb, A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret, 1798, and sending a copy of Livingston's Some Notes on Lamb's Juveniles, 1902, the next chiefly concerned with describing the detached dedication leaf from an unidentified book printed in 1597, and the latest chiefly concerning the bibliography of Mary Gordon and A. C. Swinburne, The Children of the Chapel, 1864; 1902, 1912. [A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1902-1912
Extent:
3 items

119. Ashley MS 1145, 3637

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1145, 3637
Title:
Letters (4) from George Meredith to Edward Clodd, containing, among other matters, an expression of his admiration for Walter Besant, and an opinion on Edward FitzGerald; 2 Jan. 1893-3 Oct. 1906. Printed in The Letters of George Meredith, ed. C. L. Cline, ii, iii, 1970, pp. 1115, 1311, 1518, 1570. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 150-151. 1145. Octavo; ff. i+6. 3637. Octavo; ff. ii+2.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
2 Jan 1893-3 Oct 1906
Extent:
2 items

120. Ashley MS 2938

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2938
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'Confidence': an article by Joseph Conrad; 1919. Typescript, with heavy autograph revisions, written on one side only of ten large quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'EXCELSIOR / SUPERFINE / BRITISH MAKE'. The typescript is entitled 'Confidence' in Conrad's hand, and headed 'for DM [Da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:
1 item