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121. Ashley MS 4791

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Ashley MS 4791
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'His Warbook': an introduction to Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, by Joseph Conrad; 1923. Autograph draft, written on one side only of thirteen pages of ruled cream wove paper (ff. 2-14). No watermark. On f. 1 is an autograph title-page, signed and dated by Conrad. Ashley Library Catalo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
1 item

122. Ashley MS 5073

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Ashley MS 5073
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'A Year's Letters': an epistolary novel by A. C. Swinburne; [1862-1863]. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 56. Autograph draft, written on various papers, as follows: Folio leaves of cream laid paper. No watermark. Both sides of ff. 14-16b (part of Prologue), 22-25b (Letter III), 28-30 (Letter V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1862-1863]
Extent:
1 item

123. Ashley MS B1849, A1950

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Ashley MS B1849, A1950
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Chastelard: a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1860-1863]. Swinburne was working on Chastelard from the beginning of 1860 until October 1863 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, ii, 1928, pp. 261-262). Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. [55], 216. Early drafts, apparently of three discarded passages of Chastelard, are included in A1851, ff. 17, 17b. According to Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 273-274, Wise formerly possessed an autograph synopsis of Chastelard, but this is no longer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
[1860-1863]
Extent:
2 items

124. Ashley MS 1379

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Ashley MS 1379
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'Counterblast on Penny Trumpet': a political poem by Christina Rossetti; 1882. Autograph draft with one cancelled stanza, written on both sides of a part octavo leaf of cream laid paper. No watermark. The poem is signed on the verso 'C. G. R. see St. James's Gazette July 21 1882 (motive a Poem)'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882
Extent:
1 item

125. Ashley MS 4520

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Ashley MS 4520
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'The Grandmother': a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; 1859. Autograph fair copy, with revisions. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 126. Quarto; ff. xii+6. Poetry ENGLISH: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson; Poet Laureate: Poem, 'The Grandmother', by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: 1859: Autogr. fair cop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
1 item

126. Ashley MS 4700

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Ashley MS 4700
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'A Few Words of Warning to Would-be Autobiographers': an essay by Augustine Birrell; [circa 1925?]. Autograph draft. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 14. Folio; ff. i+15. Augustine Birrell, PC; MP: Essays English: Essay, 'A Few Words of Warning to Would-be Autobiographers', by Augustine Birrel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1925?]
Extent:
1 item

127. Ashley MS 4788

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Ashley MS 4788
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'Memorandum Relating to a sailing-ship for perfecting the training of Merchant Service Officers belonging to the port of Liverpool' by Joseph Conrad; 1920. Typescript, heavily revised by Conrad in his own hand in ink and in pencil, written on one side only of nineteen large quarto leaves of whit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920
Extent:
1 item

128. Ashley MS A3671, A3672

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Ashley MS A3671, A3672
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Two Letters from George Moore to T. J. Wise, the first (4 May 1919) suggesting that Wise contact Moore's publishers in order to obtain a copy of his Avowals, 1919, the second (6 Feb. [1918?]) offering to sell Wise the revised proofs of A Story-Teller's Holiday, 1918; 1919, [1918?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 158-159.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1919
Extent:
2 items

129. Ashley MS B95, A97, A99, A100

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Ashley MS B95, A97, A99, A100
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Letters (4) from Max Beerbohm, three to Edmund Gosse, and one (A97) to Clement Shorter; June 1896-14 Sept. 1920. The letters contain, among other matters, a limerick on Ladies Speyer, Mond, and Meyer (A100), references to The Works of Max Beerbohm, 1896 (B95), his essay No. 2 The Pines (A99), two parodies by him of Henry James and George Moore (A99), and a comment on the vanity of Lord Morley as revealed in his autobiography (A100). Further letters from Beerbohm to Gosse are found in B1813, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1896-14 Sep 1920
Extent:
4 items

130. Ashley MS B2481, B2485, B3390

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Ashley MS B2481, B2485, B3390
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Letters (3) from Clement Shorter to T. J. Wise, congratulating him on the award of an honorary M.A. (B2481, B2485), asking him to bid for lot 335 in Hodgson's sale on 15-16 April 1926 (copies of John Davidson, Smith: A Tragedy, 1888, Bruce: A Drama, 1893 and another) (B2485), and sending copies of W. H. Hudson, Seagulls in London, 1922, a privately printed pamphlet (B3390); 1922, 1926. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 85, 86; ii, p. 191].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1926
Extent:
3 items