Letters (26), one (A1400, ff. 24-25b) imperfect, from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne, W. M. Rossetti, and John Aldam Heaton; 21 Aug. 1869-March 1870. The letters all concern the preparation of D. G. Rossetti's Poems, 1870, published on 24 April. In 1868 or early 1869 Rossetti seems to have decided to print such poetry as he had written, but to issue it privately. In August 1869 he received the first proofs, and after working on them, had the revisions incorporated in a further set...
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Letters (3) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one to his sister-in-law, Lucy Rossetti (ff. 70-71b), and two to his brother, William Michael (ff. 72-76), pleading with them not to publish William Michael's 'Democratic Sonnets' for fear of jeopardising his employment in the Excise Office; 12, 12 and 14...
'The Cannibal Catechism': a burlesque poem of ten stanzas by A. C. Swinburne; [1865?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of two conjoined octavo leaves of cream laid paper. Watermark 'A Pirie & Sons'. The paper bears the monogram of the Oxford Union Society. The MS. ...
Letter from Francis Needham to T. J. Wise, concerning the biblio-graphy of Matthew Prior, Verses spoke to the Lady Henrietta Harley, 1719; 13 Feb. 1932. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 79]. includes: ff. 108, 108b Matthew Prior, poet and diplomatist: Francis Robert Dudley Needham F.S.A.; l...
Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to Horatio Smith, giving an account of the death of P. B. Shelley; 25 July 1822. ff. 1, 1b, 2b. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 201-202. Quarto; ff. vi+2. James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Horace Smith, alias Horatio; poet and...
Note by Edmund Gosse sent to T. J. Wise with a copy of his The Rose of Omar, 1893; [1893]. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 81; ii, p. 122]. includes: f. 4 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Note to Thomas James Wise from Sir Edmund William Gosse: [1893].
Two Notes on one sheet from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, sent with a copy of Gosse's Lady Dorothy Nevill ― An Open Letter, 1913; 15, 18 Dec. 1913. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 155-156]. includes: f. 32 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Notes to Thomas ...
Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent, announcing the death of P. B. Shelley; 20 July 1822. ff. 1, 1b. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 200-201. Quarto; ff. vi+1. Miss Elizabeth Kent, sister-in-law of J H Leigh Hunt: James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Percy ...
Two Sets of Verses on the subject of Robert Buchanan, the author of the famous article attacking A. C. Swinburne and D. G. Rossetti, 'The Fleshly School of Poetry', which was published in the Contemporary Review for Oct. 1871. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 112. 1. Limerick by D. G. Rossetti;...
Two Letters to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], the earlier (f. 23) from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with note by his son Hallam, the later (ff. 24, 24b), with envelope (f. 25), from Hallam Tennyson, both concerned with the inaccurate printing of Alfred Tennyson's poem 'The Throstle' in the New Review for Oct. ...