Letters (10) and a postcard from John Drinkwater to T. J. Wise; 7 May 1920-9 June 1933. The letters concern, among other matters, the bibliography of John Dryden, Poems, 6th ed. 1794, 1795 (A664), and an inscribed copy of W. S. Landor, Gebir, 2nd ed. (A666), the gift to Wise of a copy of Horace Shipp, Community Playing, with a foreword by Drinkwater (B682), and his offer to sell Wise various Byron, Brontë, and Landor items, together with 'my Verhaeren Poem' (A691). Ashley Library Catalogue, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Two Letters from Florence Hardy to T. J. Wise, conveying thanks for a copy of Wise's Brontë bibliography and sending a copy of Thomas Hardy, The Fiddler's Story A Jingle on the Times, 1917; 2 Nov. [1917], 25 Nov. 1917. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 173. includes: ff. 70-72b Florence Emily...
Letter from Florence Hardy to T. J. Wise, sending a copy of Thomas Hardy, Compassion: An Ode In celebration of the Centenary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1924, and remarking 'I believe there is a spurious first edition on sale'; 7 July 1924. Ashley Library Catal...
Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, sending a copy of the first edition of Austin Dobson, A Postscript to Dr. Goldsmith's Retaliation, 1896, together with a statement (f. 55) concerning the status of the item signed by Gosse; 25 Nov. 1897. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 212. includes: f....
Two Letters from R. L. Mégroz to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerned with the bibliography of Joseph Conrad; 1, 3 Feb. 1928. [Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 86.] includes: ff. 116-118b Rodolphe Louis Mégroz, writer: Joseph Conrad, alias Teodor Jósef Konrad Korzeniowski, novelist: Thomas James Wis...
Letters (3) to T. J. Wise; 1907-1909. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 190]. As follows:― 1. Letter from Sam R. Hutt, arranging to let Wise see 'the books you want to collate'; 8 May 1908. f. 1. 2. Two letters from R. B. McKerrow, the earlier (ff. 2-3) chiefly concerning the bibliography of ...
Letter from Joan Ruskin Severn to T. J. Wise, on the subject of Letters From John Ruskin To Rev. J. P. Faunthorpe, 1895 (published 1896), and Letters From John Ruskin to Frederick J. Furnivall (published 1897), both edited by Wise, and regretting that Wise intended to print some of the letters; ...
Two Letters from Sidney Colvin to Edmund Gosse, the earlier on the death of R. L. Stevenson, the later on the possibility of moving his bones from Samoa now that it had become German; 18 Dec. 1894, 11 Nov. 1899. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 11]. includes: ff. 21-24 Sir Sidney Colvin, 18...
Letter from J. S. S. Sawyer of Charles J. Sawyer Ltd. to T. J. Wise, sending him a copy of Essays of the Year 1931-1932; 29 Sept. 1932. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 53]. includes: f. 82 J. S. S. Sawyer, of Charles J Sawyer Ltd., booksellers: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to ...
Letter from Mrs Edward Clodd to T. J. Wise, thanking him for the gift to her husband of Wise's A Landor Library, and sending him the book mentioned in item Ashley A784; 14 June 1929. includes: ff. 11, 11b Phyllis Clodd, née Rope; 2nd wife of E Clodd: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter...