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1531. Ashley MS 1869

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Ashley MS 1869
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'Songs Before Sunrise'. 'Blessed Among Women' by Algernon Charles Swinburne; [1868?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of eleven octavo leaves of white laid paper. Watermarks 'Joynson / 1867' and (f. 11) '1868'. The individual leaves are mounted on guards. On the evidence of the note 'Slip 5'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1868?]
Extent:
1 item

1532. Ashley MS 2392

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Ashley MS 2392
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'Wild Wales'. 1. Autograph journal of Borrow's tour in North Wales; 2-6 Sept. 1854. The journal is written in a notebook, lacking covers, and formed the basis of chapters 41-50. ff. 1-18b. 2. Autograph drafts of portions of the introduction, and of chapters 1, 2, 18-20, 65-68, 74, 88, 90, 91,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 1854-6 Sep 1854
Extent:
1 item

1533. Ashley MS 5261

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5261
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'Bothwell'. Autograph draft, heavily revised and with many deletions and additions, of Act I, Scenes I and II; [1868-1871]. In W. M. Rossetti's diary for 13 July 1868 (W. M. Rossetti, Rossetti Papers, 1903, p. 319) is the remark 'A month or two ago he [Swinburne] discovered that his MSS. of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1868-1871]
Extent:
1 item

1534. Ashley MS 5273

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5273
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'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'Elegy'; [1891]. Draft of stanzas 1-28, written on both sides of two folio leaves of white wove paper (ff. 1 and 2), and on one side only of a third (f. 3). Watermark 'Hieratica / (a vegetable Parchment) / J. S & Co.'. The MS. is entitled 'Elegy' in Swinburne's h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1891]
Extent:
1 item

1535. Ashley MS 5275

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5275
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'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'England: An Ode'; before May 1893. Draft, heavily revised, written on both sides of two folio leaves of white wove paper. Watermark 'Hieratica / (a vegetable Parchment) J. S & Co.'. The MS. has been entitled 'England' in pencil by another hand. As follows: Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before May 1893
Extent:
1 item

1536. Ashley MS 2384

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Ashley MS 2384
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'The Zincali'. Drafts of various portions of 'The Zincali', together with drafts of other works. As follows:― 1. Continuous draft corresponding to various sections of the intro-duction, written on both sides of four quarto leaves of white wove paper (ff. 1-4b); circa 1839. No watermark. The fin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-1875
Extent:
1 item

1537. Ashley MS 1410 (1)

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Ashley MS 1410 (1)
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Scope & Content:
(1). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1871 (but the additional stanza for 'Sister Helen' (f. 12) is considered by J. C. Troxell, Rossetti's 'Sister Helen', 1939, to date from 1879 and 'The Sun's Shame II ' (ff. 17, 28b) is stated by W. M. Rossetti, The Works of D. G. Rossetti, 1911, and O. Doughty, A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

1538. Ashley MS 1410 (2)

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Ashley MS 1410 (2)
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(2). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1871-1879 (but 'True Woman III Her Heaven' (f. 18b) is stated by D. G. Rossetti in a letter to his mother dated 15 Sept. 1881, printed in D. G. Rossetti His Family-Letters, 1895, pp. 386-387, to have been recently composed). (a) Lines 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14 of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1879
Extent:
1 item

1539. Ashley MS 1410 (4)

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Ashley MS 1410 (4)
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(4). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Notes for 'True Woman I and II'. ff. 43b, 44;―(b) Unused prose introduction to 'The House of Life'. f. 40b; ― (c) Notes for 'The Song-throe'. f. 39;―(d) Notes and drafts for lines 2-6 of 'John Keats'. ff. 37b-38b;―(e) First seven lines of 'Thomas Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
1 item

1540. Ashley MS 1861

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1861
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'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'The Union'; [1893]. Draft of stanza III, beginning 'Lovelier than thy seas are strong', written on one side only of a scrap (97 x 173mm.) torn, after the stanza was written, from a folio leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. The final text found in the draft is ide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1893]
Extent:
1 item