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1541. Ashley MS 3859

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Ashley MS 3859
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'Commandments' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1880?]. Fair copy, with additions and heavy revisions, written on one side only of two quarto leaves of ruled white laid paper, and on both sides of a further four. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Super Fine'. Printed, with omissions, as 'Soothsay' on p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1880?]
Extent:
1 item

1542. Ashley MS A1953

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Ashley MS A1953
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includes: ff. 4, 5 Poetry ENGLISH: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Lyrics from 'Lesbia Brandon' by Algernon Charles Swinburne: n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1543. Ashley MS 1840

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Ashley MS 1840
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Poems and Ballads. 'The Leper'; [1857-1860]. Draft, entitled 'A Vigil', written on writing paper of the Oxford Union Society, watermarked '1857'. Swinburne remained at Oxford in statu pupillari until June 1860. The draft, of eight stanzas, is evidently an early version of 'The Leper' (printed on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1857-1860]
Extent:
1 item

1544. Ashley MS 5071

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Ashley MS 5071
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'Poems and Ballads Second Series'. 'The Complaint of the Fair Armouress' a translation from the French of Villon by A. C. Swinburne, 1861-[1863?]. Draft, entitled 'La Belle Heaulmyère', and written on one side only of three folio leaves of white laid paper, all three watermarked 'T&FH / 1861...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1861-[1863?]
Extent:
1 item

1545. Ashley MS 5083

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Ashley MS 5083
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'Poems and Ballads Third Series'. 'The Armada'; 1888. Fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of twelve foolscap leaves of blue laid paper. Watermark 'E Towgood / 1886'. The MS. is entitled 'The Armada / 1588: 1888', and signed at the end 'Algernon Charles Swinburne'. The final text ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888
Extent:
1 item

1546. Ashley MS 1866

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Ashley MS 1866
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'Bothwell'. Trial printing, with autograph corrections and revisions, of Act I and Act II, Scene I, as far as Darnley's first exit (p. 109, l. 9, in the First Edition). No title page, no imprint. Collation: Octavo (190 x 125); B-E8 F4 Gl; 37 leaves; pp. 1, 2-32, 33, 34-64; ff. 65-69; $I (- D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1547. Ashley MS 1410 (3)

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Ashley MS 1410 (3)
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(3). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Last two stanzas of 'Soothsay'. ff. 14 and 14b, 12b;―(b) First two lines of stanzas 1 and 3 of 'Alas, so long'. f. 15;―(c) Two lines 'As much as in a hundred years she's dead Yet is today the day on which she died', possibly referring to the death o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
1 item

1548. Ashley MS 5762 (3)

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Ashley MS 5762 (3)
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Prefaces to five volumes of the Siddal Edition of the poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and additions, as follows:― . Preface to Vol. 3, written on one side only of five quarto leaves of blue wove paper. No watermark. Signed and dated 'August 1899'. ff. 10-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899-1900
Extent:
1 item

1549. Ashley MS 1841

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Ashley MS 1841
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Poems and Ballads. 'The Two Dreams'; [1858?]. Quarto notebook, with ruled pages of white laid paper, unwatermarked, containing drafts, entitled 'The White Hind: from Boccaccio' (f. 1a), of two passages of the poem. 'The Two Dreams' is based on the Sixth Novella of the Fourth Day of Boccacio's De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1858?]
Extent:
1 item

1550. Ashley MS 4403

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Ashley MS 4403
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'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'Grace Darling'; [1892?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of four large quarto leaves of blue wove paper. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'Grace Darling' in Swinburne's hand, and he has numbered the leaves 1-4. The text found in the fair copy differs by one wor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1892?]
Extent:
1 item