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161. Ashley MS 912

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Ashley MS 912
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Scope & Content:
'Robin Hood a Child', 'Robin Hood's Flight', 'Robin Hood an Outlaw': three poems by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1820?]. Autograph drafts, written on both sides of seven octavo leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth (f. 7). No watermark. The contents of the MS. are as follows, viz.:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1820?]
Extent:
1 item

162. Ashley MS 4787

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 4787
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Scope & Content:
'The Rescuer': the first form of the novel 'The Rescue' by Joseph Conrad; 1896-1898. Autograph fair copy, with many revisions, deletions and additions, written on one side only of five hundred and ninety-six folio leaves of ruled cream wove paper, and on both sides of a further two (ff. 25, 91)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896-1898
Extent:
1 item

163. Ashley MS A120, 2417

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A120, 2417
Title:
'The Romany Rye' by George Borrow; [1852?]-[1857]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 45-46, 63. As follows:
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1852?]-[1857]
Extent:
2 items

164. Ashley MS A400, B400

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A400, B400
Title:
Letters to Edward Clodd from Thomas Hardy, J. B. Bury, Sir James Frazer and W. R. Paterson, all thanking him for the gift of a copy of his Gibbon and Christianity, 1916; 25 March 1916 - 5 Dec. 1921. The letter from Hardy is printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, v, 1985, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 152. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 76, 77.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1916-5 Dec 1921
Extent:
2 items

165. Ashley MS 5716

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5716
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Scope & Content:
Account Book, in the hand of Robert Browning, showing expenditure from Jan. 1877 to March 1884, and income for the years 1878 to 1885. The expenditure is on ff. 2, 3-45, while the income is at the end on ff. 47 (inside the back cover), and (rev.) ff. 45b-46b. The book used is a linen-covered not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877-1884
Extent:
1 item

166. Ashley MS A1946, A1947

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1946, A1947
Title:
Letters to T. J. Wise from W. T. Watts-Dunton and Edmund Gosse, concerning the printing by Wise of The Marriage of Monna Lisa, 1909, Lord Soulis, 1909, and Burd Margaret, 1909, a prose romance and two ballads by A. C. Swinburne. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 213-214. For further letters from Watts-Dunton to Wise, see Ashley MS B1422, Ashley MS A1968 (3), Ashley MS A3327 and Ashley MS 5755.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
2 items

167. Ashley MS B2190, B3182

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2190, B3182
Title:
Two Letters from George Thorn-Drury to T. J. Wise, concerning the latter's A Dryden Library, 1930; 7, 10 Jan. 1931. [Ashley Library Catalogue vii, p. 193; xi, p. 62].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jan 1931
Extent:
2 items

168. Ashley MS A17

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A17
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Scope & Content:
'Empedocles on Etna' and 'Dover Beach': poems by Matthew Arnold; [1849-1850?]. Autograph notes for 'Empedocles on Etna', written on both sides of one quarto leaf of cream wove paper, and on one side only of a second. No watermark. The notes, which are printed with the exception of the first eigh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1849-1850?]
Extent:
1 item

169. Ashley MS A1682

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1682
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Scope & Content:
Letter from William Shenstone to 'Mr Milward' [of Termall Hall?], concerning 'Mr Holbeache's' [William Holbech of Farnborough?] reply to his letter; Oct. 1759. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 151. includes: f. 152 William Shenstone, poet: Milward: Letter to — Milward from William Shenstone: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1759
Extent:
1 item

170. Ashley MS 4438

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 4438
Title:
Scope & Content:
Poems by A. C. Swinburne; [1857]-1865. Autograph drafts. Printed by T. J. Wise in The Two Knights and Other Poems, 1918. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 57. As follows:― 1. Poem, beginning 'Two Knights rode on along the dark'; [1857-1858]. ff. 4-7b. 2. 'Before the Mirror III'; 1865. ff. 11, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1857]-1865
Extent:
1 item