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201. Ashley MS 51

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Ashley MS 51
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Volume of Verses by Frederick Britten Austin; July 1901-20 May 1926. Autograph fair copies, written on both sides of 58 leaves, and on one side only of two (ff. 2b, 61), of an octavo notebook. On f. 1 the notebook has been signed and dated 'F. Britten Austin 1903' and later inscribed to T. J. Wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
Jul 1901-20 May 1926
Extent:
1 item

202. Ashley MS 1280

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Ashley MS 1280
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'The Four Ages of Poetry': an essay by Thomas Love Peacock; after 1826. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of thirty octavo leaves of white wove paper, and one side only of another (f. 31). Watermark 'A Cowan & Son / 1826'. The essay was first published in Ollier's Literary Miscellan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1826
Extent:
1 item

203. Ashley MS 5133

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Ashley MS 5133
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'My Book and I': an essay by Walt Whitman; [1886?]. Autograph fair copy, with many revisions, and with scraps of MS. on different papers, and cuttings from printed works, pasted on to the original leaves. The essay occupies one side only of twenty-one leaves of cream wove paper measuring 12 x 6....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1886?]
Extent:
1 item

204. Ashley MS 5738

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Ashley MS 5738
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'What I saw and heard. July - August 1914': 'a record of scenes witnessed and words heard almost at the centre of affairs' by Edmund Gosse; 1914. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of forty seven quarto leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. At the end of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

205. Ashley MS 5767

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Ashley MS 5767
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Will of P. B. Shelley; 18 Feb. 1817. Typewritten copy, on paper water-marked 1911. Folio; ff. 13. Wills: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Will of Percy Bysshe Shelley: 1817: Typed copy [1911?].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1817
Extent:
1 item

206. Ashley MS A712, A713

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Ashley MS A712, A713
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Two Letters from Mary Ann Evans afterw. Cross [George Eliot], the first to Mrs Thomas Adolphus Trollope signed 'M. E. Lewes' and telling of her and G. H. Lewes' stay in Naples, and the second written from Griffe to 'My dear Patty' [Martha Jackson], telling of her travels on the Continent; 1 April 1869, 4 April 1850. Printed in Haight, The George Eliot Letters, 1954-1955, vol. v, pp. 21-22; vol. i, pp. 333-334. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 106, 107.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850-1869
Extent:
2 items

207. Ashley MS B1862, B2557, B5509

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Ashley MS B1862, B2557, B5509
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Two Letters and a post-card (B1862) from Maurice Buxton Forman to T. J. Wise; 19 Feb. 1931-30 Sept. 1934. The letters concern, among other matters, the gift by Forman to Wise of a copy of Ten Letters of Robert Browning concerning Miss Alma Murray, 1929, edited by himself (B2557), Harry Buxton Forman's inscribed copies of A. C. Swinburne, Siena, 1868 and William Morris, Sir Galahad, 1858, both of them Wise forgeries (B1862), and the price of an unidentified book (B5509). [Ashley Library Catal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
19 Feb 1931-30 Sep 1934
Extent:
3 items

208. Ashley MS A2377

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Ashley MS A2377
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'The Sword', 'Ye Youths and Ye Maidens Hark Chanticleer Cries' and 'An impromtu' [sic]: three poems by George Borrow; circa 1830. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 14-15. Autograph fair copies, that of 'The Sword' written on the recto and those of 'Ye Youths' and 'An Impromptu' on the verso of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 item

209. Ashley MS 4390

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Ashley MS 4390
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'The Russ and the Bulgar': a sonnet by A. C. Swinburne; 1886. Autograph fair copy. The MS. is entitled by Swinburne 'The Russ and the Bulgar, August 23, 1886'. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 159. Octavo; ff. i+1. Poetry ENGLISH: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Sonnet, 'The Russ and the Bul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886
Extent:
1 item

210. Ashley MS 5001

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5001
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'Shelley's Prometheus Unbound': a lecture by W. M. Rossetti delivered to the Shelley Society on 7 Dec. 1886; [1886]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of twenty-five quarto leaves of blue wove paper. Watermark 'j allen & sons / super fine'. F. 24 consists of pp. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1886]
Extent:
1 item