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211. Ashley MS 5094

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Ashley MS 5094
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'The Portrait': a prose story by A. C. Swinburne; [1862?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, some in a different ink, written on one side only of four folio leaves of white wove paper, and on both sides of another (f. 6). No watermark. ff. 6, 6b, 7, 8, 9, 10. The story is one of those intende...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1862?]
Extent:
1 item

212. Ashley MS 5760

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Ashley MS 5760
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'Romance': a novel by Joseph Conrad; [1901-1902]. Autograph draft of a passage from Part IV, chapter XI, written on one side only of a large quarto leaf of cream wove paper. Watermark 'English Made Bank / Rock BroS LTD'. The page is numbered '341' in Conrad's hand. The passage begins 'had not be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1901-1902]
Extent:
1 item

213. Ashley MS 905

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Ashley MS 905
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'Bacchus and Ariadne': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1819?]. Autograph draft, with numerous corrections, additions and deletions, written on one side only of eight octavo leaves of white wove paper and on both sides of a further four. No watermark. On ff. 13b, 14b, 15b, and 16b are lists in Hunt'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1819?]
Extent:
1 item

214. Ashley MS 5050

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Ashley MS 5050
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'Ticonderoga': a poem by R. L. Stevenson; [1887]. Autograph draft. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 7. Also included are:― 1. A prayer composed by Stevenson on the death of his father, Thomas Stevenson; [1887]. Autograph draft. f. 6b. 2. A fragment of a biography, 'Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1887]
Extent:
1 item

215. Ashley MS A122

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Ashley MS A122
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Fragments of 'Romano Lavo-Lil': a work describing the English Gypsies and their language, by George Borrow; [1848-1874?]. Autograph drafts and fair copies of various passages, including the foreword, the chapters on the English Gypsy language and Thomas Herne, various Romany texts and translatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1848-1874?]
Extent:
1 item

216. Ashley MS A2406

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Ashley MS A2406
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'Sir Truels's Daughters': a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1828-[1829?]. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on both sides of two conjoined quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'Thomas James / 1828'. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand. He ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-[1829?]
Extent:
1 item

217. Ashley MS 2532

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Ashley MS 2532
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Letter from Robert Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, chiefly devoted to the description of a capsized ship seen off Algiers and speaking also of the composition of 'Sordello'; [24 July 1838]. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 1-3. Ashley Libr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[24 Jul 1838]
Extent:
1 item

218. Ashley MS 2588

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Ashley MS 2588
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'Sludge, the medium': a short story in the form of a conversation between several characters, by Robert Browning, the father of the poet; [circa 1860?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of eighteen octavo leaves of white wove paper. No watermark. At the head of each page is a pen an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1860?]
Extent:
1 item

219. Ashley MS 2949

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Ashley MS 2949
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'The Black Mate': a short story by Joseph Conrad; [1908?]. Autograph draft, written on one side only of ninety-eight quarto leaves of ruled white wove paper. No watermark. The draft is entitled 'The Black Mate' in Conrad's hand. With the exception of the first, the leaves have been foliated by C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1908?]
Extent:
1 item

220. Ashley MS 3842

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Ashley MS 3842
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'The English Revolution of 1848': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1848. Autograph fair copy, entitled as above, written on both sides of a quarto leaf of grey laid paper. Watermark stringed bugle on crowned shield above the letters 'GW'. The poem is dated 'March 1848' in Rossetti's hand. The n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 item