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251. Ashley MS B1996

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Ashley MS B1996
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'Selections from the Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne'. Draft list, in Swinburne's hand, of poems to be included in Selections from the Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1887, written on one side only of a folio leaf of blue laid paper. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Sup...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

252. Ashley MS B3527

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Ashley MS B3527
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Discarded Fragment of 'Samuel Johnson and John Horne Tooke': an Imaginary Conversation by Walter Savage Landor; n.d. Autograph draft, written on one side only of a fragment of white wove paper. No watermark. The fragment comprises part of a speech by Tooke beginning 'Can anything be more conceit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
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1 item

253. Ashley MS B3551

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Ashley MS B3551
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Autobiographical Notes by Walter Savage Landor; after 1829. Auto-graph draft, written on both sides of two conjoined octavo leaves of white wove mourning paper bound as a quarto leaf. Watermark illegible. The latest event mentioned is Landor's purchase of the Villa Gherardesca. [Ashley Library C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1829
Extent:
1 item

254. Ashley MS 1369

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Ashley MS 1369
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'By Way of Remembrance': a sequence of four sonnets by Christina Rossetti; [Oct.?] 1870. Autograph fair copies, written on both sides of two leaves of cream laid paper. No watermark. For a discussion of the poems see L. M. Packer, Christina Rossetti, 1963, pp. 255-258. The sestet of the fourth s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Oct ?] 1870
Extent:
1 item

255. Ashley MS 3868

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Ashley MS 3868
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'The Ballad of Jan van Hunks' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [March?] 1882. Autograph fair copy, with additions and revisions in ink and pencil, written on one side only of eleven leaves and on both sides of a further two leaves (ff. 1 and 2) of a quarto notebook of twenty-eight leaves. White, laid ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Mar ?] 1882
Extent:
1 item

256. Ashley MS 5720

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Ashley MS 5720
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'The Medium': a dialogue on the loss of a diamond ring, with grotesque water-colour drawings of the speakers, by Robert Browning, the father of the poet; circa 1860. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of twenty-one leaves of cream wove paper. No watermark. Entitled 'The Medium' by Rob...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

257. Ashley MS B2996

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Ashley MS B2996
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'Verses written on the . . . Day of . . . in the year . . .': a poem by George Crabbe; after 1807. Autograph fair copy, entitled as above, written on both sides of an octavo leaf of white laid paper, and on one side only of another, conjoined, leaf. Watermark 'BE & S 1807 BATH?'. The verses ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

258. Ashley MS 4439

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Ashley MS 4439
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Poems by A. C. Swinburne; circa 1858. Autograph fair copies. Printed by T. J. Wise in A Lay of Lilies and Other Poems, 1918. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 58. As follows:― 1. 'A Lay of Lilies'; circa 1858. Autograph fair copy, with revisions. ff. 8-11. 2. 'Look Southwards'; circa 1858. Aut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

259. Ashley MS 158

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Ashley MS 158
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''Matin'' and ''Vesper'': two poems written at the age of fourteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1830. Autograph fair copies with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of a leaf 93 x 57mm. of white wove paper. No watermark. The present MS. originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830
Extent:
1 item

260. Ashley MS A3595

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Ashley MS A3595
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'"His books". oh yes, his books I know, ―': memorial verses to Frederick Locker[-Lampson], contributed by Austin Dobson to An Appendix to the Rowfant Library, 1900. Autograph copy of stanza 5, written on one side only of a scrap of white wove paper. No watermark. The stanza is signed and dated '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item