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301. Ashley MS A1970

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Ashley MS A1970
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Scope & Content:
'The Infinitely Little Ghosts': lines, beginning thus, by A. C. Swinburne; n.d. Autograph draft of eight lines, written on one side only of a fragment (141 x 132mm.) of a folio leaf of blue laid paper. Watermark part of the figure of Britannia. The second line has been cancelled by Swinburne. Me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

302. Ashley MS A2382

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Ashley MS A2382
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'The Renegade': a poem by George Borrow; [1834-1835?]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of one octavo leaf of white wove paper and on one side only of another. The leaves are conjoined. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'The Renegade' in Borrow's hand. First printed in The Talisman, 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1834-1835?]
Extent:
1 item

303. Ashley MS 187

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 187
Title:
The History of ''Angria'': fragments by Patrick Branwell Brontë
Scope & Content:
Part of ''Angria and the Angrians'', Branwell Brontë’s history of Angria (the fictional land he created with Charlotte Brontë), written between1834 and 1839. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of eighteen octavo leav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-1837
Extent:
1 item

304. Ashley MS B3711, B4907

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Ashley MS B3711, B4907
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Two Letters from A. Edward Newton to T. J. Wise, the earlier asking him to forward a note to Mr Ellis saying that he will not be able to have tea with him, the later sending him a copy of Newton's The Format of the English Novel, 1928, and giving details of its production; 8 Jan. 1924, 16 May 1928. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 191]. For another letter from Newton to Wise see Ashley MS B4755.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1924-1928
Extent:
2 items

305. Ashley MS 4164

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Ashley MS 4164
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''Shelley''s Skylark'': a poem by Thomas Hardy; 1913?. Autograph fair copy, entitled as above, written on one side only of three quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark ''A. PIRIE & SONS 1913''. The MS. is dated ''The neighbourhood of Leghorn (March 1887)'' and signed at the end ''Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913?
Extent:
1 item

306. Ashley MS 160

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Ashley MS 160
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French Exercises: translations into French by Charlotte Brontë; 1842?. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of the sixteen leaves of a quarto notebook. Ruled cream wove paper, without water-mark. The translations, four of prose passages and five of poems, we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842?
Extent:
1 item

307. Ashley MS 4400

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 4400
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Scope & Content:
Letter from A. C. Swinburne to the Editor of the Academy; [1892]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., vi, 1962, pp. 47-51. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 184-185. Octavo; ff. i+10. Newspapers Great Britain and Ireland: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to the Editor of the Academy from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1892]
Extent:
1 item

308. Ashley MS A3903

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Ashley MS A3903
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'Munera Pulveris': six essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin; 1862-1863. Autograph draft of the footnote to Chapter VI, paragraph 155, written on both sides of a folio leaf of blue laid paper. No watermark. The text found in the draft is clearly closer to that of Fraser's Magazine for April...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1862-1863
Extent:
1 item

309. Ashley MS B1373

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1373
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Scope & Content:
'Hymn after Gabriele Rossetti, First Version' by Christina Rossetti; circa 1855. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of an octavo leaf of white wove paper. No watermark. The MS. appears to have been taken from a notebook, and is numbered 247 on the recto and 248 on the verso. First printe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1855
Extent:
1 item

310. Ashley MS B3870

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B3870
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Scope & Content:
'Another Love': a sonnet written to bouts-rimés by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; circa 1848. Autograph fair copy, with one revision apparently in another hand, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white wove paper. No watermark. The leaf has been numbered '130' in pencil by an unknown hand. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1848
Extent:
1 item