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371. Ashley MS B194, B2454

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B194, B2454
Title:
Two Letters from George Edwin MacLean to T. J. Wise, the earlier sending a copy of his article 'Unpublished Essays in Novel Writing by Charlotte Brontë' reprinted from the Publications of the Brontë Society, xxvi, 1916, and the later a copy of Charlotte Brontë, Lament befitting these 'Times of Night', 1916, edited by MacLean and reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine for August 1916; 26 June, 21 Sept. 1916. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 79, 87].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
2 items

372. Ashley MS B561, B565, B571, B572, B573, B574

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Ashley MS B561, B565, B571, B572, B573, B574
Title:
Letters (6) from John Davidson, four to Edmund Gosse, one to 'Mac' [W. S. McCormick?], and one to an unidentified correspondent; 2 March 1892-18 Dec. 1898. The letters concern Gosse's Russet and Silver, a Canadian poet, Richard Hovey, Davidson's reaction on receiving a grant from the Royal Literary Fund, the influence of the Jacobeans on the evolution of his plays, and the illness of his brother. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 12-16; ix, pp. 65-66].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1892-18 Dec 1898
Extent:
6 items

373. Ashley MS 71, B2335, A4688, B4691

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 71, B2335, A4688, B4691
Title:
Letters (8) from J. M. Barrie to Clement Shorter, three with envelopes; 27 Jan. 1900-1 Sept. 1924. One letter (B4691) concerns Barrie's authorship of a short story 'A Lady's Shoe', but the others are chiefly excuses for refusing invitations from Shorter. For a further letter from Barrie to Shorter see 5750. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 16; [viii, p. 53]; ix, p. 11. MS. 71 is octavo; ff. i+10.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
27 Jan 1900-1 Sep 1924
Extent:
4 items

374. Ashley MS 988

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 988
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Norman MacColl, refusing to accept pay-ment for his poem 'The Rhyme of the Three Captains', published in the Athenæum for 6 Dec. 1890; 8 Jan. 1891. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 32. Octavo; ff. i+1. Norman MacColl, Editor, 'The Athenaeum': Joseph Rudyard Kipl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1891
Extent:
1 item

375. Ashley MS B410, B413, B2879

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B410, B413, B2879
Title:
Letters (5) from Ernest Hartley Coleridge to T. J. Wise; 1903-1913. The letters concern the bibliography of S. T. Coleridge and (28 March 1903) E. H. Coleridge's edition of Byron. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 199, 202, 221].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1903-1913
Extent:
3 items

376. Ashley MS B1290

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1290
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Scope & Content:
Verses entitled 'To Omar Khayam', by Stephen Phillips; n.d. Autograph fair copy in pencil, signed in ink, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of cream ruled laid paper. No watermark. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 206.] includes: f. 124 Stephen Phillips, poet and dramatist: Poetry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

377. Ashley MS 156

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Ashley MS 156
Title:
Scope & Content:
''The Search after Hapiness'' (sic): a tale written at the age of thirteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy with many revisions and deletions, written on both sides of seven irregularly sized (average 60 x 90mm.) leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth. Waterm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item

378. Ashley MS A1402, A1415, A1418, A1419, B1428, A3851, A3862, A3863

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Ashley MS A1402, A1415, A1418, A1419, B1428, A3851, A3862, A3863
Title:
Letters (18) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning the production of Rossetti's Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, and in particular the ballad 'The White Ship'; early 1880 to Aug. 1881. It seems more likely that the ballad referred to in A1415 is 'The White Ship' than 'The Bride's Prelude'. Wise had an interest in claiming that it was the latter, as he was trying to prove that the proof of 'The Bride's Prelude' in his possession was a separate issu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1871-1881
Extent:
8 items

379. Ashley MS B2416

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2416
Title:
Scope & Content:
'On Pool Cerys' and 'Surely the wildest whirlpool neath the sky': two translations from the Welsh by George Borrow of the poem by Gruffydd Hiraethog; [before 1857?]. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of A2409. The translations are printed in The Works of George Borrow, viii, 1923, p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before 1857?]
Extent:
1 item

380. Ashley MS 1044

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1044
Title:
Scope & Content:
'A Satire on Satirists' by Walter Savage Landor; 1836-circa 1840. A copy of the first printed edition, 1836, with autograph corrections and additions by the author, and autograph notes by Richard Henry Horne, to whom the volume was given by the author (see f. 1b). There are additions or correcti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-c 1840
Extent:
1 item