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391. Ashley MS A1916

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Ashley MS A1916
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Scope & Content:
'Evening by the sea' (thus entitled in a later hand): stanzas by A. C. Swinburne; [1859-1860?]. Autograph draft of five stanzas and two and a half cancelled lines, possibly of another stanza, beginning 'It was between the night and day', and descriptive of the sea shore at evening. The draft is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1859-1860?]
Extent:
1 item

392. Ashley MS B502, B503, B504, B2922, B2923, B2924

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Ashley MS B502, B503, B504, B2922, B2923, B2924
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Letters (8), one with envelope, from Joseph Conrad to C. K. Shorter, mentioning, among other matters, his Suspense (B502), his suppressed Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus (B2922), his One day more (B2923), Well Done! (B2924), and articles on the 'Titanic'; 31 December 1916-5 August 1922, n.d. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 234, 241, 242; viii, pp. 128, 129].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
31 Dec 1916-5 Aug 1922
Extent:
6 items

393. Ashley MS B3552

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Ashley MS B3552
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Part of 'Garibaldi and the President of the Sicilian Senate': an Imaginary Conversation by Walter Savage Landor; n.d. Autograph draft, written on both sides of a large foolscap leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. The portion appears to be part of a speech by Garibaldi beginning 'Sicilians! ne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

394. Ashley MS 276

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 276
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Scope & Content:
Letters (8) from Robert Browning to Norman MacColl, editor of the Athenæum; 13 June 1876-10 March 1889. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 172, 182, 184, 187, 188, 203, 232, 302. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 61. For another letter from Brow...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1876-10 Mar 1889
Extent:
1 item

395. Ashley MS 975

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 975
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Robert Browning to Harry Buxton Forman, concerning the ultimate fate of the copy of John Keats, Lamia found on the body of Shelley, and speaking of a letter written to J. H. Leigh Hunt by Browning on 6 Oct. 1857, printed without Browning's permission in Leigh Hunt's Correspondence, e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1877
Extent:
1 item

396. Ashley MS 3073

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3073
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'Fame is a food that dead men eat': a poem by Austin Dobson; 1915. Autograph fair copy, apparently written for a Red Cross Sale on one side only of an octavo leaf of pale grey laid paper. The leaf forms a bifolium with another, blank, leaf. Watermark stringed horn on crowned shield above elabora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 item

397. Ashley MS A2283, A2284, A2285, A2287, 2288, B2290*, A4677, B5658

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Ashley MS A2283, A2284, A2285, A2287, 2288, B2290*, A4677, B5658
Title:
Letters (13) from W. B. Yeats to C. K. Shorter; after March 1896-30 Oct. 1918. One of the letters (A4677) is in the hand of an amanuensis. The letter of 17 May 1918 is accompanied by an envelope (2288, f. 14). The letters chiefly concern Yeats's refusal to write a poem on a subject suggested by Shorter (2288, ff. 1, 2), an invitation to one of Yeats's 'Monday evenings' (B5658), the agreement with his publisher Unwin (2288, ff. 3-6), The Shadowy Waters (2288, ff. 3-6), the 'Irish Literary The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
after Mar 1896-30 Oct 1918
Extent:
8 items

398. Ashley MS A4160, A4179

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A4160, A4179
Title:
Two Letters from Dr. John Todhunter to T. J. Wise, the earlier (ff. 181-182b) refusing Wise's offer to print his paper given to the Shelley Society, 'Notes on Shelley's Unfinished Poem "The Triumph of Life"', as a pamphlet, since the paper was only of ephemeral worth (Wise nonetheless printed it for Private Circulation in 1887), the later hoping that he will not have influenza the night he is meant to address the society; 15 Feb. 1887, 6 Jan. 1890. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, pp. 133, 139.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887-1890
Extent:
2 items

399. Ashley MS 786

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 786
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Scope & Content:
Letters (7) from George Gissing to Clement Shorter; 31 Aug. 1893- 26 Oct. 1903. The letters chiefly concern contributions by Gissing to various journals of which Shorter was the editor. In the last letter he mentions his Veranilda, published posthumously in 1907. For three further letters from G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1893-26 Oct 1903
Extent:
1 item

400. Ashley MS 1890

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1890
Title:
Scope & Content:
Letter from A. C. Swinburne to Norman MacColl, with a proposal for publishing his 'A Note on Charlotte Brontë' in the Athenæum; 13 Jan. 1877. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., iii, 1960, pp. 260-261. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 126. Octavo; ff. i+2. Norman MacColl, Editor, 'The Athenaeum':...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1877
Extent:
1 item