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481. Ashley MS A3913

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Ashley MS A3913
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Memorandum written by John Ruskin for the information of students intending to join his drawing class at the Working Men's College; n.d. Autograph draft. This draft was preserved by F. J. Furnivall. Printed in E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, xvi, 1905, p. 471, with a facs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

482. Ashley MS B2671

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Ashley MS B2671
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Fragment of a Document bearing the signature of Napoleon I; 25 Feb. 1813. The document is countersigned by Pierre Daru, Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat. On the verso is the note in an unknown hand 'Autograph of the late Napoleon (Bonaparte) dated from the Palais des Tuileries 25 Feb 1813, cut off fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1813
Extent:
1 item

483. Ashley MS 2693

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Ashley MS 2693
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'To The Prince Regent - on the repeal of the bill of attainder against Ld. E. Fitzgerald. - july. 1819.': a sonnet by Lord Byron; 3 Aug. 1819. Autograph fair copy, with four revisions, written on one side only of a large quarto leaf of white wove paper. Watermark 'HOC AUSPICE / QVID NON AUSINT /...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1819
Extent:
1 item

484. Ashley MS 3217

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Ashley MS 3217
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Letter from Edward Fitzgerald to George Borrow; 24 May 1857. Printed in The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, ed. A. M. Terhune and A. B. Terhune, vol. ii, 1980, pp. 276-277. ff. 1-2. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 120. The letter is accompanied by two verse fragments in Fitzgerald's hand, not men...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1857
Extent:
1 item

485. Ashley MS 5713

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Ashley MS 5713
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Letter from Robert Browning to Mary Russell Mitford; 9 March 1849. Printed in Letters of Robert Browning, ed. T. L. Hood, 1933, p. 22. Octavo (letter) and large folio (binding); ff. ii+2. Robert Browning, poet: Mary Russell Mitford, novelist and dramatist: Letter to Mary Russell Mitford from R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1849
Extent:
1 item

486. Ashley MS B1517, B1518, B1521, A1525, A4011

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Ashley MS B1517, B1518, B1521, A1525, A4011
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Two Letters and two postcards from G. B. Shaw to T. J. Wise, and one letter to Wise from Blanche Patch, Shaw's secretary (B1521); 7 Nov. 1916-13 July 1933. The letters chiefly concern George Borrow (B1518), the bibliography of Shaw's Heartbreak House (published 1919. See F. E. Loewenstein, The Rehearsal Copies of Bernard Shaw's Plays, 1950) (B1517, B1521), bibliographies of Shaw's works (A1525), and the correspondence of Shaw with Ellen Terry (A4011) (for Ellen Terry's letters see Add. MSS. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
7 Nov 1916-13 Jul 1933
Extent:
5 items

487. Ashley MS 23

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Ashley MS 23
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Letter, with envelope, from Matthew Arnold to Edmund Gosse complimenting him on his Life of Thomas Gray, 1882 (in the 'English Men of Letters' series), and discussing the works of Gray, William Collins, Tennyson, etc.; 11 Aug. [1882]. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 4. Octavo; ff. i+3. Matthew...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug [1882]
Extent:
1 item

488. Ashley MS 4137

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Ashley MS 4137
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Letter from E. J. Trelawny to Edward Moxon, concerning his trial for blasphemous libel as a result of publishing 'Queen Mab' in the second edition of Shelley's Poetical Works, 1839, and congratulating him for having printed the notes in full; 30 June 1841. Printed in H. B. Forman, op. cit., 1910...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1841
Extent:
1 item

489. Ashley MS 2539

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Ashley MS 2539
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Letters (3) from Robert Browning to his daughter-in-law Fannie Browning on the subject of her marriage to his son R. W. B. Browning; [5 Oct. 1887], 15 Sept. 1887, and 4 Oct. 1889. The first letter (f. 1a) appears to have been added by Browning at the end of a longer letter in the hand of his sis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887-1889
Extent:
1 item

490. Ashley MS 5746

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Ashley MS 5746
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Letter from Walter Savage Landor to Mrs Margaret Hodson, containing an account of a visit to Southey; 13 Aug. [1832]. Quarto; ff. i+2. Walter Savage Landor, d.1864; author: Margaret Holford, afterwards Hodson; author: Letter to M. Hodson from Walter Savage Landor: [1832].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug [1832]
Extent:
1 item