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491. Ashley MS A248, A277, A2531, A2540, B2551

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Ashley MS A248, A277, A2531, A2540, B2551
Title:
Letters (5) from Robert Browning to F. J. Furnivall; 15 Sept. 1881-13 Dec. 1886. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933. In the letter of 15 Sept. 1881 where Browning discusses the metre of 'Hervé Riel' and 'A Toccata of Galuppi's' Hood has not printed the marks of scansion which Browning wrote above his examples. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 112, 115, 129, 130, 134. For further letters from Browning to Furnivall see A2527, 2542, A2549.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
15 Sep 1881-13 Dec 1886
Extent:
5 items

492. Ashley MS A1956

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1956
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Scope & Content:
'The Russ and the Frenchman': a sonnet by A. C. Swinburne; 1886. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of a much damaged large quarto leaf of blue laid paper. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'The Russ and the Frenchman', and dated 'August 26, 1886', in Swinburne's hand. Below the title...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886
Extent:
1 item

493. Ashley MS A2530

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A2530
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Scope & Content:
Postcard from Robert Browning to [ ] Wyse; postmarked 22 July 1887. In Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 111, T. J. Wise claims that this postcard was sent to him by Browning when the latter was informed of the price paid by him for a copy of the first edition of Browning's Pauline. Even in his ea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jul 1887
Extent:
1 item

494. Ashley MS B238, B252, B253, B2533, B3562, 5714

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B238, B252, B253, B2533, B3562, 5714
Title:
Letters (6) from Robert Browning to Edmund Gosse; 19 Aug. 1876-23 Feb. 1888. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, with the exception of B252. Ashley Library Catalogue, [i, pp. 107, 117, 118;] iii, p. 95.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
19 Aug 1876-23 Feb 1888
Extent:
6 items

495. Ashley MS B2487

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2487
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Scope & Content:
'On an Expensive Volume of Verse': a poem by Andrew Lang; before 1912. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of two conjoined leaves of octavo white laid writing paper headed '8 GIBSON PLACE / ST. ANDREWS / SCOTLAND'. Watermark 'BOTHWELL' and crowned lion rampant on shield. Entitled as a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1912
Extent:
1 item

496. Ashley MS B3165

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B3165
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Scope & Content:
Prologue and Epilogue written by John Dryden for The Pilgrim, a play by John Fletcher, revised in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh. Copy, written on both sides of two conjoined octavo leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'FB'. The Prologue is entitled 'Prologue to ye Pilgrim', and the Epilogue 'Epilog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

497. Ashley MS 1371

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1371
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Scope & Content:
''Sing Song'': a volume of 121 nursery rhymes by Christina Rossetti; 1869?, 1870. Autograph fair copies, with revisions, written on one side only of one hundred and twenty six octavo leaves of cream laid paper. No watermark. Signed with the address ''56 Euston Square N.W.'' on f. 127. Each rhyme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868-1870
Extent:
1 item

498. Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
Title:
Letters (31) from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse; 16 April 1879-1 Dec. 1894. A1775, 1776, A1779, 1788, A1790, B1794, B1795, A1796, B1800, B4307, B4310 and 5055, letters II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, have envelopes. Stevenson and Gosse probably met in 1873 or 1874, and remained on intimate terms until the end of Stevenson's life - indeed, the last letter in this collection (5055, ff. 28-31, of which ff. 28b, 29b-30b are in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong) was written onl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
16 Apr 1879-1 Dec 1894
Extent:
23 items

499. Ashley MS 2820 (1)-(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2820 (1)-(2)
Title:
Two Pamphlets used for reminiscences etc. by Claire Clairmont; 1828-1830. Autograph. Accompanying the pamphlets is a newspaper cutting (f. ii) bearing an obituary notice of Claire Clairmont. The date '1879' has been added by an unknown hand. The contents of the pamphlets are printed, with some errors, in Marion L Stocking, The Journals of Claire Clairmont, 1968, pp. 418-438. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 188.
Scope & Content:
Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: Diaries and Memoranda: Reminiscences, etc., by Clara Mary Jane Clairmont: 1828-1830: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1830
Extent:
2 items

500. Ashley MS 4020

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 4020
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, chiefly describing an excursion to Lucca to hear an improvisation given by Tommaso Sgricci in the theatre there; [14] Jan. 1821. Printed, with many inaccuracies in the Italian part of the text, in F. L. Jones, The Letters of Mary W. Shelley, vol. i, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[14] Jan 1821
Extent:
1 item