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501. Ashley MS A1215

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Ashley MS A1215
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Letter from Eiríkr Magnússon to A. C. Swinburne, suggesting that Swinburne should have his works translated into Swedish; 20 Sept. 1878. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 167. includes: ff. 155-156b Eiríkr Magnússon, Icelandic scholar: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to [A. C. Swinb...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1878
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1 item

502. Ashley MS A2518

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Ashley MS A2518
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'Psyche Apocalypte': a projected lyrical drama by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and R. H. Horne; [1841]. Synopsis of Act III in the hand of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written on both sides of one octavo leaf of cream wove paper, and on one side only of another, conjoined, leaf. No watermark. The f...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841]
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1 item

503. Ashley MS B2332

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Ashley MS B2332
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Letter from the Hon. Maurice Baring to Edmund Gosse, chiefly concerned with describing his crammer's at Bournemouth and the eccentricities of the Hon. Auberon Herbert at The Old House in the New Forest, and with criticising the Saturday Review; 1 Sept. 1897. For further letters from Baring to Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1897
Extent:
1 item

504. Ashley MS B4267

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Ashley MS B4267
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Letter from Christopher Smart to R. Dodsley, asking him to advertise at once the former's 'Proposals' [Proposals for Printing by Subscription a New Version of the Psalms?]; 3 Jan. 1748. [Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 184]. includes: ff. 6, 7b Christopher Smart: Robert Dodsley, bookseller, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1748
Extent:
1 item

505. Ashley MS 155

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Ashley MS 155
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Letter from Anne Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers, apologising on behalf of Charlotte who was too overcome by the death of their brother Branwell to reply to a letter from Williams; 29 Sept. 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, ii, pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1848
Extent:
1 item

506. Ashley MS 166

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Ashley MS 166
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers; 20 April 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. ii, pp. 203, 204. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 73. Octavo; ff. ii+2. Charlotte Brontë, author: W. S. Williams, reader at S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1848
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1 item

507. Ashley MS 359

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Ashley MS 359
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Letter (f. 8) from Sir Hall Caine to Clement Shorter, as editor of the Sphere, enclosing an article (ff. 1-7) entitled 'Previous "Prodigal Sons"'; 29 Oct. 1904. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 56. Octavo; ff. i+ 8. Clement King Shorter, journalist and author: Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, KBE;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1904
Extent:
1 item

508. Ashley MS 852

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Ashley MS 852
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, making fun of the mutually contradictory statements of his reviewers; 3 Aug. 1907. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iii, 1982, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 266. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 127. Octavo; ff. ii+1. Clement K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1907
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1 item

509. Ashley MS 859

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Ashley MS 859
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Two Letters from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, discussing an agree-ment whereby Shorter had the MSS. of Hardy's works bound in return for the gift of the MS. of 'The Return of the Native', and expressing an opinion on Mrs Shorter's [Dora Sigerson's] poems; 4 June 1908, 20 Nov. 1912. Printed i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1912
Extent:
1 item

510. Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)

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Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)
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Four Notebooks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871-1881. The books contain many notes for, and drafts of, lines, couplets and stanzas of poems printed in Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, but no complete poems, with the exception of a draft of 'The Lamp's Shrine' (book (1), ff. 26-27). In addition they contain many fragments of prose and poetry not used by Rossetti but often, for that reason, very revealing of his state of mind, notes of place and personal names for poems, ideas for pi...
Scope & Content:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter: Notebook by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1871-1881.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1881
Extent:
4 items