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541. Ashley MS 175

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Ashley MS 175
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Poetical Notebook used for fair copies by Emily Brontë; 1839. Autograph fair copies, with revisions, written on both sides of twelve octavo leaves of ruled cream wove paper. Watermark ''J Rump / 1831''. The leaves once formed part of a notebook, but were disbound and mounted on guards by T. J. W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839
Extent:
1 item

542. Ashley MS 2502

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Ashley MS 2502
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'At Lerici. 1883': a poem by Stopford A. Brooke; 1883-1887. Autograph fair copy, with two revisions, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of cream wove paper (f. 2). No watermark. Entitled as above in Brooke's hand, and signed 'Stopford. A. Brooke.'. The MS. is bound into a volume with two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1883-1887
Extent:
1 item

543. Ashley MS 2940

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Ashley MS 2940
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'Laughing Anne': a play by Joseph Conrad; 1920. Autograph draft, written on one side only of fifty-six large quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark a ram's head above 'ORIGINAL / CHARTHAM MILLS / KENT'. The MS. is entitled 'Laughing Anne. / Drama in 2 Acts 3 scenes / Joseph Conrad. / 1920 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920
Extent:
1 item

544. Ashley MS 4301

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Ashley MS 4301
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Letter from Mrs Fanny Stevenson (widow of Robert Louis Stevenson) to Edmund Gosse, explaining why she had rejected Sidney Colvin as the biographer of Stevenson, and instead chosen Graham Balfour; 17 March 1901. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 187. The letter is accompanied by a not wholly accura...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1901
Extent:
1 item

545. Ashley MS A123

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Ashley MS A123
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Letter from George Borrow to Mary Clarke, whom he married in 1840, sending her 'Blue Beard' translated into Turkish by himself; 22 Oct. 1832. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 48. includes: f. 82 Mary Borrow, wife of G Borrow: George Borrow, writer: Letters to Mary Borrow from George Borrow: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1832
Extent:
1 item

546. Ashley MS A132

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Ashley MS A132
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Letter from George Borrow to his mother telling of his success in distributing testaments in the country surrounding Madrid; 5 August 1838. Printed in C. K. Shorter, George Borrow and his Circle, 1913, pp. 193-194. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 60. includes: f. 98 George Borrow, writer: A....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1838
Extent:
1 item

547. Ashley MS B2997

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Ashley MS B2997
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Subscription and Signature: 'I am my dear George your affectionate Father Geo Crabbe' cut from a letter; n.d. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 263]. includes: f. 165 George Crabbe, poet: George Crabbe, son of the poet: Subscription and signature from a letter to his son from George Crabbe: n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

548. Ashley MS B3411

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Ashley MS B3411
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Letter from Henry James to Miss M. B. Betham-Edwards, mentioning his health, the prospective visit of 'a young friend' [Hugh Walpole?], W. Hale White (alias Mark Rutherford), and the Atlantic Monthly; 14 Oct. 1909. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 208.] includes: ff. 79, 79b Henry James, no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1909
Extent:
1 item

549. Ashley MS B5465

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Ashley MS B5465
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Letter from Sydney Race of the Nottingham Mechanics Institution to T. J. Wise, concerning an exhibition on Lord Byron at the Institution; 9 Feb. 1915. includes: f. 46 Sydney Race: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Sydney Race: 1915: Signed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1915
Extent:
1 item

550. Ashley MS A1917

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Ashley MS A1917
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'Gladstonian War-song': a satirical poem of twenty-eight lines by A. C. Swinburne; [1885-1886?]. Autograph fair copy, with four lines deleted, written on both sides of an octavo leaf of cream laid paper. No watermark. Internal evidence suggests a date for composition of 1885 or 1886. The fair co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1885-1886?]
Extent:
1 item