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591. Ashley MS 5249

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Ashley MS 5249
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Scope & Content:
Letter from P. B. Shelley to his father [Sir] Timothy Shelley, announcing his marriage [to Harriet Westbrook], and asking for, even demanding, his father's forgiveness for not having consulted him; 27 Sept. 1811. ff. 1-2b. Printed in F. L. Jones, op. cit., vol. i, 1964, pp. 141-143. Ashley Libra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1811
Extent:
1 item

592. Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692

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Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692
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Letters (12) from J. M. Barrie to Edmund Gosse containing, among other matters, congratulations to Gosse on his appointment as Librarian of the House of Lords (A66), a reference to Peter Davies's first production as a publisher (A63), and a request for help in securing a second grant from the Royal Literary Fund for Robert Buchanan, the calumniator of Swinburne and Rossetti (69); 8 Nov. 1892-11 Nov. 1925. A61, A63, B65, and B4689 are written with the left hand. A62, A66, B65, B68, both lette...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
8 Nov 1892-11 Nov 1925
Extent:
11 items

593. Ashley MS A1587

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Ashley MS A1587
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Letter from Mary Shelley to Charles Ollier, asking to see him, and mentioning that she has 'Mr Trelawny's MS.' [probably his The Adventures of a Younger Son, published 1831]; [Dec. 1830?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 93. includes: ff. 123, 123b Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin; wr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Dec 1830?]
Extent:
1 item

594. Ashley MS A3541

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Ashley MS A3541
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Letter from Walter Savage Landor to Lt.-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith, replying to criticism of Landor's Andrea of Hungary, and Giovanna of Naples, 1839, and quoting from Act V, Scene vii of his Fra Rupert (published in 1840); postmarked 29 Aug. [1839]. The text quoted in the letter differs con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1839]
Extent:
1 item

595. Ashley MS A3666

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Ashley MS A3666
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Letters (4) from William Minto to A. C. Swinburne; 15 Oct. 1884-8 Oct. 1891. In the two earlier letters Minto asks Swinburne's opinion of a passage of Prior's 'Epistle to Montague', quoted by Thackeray in his The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century, and apparently in the stanza of Tennys...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1884-8 Oct 1891
Extent:
1 item

596. Ashley MS A4136

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Ashley MS A4136
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Letter, with envelope (f. 128), from Mary Shelley to Edward Moxon, chiefly concerning his trial for blasphemous libel as a result of publishing 'Queen Mab' in the second edition of Shelley's Poetical Works, 1839, and the printing of 'A Dirge' ('Rough wind that roarest loud'); 14 July 1841. Ashle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1841
Extent:
1 item

597. Ashley MS B1054, B1891-B1892, 1898, B4428 (1)-B4428 (5), B5131, B5517

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Ashley MS B1054, B1891-B1892, 1898, B4428 (1)-B4428 (5), B5131, B5517
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Letters (11) from A. C. Swinburne to Edmund Gosse; 14 Sept. 1867-18 March 1899. Also included are a letter from Norman Gullick to T. J. Wise, 4 March 1924, offering to give him a copy of Gosse's Memoir of Thomas Lodge, 1882, (B5517, ff. 64-65), and an engraved portrait of Walt Whitman inscribed in pencil 'Walt Whitman to Edmund Gosse' (B5131, f. 88). The letters in 1898, B5131 and B5517 are accompanied by their envelopes. For further letters from Swinburne to Gosse see 5739. The letters are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1867-1924
Extent:
11 items

598. Ashley MS B1918

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Ashley MS B1918
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Fragment of a Letter from A. C. Swinburne to [ ]; [1872?]. The fragment records the writer's delight that 'Citizen Bradlaugh' [Charles Bradlaugh] has publicly denounced Queen Victoria, to whom reference is made in libellous terms. The allusion is possibly to Bradlaugh's Impeachment of the House ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1872?]
Extent:
1 item

599. Ashley MS B1931

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Ashley MS B1931
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Letter from John Bright to Richard Hengist Horne, thanking him for a copy of his Soliloquium Fratris Rogeri Baconis, 1882; 9 Oct. 1882. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 188]. includes: f. 109 John Bright, PC; MP: Hengist Horne, or Richard Henry; author: Letter to Richard Henry Horne from Jo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1882
Extent:
1 item

600. Ashley MS B2200

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Ashley MS B2200
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Envelope addressed by Sir William Watson to Edmund Gosse; 8 June 1892. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 199]. includes: f. 8 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Sir John William Watson, poet: Envelope addressed to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Sir John William Watson: 1892.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1892
Extent:
1 item