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711. Ashley MS 3476

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Ashley MS 3476
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Letter from Oscar Wilde to W. M. Rossetti, sending a monograph he had written on the subject of John Keats' grave, and asking Rossetti to support his proposal for erecting a monument to Keats; 14 July 1877 (so dated by the recipient). Printed in The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1877
Extent:
1 item

712. Ashley MS 5728

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Ashley MS 5728
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse; 25 Dec. 1927. Printed in The Collected Letters, vii, 1988, p. 89. Octavo; ff. i+1. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Thomas Hardy: 1927.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Dec 1927
Extent:
1 item

713. Ashley MS A20

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Ashley MS A20
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Letter, with envelope, from Matthew Arnold to Arthur P. Wood; 31 March 1875. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 10-11. includes: ff. 3, 4 Matthew Arnold, poet and critic: Arthur P. Wood: Letter to Arthur P. Wood from Matthew Arnold: 1875.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1875
Extent:
1 item

714. Ashley MS A458

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Ashley MS A458
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Receipt by Joseph Conrad to McClure, Phillips & Co. for royalties on the American issue of The Inheritors up to 1 Jan. 1902; 24 June 1902. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 233. includes: f. 9 Joseph Conrad, alias Teodor Jósef Konrad Korzeniowski, novelist: McClure, Phillips and Co: Receip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1902
Extent:
1 item

715. Ashley MS A787

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Ashley MS A787
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Two Letters from George Gissing to Edward Clodd, speaking of George Meredith, a book to be published in the spring ['By the Ionian Sea'?], and a sixth century tale [Veranilda]; 27 April, 30 Dec. 1900. Printed in Coustillas, op. cit., pp. 61-62, 70-71. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 146. inclu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

716. Ashley MS A1265

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Ashley MS A1265
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Letter from Alfred Noyes to Edmund Gosse, sending a copy of his The Carol of the Fir Tree, 1912, and speaking of his forthcoming Tales of the Mermaid Tavern; 23 Dec. 1912. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 158. includes: ff. 161-162b Alfred Noyes, poet: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1912
Extent:
1 item

717. Ashley MS A1846

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Ashley MS A1846
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'On the Death of Richard Doyle': a sonnet by A. C. Swinburne; [1883]. Doyle died on 11 Dec. 1883. Autograph fair copy, signed 'Algernon Charles Swinburne', and written on one side only of a part folio leaf of blue laid paper. Watermark figure of Britannia. The text is identical with that first p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1883]
Extent:
1 item

718. Ashley MS B697, B699, B700, B705, B709

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Ashley MS B697, B699, B700, B705, B709
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Letters (6) to T. J. Wise from R. A. Hellewell, H. F. B. Brett-Smith, Montague Summers, and D. Nichol Smith; 10 Jan. 1926- 25 Oct. 1930. The letters chiefly concern the proposed sale to Wise of a copy of John Dryden, The Life of St Ignatius, 1686 (B697), the bibliography of John Dryden, Miscellaneous Essays, 1692 (B699), State of Innocence, 1677, The Conquest of Granada, 1681, and Satyr upon the Dutch, 1662 (B700), and Wise's copy of Sir George Etherege, The Comical Revenge, 1664 (B709), whi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1926-25 Oct 1930
Extent:
5 items

719. Ashley MS A1920

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Ashley MS A1920
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Four Lines of Verse by A. C. Swinburne; n.d. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of a scrap of pale grey wove paper, 89 x 111mm. The lines, 'Which is most worthy the rod That justice wields when she can, Man, the creator of God, Or God, the creature of man?' are alleged by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

720. Ashley MS B3911

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Ashley MS B3911
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Verses in an unidentified hand making fun of T. J. Wise for binding his Ruskin volumes in red morocco; n.d. Fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. No watermark. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 190]. includes: f. 90 Thomas James Wise, book collector: Vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item