Eleven Valentines written by Christina Rossetti to her mother; 1876-1886. Autograph fair copies written on one side only of eleven octavo leaves of various cream and grey laid papers (ff. 20 and 21 are wove paper). With the exception of ff. 2 and 3 all the leaves form bifolia with another leaf o...
Letter from Sidney Colvin to A. C. Swinburne, discussing points in connection with Colvin's forthcoming Landor, 1881; [May 1881]. For further letters in this series see B1069 and A3521. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 80. includes: ff. 112-113b Sir Sidney Colvin, 1845-1927; art critic: Alg...
Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, expressing indignation at the unauthorised sale of private correspondence between Gosse and the late William Heinemann; 29 March 1922. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 154. includes: ff. 20-21b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book ...
Letters (3) from Max Beerbohm to W. T. Watts-Dunton, concerning invitations from Watts-Dunton to visit Swinburne and himself at The Pines; 9 June 1899, 12 May 1901, [26 July 1902?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 160. includes: ff. 57-61b Sir Max Beerbohm, author and cartoonist: Walter The...
Letter from Algernon Charles Swinburne to John Nichol, concerning Nichol's Hannibal: A Historical Drama, 1872, and Le Tombeau de Théophile Gautier, 1872, to which Swinburne contributed six poems; 19 Nov. 1872. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, ii, 1959, pp. 197-198. Ashley Library Catalo...
Letter from Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], speaking of A. C. Swinburne's 'Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning', 1890, and his father's opinion of Swinburne; 2 Jan. 1890. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 177. includes: ff. 15-16 Robert Wiedemann Bar...
Letter from W. Aldis Wright to Edmund Gosse, concerning Robert Browning's reaction to Edward Fitzgerald's expression of his thankfulness at the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as revealed in The Life and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, 1889, edited by Wright; 22 July 1889. Printed, with the o...
Letter from G. A. Aitken to T. J. Wise, discussing various points of late seventeenth century bibliography, including that of Cleveland, Lee, Pocock and Settle; 5 March 1910. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 80]. includes: ff. 12-13 Thomas James Wise, book collector: George Atherton Aitken,...
Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, sending 'the "Spanish Gipsy" Swinburne' [a photograph or a portrait?]; 29 June 1908. includes: f. 120 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Sir Edmund William Gosse: 1908.
Six Notebooks used by Christina Rossetti for the inscription of fair copies of her poems; 17 June 1856-15 Feb. 1859 and 23 March 1861-11 June 1866. The notebooks are part of a series of seventeen covering the years 1842-1866, of which the others are Ashley MS. 1362 (1842-1845), nine in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and one in the possession of Mrs Imogene Rossetti Dennis. The six comprised in Ashley MS. 1364 are all indexed, and contain extensive deletions and revisions made in pencil at v...
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Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Notebooks by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1856-1859, 1861-1866.
