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71. Ashley MS A2121, 2155, A4530, A4541

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Ashley MS A2121, 2155, A4530, A4541
Title:
Letters (7) from Hallam, Lord Tennyson, to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1883-1896. The letters chiefly concern Alfred, Lord Tennyson's peerage (A4541, f. 16), J. C. Walters, In Tennyson Land, 1890, and letters from the Tennysons to the Athenæum (A4541, ff. 17-18), the success of The Foresters in America (A2121, A4530), the identity of the 'Pilot' in Alfred Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar' (2155), and biographies of Alfred Tennyson, including A. Waugh, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1892 (the British Museum's ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1883-1896
Extent:
4 items

72. Ashley MS 154

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 154
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Scope & Content:
'Self-communion' and 'The Narrow Way': two poems by Anne Brontë; 1847-1848. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white wove paper and on one side only of a tenth. Watermark 'J Whatman/1833'. The longer poem, written on ff. 1-9, is en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847-1848
Extent:
1 item

73. Ashley MS 408

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Ashley MS 408
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Scope & Content:
'Poems on Various Subjects' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 1796-1797. Printed, with autograph corrections and additions. The contents are as follows, viz.: (1) MS. of the 'Advertisement' first printed on pp. 243-245 of the second edition, 1797. ff. 1-4; (2) Cancelled MS. version of ll. 7-12 of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1796-1797
Extent:
1 item

74. Ashley MS 5258

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5258
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Scope & Content:
'François Villon': an essay by A. C. Swinburne; [1863-1864?]. Auto-graph fair copy, with revisions. ff. 1-5. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 48-49. Also included are the following poems:― 1. 'Atalanta in Calydon', [1864]. Autograph draft of a fragment of the poem. f. 6b. 2. 'A Ballad of Dead...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1863-1864?]
Extent:
1 item

75. Ashley MS A1422, B1422

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1422, B1422
Title:
Two Letters, the first (March 1882) from D. G. Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], announcing that he has finished the poem 'Jan Van Hunks', the second (15 Feb. 1911) from Watts[-Dunton] to T. J. Wise, concerning the latter's private printing of the poem (The Ballad of Jan Van Hunks, 1912). The first is printed in Doughty and Wahl, op. cit., iv, 1967, pp. 1951-1952. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 153.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882-1911
Extent:
2 items

76. Ashley MS A2888, A3876

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A2888, A3876
Title:
Letters (4) from Thomas Hall Caine to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 5 Feb. 1882-16 Jan. 1887. The two earlier letters give an account of D. G. Rossetti's behaviour during his last illness at Birchington-on-Sea, that of 21 Sept. 1882 refers among other matters to Caine's attitude to the likely reaction of Rossetti's family to his Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1882, while the latest letter expresses the hope that Watts will favourably review Caine's novel A Son of Hagar in the Athenæum. Ash...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1882-16 Jan 1887
Extent:
2 items

77. Ashley MS B2686, B3219

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2686, B3219
Title:
Two Letters from P. M. Barnard, bookseller, to T. J. Wise, the earlier offering to guarantee the genuineness of a copy of Edward FitzGerald, The Two Generals, 1868, the later, which bears a note by Wise, concerning the bibliography of Lord Byron, Manfred, 1817. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 121; viii, p. 65].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1915-1928]
Extent:
2 items

78. Ashley MS 159

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 159
Title:
''The Foundling'' by Charlotte Brontë
Scope & Content:
''The foundling'': a tale written at the age of seventeen by Charlotte Brontë; 1833. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white laid paper. No watermark. The leaves have been bound by Charlotte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833
Extent:
1 item

79. Ashley MS 133

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 133
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Scope & Content:
Five Ballads: translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1826 or later. Autograph fair copies, written on both sides of eight narrow octavo leaves of cream laid paper. Watermarks 'F L', '1826' and the figure of Britannia. The ballads, which were possibly written out for 'Songs of Scandinavia',...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

80. Ashley MS 1399, B1399

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1399, B1399
Title:
'Poems (Privately Printed)': fragments of a copy of the third set of printed page proofs for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems, 1870, with autograph revision, corrections and addition; second half of Sept. 1869. The fragments comprise the title-page and author's note (pp. [i-iv]), and pp. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17-25, 29-40, 45-50, 53-58 of the text, i.e. part of 'The Blessed Damozel', part of 'Love's Nocturn', most of 'The Burden of Nineveh', 'Ave', most of 'The Staff and Scrip', part of 'Sister ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
2 items