Letter from J. A. Symington to T. J. Wise; 18 Sept. 1925. Signed. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 59]. includes: f. 107 John Alexander Symington, librarian: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from John Alexander Symington: 1925.
Letter from Arthur Rogers, bookseller, to T. J. Wise, offering as a piece of Shelleyana a copy of Joseph Ritson, An Essay On Abstinence From Animal Food As A Moral Duty, 1802, for £3/10/-; 23 March n.y. includes: ff. 109, 110 Arthur Rogers, bookseller, of Newcastle: Thomas James Wise, book c...
'The Unknown': a short story by W. W. Jacobs; [1900-1914]. Autograph fair copy, with some revisions and corrections, written on one side only of thirty leaves of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. The text is preceded by an autograph title-page written on the same paper, signed and with an ad...
Letter from P. B. Shelley to Lord Byron, concerning Byron''s poem ''Don Juan''; 21 Oct. 1821. Printed in F. L. Jones, op. cit., vol. ii, 1964, pp. 351-359. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, pp. 83-84. Quarto; ff. x+2. Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron; poet: Lett...
Letter from A. C. Swinburne to Theodore Watts[-Dunton], mentioning that he is writing an article on William Congreve for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and enclosing a letter from Theodore Opitz (Liestal, Switzerland, 22 Oct. 1876), in which he seeks permission to publish a German translation of ...
Letter from Mrs Doris Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, concerning his play The Pacifists; 6 July 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 87]. includes: ff. 82, 83b Mrs Dora Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, dramatist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wis...
Letter from Coventry Patmore to Edmund Gosse, discussing the extent to which FitzGerald had understood and been faithful to Omar Khayyam's intention in his translation of the Rubaiyat; 17 Nov. 1896. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 199]. includes: ff. 21-22 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore,...
Letters (3) from Thomas Hardy to T. J. Wise; 1 March, 24 Oct. 1924, 11 Feb. 1927. In the second letter Hardy mentions that 'Mr. Sheridan who lives near here [Dorchester] ― the direct descendant of R. B. S., has the manuscripts of all his plays'. Printed in The Collected Letters, vi, 1987, pp. 23...
Ashley MS A845, A846, A850, A854, A857, A858, A861, B862
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Letters (9) and a postcard from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse; 2 Aug. 1886-14 Feb. 1922. The principal subjects of the letters are thanks to Gosse for his review of Hardy's The Well-Beloved, 1897 (A846), literary censorship (A845), A. C. Swinburne's reaction to an article that had linked him and Hardy (A850), Hardy's Time's laughingstocks, 1909 (A854), his doubts as to whether to print the poems which eventually appeared as Satires of Circumstance, 1914 (A857), Granville Barker's production o...
Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to William Howitt, thanking him for his pen-portrait of Hunt in The People's Journal, 1846, pp. 268-270; 16 May 1846. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 205. includes: ff. 91-92b James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: William Howitt, author: Letter to William H...