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891. Ashley MS A4141

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Ashley MS A4141
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Letter from Charles W. Frederickson to T. J. Wise, commenting on the price, £52-10/-, that Wise had paid for a copy of P. B. Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1820, and sending a copy of Charles Sotheran, Percy Bysshe Shelley As a Philosopher and Reformer, 1876, which contains a sonnet by Frederickson ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1893
Extent:
1 item

892. Ashley MS A4304

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Ashley MS A4304
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Letter from W. Carey of the Century Magazine, New York to Edmund Gosse, concerning the MS. and the copyright of R. L. Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters, 1883; 3 Oct. 1883. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 197. includes: ff. 213, 213b W. Carey, journalist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1883
Extent:
1 item

893. Ashley MS A4524

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Ashley MS A4524
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Letter from George P. Brett, president, the Macmillan Co., New York, to W. H. Arnold; 25 April 1906. Signed. There is a note on the letter initialled by Arnold. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 144. includes: f. 10 William Harris Arnold: George P. Brett, president, the Macmillan Co., New Yo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1906
Extent:
1 item

894. Ashley MS B1038

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Ashley MS B1038
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Letter from Frederick G. Burmester to T. J. Wise, giving the pedigree of Wise's copy of W. S. Landor, Simonidea, 1806; 30 April 1893. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 65]. includes: ff. 63-64 Frederick G. Burmester: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter rel. to Wise's copy of W. S. Lan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1893
Extent:
1 item

895. Ashley MS B2130

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Ashley MS B2130
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Letter from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Edmund Gosse, thanking him for a copy of his From Shakespeare to Pope, 1885; 19 Oct. 1885. For further letters from Tennyson to Gosse see 4522. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 154]. includes: f. 4 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Alfred Tennyson, 1st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1885
Extent:
1 item

896. Ashley MS B5477

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Ashley MS B5477
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Letter from W. G. Collingwood to T. J. Wise, thanking him for the gift of a copy of John Ruskin, Harbours of England, reprinted by Wise; 29 May 1895. includes: ff. 50-51b Thomas James Wise, book collector: William Gershom Collingwood: Letter to Thomas James Wise from William Gershom Collingw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1895
Extent:
1 item

897. Ashley MS 2942

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Ashley MS 2942
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'The Dover Patrol': an article by Joseph Conrad; 1921. Typescript, with many autograph revisions and corrections, written on one side only of ten large quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark a ram's head above 'ORIGINAL / CHARTHAM MILLS / KENT'. At the head of the first page (f. 2) Conrad ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:
1 item

898. Ashley MS 3856

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Ashley MS 3856
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'The Bride's Prelude': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1870?]. Auto-graph fair copy, with many revisions, deletions and additions, written on one side only of twenty-eight quarto leaves of ruled white laid paper, and on both sides of a further seventeen (ff. 1, 4, 7, 10, 15, 16, 22, 29, 32, 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870?]
Extent:
1 item

899. Ashley MS A2543

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Ashley MS A2543
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Letter, with envelope (f. 47), from Robert Browning to his sister Sarianna Browning, giving an account of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's death; 30 June 1861. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected byT. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 58-63. For another letter from Browning to Sarianna see ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1861
Extent:
1 item

900. Ashley MS A4359

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A4359
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'Atalanta in Calydon': a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne; 1863-1864. Autograph draft of lines 81-120, written on both sides of a folio leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. The MS. is an early, possibly the first, draft and exhibits a large number of revisions, and variants from the text fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1863-1864
Extent:
1 item