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901. Ashley MS B2488

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Ashley MS B2488
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Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell to Marianne Gaskell; [1850-1865]. The letter is headed 'Saturday Plymouth Grove', so must have been written in or after 1850 when the Gaskells moved to that address. Mrs Gaskell died on 12 Nov. 1865. Printed in J. A. V. Chapple and Arthur Pollard, The Letters of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1850-1865]
Extent:
1 item

902. Ashley MS B2588

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Ashley MS B2588
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Letter from Maude Bazley-White to T. J. Wise, accepting five pounds for 'the manuscripts'; 21 Dec. [1927-1930?]. The contents of the letter make it probable that she is referring to the two MSS. in the Ashley Library in the hand of Robert Browning the father of the poet (2588 and 2720), which we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec [1927-1930?]
Extent:
1 item

903. Ashley MS 3306

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Ashley MS 3306
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Two Letters from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise; 4 April 1906, 18 Nov. 1913. Bound up with a copy of Thomas Gray, The Candidate, 1764. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 160. Quarto; unfoliated. Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letters to Thomas James Wise from Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1913
Extent:
1 item

904. Ashley MS 2941

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Ashley MS 2941
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'The Book of Job': a play translated from the Polish of Bruno Winawer by Joseph Conrad; May-June 1921. Typescript with many autograph revisions and corrections, written on one side only of ninety-four large quarto leaves of white laid paper (ff. 5-98). Watermark a ram's head above 'ORIGINAL / CH...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1921-Jun 1921
Extent:
1 item

905. Ashley MS 3262

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Ashley MS 3262
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Journal of John and Maria Gisborne; 2 May-26 Sept. 1820. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and additions, written on both sides of twenty-nine leaves of a quarto vellum-bound notebook, and on one side only of two further leaves (ff. 9b and 39). The journal begins on f. 9b in John Gisborne's ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1820-26 Sep 1820
Extent:
1 item

906. Ashley MS 4643

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Ashley MS 4643
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'A Night Thought': a poem by William Wordsworth; 1836. Autograph fair copy. Also included (ff. ii, iib) is a letter from Gordon G. Wordsworth to T. J. Wise; 17 Jan. 1928. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 221. Quarto; ff. iii+1. William Wordsworth, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, 'A Night Thought', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-1928
Extent:
1 item

907. Ashley MS A1972

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Ashley MS A1972
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Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, concerning private printings of MSS. of A. C. Swinburne; 20 Jan. [1919?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 28-29. includes: ff. 155, 155b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Sir Edmund...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan [1919?]
Extent:
1 item

908. Ashley MS A2014

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Ashley MS A2014
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Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, concerning the printing of MSS. of A. C. Swinburne and Gosse's 'little biography' (of Swinburne); 31 July 1912. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 79. includes: ff. 234-235 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1912
Extent:
1 item

909. Ashley MS A3460

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Ashley MS A3460
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Letter from Henry Arthur Jones to his daughter, Mrs Doris Thorne, concerning the staging of his play The Pacifists; 16 May 1917. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 87. includes: ff. 114, 115 Mrs Dora Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, dramatist: Henry Arthur Jones, dramatist: Letter to hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1917
Extent:
1 item

910. Ashley MS A4201

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Ashley MS A4201
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Letter from Helen Rossetti Angeli to A. C. Swinburne, consulting him on the authenticity of a passage quoted by Schlegel as being from Shakespeare; 28 Feb. 1908. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 146. includes: ff. 200-201 Helen Maria Madox Rossetti, afterwards Angeli; daughter of W M Rossetti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1908
Extent:
1 item