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1. Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)

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Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)
Title:
Four Notebooks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871-1881. The books contain many notes for, and drafts of, lines, couplets and stanzas of poems printed in Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, but no complete poems, with the exception of a draft of 'The Lamp's Shrine' (book (1), ff. 26-27). In addition they contain many fragments of prose and poetry not used by Rossetti but often, for that reason, very revealing of his state of mind, notes of place and personal names for poems, ideas for pi...
Scope & Content:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter: Notebook by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1871-1881.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1881
Extent:
4 items

2. Ashley MS 1410 (1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (1)
Title:
Scope & Content:
(1). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1871 (but the additional stanza for 'Sister Helen' (f. 12) is considered by J. C. Troxell, Rossetti's 'Sister Helen', 1939, to date from 1879 and 'The Sun's Shame II ' (ff. 17, 28b) is stated by W. M. Rossetti, The Works of D. G. Rossetti, 1911, and O. Doughty, A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

3. Ashley MS 1410 (2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (2)
Title:
Scope & Content:
(2). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1871-1879 (but 'True Woman III Her Heaven' (f. 18b) is stated by D. G. Rossetti in a letter to his mother dated 15 Sept. 1881, printed in D. G. Rossetti His Family-Letters, 1895, pp. 386-387, to have been recently composed). (a) Lines 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14 of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1879
Extent:
1 item

4. Ashley MS 1410 (4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (4)
Title:
Scope & Content:
(4). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Notes for 'True Woman I and II'. ff. 43b, 44;―(b) Unused prose introduction to 'The House of Life'. f. 40b; ― (c) Notes for 'The Song-throe'. f. 39;―(d) Notes and drafts for lines 2-6 of 'John Keats'. ff. 37b-38b;―(e) First seven lines of 'Thomas Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
1 item

5. Ashley MS 1410 (3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (3)
Title:
Scope & Content:
(3). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Last two stanzas of 'Soothsay'. ff. 14 and 14b, 12b;―(b) First two lines of stanzas 1 and 3 of 'Alas, so long'. f. 15;―(c) Two lines 'As much as in a hundred years she's dead Yet is today the day on which she died', possibly referring to the death o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
1 item

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