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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1849, A1950
Title:: Chastelard: a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1860-1863]. Swinburne was working on Chastelard from the beginning of 1860 until October 1863 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, ii, 1928, pp. 261-262). Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. [55], 216. Early drafts, apparently of three discarded passages of Chastelard, are included in A1851, ff. 17, 17b. According to Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 273-274, Wise formerly possessed an autograph synopsis of Chastelard, but this is no longer...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: [1860-1863]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1950
Title:
Scope & Content:: Chastelard. Autograph early draft of the end of Act I, scene iii, written on one side only (f. 204b) of a folio leaf of blue laid paper. Watermark 'E. A. Gordon / 1859'. On the recto of the leaf is a song, apparently intended for Chastelard, but discarded, beg. 'Though ye be never so fair a may'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Mar 1886
Extent:: 1 item

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