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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2259, B2274, B4635, A4637, B4665
Title:: Letters (5) from Gordon Wordsworth to T. J. Wise; Dec. 1924-29 Oct. 1930. With the exception of A4637 the letters are typewritten and signed. Three of the letters concern the bibliography of An Address To the Yeomanry of Westmorland, 1820 (B2259) and An Address to the Freeholders of the County of Westmorland, 1818 (B4635), both supposedly by William Wordsworth, and of the parody of Wordsworth Benjamin the Waggoner, 1819 (B2274). In B4635 a letter from William Wordsworth to his brother Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1924-1930
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2424, B4498
Title:: Two Letters from Professor H. G. Wright to T. J. Wise, the earlier sending a copy of his article 'Unpublished Letters from Theodore Watts-Dunton to Swinburne' reprinted from The Review of English Studies, X, No. 38, and the later sending an offprint of his article 'The Influence of George Borrow in Norway and Sweden' published in The Modern Language Review for July 1934; 1934. For further letters from Wright to Wise see 2388 and 2417. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, pp. 5, 121].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1934
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2606, B4754
Title:: Two Letters from Cuthbert Becher Pigot to T. J. Wise, the earlier concerning the identity of the lady in Byron's 'Stanzas to a Lady with the Poems of Camoens', and the later sending a photograph of the sketch made in 1806 by his great great aunt Elizabeth Bridget Pigot of Lord Byron's house in Burgage Green, Southwell. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 145; xi, p. 43].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1934-1935]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2952, B5478
Title:: Two Letters from Miss Lilian Hallowes, Joseph Conrad's secretary, to T. J. Wise, the earlier sending a copy of Conrad's Laughing Anne, 1923, and the later sending the latest volume of the American Limited Edition [of Conrad's works]; 5 Nov. 1923, 18 March 1924. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 124].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1923-1924
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2959, B2983, B2984, B4790
Title:: Letters (4) from Richard Curle to T. J. Wise; 3 Oct. 1923-12 July 1930. The letters were chiefly written to accompany copies of various works sent by Curle to Wise, that is to say Joseph Conrad, The "Torrens". A Personal Tribute, 1923 (3 Oct. 1923), Joseph Conrad's Diary of His Journey up the Valley of the Congo in 1890, edited by Curle, 1926 (20 March 1926), Two Essays on Conrad by John Galsworthy With the Story of a Remarkable Friendship By Richard Curle, 1930 (12 July 1930), and A Handlis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 3 Oct 1923-12 Jul 1930
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3466, B5045
Title:: Letters (4) from Percy Simpson to T. J. Wise, the earliest thanking him for the gift of a copy of his A Swinburne Library, 1925, those written in 1927 and 1928 concerning the loan by Wise to Simpson of his copies of Eastward Hoe, The Fountaine of Selfe-Love, Or Cynthia's Revells, 1601, Poetaster, or The Arraignment, 1602, Seianvs his Fall, 1605, and Volpone, Or The Foxe, 1607, for use in the preparation of Ben Jonson, 1925-52, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson, and the latest the 1612 Quar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1925-1935
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3516, B3650, B5304
Title:: Letters (3) from Luther S. Livingston to T. J. Wise, the earliest chiefly concerning the bibliography of Charles Lamb, A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret, 1798, and sending a copy of Livingston's Some Notes on Lamb's Juveniles, 1902, the next chiefly concerned with describing the detached dedication leaf from an unidentified book printed in 1597, and the latest chiefly concerning the bibliography of Mary Gordon and A. C. Swinburne, The Children of the Chapel, 1864; 1902, 1912. [A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1902-1912
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3563, B5550
Title:: Letters (4) from Walter Noble Landor, of Rugeley (first cousin twice removed of Walter Savage Landor) to T. J. Wise, concerning the history of the Landor family and of the Thuillier family, to which belonged Walter Savage Landor's wife and, in the latest, sending 'the brochure' and an account of his own life which had appeared in a local paper; 10 Aug. 1931-10 March 1936. [Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 144]. For another letter from Walter Noble Landor to Wise See Ashley MS 5755.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 10 Aug 1931-10 Mar 1936
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3711, B4907
Title:: Two Letters from A. Edward Newton to T. J. Wise, the earlier asking him to forward a note to Mr Ellis saying that he will not be able to have tea with him, the later sending him a copy of Newton's The Format of the English Novel, 1928, and giving details of its production; 8 Jan. 1924, 16 May 1928. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 191]. For another letter from Newton to Wise see Ashley MS B4755.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1924-1928
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3751*, B5628
Title:: Letters (3) from Georges Lafourcade to T. J. Wise concerning the composition of Swinburne's 'Faustine' (15 July 1927), sending a copy of his translation into French of Swinburne's 'Ave atque Vale' (14 Feb. 1924), and seeking an interview with Wise (3 Dec. 1924). [Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 106 (B3751* only)].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1924-1927
Extent:: 2 items

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