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21. Ashley MS 4854

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 4854
Title:
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1, 1b Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton from Algernon Charles Swinburne: 1883.ff. 2-5, 11-12, 40, 41 Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo,; au...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

22. Ashley MS 4854, B4854

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 4854, B4854
Title:
Correspondence of A. C. Swinburne and Victor Hugo, comprising four letters from Swinburne, 1865-1884 (ff. 2, 3-5, 11-12, 40-41), and twelve letters from Victor Hugo, 1862-1883. French. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, vol. i, 1959, pp. 127, 248-249; iv, 1960, pp. 193-194; v, 1962, p. 51, and Victor Hugo Correspondance, ed. La Librairie Ollendorf, ii, 1950, pp. 430-431, 522-523; iii, 1952, pp. 208, 225, 251-252, 255, 324; iv, 1952, pp. 11, 12, 84, 324. The letter of 1 July [1867], ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1862-1884
Extent:
2 items

23. Ashley MS 5255

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5255
Title:
Scope & Content:
'La Fille du Policeman': a burlesque novel by A. C. Swinburne; [1860-1861]. Autograph draft, imperfect. French. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 47. Folio; ff. iv+31. Fiction: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: 'La Fille du Policeman', a burlesque novel by Algernon Charles Swinburne: [1860-1861...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1860-1861]
Extent:
1 item

24. Ashley MS 5267

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5267
Title:
Scope & Content:
'Poems and Ballads Second Series'. 'Ex Voto'; [1877?]. Draft, heavily revised, written on one side only of three folio leaves, the first (f. 1) of white wove paper, the other two of blue laid paper, watermarked 'E Towgood/1874'. The two blue leaves form a single sheet, and ff. 2a and 3b were use...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1877?]
Extent:
1 item

25. Ashley MS 5744

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5744
Title:
Scope & Content:
Letters (9) from Walter Savage Landor to the Countess of Blessington; 1837-1846. The letters contain the following literary compositions:― 1. Autograph fair copy of the last scene of the drama 'Orestes'; [1837]. ff. 3b-4. 2. Autograph fair copy of a poem, beginning 'Why, why repine, my pensive...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1837-1846
Extent:
1 item

26. Ashley MS A17-5768

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A17-5768
Title:
Ashley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts, chiefly literary, collected by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937). Includes poetry manuscripts and the literary correspondence of poets, novelists and critics, c. 1700-1936 (predominantly 1780-1936). The collection was named after the street in which Wise lived when he started acquirin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1700-1936
Extent:

c. 1,971 volumes

27. Ashley MS A36, B39, B42, B44, B51, B57, B2277, B3652

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A36, B39, B42, B44, B51, B57, B2277, B3652
Title:
Letters (8) from Frederick Britten Austin to T. J. Wise; 3 June 1927-27 March 1935. The letters concern Ashley MS. 36 (A36, B44), Ashley MS. 51 (B51), Austin's Told in the Market Place, 1935 (B57), the price of George Meredith first editions (B3652), and the fact that Some Wordsworth Finds? Arranged and Introduced by James Medborough, 1895, was, unknown to Wise, a hoax by T. W. H. Crosland (B2277). For further letters from Austin to Wise, see 4685, 4686. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 6-7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
3 Jun 1927-27 Mar 1935
Extent:
8 items

28. Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692
Title:
Letters (12) from J. M. Barrie to Edmund Gosse containing, among other matters, congratulations to Gosse on his appointment as Librarian of the House of Lords (A66), a reference to Peter Davies's first production as a publisher (A63), and a request for help in securing a second grant from the Royal Literary Fund for Robert Buchanan, the calumniator of Swinburne and Rossetti (69); 8 Nov. 1892-11 Nov. 1925. A61, A63, B65, and B4689 are written with the left hand. A62, A66, B65, B68, both lette...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
8 Nov 1892-11 Nov 1925
Extent:
11 items

29. Ashley MS A117, A118, 2388

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A117, A118, 2388
Title:
'Lavengro' by George Borrow; [1843-1848]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Page references are to the first edition of 1851. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 44-45. As follows:
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1843-1848]
Extent:
3 items

30. Ashley MS A120, 2417

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A120, 2417
Title:
'The Romany Rye' by George Borrow; [1852?]-[1857]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 45-46, 63. As follows:
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1852?]-[1857]
Extent:
2 items