Archive Reference (shelfmark): Ashley MS A17-5768 / Language: French - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2117, 2135, A4528
Title:: Letters (3, two, 2135 and A4528, with envelope) from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1883-1892. In the letters Tennyson sends a copy of his play Becket, 1884 (A2117), justifies his use of the word 'crow' for the rook in 'Locksley Hall', l. 68 (2l35), and thanks Watts[-Dunton] for a letter (A4528). For another letter from Tennyson to Watts[-Dunton] see A2131. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 140-141, 156, 157.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1892
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2121, 2155, A4530, A4541
Title:: Letters (7) from Hallam, Lord Tennyson, to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1883-1896. The letters chiefly concern Alfred, Lord Tennyson's peerage (A4541, f. 16), J. C. Walters, In Tennyson Land, 1890, and letters from the Tennysons to the Athenæum (A4541, ff. 17-18), the success of The Foresters in America (A2121, A4530), the identity of the 'Pilot' in Alfred Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar' (2155), and biographies of Alfred Tennyson, including A. Waugh, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1892 (the British Museum's ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1896
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2201, B4187, A4587
Title:: Letters (3) from Sir William Watson to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the private printing by Wise of Watson's 'Lachrymae Musarum' and 'Shelley's Centenary' (B4187, A4587), and the suggestion by Wise that he might print a longer poem by Watson (A2201); [Nov. 1892?]-13 Jan. [1894?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 141;] vii, pp. 199-200.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [Nov 1892?]-13 Jan [1894?]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2283, A2284, A2285, A2287, 2288, B2290*, A4677, B5658
Title:: Letters (13) from W. B. Yeats to C. K. Shorter; after March 1896-30 Oct. 1918. One of the letters (A4677) is in the hand of an amanuensis. The letter of 17 May 1918 is accompanied by an envelope (2288, f. 14). The letters chiefly concern Yeats's refusal to write a poem on a subject suggested by Shorter (2288, ff. 1, 2), an invitation to one of Yeats's 'Monday evenings' (B5658), the agreement with his publisher Unwin (2288, ff. 3-6), The Shadowy Waters (2288, ff. 3-6), the 'Irish Literary The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: after Mar 1896-30 Oct 1918
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2385, B5424, 5735
Title:: 'The Bible in Spain' by George Borrow; [1841-1842]. Autograph drafts and fair copies of various passages of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, 42-43.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1841-1842]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2519, A4449
Title:: Two Letters from R. H. Horne to A. C. Swinburne; 1881, 1882. The earlier letter concerns, among other matters, Victor Hugo and a translation by Horne of his Lucrèce Borgia, Swinburne's essay George Chapman, 1875, and Robert Browning's attitude to the publication of Horne's correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The later letter chiefly mentions the publication of Swinburne's poem 'Dysthanatos' (in Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems, 1882), and Horne's King Nihil's Round Table, or,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1881-1882
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A3766, B4990, B5348, B5576
Title:: Letters (4) from W. F. Prideaux to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands, 1712, to which Pope contributed (17 April 1907), declining Wise's offer to collaborate on a second edition of A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (published by Prideaux in 1917) (20 April 1914), sending a copy of Leo XIII, An. Christi MDCCCC pridie Kalendas Ianuariae, with a translation by Andrew Lang, 1912, which Prideaux had printed (3 Jan....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1907-1914
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A4376
Title:
Scope & Content:: Two Letters from Auguste Vacquerie to A. C. Swinburne, the earlier (ff. 95-96) concerning Vacquerie's Formosa, 1883, and François Victor Hugo's translation of Shakespeare into French, the later R. H. Shepherd's Bibliography of Swinburne, 1883, and Swinburne's subscription towards a statue in hon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1883
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A4436
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, concerning the printing of A. C. Swinburne, Rondeaux Parisiens, 1917; 31 May 1917. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 50-51. Vol. A XI, ff. 48, 48b. 2. Poem of two stanzas, beginning 'Hélas! pucelle', by A. C. Swinburne; after 1879. French. Autograph...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1879-1917
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A4464
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. Letter from the Marquis de Sade to 'Citoyen Fortuné', Officier de Santé des hopitaux militaires à Avignon, asking for an account of 'une dame à laquelle je prends le plus vif interêt'; 18 Fructidor an 8 [5 Aug. 1800]. French. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 74-75. 2. Letter from A. C. Swi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1800-1874
Extent:: 1 item

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