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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1069
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Sidney Colvin to T. J. Wise, enclosing four letters from Colvin to A. C. Swinburne, three of them (12 May-3 June 1881) asking for his help over points connected with Colvin's Landor (ff. 74-82), and one of them (17 July 1872) asking for a poem for the French review Renaissance (ff. 8...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 26 May 1922
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1189, A1192, A1193, A1196*, B1197, B3672
Title:: Letters (6) from George Moore to Edmund Gosse; 8 June [1895]-28 March 1917. In the letters Moore discusses his Mildred Lanson and Esther Waters, 1894 (B1189), asks for Gosse's advice on a point of doctrine of the Plymouth Brethren in connection with the revision of p. 147 of Esther Waters for a new edition (A1192), explains the significance of Evelyn Innes, 1898 (A1193), discusses an article by Gosse on Hérédia (A1196*), and asks him to point out any printer's errors he may have noticed in M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 8 Jun [1895]-28 Mar 1917
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1500, A4004, 5748
Title:: Letters (3) from G. B. Shaw to Clement Shorter; 5 Nov. 1904-16 Sept. 1925. In the letters Shaw sends 'my part of a "real conversation" between you and me' to Shorter, who had wished to interview him (B1500), declines to write a series of articles for the 'Sphere' because he can make more money in the time by writing plays (5748), and expresses his views on ill-health and on Scotland (A4004). For a further letter from Shaw to Shorter see B5019. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 17]; ix, p. 124.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 5 Nov 1904-16 Sep 1925
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1517, B1518, B1521, A1525, A4011
Title:: Two Letters and two postcards from G. B. Shaw to T. J. Wise, and one letter to Wise from Blanche Patch, Shaw's secretary (B1521); 7 Nov. 1916-13 July 1933. The letters chiefly concern George Borrow (B1518), the bibliography of Shaw's Heartbreak House (published 1919. See F. E. Loewenstein, The Rehearsal Copies of Bernard Shaw's Plays, 1950) (B1517, B1521), bibliographies of Shaw's works (A1525), and the correspondence of Shaw with Ellen Terry (A4011) (for Ellen Terry's letters see Add. MSS. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 7 Nov 1916-13 Jul 1933
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1556, B4186
Title:: Two Letters from W. E. A. Axon to H. S. Salt, concerning a lecture on 'Shelley's Vegetarianism' that he was to deliver to the Shelley Society; 19 May, 5 June 1890. [Ashley Library Catalogue, v, pp. 59, 140.]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 1890
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1648, B1911, A4180
Title:: Letters (4) from H. S. Salt to T. J. Wise as Secretary of the Shelley Society, concerning Salt's A Shelley Primer, 1887 (B1911), Percy Bysshe Shelley A Monograph, 1888 (B1648), and An Examination of Hogg's Life of Shelley, 1889 (A4180); 5 Jan. 1887-28 July 1889. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, [pp. 137], 139; [vi, p. 157.]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 5 Jan 1887-28 Jul 1889
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1809, B4322
Title:: Letters (3) from Sir Graham Balfour to T. J. Wise, concerning the authenticity of the 1887 edition of Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson, The Hanging Judge; 2 April-1 May 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 12, 14.]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 2 Apr 1929-1 May 1929
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1849
Title:
Scope & Content:: Chastelard. Autograph draft of Mary Beaton's French song in Act I, Scene i. The draft is written on both sides of an octavo leaf of mourning paper. No watermark. In the MS. the song has seven stanzas, as opposed to the text printed in 1865 which has six. Stanza 3 in the MS. has been cancelled, s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

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 B1862, B2557, B5509
Title:: Two Letters and a post-card (B1862) from Maurice Buxton Forman to T. J. Wise; 19 Feb. 1931-30 Sept. 1934. The letters concern, among other matters, the gift by Forman to Wise of a copy of Ten Letters of Robert Browning concerning Miss Alma Murray, 1929, edited by himself (B2557), Harry Buxton Forman's inscribed copies of A. C. Swinburne, Siena, 1868 and William Morris, Sir Galahad, 1858, both of them Wise forgeries (B1862), and the price of an unidentified book (B5509). [Ashley Library Catal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 19 Feb 1931-30 Sep 1934
Extent:: 3 items

Search