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11. Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262
Title:
'Songs Before Sunrise' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Songs Before Sunrise, 1871. Swinburne composed this collection of political poems under the influence of Mazzini, whom he met for the first time in March 1867. Mazzini had already written to him on 10 March 1867, asking him to 'give us a series of "Lyrics for the Crusade" '. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 72-73, 94-95. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1867-1870]
Extent:
6 items

12. Ashley MS A2385, B5424, 5735

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

13. Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261
Title:
'Bothwell': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1868]-[1874]. Autograph drafts, and trial printings with autograph corrections and revisions. Included are a trial printing of Act I and the first half of Act II, Scene I, and fragments of a revise, the draft of the first two scenes of Act I from which the earlier of the trial printings was set up, a draft of the dedicatory sonnet to Victor Hugo, an autograph synopsis of Act V, Scene III, and a letter from Frederick Locker to Swinburne concern...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1868]-[1874]
Extent:
6 items

14. Ashley MS A2121, 2155, A4530, A4541

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

15. Ashley MS A2079, A2104, 4521

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A2079, A2104, 4521
Title:
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; [1869]. Autograph drafts of passages from 'The Coming of Arthur', 'Pelleas and Ettarre', and 'The Passing of Arthur', all of which were first published in The Holy Grail and other Poems, 1870 [1869]. Line numbers refer to The Poems of Tennyson, 1969, ed. Christopher Ricks. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 110, 111, 130-132.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
[1869]
Extent:
3 items

16. Ashley MS B3563, B5550

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

17. Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861
Title:
Ballads and Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1871?]-1881. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in, and considered for, Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. Although the poems were composed at various dates between 1869 and 1881, it seems probable that, with the exception of 1407-1409 and 1420, the MSS. were written in 1880-1881 when Rossetti was preparing Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3857, 3859, 3860 and 3861 may well have once formed part of the same note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1871?]-1881
Extent:
11 items

18. 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

19. Ashley MS B3516, B3650, B5304

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

20. Ashley MS 1145, 3637

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1145, 3637
Title:
Letters (4) from George Meredith to Edward Clodd, containing, among other matters, an expression of his admiration for Walter Besant, and an opinion on Edward FitzGerald; 2 Jan. 1893-3 Oct. 1906. Printed in The Letters of George Meredith, ed. C. L. Cline, ii, iii, 1970, pp. 1115, 1311, 1518, 1570. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 150-151. 1145. Octavo; ff. i+6. 3637. Octavo; ff. ii+2.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
2 Jan 1893-3 Oct 1906
Extent:
2 items