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41. Ashley MS B1862, B2557, B5509

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

42. Ashley MS B3466, B5045

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

43. Ashley MS B4224, B4604, B5608

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B4224, B4604, B5608
Title:
Letters (6) from Newman I. White to T. J. Wise, concerning his proposed monograph on the development of P. B. Shelley's reputation (6 March 1925, 7 Oct. 1928), reprints of articles on Shelley which Wise had asked him to obtain (22 Nov. 1925), introducing a young American scholar, Lewis Patton (7 June 1925), and sending Wise copies of A. Stanley Walker, Peterloo, Shelley and Reform, 1925 (24 March 1926) and of his own American Negro Folk-Songs, 1928 (16 Dec. 1931). These two volumes are now A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1925-1931
Extent:
3 items

44. Ashley MS 1449, A3888

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1449, A3888
Title:
Letters (12) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to F. J. Furnivall; 22 April 1886-26 June 1892. The letters are almost entirely concerned with the affairs of the Shelley Society (1886-1892), of which Rossetti was Chair-man and Furnivall founder. There is in addition mention of Rossetti's unpublished compilation of Shelley biographical material 'Cor Cordium' (1449, ff. 3b, 4, 7-8b, 9b) and of an unfavourable review, which Rossetti believed to be by G. B. Shaw or Oscar Wilde, of his Life of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Norwegian
Date Range:
22 Apr 1886-26 Jun 1892
Extent:
2 items

45. Ashley MS B2259, B2274, B4635, A4637, B4665

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

46. Ashley MS B2959, B2983, B2984, B4790

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

47. Ashley MS A244, 2534

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A244, 2534
Title:
Two Letters from Robert Browning to Richard Henry Horne; [circa mid-June 1843], 3 Dec. 1848. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 8, 19-22. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 109; ix, pp. 30-32.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1843-1848
Extent:
2 items

48. Ashley MS B1809, B4322

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

49. Ashley MS B3711, B4907

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

50. Ashley MS 270, A1875, B3559

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 270, A1875, B3559
Title:
Letters (3) from Robert Browning to A. C. Swinburne; 8 June 1869-5 Feb. 1881. With the exception of B3559 which deals chiefly with the publication of John Forster, Walter Savage Landor, 1869, the letters are printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 126; iii, p. 95; [vi, pp. 107-108].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
8 Jun 1869-5 Feb 1881
Extent:
3 items