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71. Ashley MS A469, A492, A493, B498, A1986, A2948, A2950, A2951

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A469, A492, A493, B498, A1986, A2948, A2950, A2951
Title:
Letters (8) from Joseph Conrad to T. J. Wise; 1919-1922. In the letters among other matters Conrad sends Wise portions of the MS. of The Rover, and describes his methods (22 July 1922), describes the composition of The Rescue (16 Feb. 1919), and sends copies of his Life and Letters and Some Reminiscences (4 Oct. 1921), of the English edition of The Rescue (5 July 1920), and of his 'booklets on J. Galsworthy and The Dover Patrol' (19 October 1922). Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 238, 252-25...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1919-1922
Extent:
8 items

72. Ashley MS 1448, A1852, B4060, B5587

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1448, A1852, B4060, B5587
Title:
Letters (91) and a postcard from W. M. Rossetti to T. J. Wise; 8 Jan. 1886-27 March 1913. The greater part of the letters concerns the Shelley Society (1886-1892), of which Wise was Secretary from 1887 and Rossetti Chairman. One of the factors contributing to the downfall of the Society was Wise's extravagant policy of issuing facsimile reprints, and the letters reveal Rossetti's patience and generosity contrasted with Wise's incompetence and duplicity. Another subject which features largely...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
8 Jan 1886-27 Mar 1913
Extent:
4 items

73. Ashley MS A1922

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1922
Title:
Scope & Content:
'Love and Sleep': a poem of sixteen lines by A. C. Swinburne; [1871?]. Autograph draft, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark '[ ]e Note / [ ] & Co'. The title has been added by a later hand. The poem was first printed, as 'Love and Sleep II', in Posthumou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1871?]
Extent:
1 item

74. Ashley MS B275, B2537, A2549, B2553, B4719

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B275, B2537, A2549, B2553, B4719
Title:
Letters (7) from Robert Browning to his son R. W. B. Browning; 11 Oct. 1887-21 Oct. 1889. With the exception of B275, B2537 and B4719 the letters are printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933. A2549 comprises in addition a letter from Browning to F. J. Furnivall, 16 July 1889 (ff. 77-78b), and a letter from Browning to Norman MacColl, 9 July 1889 (f. 79). The letters are printed in Hood, pp. 311-313. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. [121, 129, 132,] 134,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
11 Oct 1887-21 Oct 1889
Extent:
5 items

75. Ashley MS A205, A2503, A4145

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A205, A2503, A4145
Title:
Letters (5) from the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke to T. J. Wise, mostly thanking Wise for the gift of various books; 19 Feb. 1888-16 May 1908. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 89; v, p. 128. For two further letters from Brooke to Wise see 2502.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
19 Feb 1888-16 May 1908
Extent:
3 items

76. Ashley MS A294, A295, A4374

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A294, A295, A4374
Title:
Letters from A. C. Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Michael Rossetti, Theodore Watts[-Dunton], Harry Buxton Forman, and F. S. Ellis, together with letters from John Nichol and W. M. Rossetti to Swinburne, from Robert Buchanan to Robert Browning, and from Edmund Gosse and Frank Karslake to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerned with Robert Buchanan's The Fleshly School of Poetry, 1872, an attack on D. G. Rossetti and Swinburne, first published in The Contemporary Review for Oct. 1871, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
9 Oct [1871]-30 Mar [1916]
Extent:
3 items

77. Ashley MS A4485

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A4485
Title:
Scope & Content:
Letters (5) from Stéphane Mallarmé to A. C. Swinburne; [28?] Dec. 1875-7 June 1876. French. In the letters Mallarmé asks Swinburne for a contribution to the République des Lettres, suggests alterations to Swinburne's 'Nocturne', printed in the République des Lettres, 20 Feb 1876, thanks for the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[28?] Dec 1875-7 Jun 1876
Extent:
1 item

78. 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

79. Ashley MS B1054, B1891-B1892, 1898, B4428 (1)-B4428 (5), B5131, B5517

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1054, B1891-B1892, 1898, B4428 (1)-B4428 (5), B5131, B5517
Title:
Letters (11) from A. C. Swinburne to Edmund Gosse; 14 Sept. 1867-18 March 1899. Also included are a letter from Norman Gullick to T. J. Wise, 4 March 1924, offering to give him a copy of Gosse's Memoir of Thomas Lodge, 1882, (B5517, ff. 64-65), and an engraved portrait of Walt Whitman inscribed in pencil 'Walt Whitman to Edmund Gosse' (B5131, f. 88). The letters in 1898, B5131 and B5517 are accompanied by their envelopes. For further letters from Swinburne to Gosse see 5739. The letters are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1867-1924
Extent:
11 items

80. 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