Ashley MS 1895, A1896, A1977, A1982, A4433, 5071, 5266, 5267
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'Poems and Ballads Second Series' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and a fair copy of poems included in Poems and Ballads Second Series, 1878. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 47, 138-141; vii, pp. 32-33, 35, 47. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Poems and Ballads Second Series, 1878, to which page references apply.
'Poems and Ballads Second Series'. 'Ex Voto'; [1877?]. Draft, heavily revised, written on one side only of three folio leaves, the first (f. 1) of white wove paper, the other two of blue laid paper, watermarked 'E Towgood/1874'. The two blue leaves form a single sheet, and ff. 2a and 3b were use...
'Poems and Ballads Second Series'. 1. 'The Last Oracle'; [1875-1876]. Early draft of ll. 85-96, written on one side only of a folio leaf of white wove paper. No watermark. The final text differs by only three words from that printed on p. 6 of the first edition. There are also two discarded li...