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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B502, B503, B504, B2922, B2923, B2924
Title:: Letters (8), one with envelope, from Joseph Conrad to C. K. Shorter, mentioning, among other matters, his Suspense (B502), his suppressed Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus (B2922), his One day more (B2923), Well Done! (B2924), and articles on the 'Titanic'; 31 December 1916-5 August 1922, n.d. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 234, 241, 242; viii, pp. 128, 129].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 31 Dec 1916-5 Aug 1922
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B509, B2945, B2955
Title:: Letters (5) from Jessie Conrad to T. J. Wise, concerning the death of Joseph Conrad (2 Sept. 1924), sending a copy of 'this little preface [by Joseph Conrad] to the Cookery Book' (14 Oct. 1921), and sending a book and a pamphlet (15, 19, 21 Oct. 1925); 14 October 1921-21 October 1925. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 256; viii, pp. 127, 131].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 14 Oct 1921-21 Oct 1925
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B642, B2159
Title:: Two Letters from Charles Plumtre Johnson to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of George Borrow, and thanking for a gift; 5, 7 Nov. 1913. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 46; vii, p. 170.]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: Nov 1913
Extent:: 2 items

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

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

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