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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A664, A666, A668, A670, A671, B677, B682, A691, B3098, B3106, B3110
Title:: Letters (10) and a postcard from John Drinkwater to T. J. Wise; 7 May 1920-9 June 1933. The letters concern, among other matters, the bibliography of John Dryden, Poems, 6th ed. 1794, 1795 (A664), and an inscribed copy of W. S. Landor, Gebir, 2nd ed. (A666), the gift to Wise of a copy of Horace Shipp, Community Playing, with a foreword by Drinkwater (B682), and his offer to sell Wise various Byron, Brontë, and Landor items, together with 'my Verhaeren Poem' (A691). Ashley Library Catalogue, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 7 May 1920-9 Jun 1933
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1384, A1395, A1445, 1447, A1883, A1935, A3864
Title:: Letters (34), one postcard and one letter-card from W. M. Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 3 April [1876 or 1879?]- 15 April 1910. The letters reflect Watts-Dunton's career as solicitor turned man of letters, adviser on practical matters to the Rossetti's, and guardian of Swinburne. Among the subjects on which his advice is sought are the libel case R. H. Shepherd v. The Athenæum, arising out of a review contributed by W. M. Rossetti to the issue of 14 Sept. 1878, in which he described Shep...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1876-1910
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1402, A1415, A1418, A1419, B1428, A3851, A3862, A3863
Title:: Letters (18) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning the production of Rossetti's Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, and in particular the ballad 'The White Ship'; early 1880 to Aug. 1881. It seems more likely that the ballad referred to in A1415 is 'The White Ship' than 'The Bride's Prelude'. Wise had an interest in claiming that it was the latter, as he was trying to prove that the proof of 'The Bride's Prelude' in his possession was a separate issu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1871-1881
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1753, A1754, 1755, A4273
Title:: Letters (12) from Simeon Solomon to A. C. Swinburne; [Sept. 1869?]-[Nov. 1872]. The greater part of the letters concerns Swinburne's essay 'Simeon Solomon: Notes on his Vision of Love, and Other Studies', printed in the Dark Blue for July 1871 (A1753; 1755, ff. 11b-16; A4273). Other subjects are Solomon's paintings (1755, ff. 5b, 6; A4273), Swinburne's Songs before Sunrise, 1871 (1755, f. 12b), and Le Tombeau de Théophile Gautier, 1873, to which Swinburne contributed. Passing reference is ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: [Sep 1869?]-[Nov 1872]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1842, 4354
Title:: 'Rosamond' (no title in the MS.): a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1857-1860]. Two autograph drafts, the earlier (4354) containing the greater part of scene I, scenes II to IV, and approximately two thirds of scene V, the other (A1842), containing fragments of a later version of scene III. In a letter to Edwin Heath written 17 Feb. 1858 Swinburne first mentions this work, saying '. . . Rosamond is about my favourite poem, and is now verging on a satisfactory completion. The first scene...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: [1857-1860]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1851
Title:
Scope & Content:: Poems and Ballads by A. C. Swinburne; [1860-1865]. 1. 'A Ballad of Life'; [1862-1863]. Early draft of stanzas 1 and 2, written on one side only of a folio leaf of white wove paper, without watermark. Stanza 1 was later discarded, but the text of stanza 2 is substantially the same as that printe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 1860-1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B34, B1328, B2619 (1), B5535
Title:: Letters (5) from R. W. Chapman to T. J. Wise, sending a copy of Jane Austen, Volume the First, 1st edition, 1933, edited by Chapman (B34), discussing the bibliography of Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, 1709 (B1328) and of the works and letters of Samuel Johnson (B5535), and pointing out revisions to be made in the proofs of Ashley Library Catalogue, x, 1930, relating to Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, 1816 (B2619 (1)); 22 March 1923-25 Sept. 1934. [Ashley Library Cat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 22 Mar 1923-25 Sep 1934
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B194, B2454
Title:: Two Letters from George Edwin MacLean to T. J. Wise, the earlier sending a copy of his article 'Unpublished Essays in Novel Writing by Charlotte Brontë' reprinted from the Publications of the Brontë Society, xxvi, 1916, and the later a copy of Charlotte Brontë, Lament befitting these 'Times of Night', 1916, edited by MacLean and reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine for August 1916; 26 June, 21 Sept. 1916. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 79, 87].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1916
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B238, B252, B253, B2533, B3562, 5714
Title:: Letters (6) from Robert Browning to Edmund Gosse; 19 Aug. 1876-23 Feb. 1888. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, with the exception of B252. Ashley Library Catalogue, [i, pp. 107, 117, 118;] iii, p. 95.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 19 Aug 1876-23 Feb 1888
Extent:: 6 items

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

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