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32. Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
- Title:
- Letters (31) from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse; 16 April 1879-1 Dec. 1894. A1775, 1776, A1779, 1788, A1790, B1794, B1795, A1796, B1800, B4307, B4310 and 5055, letters II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, have envelopes. Stevenson and Gosse probably met in 1873 or 1874, and remained on intimate terms until the end of Stevenson's life - indeed, the last letter in this collection (5055, ff. 28-31, of which ff. 28b, 29b-30b are in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong) was written onl...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
- Date Range:
- 16 Apr 1879-1 Dec 1894
- Extent:
- 23 items
33. 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
34. 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
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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