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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2079, A2104, 4521
Title:: Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; [1869]. Autograph drafts of passages from 'The Coming of Arthur', 'Pelleas and Ettarre', and 'The Passing of Arthur', all of which were first published in The Holy Grail and other Poems, 1870 [1869]. Line numbers refer to The Poems of Tennyson, 1969, ed. Christopher Ricks. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 110, 111, 130-132.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1869]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2117, 2135, A4528
Title:: Letters (3, two, 2135 and A4528, with envelope) from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1883-1892. In the letters Tennyson sends a copy of his play Becket, 1884 (A2117), justifies his use of the word 'crow' for the rook in 'Locksley Hall', l. 68 (2l35), and thanks Watts[-Dunton] for a letter (A4528). For another letter from Tennyson to Watts[-Dunton] see A2131. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 140-141, 156, 157.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1892
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2121, 2155, A4530, A4541
Title:: Letters (7) from Hallam, Lord Tennyson, to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1883-1896. The letters chiefly concern Alfred, Lord Tennyson's peerage (A4541, f. 16), J. C. Walters, In Tennyson Land, 1890, and letters from the Tennysons to the Athenæum (A4541, ff. 17-18), the success of The Foresters in America (A2121, A4530), the identity of the 'Pilot' in Alfred Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar' (2155), and biographies of Alfred Tennyson, including A. Waugh, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1892 (the British Museum's ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1896
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2201, B4187, A4587
Title:: Letters (3) from Sir William Watson to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the private printing by Wise of Watson's 'Lachrymae Musarum' and 'Shelley's Centenary' (B4187, A4587), and the suggestion by Wise that he might print a longer poem by Watson (A2201); [Nov. 1892?]-13 Jan. [1894?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 141;] vii, pp. 199-200.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [Nov 1892?]-13 Jan [1894?]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2283, A2284, A2285, A2287, 2288, B2290*, A4677, B5658
Title:: Letters (13) from W. B. Yeats to C. K. Shorter; after March 1896-30 Oct. 1918. One of the letters (A4677) is in the hand of an amanuensis. The letter of 17 May 1918 is accompanied by an envelope (2288, f. 14). The letters chiefly concern Yeats's refusal to write a poem on a subject suggested by Shorter (2288, ff. 1, 2), an invitation to one of Yeats's 'Monday evenings' (B5658), the agreement with his publisher Unwin (2288, ff. 3-6), The Shadowy Waters (2288, ff. 3-6), the 'Irish Literary The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: after Mar 1896-30 Oct 1918
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2385, B5424, 5735
Title:: 'The Bible in Spain' by George Borrow; [1841-1842]. Autograph drafts and fair copies of various passages of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, 42-43.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1841-1842]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2519, A4449
Title:: Two Letters from R. H. Horne to A. C. Swinburne; 1881, 1882. The earlier letter concerns, among other matters, Victor Hugo and a translation by Horne of his Lucrèce Borgia, Swinburne's essay George Chapman, 1875, and Robert Browning's attitude to the publication of Horne's correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The later letter chiefly mentions the publication of Swinburne's poem 'Dysthanatos' (in Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems, 1882), and Horne's King Nihil's Round Table, or,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1881-1882
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A3766, B4990, B5348, B5576
Title:: Letters (4) from W. F. Prideaux to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands, 1712, to which Pope contributed (17 April 1907), declining Wise's offer to collaborate on a second edition of A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (published by Prideaux in 1917) (20 April 1914), sending a copy of Leo XIII, An. Christi MDCCCC pridie Kalendas Ianuariae, with a translation by Andrew Lang, 1912, which Prideaux had printed (3 Jan....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1907-1914
Extent:: 4 items

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

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