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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 B1862, B2557, B5509
Title:: Two Letters and a post-card (B1862) from Maurice Buxton Forman to T. J. Wise; 19 Feb. 1931-30 Sept. 1934. The letters concern, among other matters, the gift by Forman to Wise of a copy of Ten Letters of Robert Browning concerning Miss Alma Murray, 1929, edited by himself (B2557), Harry Buxton Forman's inscribed copies of A. C. Swinburne, Siena, 1868 and William Morris, Sir Galahad, 1858, both of them Wise forgeries (B1862), and the price of an unidentified book (B5509). [Ashley Library Catal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 19 Feb 1931-30 Sep 1934
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1977, B4485
Title:: Two Letters, one (B4485) with envelope, from Stéphane Mallarmé to Edmund Gosse, the earlier giving an account of the writer's activities, the later complimenting Gosse on his novel The Secret of Narcisse, 1892, and discussing Gosse's views on the art of poetry; 16 Dec. 1892 and 10 Jan. 1893. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 32 and 83].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1892-1893
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2016, B4490
Title:: Letters (3) from T. Earle Welby to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the writer's Study of Swinburne, 1926; 1925 and 1926. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 80; ix, p. 148].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1925-1926
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2259, B2274, B4635, A4637, B4665
Title:: Letters (5) from Gordon Wordsworth to T. J. Wise; Dec. 1924-29 Oct. 1930. With the exception of A4637 the letters are typewritten and signed. Three of the letters concern the bibliography of An Address To the Yeomanry of Westmorland, 1820 (B2259) and An Address to the Freeholders of the County of Westmorland, 1818 (B4635), both supposedly by William Wordsworth, and of the parody of Wordsworth Benjamin the Waggoner, 1819 (B2274). In B4635 a letter from William Wordsworth to his brother Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1924-1930
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2424, B4498
Title:: Two Letters from Professor H. G. Wright to T. J. Wise, the earlier sending a copy of his article 'Unpublished Letters from Theodore Watts-Dunton to Swinburne' reprinted from The Review of English Studies, X, No. 38, and the later sending an offprint of his article 'The Influence of George Borrow in Norway and Sweden' published in The Modern Language Review for July 1934; 1934. For further letters from Wright to Wise see 2388 and 2417. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, pp. 5, 121].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1934
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2606, B4754
Title:: Two Letters from Cuthbert Becher Pigot to T. J. Wise, the earlier concerning the identity of the lady in Byron's 'Stanzas to a Lady with the Poems of Camoens', and the later sending a photograph of the sketch made in 1806 by his great great aunt Elizabeth Bridget Pigot of Lord Byron's house in Burgage Green, Southwell. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 145; xi, p. 43].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1934-1935]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2952, B5478
Title:: Two Letters from Miss Lilian Hallowes, Joseph Conrad's secretary, to T. J. Wise, the earlier sending a copy of Conrad's Laughing Anne, 1923, and the later sending the latest volume of the American Limited Edition [of Conrad's works]; 5 Nov. 1923, 18 March 1924. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 124].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1923-1924
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2959, B2983, B2984, B4790
Title:: Letters (4) from Richard Curle to T. J. Wise; 3 Oct. 1923-12 July 1930. The letters were chiefly written to accompany copies of various works sent by Curle to Wise, that is to say Joseph Conrad, The "Torrens". A Personal Tribute, 1923 (3 Oct. 1923), Joseph Conrad's Diary of His Journey up the Valley of the Congo in 1890, edited by Curle, 1926 (20 March 1926), Two Essays on Conrad by John Galsworthy With the Story of a Remarkable Friendship By Richard Curle, 1930 (12 July 1930), and A Handlis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 3 Oct 1923-12 Jul 1930
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3466, B5045
Title:: Letters (4) from Percy Simpson to T. J. Wise, the earliest thanking him for the gift of a copy of his A Swinburne Library, 1925, those written in 1927 and 1928 concerning the loan by Wise to Simpson of his copies of Eastward Hoe, The Fountaine of Selfe-Love, Or Cynthia's Revells, 1601, Poetaster, or The Arraignment, 1602, Seianvs his Fall, 1605, and Volpone, Or The Foxe, 1607, for use in the preparation of Ben Jonson, 1925-52, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson, and the latest the 1612 Quar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1925-1935
Extent:: 2 items

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