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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262
Title:: 'Songs Before Sunrise' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Songs Before Sunrise, 1871. Swinburne composed this collection of political poems under the influence of Mazzini, whom he met for the first time in March 1867. Mazzini had already written to him on 10 March 1867, asking him to 'give us a series of "Lyrics for the Crusade" '. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 72-73, 94-95. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1867-1870]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1861, A1903, A1925, A1932, A4399, 4403,4404,5084-5086, 5088, 5268*, 5270, 5272-5275
Title:: 'Astrophel and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 73-74, 144-145, 174-176, 178-179, 182-185, 188-190; viii, p. 199. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1879-1894]
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261
Title:: 'Bothwell': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1868]-[1874]. Autograph drafts, and trial printings with autograph corrections and revisions. Included are a trial printing of Act I and the first half of Act II, Scene I, and fragments of a revise, the draft of the first two scenes of Act I from which the earlier of the trial printings was set up, a draft of the dedicatory sonnet to Victor Hugo, an autograph synopsis of Act V, Scene III, and a letter from Frederick Locker to Swinburne concern...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1868]-[1874]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1895, A1896, A1977, A1982, A4433, 5071, 5266, 5267
Title:: 'Poems and Ballads Second Series' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and a fair copy of poems included in Poems and Ballads Second Series, 1878. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 47, 138-141; vii, pp. 32-33, 35, 47. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Poems and Ballads Second Series, 1878, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1861-1878]
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1913, A1923, A1926, A1937, A4395, 5083
Title:: 'Poems and Ballads Third Series'. by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Poems and Ballads Third Series, 1889. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 159, 169, 170, 172, 173, 175, 204, 205. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Poems and Ballads Third Series, 1889, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1884-1889]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 5744
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (9) from Walter Savage Landor to the Countess of Blessington; 1837-1846. The letters contain the following literary compositions:― 1. Autograph fair copy of the last scene of the drama 'Orestes'; [1837]. ff. 3b-4. 2. Autograph fair copy of a poem, beginning 'Why, why repine, my pensive...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1837-1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A17-5768
Title:: Ashley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts, chiefly literary, collected by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937). Includes poetry manuscripts and the literary correspondence of poets, novelists and critics, c. 1700-1936 (predominantly 1780-1936). The collection was named after the street in which Wise lived when he started acquirin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1700-1936
Extent:: c. 1,971 volumes

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A117, A118, 2388
Title:: 'Lavengro' by George Borrow; [1843-1848]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Page references are to the first edition of 1851. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 44-45. As follows:
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: [1843-1848]
Extent:: 3 items

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