Ashley MS 1895, A1896, A1977, A1982, A4433, 5071, 5266, 5267
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'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.
'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.
'A Channel Passage and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 164-165, 168-170, 178-179, 191, 196, 201-202, 206; vii, p. 54. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904, to which page references apply. As follows:―
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.
'A Prayer': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Two autograph fair copies, differing slightly, the earlier (1388) dated '1846', the later possibly circa 1869. First printed from the later version in The Works of D. G. Rossetti, 1911, pp. 267-268. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 112, 114.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
'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.
'Il Rosseggiar dell' Oriente': a sequence of twenty-one poems in Italian by Christina Rossetti; Dec. 1862, Jan. 1863 [1864?], Jan. 1867-Aug. 1868. Autograph fair copies, with a few revisions, written on both sides of twelve leaves of laid paper, and one side only of another (f. 1, the title page...
'The Romany Rye' by George Borrow; [1852?]-[1857]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 45-46, 63. As follows:
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
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,...
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].