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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 71, B2335, A4688, B4691
Title:: Letters (8) from J. M. Barrie to Clement Shorter, three with envelopes; 27 Jan. 1900-1 Sept. 1924. One letter (B4691) concerns Barrie's authorship of a short story 'A Lady's Shoe', but the others are chiefly excuses for refusing invitations from Shorter. For a further letter from Barrie to Shorter see 5750. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 16; [viii, p. 53]; ix, p. 11. MS. 71 is octavo; ff. i+10.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 27 Jan 1900-1 Sep 1924
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 270, A1875, B3559
Title:: Letters (3) from Robert Browning to A. C. Swinburne; 8 June 1869-5 Feb. 1881. With the exception of B3559 which deals chiefly with the publication of John Forster, Walter Savage Landor, 1869, the letters are printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 126; iii, p. 95; [vi, pp. 107-108].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 8 Jun 1869-5 Feb 1881
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 394, 2819 (1)-(4)
Title:: Five Diaries of Clara Mary Jane Clairmont; 14 Aug. - 9 Nov. 1814, 19 Jan. - 22 April 1818, 7 March 1819 - 1 Aug. 1820, 5 Aug. 1820 - 20 Sept. 1822, 24 May 1825 - 2 Jan. 1826. The diaries cover the period of P. B. Shelley's and Mary Godwin's elopement, accompanied by Claire, as she called herself, their residence in London, their departure for Italy, and residence there. Unfortunately there is a gap covering the period of Shelley's death. There are many references to Byron. The latest diary w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1814-1826
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 906, 907, 4855
Title:: 'The Story Of Rimini': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1811-1816?]. 906 is an autograph fair copy, with pencil comments by Lord Byron, and occasional corrections by Hunt, of portions of Cantos II and III, written on one side only of thirty octavo leaves of white wove paper, and on both sides of another (f. 1). Watermark (ff. 1-21) 'J Green / 1814'. In a note on f. 4 of this MS. Hunt states that Canto II and a small part of Canto III were composed while he was in prison [3 Feb. 1813-3 Feb. 1815]...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: [1811-1816?]
Extent:: 3 items

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A120, 2417
Title:: '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
Date Range:: [1852?]-[1857]
Extent:: 2 items

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A244, 2534
Title:: Two Letters from Robert Browning to Richard Henry Horne; [circa mid-June 1843], 3 Dec. 1848. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 8, 19-22. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 109; ix, pp. 30-32.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1843-1848
Extent:: 2 items

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