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1. Ashley MS A17-5768

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

2. Ashley MS A117, A118, 2388

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

3. Ashley MS A120, 2417

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

4. Ashley MS A244, 2534

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

5. Ashley MS 270, A1875, B3559

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

6. Ashley MS A470, 2922*, 2923*, A2923, A2945

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A470, 2922*, 2923*, A2923, A2945
Title:
Letters(11) from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Hueffer; [1900?]-1915. Also included are a letter (2923*, ff. 24-26) from Conrad to Elsie Ford Madox Hueffer, 10 Aug. 1906, and a letter (2923*, ff. 27-28) from Conrad to Mrs Hueffer [Violet Hunt], [19 Feb. 1912]. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 236, 238-239, 241, 256; viii, p. 119.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1900?]-1915
Extent:
5 items

7. Ashley MS B642, B2159

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B642, B2159
Title:
Two Letters from Charles Plumtre Johnson to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of George Borrow, and thanking for a gift; 5, 7 Nov. 1913. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 46; vii, p. 170.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
Nov 1913
Extent:
2 items

8. Ashley MS 906, 907, 4855

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

9. Ashley MS B194, B2454

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

10. Ashley MS 71, B2335, A4688, B4691

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