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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89002/5/3
Title:: Edward Upward: Reviews of The Rotten Elements
Scope & Content:: Cuttings of reviews of The Rotten Elements, largely from 1962 with some later material. Includes foreign language reviews in Norwegian and in Hungarian (with translations) and a review from Brussels in Dutch (without translation).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, Hungarian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1969-1972
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89010
Title:: Papers of Sir Frank Francis
Scope & Content:: Contains the personal papers and correspondence of Sir Frank Francis, including papers relating to: speeches, writings and research; committee, club, and association membership; consultancies; social occasions, events, and openings; conferences and symposia; and national and international librari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish
Date Range:: 1920-2005
Extent:: 192 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89010/6
Title:: Speeches, talks, and lectures given by Frank Francis
Scope & Content:: Notes for, and drafts and texts of, speeches at conferences and seminars, openings and dedications of galleries and libraries, council and association meetings, and other events. Includes papers relating to visiting lectureships and lecture series given by Francis and his presidential addresses a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Flemish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish
Date Range:: 1951-1983
Extent:: 30 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89010/6/19
Title:: Frank Francis's lecture tour of Norway 1967
Scope & Content:: Contains correspondence and papers relating to Frank Francis’s lecture tour, under the auspices of the British Council. Francis gave lectures in Oslo and Bergen.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1966-1967
Extent:: 1 folder

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 1145, 3637
Title:: Letters (4) from George Meredith to Edward Clodd, containing, among other matters, an expression of his admiration for Walter Besant, and an opinion on Edward FitzGerald; 2 Jan. 1893-3 Oct. 1906. Printed in The Letters of George Meredith, ed. C. L. Cline, ii, iii, 1970, pp. 1115, 1311, 1518, 1570. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 150-151. 1145. Octavo; ff. i+6. 3637. Octavo; ff. ii+2.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1893-3 Oct 1906
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1387, 1393* A1393, B1398, A1400, 1401, A1404, B1404, A1405, A1406, A1878, A3870, 4995
Title:: Letters (26), one (A1400, ff. 24-25b) imperfect, from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne, W. M. Rossetti, and John Aldam Heaton; 21 Aug. 1869-March 1870. The letters all concern the preparation of D. G. Rossetti's Poems, 1870, published on 24 April. In 1868 or early 1869 Rossetti seems to have decided to print such poetry as he had written, but to issue it privately. In August 1869 he received the first proofs, and after working on them, had the revisions incorporated in a further set...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 21 Aug 1869-Mar 1870
Extent:: 11 items

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