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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768 Level [36] Series

11. Ashley MS 1364 (1)-(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1364 (1)-(6)
Title:
Six Notebooks used by Christina Rossetti for the inscription of fair copies of her poems; 17 June 1856-15 Feb. 1859 and 23 March 1861-11 June 1866. The notebooks are part of a series of seventeen covering the years 1842-1866, of which the others are Ashley MS. 1362 (1842-1845), nine in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and one in the possession of Mrs Imogene Rossetti Dennis. The six comprised in Ashley MS. 1364 are all indexed, and contain extensive deletions and revisions made in pencil at v...
Scope & Content:
Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Notebooks by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1856-1859, 1861-1866.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856-1866
Extent:
0 items

12. Ashley MS 1387, 1393* A1393, B1398, A1400, 1401, A1404, B1404, A1405, A1406, A1878, A3870, 4995

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

13. Ashley MS 1388, 3844

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1388, 3844
Title:
'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
Date Range:
1846-1874
Extent:
2 items

14. Ashley MS 1399, B1399

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1399, B1399
Title:
'Poems (Privately Printed)': fragments of a copy of the third set of printed page proofs for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems, 1870, with autograph revision, corrections and addition; second half of Sept. 1869. The fragments comprise the title-page and author's note (pp. [i-iv]), and pp. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17-25, 29-40, 45-50, 53-58 of the text, i.e. part of 'The Blessed Damozel', part of 'Love's Nocturn', most of 'The Burden of Nineveh', 'Ave', most of 'The Staff and Scrip', part of 'Sister ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
2 items

15. Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861
Title:
Ballads and Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1871?]-1881. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in, and considered for, Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. Although the poems were composed at various dates between 1869 and 1881, it seems probable that, with the exception of 1407-1409 and 1420, the MSS. were written in 1880-1881 when Rossetti was preparing Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3857, 3859, 3860 and 3861 may well have once formed part of the same note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1871?]-1881
Extent:
11 items

16. Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)
Title:
Four Notebooks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871-1881. The books contain many notes for, and drafts of, lines, couplets and stanzas of poems printed in Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, but no complete poems, with the exception of a draft of 'The Lamp's Shrine' (book (1), ff. 26-27). In addition they contain many fragments of prose and poetry not used by Rossetti but often, for that reason, very revealing of his state of mind, notes of place and personal names for poems, ideas for pi...
Scope & Content:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter: Notebook by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1871-1881.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1881
Extent:
4 items

17. Ashley MS 1448, A1852, B4060, B5587

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1448, A1852, B4060, B5587
Title:
Letters (91) and a postcard from W. M. Rossetti to T. J. Wise; 8 Jan. 1886-27 March 1913. The greater part of the letters concerns the Shelley Society (1886-1892), of which Wise was Secretary from 1887 and Rossetti Chairman. One of the factors contributing to the downfall of the Society was Wise's extravagant policy of issuing facsimile reprints, and the letters reveal Rossetti's patience and generosity contrasted with Wise's incompetence and duplicity. Another subject which features largely...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
8 Jan 1886-27 Mar 1913
Extent:
4 items

18. Ashley MS 1449, A3888

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1449, A3888
Title:
Letters (12) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to F. J. Furnivall; 22 April 1886-26 June 1892. The letters are almost entirely concerned with the affairs of the Shelley Society (1886-1892), of which Rossetti was Chair-man and Furnivall founder. There is in addition mention of Rossetti's unpublished compilation of Shelley biographical material 'Cor Cordium' (1449, ff. 3b, 4, 7-8b, 9b) and of an unfavourable review, which Rossetti believed to be by G. B. Shaw or Oscar Wilde, of his Life of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Norwegian
Date Range:
22 Apr 1886-26 Jun 1892
Extent:
2 items

19. Ashley MS 1461, 1463

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1461, 1463
Title:
Two Letters, the second with envelope, from John Ruskin to A. C. Swinburne, expressing his opinion of the latter's Poems and Ballads, 1866, both before and after publication; 5 July 1863, 9 Sept. 1866. Printed, with errors, in Wise, Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, 1923, pp. 182-183, and, in the case of the later letter, in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, i, 1959, p. 182. For another letter from Ruskin to Swinburne see A3871. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, pp. 182-183. Octavo; ff. ii+2 and ii+3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1863-1866
Extent:
2 items

20. Ashley MS 1482, 1486

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1482, 1486
Title:
Letters (21) from William Bell Scott to various correspondents; 14 Feb. 1865-25 Aug. 1887. 1. Eight letters to A. C. Swinburne, 14 Feb. 1865-22 April 1882. Among the subjects are Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon, 1865 (1482, ff. 1-2), William Blake (published 1868) (1482, ff. 5-6), Songs before Sunrise (published 1871) (1486, f. 4), Studies in Song, 1880 (1482, ff. 7, 8), Mary Stuart, 1881 (1482, ff. 9-10) and Tristram of Lyonesse (published 1882) (1482, ff. 10, 10b), Scott's Year of the Wor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865-1890
Extent:
2 items