Archive Reference (shelfmark): Ashley MS A17-5768 / Level: [36] Series - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1840, 1841, A1851, 1855, B1861
Title:: Poems and Ballads by A. C. Swinburne; 1857-1865. Autograph drafts of poems included in Poems and Ballads, 1866. The poems in this volume were composed at various dates between 1857 and 1865 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, tome ii, 1928, pp. 418-419). The drafts are printed, not entirely accurately, in Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 565-581. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 35-36, 42, 58-60, 63. Except where expressly stated, the drafts are not dated, entitled or signed. As foll...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 1857-1865
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262
Title:: 'Songs Before Sunrise' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Songs Before Sunrise, 1871. Swinburne composed this collection of political poems under the influence of Mazzini, whom he met for the first time in March 1867. Mazzini had already written to him on 10 March 1867, asking him to 'give us a series of "Lyrics for the Crusade" '. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 72-73, 94-95. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1867-1870]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1861, A1903, A1925, A1932, A4399, 4403,4404,5084-5086, 5088, 5268*, 5270, 5272-5275
Title:: '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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1879-1894]
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261
Title:: 'Bothwell': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1868]-[1874]. Autograph drafts, and trial printings with autograph corrections and revisions. Included are a trial printing of Act I and the first half of Act II, Scene I, and fragments of a revise, the draft of the first two scenes of Act I from which the earlier of the trial printings was set up, a draft of the dedicatory sonnet to Victor Hugo, an autograph synopsis of Act V, Scene III, and a letter from Frederick Locker to Swinburne concern...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1868]-[1874]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1887, 1888, 1889
Title:: Letters (3) from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning the atrocities perpetrated by Governor Eyre in Jamaica, and Swin-burne's A Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876; 12, 16, 19 Dec. [1876]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., iii, 1960, pp. 230-241. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 119-120, 122-126.
Scope & Content:: Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letters to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton from Algernon Charles Swinburne: 1872-1891.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Dec [1876]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1895, A1896, A1977, A1982, A4433, 5071, 5266, 5267
Title:: '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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1861-1878]
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1913, A1923, A1926, A1937, A4395, 5083
Title:: '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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1884-1889]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2401, 2402
Title:: 'Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg': two versions of a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1824-[1829?] and before [1857?]. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of 2396. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 52.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1824-1858]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2535, A2536, 2538, A2548, A2550, A2551, A2552, A2553
Title:: Letters (21) from Robert Browning to Isabella Blagden; 4 Sept. 1858-19 July 1871. Among the subjects of the letters are the monument to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence (19 Jan. 1863, 19 Oct. 1864), the character of his son (24 Sept. 1866, 19 July 1871), Robert Browning's reputation (19 Aug. 1865), his 'The Ring and the Book' (19 Oct. 1864) and 'Balaustion's Adventure' (19 July 1871), the offer to him of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford (19 Feb. 1867), the Franco-Prussian War and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Sep 1858-19 Jul 1871
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2608, B2608
Title:: Two Letters from Anne Isabella Milbanke to Elizabeth Wilkin-son, written during her engagement to Lord Byron, and expressing her confidence of future happiness; 3 Oct. (ff. 1-2b), 22 Dec. (ff. 3-4b) 1814. At the head of each letter is the note '14th letter copied' and '15th letter copied' respectively. Perhaps this is the result of Lady Byron's known assiduity in copying after the separation all documents concerning her relations with Lord Byron. Printed, not wholly accurately, in Ashley Lib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 2 items

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