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

31. Ashley MS 2820 (1)-(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2820 (1)-(2)
Title:
Two Pamphlets used for reminiscences etc. by Claire Clairmont; 1828-1830. Autograph. Accompanying the pamphlets is a newspaper cutting (f. ii) bearing an obituary notice of Claire Clairmont. The date '1879' has been added by an unknown hand. The contents of the pamphlets are printed, with some errors, in Marion L Stocking, The Journals of Claire Clairmont, 1968, pp. 418-438. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 188.
Scope & Content:
Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: Diaries and Memoranda: Reminiscences, etc., by Clara Mary Jane Clairmont: 1828-1830: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1830
Extent:
2 items

32. Ashley MS 3506 (1)-(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3506 (1)-(3)
Title:
'Liber Aureus': three volumes used by the Rev. James Boyer, headmaster at Christ's Hospital 1776-1799, for the transcription by his students of their best compositions, including five poems and seven essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and one poem by Charles Lamb; 1783-1799. The titles were given by Boyer generally in Latin, but the compositions, sixty five in all, are in English. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, pp. 154-156.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1799
Extent:
0 items

33. Ashley MS 4740-4750

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 4740-4750
Title:
Letters (11) from Lord Byron, ten to John Murray, and one (4744) to John Cam Hobhouse; 15 May 1819-21 Dec. 1822. The letters contain, among other matters, contemptuous comments on the work of John Keats, discussion of 'Don Juan' and its reception by the critics, and accounts of Byron's relations with Margarita Cogni (La Fornarina), Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and Lady Byron. The letters also treat of Byron's feat in swimming the Hellespont, his natural daughter Allegra, and Percy Bysshe Shell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1819-21 Dec 1822
Extent:
0 items

34. Ashley MS 4854, B4854

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 4854, B4854
Title:
Correspondence of A. C. Swinburne and Victor Hugo, comprising four letters from Swinburne, 1865-1884 (ff. 2, 3-5, 11-12, 40-41), and twelve letters from Victor Hugo, 1862-1883. French. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, vol. i, 1959, pp. 127, 248-249; iv, 1960, pp. 193-194; v, 1962, p. 51, and Victor Hugo Correspondance, ed. La Librairie Ollendorf, ii, 1950, pp. 430-431, 522-523; iii, 1952, pp. 208, 225, 251-252, 255, 324; iv, 1952, pp. 11, 12, 84, 324. The letter of 1 July [1867], ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1862-1884
Extent:
2 items

35. Ashley MS 5090 (1)-(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5090 (1)-(2)
Title:
(1), (2). Letters (27), with typewritten copies and envelopes, from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 5 Nov. [1872], 29 Aug. [1874], 2 Oct. [1876], 7 Nov. [1876], 17 Nov. 1876, 5 Dec. [1876], 14 Dec. [1876], 27 Dec. [1876], 3 Jan. [1877], 6 Jan. [1877], 17 Feb. [1877], 27 Feb. [1877], 27 Feb. [1877], 28 Feb. [1877], 6 March [1877], 16 March [1877], 24 March [1877], 20 Jan. [1878], [29 July 1891], 9 Oct. 1881, 15 Oct. 1881, 8 Oct. [1882], 13 Oct. 1882, 8 Nov. 1882, 14 Aug. 1894, 27 Ju...
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]-1896. includes: ff. 3-4 Edward Henry Vizetelly, journalist: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1896
Extent:
2 items

36. Ashley MS 5264, A1953

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5264, A1953
Title:
'Lesbia Brandon': an unfinished novel by A. C. Swinburne; [1864-1866?]. Autograph draft, written on a variety of papers. The novel is printed in Lesbia Brandon, ed. Randolph Hughes, 1952, and in The Novels of A. C. Swinburne, with introduction by Edmund Wilson, 1962. A1953 contains autograph drafts and fair copies of the lyrics found interspersed through the novel. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 132-133; vii, pp. 4-5. Bound up with 5264 is the following extraneous material: 1. A chapter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1864-1866?]
Extent:
2 items

37. Ashley MS 5747 A-E

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5747 A-E
Title:
Various Articles by Andrew Lang; 1893, 1894. As follows:―
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1893-1894
Extent:
5 items

38. Ashley MS 5756 (I)-(II)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5756 (I)-(II)
Title:
5756, I, II. Printer's Copy for vol. XI of the Ashley Library Catalogue (printed 1936), consisting of rearranged sections of galley proof, with MS. additions and corrections by T. J. Wise. Quarto. Two volumes. ff. 155; 166.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
0 items

39. Ashley MS 5762 (1)-(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5762 (1)-(3)
Title:
Various Writings by William Michael Rossetti; [1879?]-1900.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1879?]-1900
Extent:
0 items

40. Ashley MS A36, B39, B42, B44, B51, B57, B2277, B3652

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