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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692
Title:: Letters (12) from J. M. Barrie to Edmund Gosse containing, among other matters, congratulations to Gosse on his appointment as Librarian of the House of Lords (A66), a reference to Peter Davies's first production as a publisher (A63), and a request for help in securing a second grant from the Royal Literary Fund for Robert Buchanan, the calumniator of Swinburne and Rossetti (69); 8 Nov. 1892-11 Nov. 1925. A61, A63, B65, and B4689 are written with the left hand. A62, A66, B65, B68, both lette...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 8 Nov 1892-11 Nov 1925
Extent:: 11 items

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A121, B121
Title:: Fragments of 'The Sleeping Bard': a translation from the Welsh of Ellis Wynne by George Borrow; [1857-1860?]. The paper of A121, f. 56 is watermarked 1857, but in the preface Borrow speaks of 1830 as the original date of composition. Borrow's translation of 'The Sleeping Bard' was published in 1860. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 46. ;
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1857-1860?]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A130, 131
Title:: 'The Story of Tim': a story translated from the Russian by George Borrow; [1854-1862]. Autograph draft, written on both sides of eight octavo leaves of grey wove paper (ff. 1-8), on both sides of nine octavo leaves of blue laid paper (ff. 9-17), and on one side only of another octavo leaf of blue laid paper (f. 18). Watermark (blue paper only) 'Sawston/1854'. The story is entitled as above. A130 is an autograph draft of part of the introduction, written on one side only of a part quarto leaf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1854-1862]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A205, A2503, A4145
Title:: Letters (5) from the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke to T. J. Wise, mostly thanking Wise for the gift of various books; 19 Feb. 1888-16 May 1908. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 89; v, p. 128. For two further letters from Brooke to Wise see 2502.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 19 Feb 1888-16 May 1908
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A239, A240, A241, A242
Title:: Letters (7) from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Richard Henry Horne; 16 Dec. 1843-12 May 1845. Four of the letters (16 Dec. 1843, Dec. 1843, 1843, 6 Feb. 1844) were written during their collaboration in the production of A New Spirit of the Age, 1844, edited by Horne, another (9 June 1844) discusses its reception, while others discuss her poem 'The Dead Pan' (9 June, 20 July 1844) and Edgar Allen Poe (12 May 1845). Also included are a letter (A242, ff. 164-169b) from Elizabeth to Mary Hunter,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 Dec 1843-12 May 1845
Extent:: 4 items

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A248, A277, A2531, A2540, B2551
Title:: Letters (5) from Robert Browning to F. J. Furnivall; 15 Sept. 1881-13 Dec. 1886. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933. In the letter of 15 Sept. 1881 where Browning discusses the metre of 'Hervé Riel' and 'A Toccata of Galuppi's' Hood has not printed the marks of scansion which Browning wrote above his examples. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 112, 115, 129, 130, 134. For further letters from Browning to Furnivall see A2527, 2542, A2549.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 15 Sep 1881-13 Dec 1886
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A294, A295, A4374
Title:: Letters from A. C. Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Michael Rossetti, Theodore Watts[-Dunton], Harry Buxton Forman, and F. S. Ellis, together with letters from John Nichol and W. M. Rossetti to Swinburne, from Robert Buchanan to Robert Browning, and from Edmund Gosse and Frank Karslake to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerned with Robert Buchanan's The Fleshly School of Poetry, 1872, an attack on D. G. Rossetti and Swinburne, first published in The Contemporary Review for Oct. 1871, a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 9 Oct [1871]-30 Mar [1916]
Extent:: 3 items

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