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

51. Ashley MS A400, B400

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A400, B400
Title:
Letters to Edward Clodd from Thomas Hardy, J. B. Bury, Sir James Frazer and W. R. Paterson, all thanking him for the gift of a copy of his Gibbon and Christianity, 1916; 25 March 1916 - 5 Dec. 1921. The letter from Hardy is printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, v, 1985, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 152. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 76, 77.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1916-5 Dec 1921
Extent:
2 items

52. Ashley MS A469, A492, A493, B498, A1986, A2948, A2950, A2951

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A469, A492, A493, B498, A1986, A2948, A2950, A2951
Title:
Letters (8) from Joseph Conrad to T. J. Wise; 1919-1922. In the letters among other matters Conrad sends Wise portions of the MS. of The Rover, and describes his methods (22 July 1922), describes the composition of The Rescue (16 Feb. 1919), and sends copies of his Life and Letters and Some Reminiscences (4 Oct. 1921), of the English edition of The Rescue (5 July 1920), and of his 'booklets on J. Galsworthy and The Dover Patrol' (19 October 1922). Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 238, 252-25...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1919-1922
Extent:
8 items

53. Ashley MS A470, 2922*, 2923*, A2923, A2945

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A470, 2922*, 2923*, A2923, A2945
Title:
Letters(11) from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Hueffer; [1900?]-1915. Also included are a letter (2923*, ff. 24-26) from Conrad to Elsie Ford Madox Hueffer, 10 Aug. 1906, and a letter (2923*, ff. 27-28) from Conrad to Mrs Hueffer [Violet Hunt], [19 Feb. 1912]. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 236, 238-239, 241, 256; viii, p. 119.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1900?]-1915
Extent:
5 items

54. Ashley MS A505, A506

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A505, A506
Title:
Letters (4) from Hugh Walpole to T. J. Wise; 22 Sept.-21 Oct. 1921. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 130.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1921-21 Oct 1921
Extent:
2 items

55. Ashley MS A664, A666, A668, A670, A671, B677, B682, A691, B3098, B3106, B3110

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A664, A666, A668, A670, A671, B677, B682, A691, B3098, B3106, B3110
Title:
Letters (10) and a postcard from John Drinkwater to T. J. Wise; 7 May 1920-9 June 1933. The letters concern, among other matters, the bibliography of John Dryden, Poems, 6th ed. 1794, 1795 (A664), and an inscribed copy of W. S. Landor, Gebir, 2nd ed. (A666), the gift to Wise of a copy of Horace Shipp, Community Playing, with a foreword by Drinkwater (B682), and his offer to sell Wise various Byron, Brontë, and Landor items, together with 'my Verhaeren Poem' (A691). Ashley Library Catalogue, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
7 May 1920-9 Jun 1933
Extent:
11 items

56. Ashley MS A712, A713

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A712, A713
Title:
Two Letters from Mary Ann Evans afterw. Cross [George Eliot], the first to Mrs Thomas Adolphus Trollope signed 'M. E. Lewes' and telling of her and G. H. Lewes' stay in Naples, and the second written from Griffe to 'My dear Patty' [Martha Jackson], telling of her travels on the Continent; 1 April 1869, 4 April 1850. Printed in Haight, The George Eliot Letters, 1954-1955, vol. v, pp. 21-22; vol. i, pp. 333-334. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 106, 107.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850-1869
Extent:
2 items

57. Ashley MS A845, A846, A850, A854, A857, A858, A861, B862

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A845, A846, A850, A854, A857, A858, A861, B862
Title:
Letters (9) and a postcard from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse; 2 Aug. 1886-14 Feb. 1922. The principal subjects of the letters are thanks to Gosse for his review of Hardy's The Well-Beloved, 1897 (A846), literary censorship (A845), A. C. Swinburne's reaction to an article that had linked him and Hardy (A850), Hardy's Time's laughingstocks, 1909 (A854), his doubts as to whether to print the poems which eventually appeared as Satires of Circumstance, 1914 (A857), Granville Barker's production o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1886-14 Feb 1922
Extent:
8 items

58. Ashley MS A978, B978

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A978, B978
Title:
Two Letters from Robert Bridges, the earlier (A978) to Norman MacColl asking him to review or find a reviewer for the writer's Milton's Prosody, 1893, and the later (B978) to Edmund Gosse discussing the advisability of the Poetry Society's celebrating the centenary of Robert Browning's birth; 18 Dec. 1893, 7 Dec. 1911. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 27.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1893-1911
Extent:
2 items

59. Ashley MS A1037, A1039, A1049, A1053, A1063

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1037, A1039, A1049, A1053, A1063
Title:
Five Prose Fragments by W. S. Landor. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 61-62, 67-68, 80-81, 87-88. Autograph drafts, as follows:―
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1824-1846]
Extent:
5 items

60. Ashley MS A1084, B1084, B1085

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1084, B1084, B1085
Title:
Letters (3) from E. V. Lucas to T. J. Wise, sending him an advance copy of Post-Bag Diversions, 1934, ed. by Lucas (26 Sept., 5 Oct. 1933), and asking to be allowed to dedicate his At the Shrine of St Charles, 1934, to Wise (26 Oct. 1933); 26 Sept., 5, 26 Oct. 1933. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 92.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
3 items