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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1843, A1844
Title:: Two Letters from Mrs Disney Leith to T. J. Wise, mentioning her relationship with W. T. Watts-Dunton in his later years, and discussing the bibliography of A. C. Swinburne, Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards, 1899; 25 April and 1 May 1919. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 50-51.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1919
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1876, A1877
Title:: Two Letters from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning, among other matters, the title and 'motto' for Songs of Two Nations, 1875 (A1876), and the publication of 'Dirae' (later included in that volume) in the Examiner (A1877); 8 April [1873], 1 Feb. [1875]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., ii, 1959, pp. 237-238 and iii, 1960, p. 4. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 108-110.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1873-1875
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1907, A4381, 4450, 5277
Title:: 'Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems, 1882. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp 146-147, 149-150; vii, pp. 67, 69. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems, 1882, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1876-1883]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1915, A1939, A1991, A4394, 4407, 5082, 5089, 5091, 5092, 5269
Title:: 'A Channel Passage and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 164-165, 168-170, 178-179, 191, 196, 201-202, 206; vii, p. 54. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904, to which page references apply. As follows:―
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1875-1904]
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1921, B1921
Title:: 'Locrine': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1886-1887]. Autograph drafts and fair copies of the play published as Locrine on 16 Nov. 1887. In a letter to his mother dated New Year's Day 1887 (C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, v, 1962, pp. 179-180) Swinburne says '. . . I have begun a new dramatic attempt ― in rhyme ― founded on the legendary history of ancient Britain'. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 171. 1. Draft synopsis of Act II, Scene I, to the end of the play, written on one side o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1886-1887]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1946, A1947
Title:: Letters to T. J. Wise from W. T. Watts-Dunton and Edmund Gosse, concerning the printing by Wise of The Marriage of Monna Lisa, 1909, Lord Soulis, 1909, and Burd Margaret, 1909, a prose romance and two ballads by A. C. Swinburne. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 213-214. For further letters from Watts-Dunton to Wise, see Ashley MS B1422, Ashley MS A1968 (3), Ashley MS A3327 and Ashley MS 5755.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1909
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1959, B1959
Title:: Two Letters from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, concerning private printings of MSS. of A. C. Swinburne; 1 Oct. 1909, [1909]. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 9.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1909
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1966, A3428
Title:: Two Letters from Thomas Purnell to A. C. Swinburne, the earlier concerning Adah Isaacs Menken, the later the possibility of printing Swinburne's novel Love's Cross-Currents in a proposed new periodical to be called The Marlborough, and mentioning Swinburne's burlesque poem 'The Ballad of Bulgarie'; 4 Dec. 1867 and 1 Jan. 1877. Love's Cross-Currents was first published, as 'A Year's Letters', in the Tatler for 25 Aug.-29 Dec. 1877. The earlier letter is printed, with the omission of the first...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1867-1877
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2064, B4515
Title:: Two Letters from Marjorie Rushforth to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of John Taylor, the Water Poet; 19 April, 18 Nov. 1931. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, pp. 124, 125.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1931
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2079, A2104, 4521
Title:: Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; [1869]. Autograph drafts of passages from 'The Coming of Arthur', 'Pelleas and Ettarre', and 'The Passing of Arthur', all of which were first published in The Holy Grail and other Poems, 1870 [1869]. Line numbers refer to The Poems of Tennyson, 1969, ed. Christopher Ricks. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 110, 111, 130-132.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1869]
Extent:: 3 items

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