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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2117, 2135, A4528
Title:: Letters (3, two, 2135 and A4528, with envelope) from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1883-1892. In the letters Tennyson sends a copy of his play Becket, 1884 (A2117), justifies his use of the word 'crow' for the rook in 'Locksley Hall', l. 68 (2l35), and thanks Watts[-Dunton] for a letter (A4528). For another letter from Tennyson to Watts[-Dunton] see A2131. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 140-141, 156, 157.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1892
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2121, 2155, A4530, A4541
Title:: Letters (7) from Hallam, Lord Tennyson, to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1883-1896. The letters chiefly concern Alfred, Lord Tennyson's peerage (A4541, f. 16), J. C. Walters, In Tennyson Land, 1890, and letters from the Tennysons to the Athenæum (A4541, ff. 17-18), the success of The Foresters in America (A2121, A4530), the identity of the 'Pilot' in Alfred Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar' (2155), and biographies of Alfred Tennyson, including A. Waugh, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1892 (the British Museum's ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1896
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2201, B4187, A4587
Title:: Letters (3) from Sir William Watson to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the private printing by Wise of Watson's 'Lachrymae Musarum' and 'Shelley's Centenary' (B4187, A4587), and the suggestion by Wise that he might print a longer poem by Watson (A2201); [Nov. 1892?]-13 Jan. [1894?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 141;] vii, pp. 199-200.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [Nov 1892?]-13 Jan [1894?]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2283, A2284, A2285, A2287, 2288, B2290*, A4677, B5658
Title:: Letters (13) from W. B. Yeats to C. K. Shorter; after March 1896-30 Oct. 1918. One of the letters (A4677) is in the hand of an amanuensis. The letter of 17 May 1918 is accompanied by an envelope (2288, f. 14). The letters chiefly concern Yeats's refusal to write a poem on a subject suggested by Shorter (2288, ff. 1, 2), an invitation to one of Yeats's 'Monday evenings' (B5658), the agreement with his publisher Unwin (2288, ff. 3-6), The Shadowy Waters (2288, ff. 3-6), the 'Irish Literary The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: after Mar 1896-30 Oct 1918
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2380, B2380, 2381
Title:: 'Targum' by George Borrow. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Targum, 1835. Unless otherwise stated the poems were published there for the first time. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 39-40.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1825-1914]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2383, B2383, 2384
Title:: 'The Zincali': a monograph by George Borrow first published in 1841; circa 1839. Autograph drafts of various passages of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 41, 42. As follows:―
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1839
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2385, B5424, 5735
Title:: 'The Bible in Spain' by George Borrow; [1841-1842]. Autograph drafts and fair copies of various passages of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, 42-43.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1841-1842]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2391, 2392
Title:: 'Wild Wales'. by George Borrow; [1854-1861]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 46-47.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1854-1861]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2519, A4449
Title:: Two Letters from R. H. Horne to A. C. Swinburne; 1881, 1882. The earlier letter concerns, among other matters, Victor Hugo and a translation by Horne of his Lucrèce Borgia, Swinburne's essay George Chapman, 1875, and Robert Browning's attitude to the publication of Horne's correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The later letter chiefly mentions the publication of Swinburne's poem 'Dysthanatos' (in Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems, 1882), and Horne's King Nihil's Round Table, or,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1881-1882
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2888, A3876
Title:: Letters (4) from Thomas Hall Caine to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 5 Feb. 1882-16 Jan. 1887. The two earlier letters give an account of D. G. Rossetti's behaviour during his last illness at Birchington-on-Sea, that of 21 Sept. 1882 refers among other matters to Caine's attitude to the likely reaction of Rossetti's family to his Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1882, while the latest letter expresses the hope that Watts will favourably review Caine's novel A Son of Hagar in the Athenæum. Ash...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Feb 1882-16 Jan 1887
Extent:: 2 items

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