032-001978147 / Level: [36] Series - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1648, B1911, A4180
Title:: Letters (4) from H. S. Salt to T. J. Wise as Secretary of the Shelley Society, concerning Salt's A Shelley Primer, 1887 (B1911), Percy Bysshe Shelley A Monograph, 1888 (B1648), and An Examination of Hogg's Life of Shelley, 1889 (A4180); 5 Jan. 1887-28 July 1889. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, [pp. 137], 139; [vi, p. 157.]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 5 Jan 1887-28 Jul 1889
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1517, B1518, B1521, A1525, A4011
Title:: Two Letters and two postcards from G. B. Shaw to T. J. Wise, and one letter to Wise from Blanche Patch, Shaw's secretary (B1521); 7 Nov. 1916-13 July 1933. The letters chiefly concern George Borrow (B1518), the bibliography of Shaw's Heartbreak House (published 1919. See F. E. Loewenstein, The Rehearsal Copies of Bernard Shaw's Plays, 1950) (B1517, B1521), bibliographies of Shaw's works (A1525), and the correspondence of Shaw with Ellen Terry (A4011) (for Ellen Terry's letters see Add. MSS. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 7 Nov 1916-13 Jul 1933
Extent:: 5 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 B238, B252, B253, B2533, B3562, 5714
Title:: Letters (6) from Robert Browning to Edmund Gosse; 19 Aug. 1876-23 Feb. 1888. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, with the exception of B252. Ashley Library Catalogue, [i, pp. 107, 117, 118;] iii, p. 95.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 19 Aug 1876-23 Feb 1888
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
Title:: Letters (31) from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse; 16 April 1879-1 Dec. 1894. A1775, 1776, A1779, 1788, A1790, B1794, B1795, A1796, B1800, B4307, B4310 and 5055, letters II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, have envelopes. Stevenson and Gosse probably met in 1873 or 1874, and remained on intimate terms until the end of Stevenson's life - indeed, the last letter in this collection (5055, ff. 28-31, of which ff. 28b, 29b-30b are in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong) was written onl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 16 Apr 1879-1 Dec 1894
Extent:: 23 items

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)
Title:: Four Notebooks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871-1881. The books contain many notes for, and drafts of, lines, couplets and stanzas of poems printed in Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, but no complete poems, with the exception of a draft of 'The Lamp's Shrine' (book (1), ff. 26-27). In addition they contain many fragments of prose and poetry not used by Rossetti but often, for that reason, very revealing of his state of mind, notes of place and personal names for poems, ideas for pi...
Scope & Content:: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter: Notebook by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1871-1881.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1871-1881
Extent:: 4 items

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1448, A1852, B4060, B5587
Title:: Letters (91) and a postcard from W. M. Rossetti to T. J. Wise; 8 Jan. 1886-27 March 1913. The greater part of the letters concerns the Shelley Society (1886-1892), of which Wise was Secretary from 1887 and Rossetti Chairman. One of the factors contributing to the downfall of the Society was Wise's extravagant policy of issuing facsimile reprints, and the letters reveal Rossetti's patience and generosity contrasted with Wise's incompetence and duplicity. Another subject which features largely...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 8 Jan 1886-27 Mar 1913
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B275, B2537, A2549, B2553, B4719
Title:: Letters (7) from Robert Browning to his son R. W. B. Browning; 11 Oct. 1887-21 Oct. 1889. With the exception of B275, B2537 and B4719 the letters are printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933. A2549 comprises in addition a letter from Browning to F. J. Furnivall, 16 July 1889 (ff. 77-78b), and a letter from Browning to Norman MacColl, 9 July 1889 (f. 79). The letters are printed in Hood, pp. 311-313. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. [121, 129, 132,] 134,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 11 Oct 1887-21 Oct 1889
Extent:: 5 items

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