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

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 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

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 B1054, B1891-B1892, 1898, B4428 (1)-B4428 (5), B5131, B5517
Title:: Letters (11) from A. C. Swinburne to Edmund Gosse; 14 Sept. 1867-18 March 1899. Also included are a letter from Norman Gullick to T. J. Wise, 4 March 1924, offering to give him a copy of Gosse's Memoir of Thomas Lodge, 1882, (B5517, ff. 64-65), and an engraved portrait of Walt Whitman inscribed in pencil 'Walt Whitman to Edmund Gosse' (B5131, f. 88). The letters in 1898, B5131 and B5517 are accompanied by their envelopes. For further letters from Swinburne to Gosse see 5739. The letters are ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1867-1924
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A36, B39, B42, B44, B51, B57, B2277, B3652
Title:: Letters (8) from Frederick Britten Austin to T. J. Wise; 3 June 1927-27 March 1935. The letters concern Ashley MS. 36 (A36, B44), Ashley MS. 51 (B51), Austin's Told in the Market Place, 1935 (B57), the price of George Meredith first editions (B3652), and the fact that Some Wordsworth Finds? Arranged and Introduced by James Medborough, 1895, was, unknown to Wise, a hoax by T. W. H. Crosland (B2277). For further letters from Austin to Wise, see 4685, 4686. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 6-7...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 3 Jun 1927-27 Mar 1935
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B34, B1328, B2619 (1), B5535
Title:: Letters (5) from R. W. Chapman to T. J. Wise, sending a copy of Jane Austen, Volume the First, 1st edition, 1933, edited by Chapman (B34), discussing the bibliography of Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, 1709 (B1328) and of the works and letters of Samuel Johnson (B5535), and pointing out revisions to be made in the proofs of Ashley Library Catalogue, x, 1930, relating to Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, 1816 (B2619 (1)); 22 March 1923-25 Sept. 1934. [Ashley Library Cat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 22 Mar 1923-25 Sep 1934
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1887, 1888, 1889
Title:: Letters (3) from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning the atrocities perpetrated by Governor Eyre in Jamaica, and Swin-burne's A Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876; 12, 16, 19 Dec. [1876]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., iii, 1960, pp. 230-241. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 119-120, 122-126.
Scope & Content:: Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letters to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton from Algernon Charles Swinburne: 1872-1891.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Dec [1876]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B697, B699, B700, B705, B709
Title:: Letters (6) to T. J. Wise from R. A. Hellewell, H. F. B. Brett-Smith, Montague Summers, and D. Nichol Smith; 10 Jan. 1926- 25 Oct. 1930. The letters chiefly concern the proposed sale to Wise of a copy of John Dryden, The Life of St Ignatius, 1686 (B697), the bibliography of John Dryden, Miscellaneous Essays, 1692 (B699), State of Innocence, 1677, The Conquest of Granada, 1681, and Satyr upon the Dutch, 1662 (B700), and Wise's copy of Sir George Etherege, The Comical Revenge, 1664 (B709), whi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Jan 1926-25 Oct 1930
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 394, 2819 (1)-(4)
Title:: Five Diaries of Clara Mary Jane Clairmont; 14 Aug. - 9 Nov. 1814, 19 Jan. - 22 April 1818, 7 March 1819 - 1 Aug. 1820, 5 Aug. 1820 - 20 Sept. 1822, 24 May 1825 - 2 Jan. 1826. The diaries cover the period of P. B. Shelley's and Mary Godwin's elopement, accompanied by Claire, as she called herself, their residence in London, their departure for Italy, and residence there. Unfortunately there is a gap covering the period of Shelley's death. There are many references to Byron. The latest diary w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1814-1826
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1364 (1)-(6)
Title:: Six Notebooks used by Christina Rossetti for the inscription of fair copies of her poems; 17 June 1856-15 Feb. 1859 and 23 March 1861-11 June 1866. The notebooks are part of a series of seventeen covering the years 1842-1866, of which the others are Ashley MS. 1362 (1842-1845), nine in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and one in the possession of Mrs Imogene Rossetti Dennis. The six comprised in Ashley MS. 1364 are all indexed, and contain extensive deletions and revisions made in pencil at v...
Scope & Content:: Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Notebooks by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1856-1859, 1861-1866.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1856-1866
Extent:: 0 items

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