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21. Ashley MS 4740-4750

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Ashley MS 4740-4750
Title:
Letters (11) from Lord Byron, ten to John Murray, and one (4744) to John Cam Hobhouse; 15 May 1819-21 Dec. 1822. The letters contain, among other matters, contemptuous comments on the work of John Keats, discussion of 'Don Juan' and its reception by the critics, and accounts of Byron's relations with Margarita Cogni (La Fornarina), Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and Lady Byron. The letters also treat of Byron's feat in swimming the Hellespont, his natural daughter Allegra, and Percy Bysshe Shell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1819-21 Dec 1822
Extent:
0 items

22. Ashley MS A978, B978

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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

23. Ashley MS A1876, A1877

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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

24. Ashley MS A1966, A3428

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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

25. Ashley MS B3988, A4462 (3)

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Ashley MS B3988, A4462 (3)
Title:
Two Letters from James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps to A. C. Swinburne, the earlier praising Swinburne's Songs of the Springtides, 1880, and the later concerning Swinburne's quarrel with F. J. Furnivall; 13 June 1880, 12 Feb. 1881. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 11], vii, p. 73.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1880-1881
Extent:
2 items

26. Ashley MS B3751*, B5628

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Ashley MS B3751*, B5628
Title:
Letters (3) from Georges Lafourcade to T. J. Wise concerning the composition of Swinburne's 'Faustine' (15 July 1927), sending a copy of his translation into French of Swinburne's 'Ave atque Vale' (14 Feb. 1924), and seeking an interview with Wise (3 Dec. 1924). [Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 106 (B3751* only)].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1924-1927
Extent:
2 items

27. Ashley MS A3929, A3930

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A3929, A3930
Title:
Two Letters from Siegfried Sassoon to Edmund Gosse, the earlier asking Gosse to give his opinion of a work of Sassoon's of which he had sent a copy, and the later sending a copy of his An Ode for Music, 1912, asking for Gosse's opinion, and commenting on the poem; 25 March [1908], 4 Nov. 1912. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 172, 173.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1912
Extent:
2 items

28. Ashley MS A1439, B1439

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1439, B1439
Title:
Two Letters from Maria Rossetti, the first (14 March 1872) to A. C. Swinburne, the second ([1871]) to Edmund Gosse. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, pp. 162-163.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1872
Extent:
2 items

29. Ashley MS 3506 (1)-(3)

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Ashley MS 3506 (1)-(3)
Title:
'Liber Aureus': three volumes used by the Rev. James Boyer, headmaster at Christ's Hospital 1776-1799, for the transcription by his students of their best compositions, including five poems and seven essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and one poem by Charles Lamb; 1783-1799. The titles were given by Boyer generally in Latin, but the compositions, sixty five in all, are in English. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, pp. 154-156.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1799
Extent:
0 items

30. Ashley MS A239, A240, A241, A242

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Ashley MS A239, A240, A241, A242
Title:
Letters (7) from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Richard Henry Horne; 16 Dec. 1843-12 May 1845. Four of the letters (16 Dec. 1843, Dec. 1843, 1843, 6 Feb. 1844) were written during their collaboration in the production of A New Spirit of the Age, 1844, edited by Horne, another (9 June 1844) discusses its reception, while others discuss her poem 'The Dead Pan' (9 June, 20 July 1844) and Edgar Allen Poe (12 May 1845). Also included are a letter (A242, ff. 164-169b) from Elizabeth to Mary Hunter,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1843-12 May 1845
Extent:
4 items