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32. Ashley MS A1388*, A1389, A1392
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS A1388*, A1389, A1392
- Title:
- Letters (4) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; Oct. 1877, [1877?], 4 April 1878. Among the subjects are the sale of pictures to Clarence Fry and Constantine Ionides (A1392), the value of Watts[-Dunton]'s friendship to Rossetti while the latter was recuperating at Hunter's Forestall in 1877 (A1388*), a possible printing of Rossetti's ballad 'Sister Helen', the completion of a 'ballad' [stated by Wise to be 'Sister Helen'] (A1389, ff. 15, 15b), and Rossetti's mistress, Fanny ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1877-1880
- Extent:
- 3 items
33. Ashley MS A1907, A4381, 4450, 5277
- 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
34. Ashley MS A2117, 2135, A4528
- 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
35. Ashley MS B4113, B4174, B4236
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS B4113, B4174, B4236
- Title:
- Notes on certain poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley by W. M. Rossetti, probably written for Cor Cordium, Rossetti's projected collection of Shelley's autobiographical writings; [1879?], n.d. The poems discussed by Rossetti are 'On a Dead Violet' (B4113), 'Julian and Maddalo' (B4174), and 'Queen Mab' (B4236). Each leaf of the notes has been numbered by Rossetti at top and bottom, as follows: B4113, 266 and 1265; B4174, 268 and 1259; B4236, 1936 and 1037b. On the verso of B4236 is the pencil note ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1878-1880]
- Extent:
- 3 items
36. Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262
- Title:
- 'Songs Before Sunrise' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Songs Before Sunrise, 1871. Swinburne composed this collection of political poems under the influence of Mazzini, whom he met for the first time in March 1867. Mazzini had already written to him on 10 March 1867, asking him to 'give us a series of "Lyrics for the Crusade" '. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 72-73, 94-95. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, German, and Italian
- Date Range:
- [1867-1870]
- Extent:
- 6 items
37. Ashley MS 2535, A2536, 2538, A2548, A2550, A2551, A2552, A2553
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 2535, A2536, 2538, A2548, A2550, A2551, A2552, A2553
- Title:
- Letters (21) from Robert Browning to Isabella Blagden; 4 Sept. 1858-19 July 1871. Among the subjects of the letters are the monument to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence (19 Jan. 1863, 19 Oct. 1864), the character of his son (24 Sept. 1866, 19 July 1871), Robert Browning's reputation (19 Aug. 1865), his 'The Ring and the Book' (19 Oct. 1864) and 'Balaustion's Adventure' (19 July 1871), the offer to him of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford (19 Feb. 1867), the Franco-Prussian War and ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4 Sep 1858-19 Jul 1871
- Extent:
- 8 items
38. Ashley MS A2385, B5424, 5735
- 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
39. Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261
- Title:
- 'Bothwell': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1868]-[1874]. Autograph drafts, and trial printings with autograph corrections and revisions. Included are a trial printing of Act I and the first half of Act II, Scene I, and fragments of a revise, the draft of the first two scenes of Act I from which the earlier of the trial printings was set up, a draft of the dedicatory sonnet to Victor Hugo, an autograph synopsis of Act V, Scene III, and a letter from Frederick Locker to Swinburne concern...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, German, and Italian
- Date Range:
- [1868]-[1874]
- Extent:
- 6 items
40. Ashley MS A2121, 2155, A4530, A4541
- 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