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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1422, B1422
Title:: Two Letters, the first (March 1882) from D. G. Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], announcing that he has finished the poem 'Jan Van Hunks', the second (15 Feb. 1911) from Watts[-Dunton] to T. J. Wise, concerning the latter's private printing of the poem (The Ballad of Jan Van Hunks, 1912). The first is printed in Doughty and Wahl, op. cit., iv, 1967, pp. 1951-1952. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 153.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1882-1911
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2686, B3219
Title:: Two Letters from P. M. Barnard, bookseller, to T. J. Wise, the earlier offering to guarantee the genuineness of a copy of Edward FitzGerald, The Two Generals, 1868, the later, which bears a note by Wise, concerning the bibliography of Lord Byron, Manfred, 1817. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 121; viii, p. 65].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1915-1928]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1399, B1399
Title:: 'Poems (Privately Printed)': fragments of a copy of the third set of printed page proofs for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems, 1870, with autograph revision, corrections and addition; second half of Sept. 1869. The fragments comprise the title-page and author's note (pp. [i-iv]), and pp. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17-25, 29-40, 45-50, 53-58 of the text, i.e. part of 'The Blessed Damozel', part of 'Love's Nocturn', most of 'The Burden of Nineveh', 'Ave', most of 'The Staff and Scrip', part of 'Sister ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2079, A2104, 4521
Title:: Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; [1869]. Autograph drafts of passages from 'The Coming of Arthur', 'Pelleas and Ettarre', and 'The Passing of Arthur', all of which were first published in The Holy Grail and other Poems, 1870 [1869]. Line numbers refer to The Poems of Tennyson, 1969, ed. Christopher Ricks. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 110, 111, 130-132.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1869]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2219, B2221, B2300
Title:: Letters (3) from Iolo Aneurin Williams to T. J. Wise, sending copies of his bibliographies of John Masefield, 1921 and George Moore, 1921 (B2219) and J. C. Squire with James Stephen, 1922 (B2221), and discussing the bibliography of Pope (B2221) and Mark Akenside, Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon, 1748 (B2300); 15 Sept. 1921-30 March 1933. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 4; vii, pp. 208-209].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Sep 1921-30 Mar 1933
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3563, B5550
Title:: Letters (4) from Walter Noble Landor, of Rugeley (first cousin twice removed of Walter Savage Landor) to T. J. Wise, concerning the history of the Landor family and of the Thuillier family, to which belonged Walter Savage Landor's wife and, in the latest, sending 'the brochure' and an account of his own life which had appeared in a local paper; 10 Aug. 1931-10 March 1936. [Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 144]. For another letter from Walter Noble Landor to Wise See Ashley MS 5755.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 10 Aug 1931-10 Mar 1936
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B4117, B4118, B4120
Title:: Letters (5) from Roger Ingpen to T. J. Wise, concerning his forthcoming edition of Shelley's letters (Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Roger Ingpen, 1912) (B4117, ff. 28-29; B4118, f. 31), the bibliography of P. B. Shelley, An Address to the People on The Death of the Princess Charlotte, [1848] (B4117, ff. 30-31), the discovery of an autograph MS. of Shelley's 'Magico Prodigioso' (B4118, ff. 33, 33b), and the disposal of the Shelley MSS. belonging to Sir John Shelley-Rolls (B4120, ff. 34...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1911-1935]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1037, A1039, A1049, A1053, A1063
Title:: Five Prose Fragments by W. S. Landor. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 61-62, 67-68, 80-81, 87-88. Autograph drafts, as follows:―
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1824-1846]
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861
Title:: Ballads and Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1871?]-1881. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in, and considered for, Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. Although the poems were composed at various dates between 1869 and 1881, it seems probable that, with the exception of 1407-1409 and 1420, the MSS. were written in 1880-1881 when Rossetti was preparing Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3857, 3859, 3860 and 3861 may well have once formed part of the same note...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: [1871?]-1881
Extent:: 11 items

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