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61. Ashley MS B95, A97, A99, A100

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B95, A97, A99, A100
Title:
Letters (4) from Max Beerbohm, three to Edmund Gosse, and one (A97) to Clement Shorter; June 1896-14 Sept. 1920. The letters contain, among other matters, a limerick on Ladies Speyer, Mond, and Meyer (A100), references to The Works of Max Beerbohm, 1896 (B95), his essay No. 2 The Pines (A99), two parodies by him of Henry James and George Moore (A99), and a comment on the vanity of Lord Morley as revealed in his autobiography (A100). Further letters from Beerbohm to Gosse are found in B1813, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1896-14 Sep 1920
Extent:
4 items

62. Ashley MS B2481, B2485, B3390

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2481, B2485, B3390
Title:
Letters (3) from Clement Shorter to T. J. Wise, congratulating him on the award of an honorary M.A. (B2481, B2485), asking him to bid for lot 335 in Hodgson's sale on 15-16 April 1926 (copies of John Davidson, Smith: A Tragedy, 1888, Bruce: A Drama, 1893 and another) (B2485), and sending copies of W. H. Hudson, Seagulls in London, 1922, a privately printed pamphlet (B3390); 1922, 1926. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 85, 86; ii, p. 191].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1926
Extent:
3 items

63. Ashley MS 36 (1)-(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 36 (1)-(2)
Title:
'The Virgin and the Fool': a parody by Frederick Britten Austin and Lambert Williams of Elinor Glyn, 'The Damsel and the Sage'; 1903. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on both sides of twenty six leaves of an ocatavo notebook, and on one side only of another (f. 28). At the beginning is a note (f. 1b) by Austin stating that he and Williams shared the composition of the skit, and that the present MS. was copied out by Williams to serve as printer's copy; 36 (2). The MS. is ac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
2 items

64. Ashley MS A2064, B4515

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A2064, B4515
Title:
Two Letters from Marjorie Rushforth to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of John Taylor, the Water Poet; 19 April, 18 Nov. 1931. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, pp. 124, 125.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1931
Extent:
2 items

65. Ashley MS B2606, B4754

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2606, B4754
Title:
Two Letters from Cuthbert Becher Pigot to T. J. Wise, the earlier concerning the identity of the lady in Byron's 'Stanzas to a Lady with the Poems of Camoens', and the later sending a photograph of the sketch made in 1806 by his great great aunt Elizabeth Bridget Pigot of Lord Byron's house in Burgage Green, Southwell. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 145; xi, p. 43].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
[1934-1935]
Extent:
2 items

66. Ashley MS B2747, B2753, B2754, B2776

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2747, B2753, B2754, B2776
Title:
Letters (5) from Ethel Colburn Mayne to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the acquisition by Wise of copies of Lady Noel Byron and The Leighs, 1887, edited by the second Earl of Lovelace, and Albert Brecknock, The Pilgrim Poet Lord Byron of Newstead, 1911 (28 Feb., 11 June 1927), of Byroniana und Anderes aus Dem Englischen Seminar in Erlangen, 1912, and Countess of Lovelace, A Portrait mis-named Lady Byron, 1918 (24 May, 4 June 1928), and also praising Charles de Bos, Byron And the Need of Fata...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1927-26 Jun 1932
Extent:
4 items

67. Ashley MS 1005, B1005

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1005, B1005
Title:
Volume of Poems by Charles Lloyd; 1795-1800. Autograph fair copies, with additions and corrections, written on one side only of thirty-nine octavo leaves of white laid paper and on both sides of a further thirteen. Watermark '[J Larking?] / 1795'. The lines on f. 52b are said to be in the hand of the poet's wife Sophia. On ff. 8b, 22b, 29b, 32b, 37b, 39b, 42b and 43b are autograph comments by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to whom Lloyd submitted the poems for his opinion. The greater part of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1795-1800
Extent:
2 items

68. Ashley MS 1840, 1841, A1851, 1855, B1861

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1840, 1841, A1851, 1855, B1861
Title:
Poems and Ballads by A. C. Swinburne; 1857-1865. Autograph drafts of poems included in Poems and Ballads, 1866. The poems in this volume were composed at various dates between 1857 and 1865 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, tome ii, 1928, pp. 418-419). The drafts are printed, not entirely accurately, in Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 565-581. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 35-36, 42, 58-60, 63. Except where expressly stated, the drafts are not dated, entitled or signed. As foll...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1857-1865
Extent:
5 items

69. Ashley MS 1895, A1896, A1977, A1982, A4433, 5071, 5266, 5267

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1895, A1896, A1977, A1982, A4433, 5071, 5266, 5267
Title:
'Poems and Ballads Second Series' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and a fair copy of poems included in Poems and Ballads Second Series, 1878. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 47, 138-141; vii, pp. 32-33, 35, 47. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Poems and Ballads Second Series, 1878, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
[1861-1878]
Extent:
8 items

70. Ashley MS 1913, A1923, A1926, A1937, A4395, 5083

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1913, A1923, A1926, A1937, A4395, 5083
Title:
'Poems and Ballads Third Series'. by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Poems and Ballads Third Series, 1889. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 159, 169, 170, 172, 173, 175, 204, 205. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Poems and Ballads Third Series, 1889, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
[1884-1889]
Extent:
6 items