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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1842, 4354
Title:: 'Rosamond' (no title in the MS.): a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1857-1860]. Two autograph drafts, the earlier (4354) containing the greater part of scene I, scenes II to IV, and approximately two thirds of scene V, the other (A1842), containing fragments of a later version of scene III. In a letter to Edwin Heath written 17 Feb. 1858 Swinburne first mentions this work, saying '. . . Rosamond is about my favourite poem, and is now verging on a satisfactory completion. The first scene...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: [1857-1860]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1915, A1939, A1991, A4394, 4407, 5082, 5089, 5091, 5092, 5269
Title:: 'A Channel Passage and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 164-165, 168-170, 178-179, 191, 196, 201-202, 206; vii, p. 54. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904, to which page references apply. As follows:―
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1875-1904]
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2201, B4187, A4587
Title:: Letters (3) from Sir William Watson to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the private printing by Wise of Watson's 'Lachrymae Musarum' and 'Shelley's Centenary' (B4187, A4587), and the suggestion by Wise that he might print a longer poem by Watson (A2201); [Nov. 1892?]-13 Jan. [1894?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 141;] vii, pp. 199-200.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [Nov 1892?]-13 Jan [1894?]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1388, 3844
Title:: 'A Prayer': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Two autograph fair copies, differing slightly, the earlier (1388) dated '1846', the later possibly circa 1869. First printed from the later version in The Works of D. G. Rossetti, 1911, pp. 267-268. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 112, 114.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1846-1874
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1861, A1903, A1925, A1932, A4399, 4403,4404,5084-5086, 5088, 5268*, 5270, 5272-5275
Title:: 'Astrophel and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 73-74, 144-145, 174-176, 178-179, 182-185, 188-190; viii, p. 199. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1879-1894]
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4854, B4854
Title:: Correspondence of A. C. Swinburne and Victor Hugo, comprising four letters from Swinburne, 1865-1884 (ff. 2, 3-5, 11-12, 40-41), and twelve letters from Victor Hugo, 1862-1883. French. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, vol. i, 1959, pp. 127, 248-249; iv, 1960, pp. 193-194; v, 1962, p. 51, and Victor Hugo Correspondance, ed. La Librairie Ollendorf, ii, 1950, pp. 430-431, 522-523; iii, 1952, pp. 208, 225, 251-252, 255, 324; iv, 1952, pp. 11, 12, 84, 324. The letter of 1 July [1867], ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1862-1884
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A120, 2417
Title:: 'The Romany Rye' by George Borrow; [1852?]-[1857]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 45-46, 63. As follows:
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: [1852?]-[1857]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A400, B400
Title:: Letters to Edward Clodd from Thomas Hardy, J. B. Bury, Sir James Frazer and W. R. Paterson, all thanking him for the gift of a copy of his Gibbon and Christianity, 1916; 25 March 1916 - 5 Dec. 1921. The letter from Hardy is printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, v, 1985, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 152. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 76, 77.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Mar 1916-5 Dec 1921
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1946, A1947
Title:: Letters to T. J. Wise from W. T. Watts-Dunton and Edmund Gosse, concerning the printing by Wise of The Marriage of Monna Lisa, 1909, Lord Soulis, 1909, and Burd Margaret, 1909, a prose romance and two ballads by A. C. Swinburne. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 213-214. For further letters from Watts-Dunton to Wise, see Ashley MS B1422, Ashley MS A1968 (3), Ashley MS A3327 and Ashley MS 5755.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1909
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B2190, B3182
Title:: Two Letters from George Thorn-Drury to T. J. Wise, concerning the latter's A Dryden Library, 1930; 7, 10 Jan. 1931. [Ashley Library Catalogue vii, p. 193; xi, p. 62].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Jan 1931
Extent:: 2 items

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