Letter from Cuthbert Becher Pigot to T. J. Wise, 23 July 1934 includes: ff. 8, 8b Thomas James Wise, book collector: Cuthbert Becher Pigot: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Cuthbert Becher Pigot: 1934.
Letter from Frank Algar, bookseller, to T. J. Wise, offering for sale a copy of J. C. Hobhouse, Imitations and Translations from the Ancient and Modern Classics together with Original Poems Never before Published, 1809; 2 May 1932. At the foot of the page Wise has written a note concerning the c...
includes: ff. 10, 10b John Drinkwater, playwright and theatre manager: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from John Drinkwater: 1931.
Collection of letters and other documents concerning the identity of Master Rennell, as follows:― (1) Letter from Sir Wasey Sterry to T. J. Wise, 8 May 1931. ff. 11-14; (2) A visiting card of Sir Wasey Sterry. f. 15; (3) Cuttings from the Times Literary Supplement for 30 April and 10 Dec. 1931. ...
Letter from R. W. Chapman to T. J. Wise, 19 May 1930 includes: ff. 17, 17b Thomas James Wise, book collector: Robert William Chapman, scholar and university publisher: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Robert William Chapman: 1930.
Two Letters from Lord Byron concerning the publication of The Giaour, 1813, the earlier (ff. 18-19b) to John Murray, and the later (ff. 20-21b) to Francis Hodgson; 23 May, 8 June 1813. Printed in Byron's Letters and Journals, ed. L. A. Marchand, vol. iii, 1974, pp. 51, 59. [Ashley Library Catalo...
Fragment of a Document bearing the signature of Napoleon I; 25 Feb. 1813. The document is countersigned by Pierre Daru, Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat. On the verso is the note in an unknown hand 'Autograph of the late Napoleon (Bonaparte) dated from the Palais des Tuileries 25 Feb 1813, cut off fro...
Letter from P. M. Barnard, bookseller, to T. J. Wise, 24 Jan. 1928 includes: f. 23 P. M. Barnard, bookseller: George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron; poet: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter rel. to the bibliography of Byron's Manfred (1817) to Thomas James Wise from P. M. Barnard:...
Letter from Henry W. Thompson of B. F. Stevens and Brown to Harry Buxton Forman, chiefly concerning an offer to buy Buxton Forman's copy of Byron, The Irish Avatar, 1821, and bearing notes in Buxton Forman's hand of his reply; 19 June 1914. The copy of The Irish Avatar is now 2696 in the Ashley ...
'The Prophecy of Dante': a poem by Lord Byron; 1819-1821. A copy of the sonnet by Giovanni Battista Zappi printed in the footnote to l. 61 of Canto IV, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark a fragment only. The sonnet is not in Byron's hand, but is accompanied...