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201. Ashley MS 2401

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2401
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Scope & Content:
'Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg'. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of fourteen quarto leaves of white wove paper. Watermark 'FELLOWS / 1824'. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand, and below the title has 'Chorus. / But fortune turns round so often.'. The stanza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1824-[1829?]
Extent:
1 item

202. Ashley MS 2402

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2402
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Scope & Content:
'Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg'. Autograph fair copy, with a few pencil revisions, written on both sides of twenty-five quarto leaves of blue laid paper and on one side only of a twenty-sixth. Watermark 'MH' and figure of Britannia. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand. The hand and th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before 1857?]
Extent:
1 item

203. Ashley MS 2403

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2403
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Scope & Content:
'Proud Signild', 'The Damsel of the Wood', and 'Damsel Mette': three ballads translated from the Danish by George Borrow. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of 2396. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 53. As follows:― 1. 'Proud Signild'; 1842- [1857?]. Autograph fair copy, with a few p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1858
Extent:
1 item

204. Ashley MS 2404

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2404
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Scope & Content:
'Ellen Of Villenskov', 'Uranienborg', 'The Ready Answer', and 'The Spider': ballads and poems translated from the Danish and the Welsh by George Borrow. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of 2396. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 54. As follows:― 1. 'Ellen Of Villenskov', a ballad tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1845-1858
Extent:
1 item

205. Ashley MS 2405

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2405
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Scope & Content:
'Niels Ebbesen' and 'Germand Gladenswayne': two ballads translated from the Danish by George Borrow. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of 2396. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 54. As follows:― 1. 'Niels Ebbesen'; 1824-[1829?]. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, two in penci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1824-1858
Extent:
1 item

206. Ashley MS 2408

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2408
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Scope & Content:
'Queen Berngerd', 'Dame Martha's Fountain', 'The Bard and the Dreams', and 'King Oluf The Saint': ballads translated from the Danish by George Borrow. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of 2396. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 57. As follows:― 1. 'Queen Berngerd'; [1828-1829?]. Auto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1824-1830
Extent:
1 item

207. Ashley MS 2417

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2417
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Scope & Content:
'The Romany Rye' by George Borrow; [1852?]-[1854]. 1. Draft of the whole of chapter 25, and almost the whole of chapters 24 and 26, written on both sides of fourteen quarto leaves of blue laid paper, formed by sewing seven folio leaves into a quire. Watermark 'E Towgood / 1851' and figure of Br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851-1921
Extent:
1 item

208. Ashley MS 2425

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2425
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Scope & Content:
'The Maid of Arc': a poem by Gordon Bottomley; 1918. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of two large quarto leaves of white wove paper. Watermark 'WHS / Emissary Bond'. Entitled 'A Hymn to The Maid of Arc, in time of war', and paginated 1-4, in Bottomley's hand. Signed 'GB' in monogram. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 item

209. Ashley MS 2438

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2438
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Scope & Content:
'Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913': a poem by Robert Bridges; 1913. Auto-graph fair copy, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of pale blue wove paper. Watermark part of Royal Arms. Entitled 'PAX HOMINIBUS BONAE VOLUNTATIS' in Bridges' hand, and signed and dated 'RB. 1913'. In the margin is an aut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 item

210. Ashley MS 2444

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2444
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Scope & Content:
'Portrait / Pierre l'ermite': an exercise in French composition by Charlotte Brontë; 23 June [1842]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of four quarto leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of a fifth. No watermark. The MS. is entitled as above in Charlotte's hand, and signed a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
23 Jun [1842]
Extent:
1 item