includes: f. 30 John Drinkwater, playwright and theatre manager: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letters to Thomas James Wise from John Drinkwater: 1920, 1928.
includes: f. 31 John Drinkwater, playwright and theatre manager: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letters to Thomas James Wise from John Drinkwater: 1920, 1928.
includes: ff. 32-33b City of Naples: Frances Eleanor Trollope, 2nd wife of Thomas Adolphus Trollope: Marian Cross, née Evans; alias 'George Eliot'; novelist: Letter to Frances Eleanor Trollope from George Eliot rel. to Naples: 1869: Signed 'M E Lewes'.
includes: ff. 34-35b Marian Cross, née Evans; alias 'George Eliot'; novelist: Martha Jackson, afterwards Barclay; wife of H Barclay: Letter to Martha Jackson from Marian Cross: 1850: Signed 'Mary Ann Evans'.
Card from Austin Dobson to T. J. Wise, concerning the sale to Wise of a copy of Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb, 1730; 6 Jan. 1898. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 110. includes: f. 36 Henry Austin Dobson, author: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Card to Thomas James Wise from Henry Austin Dobs...
Missive from Davos by James Elroy Flecker to Clement Shorter, mentioning the writer's 'The Burial in England' includes: f. 37 Clement King Shorter, journalist and author: James Elroy Flecker, poet and dramatist: Letter rel. to Flecker's 'The Burial in England' to Clement King Shorter from Ja...
Letter from John Galsworthy to T. J. Wise, thanking him for the gift of his A Browning Library; 6 Nov. 1929. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 111-112. includes: f. 38 John Galsworthy, OM; author and dramatist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from John Galsworth...
Letter from George Gissing to Edward Clodd, mentioning his illness, and having sent Clodd a copy of his The Whirlpool, 1897; 14 April 1897. Printed in The Letters of George Gissing to Edward Clodd, ed. Pierre Coustillas, 1973, p. 43. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 112, 113. includes: ff. 39-...
Two Letters from George Gissing to Edward Clodd, speaking of George Meredith, a book to be published in the spring ['By the Ionian Sea'?], and a sixth century tale [Veranilda]; 27 April, 30 Dec. 1900. Printed in Coustillas, op. cit., pp. 61-62, 70-71. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 146. inclu...
includes: ff. 45, 46b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letters to Thomas James Wise from Sir Edmund William Gosse: 1893, 1909.