Archive Reference (shelfmark): Ashley MS A17-5768 / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1408
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Scope & Content:: 'The Trees of the Garden' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1875?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark '18[ ]'. Signed 'D G Rossetti'. The text found in the MS. differs slightly from the version printed on p. 251. Also included (ff. 2, 3) is a letter, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1875?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1409
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Proserpina' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Nov. 1872 or later. Fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark 'Joy[ ] / 18[ ]'. Ital. The text found in the MS. differs in places from the version printed on p. 332. Octavo; ff. i+2. Poetry ITALIAN: Dante Gabri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: Nov 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1410 (1)
Title:
Scope & Content:: (1). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1871 (but the additional stanza for 'Sister Helen' (f. 12) is considered by J. C. Troxell, Rossetti's 'Sister Helen', 1939, to date from 1879 and 'The Sun's Shame II ' (ff. 17, 28b) is stated by W. M. Rossetti, The Works of D. G. Rossetti, 1911, and O. Doughty, A ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1410 (2)
Title:
Scope & Content:: (2). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1871-1879 (but 'True Woman III Her Heaven' (f. 18b) is stated by D. G. Rossetti in a letter to his mother dated 15 Sept. 1881, printed in D. G. Rossetti His Family-Letters, 1895, pp. 386-387, to have been recently composed). (a) Lines 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14 of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1871-1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1410 (3)
Title:
Scope & Content:: (3). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Last two stanzas of 'Soothsay'. ff. 14 and 14b, 12b;―(b) First two lines of stanzas 1 and 3 of 'Alas, so long'. f. 15;―(c) Two lines 'As much as in a hundred years she's dead Yet is today the day on which she died', possibly referring to the death o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1879-1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1410 (4)
Title:
Scope & Content:: (4). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Notes for 'True Woman I and II'. ff. 43b, 44;―(b) Unused prose introduction to 'The House of Life'. f. 40b; ― (c) Notes for 'The Song-throe'. f. 39;―(d) Notes and drafts for lines 2-6 of 'John Keats'. ff. 37b-38b;―(e) First seven lines of 'Thomas Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1879-1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1411
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (3) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], with one (8 Dec. 1875) from Watts[-Dunton] in reply (ff. 4-18b); 28 Nov. 1875-4 Jan. 1876. The letters chiefly concern a supernatural story told to Rossetti by Watts, which the former intended to use as the subject of a ballad. The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Nov 1875-4 Jan 1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1412
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'The Death of Topsy': a burlesque play on the subject of William Morris by D. G. Rossetti, provoked by Morris' insistence on taking over the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. early in 1875; [1875?]. Autograph draft, written on both sides of five leaves of octavo cream laid paper. Waterm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1875?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1413
Title:
Scope & Content:: Instructions from D. G. Rossetti to George Hake, his secretary, for the cremation of his body and the destruction of certain letters [probably from Mrs William Morris] in the event of his death; 30 April 1876. Printed in O. Doughty and J. R. Wahl, Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, iii, 1967, pp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Apr 1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1414
Title:
Scope & Content:: Notes on Charles Wells by D. G. Rossetti; [1879?]. Accompanying the notes are two letters, 21 April 1876 and [March?] 1879, from Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], partly concerning Wells (ff. 7-12). Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 139. Octavo; ff. i+12. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1879?]
Extent:: 1 item

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