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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3354
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, describing his feelings on the death of his first wife, Emma; 13 Dec. 1912. Printed in The Collected Letters, iv, 1984, p. 239. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 143.] includes: ff. 72, 72b Edward Clodd, banker and author: Thomas Hardy, OM; novelis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Dec 1912
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3376
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from W. E. Henley to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], mentioning, among other mattters, A. C. Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 1866; 10 May 1889. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 179.] includes: ff. 73b, 74 Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: William Ernest Hen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 May 1889
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3381
Title:
Scope & Content:: Two Letters from Robert Hoe to T. J. Wise, the first (f. 75) sending a copy of Hoe's Catalogue of Books By English Authors Who Lived Before the Year 1700, 1903, and of his A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700, 1905, and the second (f. 76) accepting an invitation to dine; 27 Aug. 1909,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Aug 1909
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3390
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from C. K. Shorter to T. J. Wise, [Aug. 1922?] includes: ff. 77b, 78 Clement King Shorter, journalist and author: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Clement King Shorter: [1922?].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [Aug 1922?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3411
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Henry James to Miss M. B. Betham-Edwards, mentioning his health, the prospective visit of 'a young friend' [Hugh Walpole?], W. Hale White (alias Mark Rutherford), and the Atlantic Monthly; 14 Oct. 1909. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 208.] includes: ff. 79, 79b Henry James, no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Oct 1909
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3415
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Samuel Johnson to Francesco Sastres informing him 'that he came home last night'; 17 Nov. [1784]. The letter is printed in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman, iii, 1952, p. 248. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 211]. includes: ff. 80, 81b Francesco Sastres: Samuel ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Nov [1784]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3460
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Mrs Doris Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, concerning his play The Pacifists; 6 July 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 87]. includes: ff. 82, 83b Mrs Dora Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, dramatist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Jul 1929
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3464
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from A. W. Pollard to T. J. Wise concerning the inscription in the hand of Ben Johnson on the title page of Wise's copy of Jonson's Seianvs His Fall, 1605 (now Ashley Library No. 3464); 21 June 1911. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 4]. For further letters from Pollard to Wise see B2777...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 21 Jun 1911
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3466
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (3) from Percy Simpson to T. J. Wise, 19 May 1925, 29 May 1927 and 29 March 1928 includes: ff. 86-89b Percy Simpson, of Oriel College, Oxford: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letters to Thomas James Wise from Percy Simpson: 1925-1928.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1925-1928
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3469
Title:
Scope & Content:: Signature 'H. Buxton Forman' cut from a letter to T. J. Wise, n.d. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 16]. includes: f. 90 Thomas James Wise, book collector: Harry Buxton Forman, CB; author: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Harry Buxton Forman: n.d.: Fragm.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

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