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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3475
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Joseph Severn to Mrs Brawne written while he was with John Keats during his last illness in Rome; 11 Jan. 1821. Printed in William Sharp, Life and Letters of Joseph Severn, 1892, pp. 77-79. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 19-21. Quarto; ff. iii+2. Joseph Severn, painter: John Ke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Jan 1821
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3476
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Oscar Wilde to W. M. Rossetti, sending a monograph he had written on the subject of John Keats' grave, and asking Rossetti to support his proposal for erecting a monument to Keats; 14 July 1877 (so dated by the recipient). Printed in The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Jul 1877
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3477
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'John Keats': a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1881?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white ruled laid paper. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Super Fine'. Entitled 'IV John Keats' in Rossetti's hand. The MS. has been used as printer's copy, and the text is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1881?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3478
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Keats': a critical biography by Andrew Lang; [1896]. Autograph fair copy, with some revisions, written on one side only of sixty-six quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermarks 'FLORENTINE' (ff. 3-7, 42-45), 'GURNEY / IVORY LAID' (ff. 8-41, 46-49, 51-62) and none (ff. 50, 63-68). The biograph...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1896]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3493
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter in verse from Rudyard Kipling to Edmund Gosse, thanking him for the gift of a copy of a work by Gosse, perhaps the 1890 edition of On Viol & Flute; 24 May 1890. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 143. Octavo; ff. i+2. Edward Gosse, poet: Joseph Rudyard Kipling, author: Letter in verse ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 May 1890
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3506 (1)
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Liber Aureus'. Verse compositions; 1783-July 1791. Included are five poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge printed in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. H. Coleridge, 1912 (Poetical Works), viz:― a. 'Nil pejus est caelibe vita' ('What pleasure shall he ever find?'); 1787...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783-Jul 1791
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3506 (2)
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Liber Aureus'. Verse compositions; 1791-14 Feb. 1799. Quarto; ff. i+29 (a large number of pages have been cut out at the end). Christ's Hospital; Horsham, Sussex: 'Liber Aureus' compiled from compositions of pupils at Christ's Hospital: 1783-1799. Reverend James Boyer, Headmaster of Christ's...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1791-14 Feb 1799
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3506 (3)
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Liber Aureus'. Prose compositions; Oct. 1786-1799. Included are seven essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, apparently unpublished, viz:― a. 'Temperance'; 6 June 1788. ff. 4, 4b. b. 'Nil dictu faedum, visuque haec limina tangat, Intra quae puerest' ('The tender age of childhood requires the utmo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Oct 1786-1799
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3546
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Walter Savage Landor to Arthur de Noë Walker, chiefly concerning the printing of Heroic Idyls, 1863, and a miniature of the Countess de Molandé (Ianthe); 1863. Printed, with some errors, in Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 95-96. Octavo; ff. 1+ii. Arthur de Noé Walker, MD: Walter ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3547
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Walter Savage Landor to A. C. Swinburne, written after Swinburne's visit to Landor on 31 March 1864; [31?] March 1864. Printed in Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 88. Accompanying this letter is a letter (ff. 3-4b), with envelope (f. 5), from Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton] in whi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1863-1877
Extent:: 1 item

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