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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768 Level [40] File

551. Ashley MS 5733

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Ashley MS 5733
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'I must not cease from singing': verses, beginning thus, by R. L. Stevenson; n.d. (written towards the end of his life). Copy, in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong, written on one side only of two conjoined octavo leaves of cream wove paper. No watermark. ff. 1b, 2. The MS. is ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

552. Ashley MS 5734

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Ashley MS 5734
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Letter from George Borrow to his wife, giving an account of his travels in Germany and Austria; 16 May 1844. ff. 2-5b. The letter is printed in George Borrow in Vienna, 1914, a copy of which is bound up (ff. 6-11) with the MS. Quarto; ff. i+11. includes: ff. 2-5b Mary Borrow, wife of G Borr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1844
Extent:
1 item

553. Ashley MS 5735

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Ashley MS 5735
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'The Bible in Spain' by George Borrow; [1841-1842]. Drafts of parts of vol. II, chapters xviii and xix and vol. III, chapter ii written on both sides of five quarto leaves of grey laid paper. Watermark. The final text found in the drafts does not differ greatly from that printed in vol. II, pp. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841-1842]
Extent:
1 item

554. Ashley MS 5736

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Ashley MS 5736
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Letter from George Gissing to Edmund Gosse, concerning the latter's criticism of Tennyson; 20 Nov. 1892. f. 1. Also included (ff. 2-5) is a letter from H. G. Wells to Edmund Gosse, concerning a dispute over Gissing's estate; 13 July 1904. Quarto; ff. i+5. includes: f. 1 George Robert Gissin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892-1904
Extent:
1 item

555. Ashley MS 5737 A

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Ashley MS 5737 A
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'The Bi-centenary of Laurence Sterne': an address delivered to the Authors' Club; 24 Nov. 1913. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of fourteen leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. The MS. is entitled as above in Gosse's hand, and below the title is the deleted note 'Nov. 24...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1913
Extent:
1 item

556. Ashley MS 5737 B

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Ashley MS 5737 B
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'Rousseau in England in the 19th Century': an article by Edmund Gosse; [1912?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of thirty five quarto leaves of ruled cream wove paper, and on both sides of a further two (ff. 12, 12b and 32, 32b). No watermark. The article was printed in The Fortnig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1912?]
Extent:
1 item

557. Ashley MS 5737 C

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Ashley MS 5737 C
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'Analysis of Letters [1865-1876] from Swinburne to George Powell of Nant-Eôs' by Edmund Gosse; [1912?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of thirty-seven quarto leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. The analysis may have been made in connection with Gosse's Life of Swinburn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1912?]
Extent:
1 item

558. Ashley MS 5738

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Ashley MS 5738
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'What I saw and heard. July - August 1914': 'a record of scenes witnessed and words heard almost at the centre of affairs' by Edmund Gosse; 1914. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of forty seven quarto leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. At the end of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

559. Ashley MS 5739

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Ashley MS 5739
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Letters to Edmund Gosse from various correspondents; 1875-1927. The letters are arranged in alphabetical order. Quarto; ff. 448. includes: ff. 1, 1b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith; Prime Minister: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1927
Extent:
1 item

560. Ashley MS 5740

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5740
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, enclosing violets from Keats' grave; 31 March 1887. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, i, 1978, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 163. Quarto; ff. i+5. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: John Keats, poet: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1887
Extent:
1 item