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

51. Ashley MS 847

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Ashley MS 847
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Letter, with envelope, from Thomas Hardy to A. C. Swinburne, thanking him for his comments on the writer's The Well-Beloved, 1897, and praising a translation by Swinburne of a line of Sappho; 1 April 1897. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1897
Extent:
1 item

52. Ashley MS 849

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Ashley MS 849
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to W. T. Watts-Dunton, concerning the writer's Wessex Poems, 1898; 26 Feb. 1899. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 216. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 169. Octavo; ff. i+2. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Walt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1899
Extent:
1 item

53. Ashley MS 852

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Ashley MS 852
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, making fun of the mutually contradictory statements of his reviewers; 3 Aug. 1907. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iii, 1982, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 266. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 127. Octavo; ff. ii+1. Clement K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1907
Extent:
1 item

54. Ashley MS 853

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Ashley MS 853
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Letter, with an envelope addressed in Hardy's hand to Gosse and post-marked 3 June 1925, from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, concerning Gosse's autobiographical Father and Son, 1907; 3 Nov. 1907. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iii, 1982, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 282....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1907
Extent:
1 item

55. Ashley MS 855

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Ashley MS 855
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, expressing his feelings on his 70th birthday; 3 June 1910. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iv, 1984, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 91. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 170. Octavo; ff. i+2. Edward Clodd, banker and author: Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1910
Extent:
1 item

56. Ashley MS 859

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 859
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Two Letters from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, discussing an agree-ment whereby Shorter had the MSS. of Hardy's works bound in return for the gift of the MS. of 'The Return of the Native', and expressing an opinion on Mrs Shorter's [Dora Sigerson's] poems; 4 June 1908, 20 Nov. 1912. Printed i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1912
Extent:
1 item

57. Ashley MS 905

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Ashley MS 905
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'Bacchus and Ariadne': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1819?]. Autograph draft, with numerous corrections, additions and deletions, written on one side only of eight octavo leaves of white wove paper and on both sides of a further four. No watermark. On ff. 13b, 14b, 15b, and 16b are lists in Hunt'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1819?]
Extent:
1 item

58. Ashley MS 906

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Ashley MS 906
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'The Story Of Rimini': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1811-1816?] (ff. ii+31). (1) Lines corresponding to Canto II, ll. 1-17 of the first edition. f. 1;―(2) A prose synopsis of ll. 18-83. f. 1b;―(3) Lines corresponding to ll. 145-187. ff. 2, 3;―(4) Lines corresponding to Canto III, ll. 1-381 of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1811-1816?]
Extent:
1 item

59. Ashley MS 907

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 907
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'The Story Of Rimini': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1811-1816?]. (ff. i+25). (1) Lines corresponding to Canto III, ll. 456-542 in the first edition, at an earlier stage than in 906, ff. 27-30, l. 4. ff. 1-4;―(2) Lines corresponding to Canto IV, ll. 1-208 and 225-333 in the first edition. ff. 5-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1811-1816?]
Extent:
1 item

60. Ashley MS 911

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 911
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Poem, beg. 'To gather flowers, one summer day', by J. H. Leigh Hunt; circa 1820. Autograph fair copy, with one revision, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white wove paper. No watermark. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 199. Octavo; ff. i+1. James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 item