'Sir Henry Tunstall': a poem by Patrick Branwell Brontë; 1838. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in minute characters on both sides of six octavo leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. The poem is dated at the beginning 'Bradford July 31st 1838'. First published in A. H. Japp...
'An Apple Gathering': a poem by Christina Rossetti; 23 Nov. 1857. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of an octavo leaf of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. For futher discussion of the MS. v. 1364 (2). Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 109-110. Octavo; ff. ii+1. Christina Georgina ...
'Christmas: A Song for Good Fellows, Young & Old': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1835-1836?]. Autograph fair copy, with six revisions, written on one side only of three small folio leaves of grey laid paper, and on both sides of a fourth leaf of the same. Ff. 1 and 2 form a bifolium. Watermar...
'Sacred to the Memory of Algernon R. G. Stanhope': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1847. Autograph fair copy, entitled as above, written on both sides of three quarto leaves of grey laid paper. Watermark stringed bugle on crowned shield above the letters 'GW'. The first and second leaves are c...
'Nuptial Sleep': sonnet V of 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as printed in his Poems, 1870; [1869]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled cream laid paper, identical with that used for 3845. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'Placa...
'The Prince of England's Shipwreck': two lines of verse, thus entitled, by George Borrow; n.d. Autograph fair copy, presumably incomplete, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of grey laid paper. Watermark part of lion with trident on crowned shield (?). [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. ...
'The Wool is Rising. or, The Angrian Adventurer': a volume contributed by Patrick Branwell Brontë to the imaginary history written between 1829 and 1839 principally by Branwell and Charlotte Brontë; 1834. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of eleven octavo l...
'Love and Death', 'Song of the Suliotes' and 'Last Words on Greece': three poems by Lord Byron; [1824]. Autograph drafts, written on both sides of a folio leaf of white laid paper. Watermark a [bird?] on a shield. The leaf appears to have been previously used as a wrapper for a letter addressed ...
Letters (4) from Henry James to Matilda Betham-Edwards, speaking of his illnesses, promising a visit, making excuses for not having sent a copy of his The Outcry to Emily Morgan, and Betham-Edwards' novel The Lord of the Harvest (republished in 1913 in The World's Classics); 16 Aug. 1911 (ff. 1,...
'Sir Jonas and Sir Nielus': a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1828-[1829?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of two quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark '1828' and part of figure of Britannia. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand, an...