Note from Lady Shelley, accompanying her subscription to the Shelley Society; 6 Jan. 1891. [Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 121.] includes: f. 40 Jane Shelley, wife of Sir Percy F Shelley: Note accompanying subscription to the Shelley Society by Jane Shelley: 1891.
Two Letters from Robert Browning, the earlier to Mrs Henry Schlesinger, the later to Henry Schlesinger; 9, 17 Sept. 1887. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 270-272. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 128. Octavo; ff. ii+6. Henry Schlesinger, of B...
'The Shewe of Faire Seeming': a poem in imitation of Spenser by J. H. Leigh Hunt; before 1858. Autograph rough draft, written on both sides of nine leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'John Smith / Sunny Dale Mill'. The greater part of the text found in the MS. was never used for the first pri...
Letter from A. C. Swinburne to Andrew Chatto, chiefly concerning Poems and Ballads, 1866, and a proposed edition of Early Poems; 20 July [1876]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, iii, 1960, pp. 199-200. For other letters from Swinburne to Chatto see A1903, A1912, A1926, 4378. Ashley Libr...
'The Irish Avatar': a poem by Lord Byron; 1821. Autograph draft, written on both sides of two large folio leaves of cream laid paper. Watermark 'VB' below a fleur-de-lys. ff. 1-2b. The MS. is not entitled, but is dated by Byron at the head of the first page (f. 1) 'Ra [Ravenna] Sept. 16th 1821'....
Poems by A. C. Swinburne; [1857?]-[1889?]. Autograph drafts. Printed by T. J. Wise in The Ride from Milan and Other Poems, 1918. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 56. As follows:― 1. 'The Ride from Milan'; [1857-1858?]. ff. 51-53. 2. Poem, beginning 'I have no heart to think and think'; [1857-...
Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Norman MacColl, refusing to accept pay-ment for his poem 'The Rhyme of the Three Captains', published in the Athenæum for 6 Dec. 1890; 8 Jan. 1891. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 32. Octavo; ff. i+1. Norman MacColl, Editor, 'The Athenaeum': Joseph Rudyard Kipl...
Verses entitled 'To Omar Khayam', by Stephen Phillips; n.d. Autograph fair copy in pencil, signed in ink, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of cream ruled laid paper. No watermark. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 206.] includes: f. 124 Stephen Phillips, poet and dramatist: Poetry ...
''The Search after Hapiness'' (sic): a tale written at the age of thirteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy with many revisions and deletions, written on both sides of seven irregularly sized (average 60 x 90mm.) leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth. Waterm...
'On Pool Cerys' and 'Surely the wildest whirlpool neath the sky': two translations from the Welsh by George Borrow of the poem by Gruffydd Hiraethog; [before 1857?]. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of A2409. The translations are printed in The Works of George Borrow, viii, 1923, p...