'My Mouse': a poem by Christina Rossetti; New Year's day, 1877. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of cream laid paper. Watermark 'Joyn[ ] / Super[ ]. Signed with initials 'C. G. R.', and dated. First printed in New Poems, 1896, p. 178. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, ...
Letters (12) from George Borrow to his wife; 1844-[1858]. Accompanied by an autograph dedication to his wife's memory (f. 1), and by the text of T. J. Wise, Letters to his wife Mary Borrow by George Borrow, 1913 (ff. 2, 3, 4, 7-9b, 11, 11b, 13, 13b, 16, 16b, 19, 19b, 22-23b, 26, 26b, 29, 29b, 32...
Letter from R. L. Stevenson to Harry Buxton Forman; 5 Nov. 1893. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 10. Quarto; ff. i+2. Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Harry Buxton Forman, CB; author: Letter to Harry Buxton Forman from Robert Louis Stevenson: 1893.
Eight Lines of Verse, apparently intended as a parody of E. B. Browning's 'Catarina to Camoëns', by A. C. Swinburne; [circa 1875?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of a scrap of white laid paper 110mm. x 88mm. No watermark. The lines, which are in the form of a single stanza, and b...
'Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards': a tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; 1899. The drama was first published on 26 Oct. 1899. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 199-200. As follows:― 1. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, of a prose synopsis of the drama, with notes on previous treatments of the story,...
Letters containing auto-biographical material relating to A. C. Swinburne; 1872-1887. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 68. As follows:― 1. Letter from A. C. Swinburne to Giuseppe Chiarini; after 9 Jan. 1872. Autograph draft. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., ii, 1959, pp. 175-176. ff. 4-6. 2....
'The Burghers' Battle': a poem by William Morris; [1888]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, apparently used as printer's copy. First printed in the Athenæum for 16 June 1888. Also included is a letter (f. 1) from Morris to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning the publication of the poem; 1888. As...
Letter from Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie (pseudonym 'John Oliver Hobbes') to Edmund Gosse complimenting him on his Coventry Patmore, 1905, and giving her opinion of Patmore; 22 March 1905. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 53]. includes: ff. 174, 175b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Mrs Pearl...
Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers; [September?] 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. ii, pp. 254-256. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 71-72. Octavo; ff. ii+3. Charlotte Brontë, author: W. S. Williams, read...
''Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel'': a poem written at the age of seventeen by Charlotte Brontë; 1833. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of ten leaves from an octavo notebook. Ruled cream wove paper. Preceding and following the poem are two blank leaves apparently of t...