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381. Ashley MS 4739

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Ashley MS 4739
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'Could Love forever / Run like a River': stanzas beginning thus by Lord Byron; [1820]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions. The MS. is dated by Byron 'Decr. 1st 1819', but this is the date of composition. First published in The New Monthly Magazine, Vol. xxxv, 1832, pp. 310-312. The MS. has been...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1820]
Extent:
1 item

382. Ashley MS 5119

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Ashley MS 5119
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Letters (12) from Edward John Trelawny to Claire Clairmont; 19 Sept. 1822-7 April 1829. The letters chiefly treat of his love for Claire, of Byron and Shelley, and of Trelawny's adventures in Greece. Extracts are printed in Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 149-151. Printed, not always in full, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Sep 1822-7 Apr 1829
Extent:
1 item

383. Ashley MS A2427

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Ashley MS A2427
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Letter from the Rev. William Lisle Bowles to William Scrope of Castle Combe, chiefly concerned with Bowles' The Grave of the Last Saxon, 1822, and Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of Poetical Criticism, 1821, and a visit to Bowles by William Blackwood, founder of Blackwood's Magazine; 10 June...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1822
Extent:
1 item

384. Ashley MS A2878

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Ashley MS A2878
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Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to S. Lutwidge, concerning the illness of Coleridge's son Derwent; 11 July 1822. Printed in E. L. Griggs, Collected Letters of S. T. Coleridge, vol. V, 1971, pp. 245-246. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 219-220. includes: ff. 137-138b S. Lutwidge: Samuel ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1822
Extent:
1 item

385. Ashley MS B751

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Ashley MS B751
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Letter from Beverly Chew to John H. Wrenn, describing his copy of Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, 1610; 28 Aug. 1907. Typewritten copy. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 124.] includes: f. 8 John Henry Wrenn, American book collector: Beverly Chew: Letter to John Henry Wrenn from Beverly Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1907
Extent:
1 item

386. Ashley MS B1372

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Ashley MS B1372
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'Hear what the Mournful Linnets Say': a nursery rhyme by Christina Rossetti; [1870?]. Copy in the hand of Maria F. Rossetti, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. No watermark. The poem is numbered '14'. At the foot of f. 131 is a note in the hand of W. M. Rossetti, 'Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870?]
Extent:
1 item

387. Ashley MS B2387

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Ashley MS B2387
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Certificate that his wife had transcribed George Borrow's 'The Bible in Spain' etc. from the original MSS; 30 Jan. 1869. Draft, in the hand of George Borrow, written on one side only of an octave leaf of white laid paper. No watermark. The certificate is dated 'Jan(ry) 30, 1869'. [Ashley Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1869
Extent:
1 item

388. Ashley MS B3415

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Ashley MS B3415
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Letter from Samuel Johnson to Francesco Sastres informing him 'that he came home last night'; 17 Nov. [1784]. The letter is printed in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman, iii, 1952, p. 248. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 211]. includes: ff. 80, 81b Francesco Sastres: Samuel ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov [1784]
Extent:
1 item

389. Ashley MS 2291

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Ashley MS 2291
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'The Rose Tree': a poem by W. B. Yeats; 1917. Fair copy, with one revision, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of grey wove writing paper headed '18, Woburn Buildings, W. C.'. The leaf is one of two formed by folding a quarto sheet. Watermark 'The Temple / Ancient Vellum' and lamb and fl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 item

390. Ashley MS B2783

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Ashley MS B2783
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Note by Thomas Carlyle, written in blue pencil on one side only of a scrap of white wove paper, 86 x 128mm. No watermark. The note, which reads 'An "Autograph", Child? Oh surely, Yes, ― by all manner of means! ―', is signed and dated 'T. Carlyle / Chelsea, 21 Novr 1870'. [Ashley Library Catalogu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 item