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501. Ashley MS B2546

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Ashley MS B2546
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Two Drawings of a pig, by Robert Browning, drawn on one side only of a scrap of white laid paper; 1881. At the head of the paper is a note by Edmund Gosse 'These pigs were drawn by Mr. Browning, the poet, to amuse Teresa, when she spent the afternoon at his house, April 6. 1881'. [Ashley Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1881
Extent:
1 item

502. Ashley MS 942

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Ashley MS 942
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Letter from Edward Burne-Jones to William Michael Rossetti refusing an invitation to dinner; [13 Aug. 1866?]. On f. 2 is a sketch of the writer's infant daughter Margaret. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 149. Octavo; ff. i+2. William Michael Rossetti, author and art critic: Sir Edward Coley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[13 Aug 1866?]
Extent:
1 item

503. Ashley MS 1411

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Ashley MS 1411
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Letters (3) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], with one (8 Dec. 1875) from Watts[-Dunton] in reply (ff. 4-18b); 28 Nov. 1875-4 Jan. 1876. The letters chiefly concern a supernatural story told to Rossetti by Watts, which the former intended to use as the subject of a ballad. The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1875-4 Jan 1876
Extent:
1 item

504. Ashley MS 2476

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Ashley MS 2476
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Letter from Meta Gaskell to Mrs William Shaen describing a visit with her mother Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell to the Rev. Patrick Brontë at Haworth and the relations between Brontë and his son-in-law the Rev. Arthur Nicholls; 28 Oct. [1860]. Accompanying the letter are the envelope (f. 7) and a typewri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct [1860]
Extent:
1 item

505. Ashley MS A125

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Ashley MS A125
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Letter from George Borrow to his wife, describing his travels in the Balkans; 30 July 1844. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 49. includes: ff. 90-91b Mary Borrow, wife of G Borrow: George Borrow, writer: Letters to Mary Borrow from George Borrow: 1832-[1859?].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1844
Extent:
1 item

506. Ashley MS A784

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Ashley MS A784
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Letter from George Gissing to Edward Clodd, mentioning his illness, and having sent Clodd a copy of his The Whirlpool, 1897; 14 April 1897. Printed in The Letters of George Gissing to Edward Clodd, ed. Pierre Coustillas, 1973, p. 43. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 112, 113. includes: ff. 39-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1897
Extent:
1 item

507. Ashley MS A1151

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Ashley MS A1151
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Letters (4), two with envelopes, from George Meredith to Richard Henry Horne, with a pencil copy of a letter from Horne to Meredith; 8 March 1849, 9 Nov. 1871-29 Sept. 1875. In the first letter Meredith asks for Horne's opinion of the former's poems; the others concern Horne's Tragedy of Marlowe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1849-1875
Extent:
1 item

508. Ashley MS A2555

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Ashley MS A2555
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Letter from Robert Browning to Baron Seymour Kirkup; 19 Feb. 1867. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 105-108. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 136. includes: ff. 125-126b Robert Browning, poet: Seymour Stocker Kirkup, artist; d.1880: Letter t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1867
Extent:
1 item

509. Ashley MS A3690

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Ashley MS A3690
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A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and all the Kindreds of the Mark by William Morris; 1888. Autograph synopsis of Chapters IV-XXIII, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of white laid paper. No watermark. The MS. is headed 'Things to be noted' in Morris' hand. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888
Extent:
1 item

510. Ashley MS B1497

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Ashley MS B1497
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Letter from Henrik Ibsen to Edmund Gosse, written from Munich, thanking him for praising his new play ['The Lady from the Sea'], telling of its forthcoming German performance in Berlin, and expressing regret that they will be unable to meet that year; 3 Jan. 1889. Norwegian. Printed in E. Bredsd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Norwegian
Date Range:
3 Jan 1889
Extent:
1 item