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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3267
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Scope & Content:: Letter from William Godwin to his second wife Mary Jane, formerly Mrs Clairmont, paying tribute to her character; 24 Sept. 1812. Endorsed by Claire Clairmont. Printed, slightly inaccurately, in Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, pp. 139-140. Octavo; ff. i+2. William Godwin, the elder; philosopher...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Sep 1812
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 5081
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Scope & Content:: Letters (18) from A. C. Swinburne to C. A. Howell; [1865]-1877. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, i-iv, 1959-1960, passim. Also included (f. 77) is a burlesque dialogue, 'Amantium Irae', by Swinburne, ridiculing Coventry Patmore. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 161-164. Quarto; ff. i+...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1865]-1877
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1270
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Scope & Content:: Letter from Walter Pater to A. C. Swinburne thanking him for sending his 'French verses on Gautier' [? the 'Ode' or the 'Sonnet' printed on pp. 165-168 of Le Tombeau de Théophile Gautier, 1873]; 9 Dec. [1872?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 198. includes: f. 163 Algernon Charles Swinburn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Dec [1872?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1521
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Scope & Content:: Sketches by G. B. Shaw, on the paper of the Great Southern Hôtel, Parknasilla, showing the intended arrangement of scenery and props in Acts I, II and III of Heartbreak House; [1917?]. Apparently this folio once formed part of a letter to Hugo Vallentin, Shaw's translator into Swedish (see Ashle...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1917?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1914
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Scope & Content:: Letter from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning his article on Victor Hugo, La Légende des Siècles, and the character of Benjamin Jowett; 10 July 1883. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 160-161. includes: ff. 107-110b Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; crit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Jul 1883
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1961
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Scope & Content:: 1. Two Letters from John Churton Collins to A. C. Swinburne, the earlier asking permission to dedicate his Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur, 1878, to Swinburne, the later concerning a projected 'England's New Helicon'; Dec. 1876 and 9 Sept. 1878. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 12-13. 2. Le...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865-1878
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A3055
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Scope & Content:: Cheque for £15-4-2d drawn on Coutts Bank by Charles Dickens in favour of Messrs. Garrard and James; 4 April 1862. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 44. includes: f. 159 Charles Dickens, novelist: Cheque for £15-4-2d drawn on Coutts Bank by Charles Dickens: 4 April 1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Apr 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A3356
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Scope & Content:: Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, concerning the offer of valuable editions of certain of his novels to Clodd and 'Mrs Graham'; 30 Aug. 1909. Printed in The Collected Letters, iv, 1984, pp. 42-43. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 132. includes: ff. 76-77 Edward Clodd, banker and autho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Aug 1909
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A4370
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Scope & Content:: Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne, concerning the latter's Notes on the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1868, with reference to his own pictures; [ ― 1868]. Imperfect. Printed in Doughty and Wahl, op. cit., ii, 1965, pp. 656-657. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 80. includes: ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A4372
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Scope & Content:: Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne, concerning the issue of his own Poems, 1870, and Swinburne's review thereof, and also suggesting a design for the cover of Swinburne's Songs before Sunrise, 1871; [April 1870?]. Printed in Doughty and Wahl, op. cit., ii, 1965, pp. 840-841. A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [Apr 1870?]
Extent:: 1 item

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