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741. Ashley MS B3460

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Ashley MS B3460
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Letter from Mrs Doris Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, concerning his play The Pacifists; 6 July 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 87]. includes: ff. 82, 83b Mrs Dora Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, dramatist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1929
Extent:
1 item

742. Ashley MS B3735

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Ashley MS B3735
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Letter from Coventry Patmore to Edmund Gosse, discussing the extent to which FitzGerald had understood and been faithful to Omar Khayyam's intention in his translation of the Rubaiyat; 17 Nov. 1896. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 199]. includes: ff. 21-22 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1896
Extent:
1 item

743. Ashley MS 5729

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Ashley MS 5729
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Letters (3) from Thomas Hardy to T. J. Wise; 1 March, 24 Oct. 1924, 11 Feb. 1927. In the second letter Hardy mentions that 'Mr. Sheridan who lives near here [Dorchester] ― the direct descendant of R. B. S., has the manuscripts of all his plays'. Printed in The Collected Letters, vi, 1987, pp. 23...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1927
Extent:
1 item

744. Ashley MS A918

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Ashley MS A918
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Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to William Howitt, thanking him for his pen-portrait of Hunt in The People's Journal, 1846, pp. 268-270; 16 May 1846. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 205. includes: ff. 91-92b James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: William Howitt, author: Letter to William H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1846
Extent:
1 item

745. Ashley MS A1647

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Ashley MS A1647
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Letter from Félix Rabbe to W. M. Rossetti, speaking of the writer's Shelley: sa vie et ses oeuvres, published in 1887; 26 July 1886. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 137. includes: ff. 150, 151 William Michael Rossetti, author and art critic: Felix Rabbe, French critic: Letter to William Mich...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
26 Jul 1886
Extent:
1 item

746. Ashley MS A4141

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Ashley MS A4141
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Letter from Charles W. Frederickson to T. J. Wise, commenting on the price, £52-10/-, that Wise had paid for a copy of P. B. Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1820, and sending a copy of Charles Sotheran, Percy Bysshe Shelley As a Philosopher and Reformer, 1876, which contains a sonnet by Frederickson ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1893
Extent:
1 item

747. Ashley MS A4304

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Ashley MS A4304
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Letter from W. Carey of the Century Magazine, New York to Edmund Gosse, concerning the MS. and the copyright of R. L. Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters, 1883; 3 Oct. 1883. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 197. includes: ff. 213, 213b W. Carey, journalist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1883
Extent:
1 item

748. Ashley MS A4524

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Ashley MS A4524
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Letter from George P. Brett, president, the Macmillan Co., New York, to W. H. Arnold; 25 April 1906. Signed. There is a note on the letter initialled by Arnold. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 144. includes: f. 10 William Harris Arnold: George P. Brett, president, the Macmillan Co., New Yo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1906
Extent:
1 item

749. Ashley MS B1038

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Ashley MS B1038
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Letter from Frederick G. Burmester to T. J. Wise, giving the pedigree of Wise's copy of W. S. Landor, Simonidea, 1806; 30 April 1893. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 65]. includes: ff. 63-64 Frederick G. Burmester: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter rel. to Wise's copy of W. S. Lan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1893
Extent:
1 item

750. Ashley MS B2130

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Ashley MS B2130
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Letter from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Edmund Gosse, thanking him for a copy of his From Shakespeare to Pope, 1885; 19 Oct. 1885. For further letters from Tennyson to Gosse see 4522. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 154]. includes: f. 4 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Alfred Tennyson, 1st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1885
Extent:
1 item