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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1521. Ashley MS B1801

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1801
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Scope & Content:
Two Letters, one from Lady Jersey to Edmund Gosse, 29 Aug. 1897 (ff. 77-78), the other from Gosse to T. J. Wise, 17 Sept. 1897 (ff. 78, 79b), both concerned with the procurement for Wise of a copy of An Object of Pity, 1892, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lady Jersey and others, annotated by Lady Je...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 item

1522. Ashley MS B1809

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1809
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Graham Balfour to T. J. Wise, 1 May 1929 includes: f. 80 Sir Thomas Graham Balfour, author and educationalist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter rel. to R. L. Stevenson's 'The Hanging Judge' (1887) to Thomas James Wise from Sir Thomas Graham Balfour: 1929.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1929
Extent:
1 item

1523. Ashley MS B1809, B4322

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1809, B4322
Title:
Letters (3) from Sir Graham Balfour to T. J. Wise, concerning the authenticity of the 1887 edition of Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson, The Hanging Judge; 2 April-1 May 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 12, 14.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
2 Apr 1929-1 May 1929
Extent:
2 items

1524. Ashley MS B1813

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1813
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Scope & Content:
1. Letter from Max Beerbohm to Edmund Gosse, thanking him for the gift of a copy of his Biographical Notes on the Writings of R. L. Stevenson, 1908; 4 June 1908. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi. p. 16.] 2. Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of R. L. Stevenson, So...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

1525. Ashley MS B1849

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1849
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Chastelard. Autograph draft of Mary Beaton's French song in Act I, Scene i. The draft is written on both sides of an octavo leaf of mourning paper. No watermark. In the MS. the song has seven stanzas, as opposed to the text printed in 1865 which has six. Stanza 3 in the MS. has been cancelled, s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1526. Ashley MS B1849, A1950

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1849, A1950
Title:
Chastelard: a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1860-1863]. Swinburne was working on Chastelard from the beginning of 1860 until October 1863 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, ii, 1928, pp. 261-262). Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. [55], 216. Early drafts, apparently of three discarded passages of Chastelard, are included in A1851, ff. 17, 17b. According to Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 273-274, Wise formerly possessed an autograph synopsis of Chastelard, but this is no longer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
[1860-1863]
Extent:
2 items

1527. Ashley MS B1851

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1851
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Scope & Content:
Two Letters from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, the earlier concerning the bibliography of A. C. Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 1866, the later promising to look for 'the Coleridge Italian thing'; 18, 26 March 1913. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 58.] includes: ff. 86-88 Sir Edmund William Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1913
Extent:
1 item

1528. Ashley MS B1860

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1860
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Scope & Content:
A letter from Ford Madox Brown to A. C. Swinburne, 12 Jan. 1867, urging him to write a poem in order to arouse sympathy in England for the insurgents in Candia, Italy relating to 'Ode on the Insurrection in Candia'. includes: ff. 89-90b Ford Madox Brown, artist: Algernon Charles Swinburne, p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1529. Ashley MS B1861

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1861
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Scope & Content:
'Dolores': a poem by A. C. Swinburne; [1865]. Early draft of lines 325-328, 365-368, 33-38, 41-48, and 19-24 in that order, written on one side only (f. 91a) of a quarto leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. An early draft is described in Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 71, where it is said to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1865]
Extent:
1 item

1530. Ashley MS B1862

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1862
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Scope & Content:
Postcard from Maurice Buxton Forman to T. J. Wise, [15 Oct.] 1933 includes: ff. 92, 92b Maurice Buxton Forman, bibliographer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Postcard to Thomas James Wise from Maurice Buxton Forman: 1933.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[15 Oct ] 1933
Extent:
1 item