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

1651. Ashley MS B2671

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Ashley MS B2671
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Fragment of a Document bearing the signature of Napoleon I; 25 Feb. 1813. The document is countersigned by Pierre Daru, Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat. On the verso is the note in an unknown hand 'Autograph of the late Napoleon (Bonaparte) dated from the Palais des Tuileries 25 Feb 1813, cut off fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1813
Extent:
1 item

1652. Ashley MS B2686

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Ashley MS B2686
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Letter from P. M. Barnard, bookseller, to T. J. Wise, 24 Jan. 1928 includes: f. 23 P. M. Barnard, bookseller: George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron; poet: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter rel. to the bibliography of Byron's Manfred (1817) to Thomas James Wise from P. M. Barnard:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1928
Extent:
1 item

1653. Ashley MS B2686, B3219

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Ashley MS B2686, B3219
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Two Letters from P. M. Barnard, bookseller, to T. J. Wise, the earlier offering to guarantee the genuineness of a copy of Edward FitzGerald, The Two Generals, 1868, the later, which bears a note by Wise, concerning the bibliography of Lord Byron, Manfred, 1817. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 121; viii, p. 65].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1915-1928]
Extent:
2 items

1654. Ashley MS B2696

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Ashley MS B2696
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Letter from Henry W. Thompson of B. F. Stevens and Brown to Harry Buxton Forman, chiefly concerning an offer to buy Buxton Forman's copy of Byron, The Irish Avatar, 1821, and bearing notes in Buxton Forman's hand of his reply; 19 June 1914. The copy of The Irish Avatar is now 2696 in the Ashley ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1914
Extent:
1 item

1655. Ashley MS B2698

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Ashley MS B2698
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'The Prophecy of Dante': a poem by Lord Byron; 1819-1821. A copy of the sonnet by Giovanni Battista Zappi printed in the footnote to l. 61 of Canto IV, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark a fragment only. The sonnet is not in Byron's hand, but is accompanied...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1819-1821
Extent:
1 item

1656. Ashley MS B2709

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Ashley MS B2709
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Letters and Notes concerning The Unpublished Letters of Lord Byron, 1872, edited by H. S. Schultess Young, and suppressed by the publishers, Richard Bentley & Son. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 45]. As follows:― 1. Letter from George Bentley to Dr. Doran, asking him not to review the bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1933
Extent:
1 item

1657. Ashley MS B2729

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Ashley MS B2729
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Letter from John Murray to T. J. Wise, concerning the bibliography of Lord Byron; 29 Jan. 1932. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 135.] includes: ff. 35, 35b Sir John Murray, KCVO; publisher; d.1967: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Sir John Murray: 1932.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1932
Extent:
1 item

1658. Ashley MS B2730

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Ashley MS B2730
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Letter, signed, from John Grey Murray to T. J. Wise, 21 Feb. 1933 (ff. 36, 36b), together with a note by John Murray, n.d. (f. 37), initialled 'J.M.', both concerned with the bibliography of John Cam Hobhouse, Exposure of The Mis-Statements contained in Captain Medwin's Pretended "Conversations ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1933
Extent:
1 item

1659. Ashley MS B2747

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Ashley MS B2747
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Letter from Ethel Colburn Mayne to T. J. Wise, 11 June 1927 includes: ff. 38-39b Ethel Colburn Mayne: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Ethel Colburn Mayne: 1927.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jun 1927
Extent:
1 item

1660. Ashley MS B2747, B2753, B2754, B2776

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Ashley MS B2747, B2753, B2754, B2776
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Letters (5) from Ethel Colburn Mayne to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the acquisition by Wise of copies of Lady Noel Byron and The Leighs, 1887, edited by the second Earl of Lovelace, and Albert Brecknock, The Pilgrim Poet Lord Byron of Newstead, 1911 (28 Feb., 11 June 1927), of Byroniana und Anderes aus Dem Englischen Seminar in Erlangen, 1912, and Countess of Lovelace, A Portrait mis-named Lady Byron, 1918 (24 May, 4 June 1928), and also praising Charles de Bos, Byron And the Need of Fata...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1927-26 Jun 1932
Extent:
4 items