Archive Reference (shelfmark): Ashley MS A17-5768 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2535, A2536, 2538, A2548, A2550, A2551, A2552, A2553
Title:: Letters (21) from Robert Browning to Isabella Blagden; 4 Sept. 1858-19 July 1871. Among the subjects of the letters are the monument to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence (19 Jan. 1863, 19 Oct. 1864), the character of his son (24 Sept. 1866, 19 July 1871), Robert Browning's reputation (19 Aug. 1865), his 'The Ring and the Book' (19 Oct. 1864) and 'Balaustion's Adventure' (19 July 1871), the offer to him of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford (19 Feb. 1867), the Franco-Prussian War and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Sep 1858-19 Jul 1871
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2538
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Robert Browning to Isabella Blagden, 19 July 1871Quarto; ff. vii+2. Isabella Blagden, author: Robert Browning, poet: Letters to Isabella Blagden from Robert Browning: 1863, 1871.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Jul 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2539
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (3) from Robert Browning to his daughter-in-law Fannie Browning on the subject of her marriage to his son R. W. B. Browning; [5 Oct. 1887], 15 Sept. 1887, and 4 Oct. 1889. The first letter (f. 1a) appears to have been added by Browning at the end of a longer letter in the hand of his sis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1887-1889
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2542
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (14) from Robert Browning to various correspondents; circa 1830-7 July 1889. The letters are all printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933 (hereafter referred to as Hood). Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 131. As follows, in chronological order:― 1. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1830-7 Jul 1889
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2588
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Sludge, the medium': a short story in the form of a conversation between several characters, by Robert Browning, the father of the poet; [circa 1860?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of eighteen octavo leaves of white wove paper. No watermark. At the head of each page is a pen an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [c 1860?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2608
Title:
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1-2b, 3-4b Elizabeth Wilkinson: Anne Isabella Byron neé Milbanke, afterwards Noel; wife of George, 6th Baron Byron: Letters to Elizabeth Wilkinson from Anne Isabella Byron: 1814.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2608, B2608
Title:: Two Letters from Anne Isabella Milbanke to Elizabeth Wilkin-son, written during her engagement to Lord Byron, and expressing her confidence of future happiness; 3 Oct. (ff. 1-2b), 22 Dec. (ff. 3-4b) 1814. At the head of each letter is the note '14th letter copied' and '15th letter copied' respectively. Perhaps this is the result of Lady Byron's known assiduity in copying after the separation all documents concerning her relations with Lord Byron. Printed, not wholly accurately, in Ashley Lib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2609
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Like reptiles hatched from out the mud of Nile': sixteen lines of satire by Lord Byron, apparently intended for English Bards and Scotch Reviewers but never included in it; [1811?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of a quarto leaf of white wove paper. No watermark. By...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1811?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2693
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'To The Prince Regent - on the repeal of the bill of attainder against Ld. E. Fitzgerald. - july. 1819.': a sonnet by Lord Byron; 3 Aug. 1819. Autograph fair copy, with four revisions, written on one side only of a large quarto leaf of white wove paper. Watermark 'HOC AUSPICE / QVID NON AUSINT /...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 3 Aug 1819
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2700
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray, concerning the publication of Sardanapalus and the reception of Marino Faliero; 29 June 1821. The letter occupies ff. 1-2b. Printed in Byron's Letters and Journals, ed. L. A. Marchand, vol. viii, 1978, pp. 144-145. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 67. Quart...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 Jun 1821
Extent:: 1 item

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