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

331. Ashley MS 3845

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Ashley MS 3845
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'Venus Verticordia': a sonnet written for his eponymous picture by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1868?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, entitled as above, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled cream laid paper, clearly a page torn from a notebook. Watermark stringed bugle on crowne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1868?]
Extent:
1 item

332. Ashley MS 3846

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Ashley MS 3846
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'Nuptial Sleep': sonnet V of 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as printed in his Poems, 1870; [1869]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled cream laid paper, identical with that used for 3845. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'Placa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1869]
Extent:
1 item

333. Ashley MS 3847

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3847
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'At Last' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1879-1880?]. Draft, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. The sonnet was never used by Rossetti, but was obviously intended at one stage for Ballads and Sonnets, as the title is followed by 'H of L.' [House of Lif...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1879-1880?]
Extent:
1 item

334. Ashley MS 3848

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3848
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'First Fire' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1880-1881?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled white laid paper. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Super Fine'. The sonnet was never used by Rossetti, but the fair copy may have been made with Ballads and Sonnets in mind, as the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1880-1881?]
Extent:
1 item

335. Ashley MS 3849

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3849
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'Threefold Homage' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1880-1881?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled white laid paper. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Super Fine'. The sonnet was never used by Rossetti, but the fair copy may have been made with Ballads and Sonnets in mind, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1880-1881?]
Extent:
1 item

336. Ashley MS 3852

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3852
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'Love-Measure' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1879-1880?]. Draft, heavily revised, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. The text found in the MS. is identical to the version printed as 'Equal Troth' on p. 194. On the verso are the first two stanzas of '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1879-1880?]
Extent:
1 item

337. Ashley MS 3853

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3853
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'After the German Subjugation of France', 1871': a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, entitled as above, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. At the foot of the page is the deleted line-and-a-half 'whose eyes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

338. Ashley MS 3854

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3854
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Letters from various correspondents mainly concerning relations between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his model, Fanny Cornforth; 1872-1923. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 169. As follows:― 1. Three letters from Rossetti to his brother W. M. Rossetti, chiefly concerning the transfer to the latter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1923
Extent:
1 item

339. Ashley MS 3855

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3855
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'The White Ship' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1880 (but see D. G. Rossetti His Family-Letters, ii, 1895, pp. 372-373). Fair copy, written on one side only of seventeen quarto leaves of ruled white laid paper. Watermark '[RW?][ ]'. Signed and dated 'D G Rossetti 1880. (To Lucy Rossetti for her chil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 item

340. Ashley MS 3856

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3856
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Scope & Content:
'The Bride's Prelude': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1870?]. Auto-graph fair copy, with many revisions, deletions and additions, written on one side only of twenty-eight quarto leaves of ruled white laid paper, and on both sides of a further seventeen (ff. 1, 4, 7, 10, 15, 16, 22, 29, 32, 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870?]
Extent:
1 item