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

31. Ashley MS 168

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Ashley MS 168
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey; 14 Nov. 1854. The letter is signed 'C. B. Nicholls', and is printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. iv, pp. 158-159. For other letters from Charlotte to Miss Nussey see 2452. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 57. Octavo; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1854
Extent:
1 item

32. Ashley MS 170

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Ashley MS 170
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''Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel'': a poem written at the age of seventeen by Charlotte Brontë; 1833. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of ten leaves from an octavo notebook. Ruled cream wove paper. Preceding and following the poem are two blank leaves apparently of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833
Extent:
1 item

33. Ashley MS 172

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Ashley MS 172
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers, giving an account of the deaths of Anne and Emily Brontë; 13 June 1849. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. ii, pp. 339-340, and in Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë, 1967, pp. 38...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1849
Extent:
1 item

34. Ashley MS 175

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Ashley MS 175
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Poetical Notebook used for fair copies by Emily Brontë; 1839. Autograph fair copies, with revisions, written on both sides of twelve octavo leaves of ruled cream wove paper. Watermark ''J Rump / 1831''. The leaves once formed part of a notebook, but were disbound and mounted on guards by T. J. W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839
Extent:
1 item

35. Ashley MS 176

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Ashley MS 176
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'Sir Henry Tunstall': a poem by Patrick Branwell Brontë; 1838. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in minute characters on both sides of six octavo leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. The poem is dated at the beginning 'Bradford July 31st 1838'. First published in A. H. Japp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 item

36. Ashley MS 177

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Ashley MS 177
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Letter from Emily Brontë to Ellen Nussey; [22? May 1843] (date supplied by Ellen Nussey). Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, Life and Letters, vol. i, p. 298. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 24. Octavo; ff. ii+1. Emily Jane Brontë, author: Ellen Nussey, friend of C Brontë: Letter to Ell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

37. Ashley MS 187

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Ashley MS 187
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The History of ''Angria'': fragments by Patrick Branwell Brontë
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Part of ''Angria and the Angrians'', Branwell Brontë’s history of Angria (the fictional land he created with Charlotte Brontë), written between1834 and 1839. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of eighteen octavo leav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-1837
Extent:
1 item

38. Ashley MS 212

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Ashley MS 212
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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to William Merry, discussing the views put forward in his pamphlet Predestination and Election, Considered Scripturally, 1843; 2 Nov. 1843. Printed in Nicoll and Wise, Literary Anecdotes of the 19th Century, 1896, pp. 125-131. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1843
Extent:
1 item

39. Ashley MS 213

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Ashley MS 213
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''The Dead Pan'': a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 1843-1844. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of five leaves (ff. 3-7) of a gathering of eight octavo leaves of white wove paper. Watermarks ''J Whatman / Turkey Mill / 1837'' and ''J WHATMAN/1842''. As follows: titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1843-1844
Extent:
1 item

40. Ashley MS 270

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Ashley MS 270
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Letter from Robert Browning to A. C. Swinburne, 5 Feb. 1881Octavo; ff. ii+2. Hood, p. 193. Robert Browning, poet: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to Algernon Charles Swinburne from Robert Browning: 1881.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1881
Extent:
1 item