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

441. Ashley MS 4754

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Ashley MS 4754
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'Love and Death', 'Song of the Suliotes' and 'Last Words on Greece': three poems by Lord Byron; [1824]. Autograph drafts, written on both sides of a folio leaf of white laid paper. Watermark a [bird?] on a shield. The leaf appears to have been previously used as a wrapper for a letter addressed ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1824]
Extent:
1 item

442. Ashley MS 4757

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Ashley MS 4757
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Letter from Edward John Trelawny to Claire Clairmont, written on board the Bolivar; 26 Sept.-8 Oct. 1822. In the letter Trelawny reflects on the death of P. B. Shelley, speaks of his own relations with Claire Clairmont, and reports the movements of Lord Byron on board the Bolivar. Printed in Let...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1822-8 Oct 1822
Extent:
1 item

443. Ashley MS 4763

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Ashley MS 4763
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Letter from Claire Clairmont to J. H. Leigh Hunt, asking him how to break the news of Shelley's and E. E. Williams' deaths to Mary Shelley and Jane Williams; 19 July 1822. ff. 1, 1b. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 187. Folio; ff. iv+1. Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: James ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1822
Extent:
1 item

444. Ashley MS 4787

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Ashley MS 4787
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'The Rescuer': the first form of the novel 'The Rescue' by Joseph Conrad; 1896-1898. Autograph fair copy, with many revisions, deletions and additions, written on one side only of five hundred and ninety-six folio leaves of ruled cream wove paper, and on both sides of a further two (ff. 25, 91)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896-1898
Extent:
1 item

445. Ashley MS 4788

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Ashley MS 4788
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'Memorandum Relating to a sailing-ship for perfecting the training of Merchant Service Officers belonging to the port of Liverpool' by Joseph Conrad; 1920. Typescript, heavily revised by Conrad in his own hand in ink and in pencil, written on one side only of nineteen large quarto leaves of whit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920
Extent:
1 item

446. Ashley MS 4791

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Ashley MS 4791
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'His Warbook': an introduction to Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, by Joseph Conrad; 1923. Autograph draft, written on one side only of thirteen pages of ruled cream wove paper (ff. 2-14). No watermark. On f. 1 is an autograph title-page, signed and dated by Conrad. Ashley Library Catalo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
1 item

447. Ashley MS 4792

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Ashley MS 4792
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Two Letters from Henry James to Edmund Gosse, concerning Gosse's application on behalf of Joseph Conrad for a grant from the Royal Literary Fund, and giving his appreciation of Conrad's work; 26 June 1902. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 55. Quarto; ff. iv+4. Joseph Conrad, alias Teodor Jósef...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1902
Extent:
1 item

448. Ashley MS 4831

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Ashley MS 4831
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'The Old Warship Ablaze': a poem by James Elroy Flecker; 1914. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on one side only of two large quarto leaves of ruled cream laid paper. No watermark. The MS. is signed by Flecker, and bears two notes by him concerning payment and the address to wh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

449. Ashley MS 4832

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Ashley MS 4832
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'The Burial in England': a poem by James Elroy Flecker; [1914]. Auto-graph fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of five large quarto leaves of ruled cream laid paper. No watermark. Signed at the end James Elroy Flecker Maison Baratelli Davos-Platz. The MS. has apparently been used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1914]
Extent:
1 item

450. Ashley MS 4854

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Ashley MS 4854
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includes: ff. 1, 1b Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton from Algernon Charles Swinburne: 1883.ff. 2-5, 11-12, 40, 41 Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo,; au...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item