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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4854, B4854
Title:: Correspondence of A. C. Swinburne and Victor Hugo, comprising four letters from Swinburne, 1865-1884 (ff. 2, 3-5, 11-12, 40-41), and twelve letters from Victor Hugo, 1862-1883. French. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, vol. i, 1959, pp. 127, 248-249; iv, 1960, pp. 193-194; v, 1962, p. 51, and Victor Hugo Correspondance, ed. La Librairie Ollendorf, ii, 1950, pp. 430-431, 522-523; iii, 1952, pp. 208, 225, 251-252, 255, 324; iv, 1952, pp. 11, 12, 84, 324. The letter of 1 July [1867], ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1862-1884
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4855
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'The Story Of Rimini': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1811-1816?] (ff. i+5). One hundred and thirty one lines of verse intended for the beginning of the poem, but never used. James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, 'The Story of Rimini', rejected lines, by James Henry Lei...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1811-1816?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4856
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent, announcing the death of P. B. Shelley; 20 July 1822. ff. 1, 1b. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 200-201. Quarto; ff. vi+1. Miss Elizabeth Kent, sister-in-law of J H Leigh Hunt: James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Percy ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jul 1822
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4857
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to Horatio Smith, giving an account of the death of P. B. Shelley; 25 July 1822. ff. 1, 1b, 2b. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 201-202. Quarto; ff. vi+2. James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Horace Smith, alias Horatio; poet and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Jul 1822
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4859
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Henry James to Edmund Gosse, speaking among other matters of R. L. Stevenson; 5 Nov. 1899. ff. 1-3 (envelope). Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, pp. 70-71. Quarto; ff. iii+3. Henry James, novelist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Henry James: 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Nov 1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4860
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (4) from Henry James to Matilda Betham-Edwards, speaking of his illnesses, promising a visit, making excuses for not having sent a copy of his The Outcry to Emily Morgan, and Betham-Edwards' novel The Lord of the Harvest (republished in 1913 in The World's Classics); 16 Aug. 1911 (ff. 1,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1911-1915
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4868
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'The Pacifists': a play by Henry Arthur Jones; 1917. Autograph fair copy, with many revisions, written on one side only of eighty-two folio leaves of cream laid paper. Watermark 'Hammond Typewriter / Linen' with a representation of the eponymous machine. Jones has dated the MS. at the end of Act...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1917
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4869
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from John Keats to J. H. Leigh Hunt, discussing, among other matters, the calling of poet, and Shakespeare''s Christianity; 10 May 1817. ff. 1-2b. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 9-13. Quarto; ff. xiii+2. John Keats, poet: James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Letter to James He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 May 1817
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4870
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from John Keats to his sister Frances Mary (Fanny) Keats, describing the passing scene as viewed from his sickroom window; [8 Feb. 1820]. ff. 1-2. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 14-15. Also included are: 1. Letter from Fanny Keats to Maria Dilke, concerning the honesty of her brother...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [8 Feb 1820]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4872
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (7) from Joseph Severn to Charles Armitage Brown, concerning John Keats, and in particular his gravestone, P. B. Shelley's 'Adonais', Severn's portrait of Keats, E. J. Trelawny, a proposed monument to Keats in Rome, and Keats as he was in 1813 and then after meeting J. H. Leigh Hunt; 17 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1821-1834
Extent:: 1 item

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