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

901. Ashley MS A1921, B1921

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Ashley MS A1921, B1921
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'Locrine': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1886-1887]. Autograph drafts and fair copies of the play published as Locrine on 16 Nov. 1887. In a letter to his mother dated New Year's Day 1887 (C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, v, 1962, pp. 179-180) Swinburne says '. . . I have begun a new dramatic attempt ― in rhyme ― founded on the legendary history of ancient Britain'. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 171. 1. Draft synopsis of Act II, Scene I, to the end of the play, written on one side o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1886-1887]
Extent:
2 items

902. Ashley MS A1922

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1922
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Scope & Content:
'Love and Sleep': a poem of sixteen lines by A. C. Swinburne; [1871?]. Autograph draft, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark '[ ]e Note / [ ] & Co'. The title has been added by a later hand. The poem was first printed, as 'Love and Sleep II', in Posthumou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1871?]
Extent:
1 item

903. Ashley MS A1923

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1923
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Scope & Content:
'Poems and Ballads Third Series'. 'A Rhyme'; [1887?]. Fair copy of stanzas 1-3, written on one side only of a scrap of blue laid paper, 151 x 105mm. No watermark. The text found in the MS. is identical with that printed on p. 85 of the first edition. The fair copy is entitled 'A Rhyme'. These th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1887?]
Extent:
1 item

904. Ashley MS A1924

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1924
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Scope & Content:
Letter, with envelope, from A. C. Swinburne to James Knowles; 8 March 1888. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, v, 1962, pp. 226-227. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 174. includes: ff. 122-124 Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Sir James Thomas Knowles, KCVO; Editor of the 'Nineteenth ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1888
Extent:
1 item

905. Ashley MS A1925

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1925
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Scope & Content:
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay'; [1879-1889]. Draft of stanzas 16-22, written on one side only of a part folio leaf of blue laid paper (265 x 210mm.). Watermark J Allen & Sons / Superfine / 1879. The stanzas are written in two columns, the lines being parallel wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1879-1889]
Extent:
1 item

906. Ashley MS A1926

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1926
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Scope & Content:
'Poems and Ballads Third Series' by A. C. Swinburne; [1885?-1889]. 1. 'To a Seamew'; 1886. Early draft of stanzas 4-8, l. 1, and 13-15, written on one side only of one folio leaf of blue laid paper (f. 126) and on both sides of another (f. 127). No watermark. Stanzas 4-8, l. 1, are on f. 126a, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884-1889
Extent:
1 item

907. Ashley MS A1927

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1927
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Scope & Content:
Letter from W. Madge, of the Globe newspaper, to W. T. Watts [-Dunton], enclosing a cheque for fifty guineas, being payment for the serial rights of A. C. Swinburne's ballad 'The Brothers'; 8 Nov. 1889. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 176. includes: f. 136 W. Madge, of 'The Globe': Walter T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1889
Extent:
1 item

908. Ashley MS A1930

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Ashley MS A1930
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'The Ballad of Bulgarie': a verse satire by A. C. Swinburne on the reaction of Gladstone, Bright and Carlyle to the 'Bulgarian Atrocities' of 1876; [1876]. Autograph draft, written on both sides of two leaves folded from a scrap of blue folio laid paper, 208 x 227mm., watermarked 'E Towgood / 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1876]
Extent:
1 item

909. Ashley MS A1931

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1931
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Scope & Content:
1. Letter from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 8 Dec. [1876]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., iii, 1960, pp. 227-229. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 188-189. 2. Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise; 2 Oct. 1893. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 188-189. includes: ff. 140-141b ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1893
Extent:
1 item

910. Ashley MS A1932

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1932
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Scope & Content:
'Astrophel and other poems' by A. C. Swinburne; 1887-[before 1894]. 1. 'The Ballad of Melicertes'; [1891]. Fair copy, with revisions, especially in the last five lines, written on one side only of a folio leaf of white wove paper. Watermark 'Hieratica / (a vegetable Parchment) / J. S & Co.'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887-1894
Extent:
1 item