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1. Ashley MS A17-5768

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A17-5768
Title:
Ashley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts, chiefly literary, collected by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937). Includes poetry manuscripts and the literary correspondence of poets, novelists and critics, c. 1700-1936 (predominantly 1780-1936). The collection was named after the street in which Wise lived when he started acquirin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1700-1936
Extent:

c. 1,971 volumes

2. Ashley MS 5762 (1)-(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5762 (1)-(3)
Title:
Various Writings by William Michael Rossetti; [1879?]-1900.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1879?]-1900
Extent:
0 items

3. Ashley MS 5747 A-E

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5747 A-E
Title:
Various Articles by Andrew Lang; 1893, 1894. As follows:―
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1893-1894
Extent:
5 items

4. Ashley MS A2391, 2392

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A2391, 2392
Title:
'Wild Wales'. by George Borrow; [1854-1861]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 46-47.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1854-1861]
Extent:
2 items

5. Ashley MS 2397

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2397
Title:
Scope & Content:
'The Serpent Knight', 'Sir Oluf', 'The Treacherous Merman', 'The Knight in the Deer's Shape', 'The Stalwart Monk', 'The Cruel Step-dame', and 'The Cuckoo': ballads translated from the Danish by George Borrow; after 1842-circa 1850. Autograph fair copies. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 50. Bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842-1855
Extent:
1 item

6. Ashley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2398
Title:
Scope & Content:
'The Dalby Bear', 'Tygge Hermandsen', and 'The Wicked Step-mother': ballads translated from the Danish by George Borrow; circa 1850. Autograph fair copies. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 50. Bound up with the MSS. is a copy of Wise's private printing, The Dalby Bear and Other Ballads, 1913 (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 item

7. Ashley MS 2608, B2608

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2608, B2608
Title:
Two Letters from Anne Isabella Milbanke to Elizabeth Wilkin-son, written during her engagement to Lord Byron, and expressing her confidence of future happiness; 3 Oct. (ff. 1-2b), 22 Dec. (ff. 3-4b) 1814. At the head of each letter is the note '14th letter copied' and '15th letter copied' respectively. Perhaps this is the result of Lady Byron's known assiduity in copying after the separation all documents concerning her relations with Lord Byron. Printed, not wholly accurately, in Ashley Lib...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1814
Extent:
2 items

8. Ashley MS B1141, A1149

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1141, A1149
Title:
Letters (7) from George Meredith to Clement Shorter, chiefly concerning contributions by Meredith to periodicals edited by Shorter; 28 March-30 Oct. 1891, 13 Dec. 1892, 4 Feb. 1900. Also included is a letter from Meredith to Edward Clodd, 9 Dec. 1902 (A1149, ff. 119-120b). Printed in The Letters of George Meredith, ed. C. L. Cline, ii, iii, 1970, pp. 1021, 1022, 1023, 1024, 1046, 1112, 1345, 1472. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 135, 139.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891-1902
Extent:
2 items

9. Ashley MS 2401, 2402

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2401, 2402
Title:
'Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg': two versions of a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1824-[1829?] and before [1857?]. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of 2396. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 52.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1824-1858]
Extent:
2 items

10. Ashley MS B2375, 2376, 2377*, 2378

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2375, 2376, 2377*, 2378
Title:
'Romantic Ballads' by George Borrow. Autograph fair copies of poems included in Romantic Ballads, 1826. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 37-39. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Romantic Ballads, to which page references apply. It appears that some of the fair copies may have been made for the projected Songs of Scandinavia on which Borrow was working in 1829-1830 or 'Songs of Denmark' on which he wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1823-1870]
Extent:
4 items