'Happiness and the Poet': a poem by Francis Thompson; circa 1895. Autograph fair copy. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 205. Quarto; ff. i+3. Francis Thompson, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, 'Happiness and the Poet', by Francis Thompson: circa 1895: Autogr. fair copy.
College Essays by A. C. Swinburne; [1856-1857]. A large quarto notebook, in the original marbled paper covers with a roan back, containing the autograph fair copies of various college essays by Swinburne. The notebook is signed 'A C Swinburne' in pencil inside the front cover. The leaves of the ...
'The New Terror' by A. C. Swinburne; 1892. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 184. Folio; ff. ii+12. Essays English: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Essay, 'The New Terror', by Algernon Charles Swinburne: 1892: Autogr. draft.
Fifteen Poems by A. C. Swinburne; after 1859-1897. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 37. Autograph drafts and fair copies, as follows:― 1. Ballad, 'Duriesdyke'; after 1859. Autograph draft of the last thirty-two lines. ff. 5, 6, 6b. 2. Poem, beginning 'Between the sea-cliffs and the sea there ...
'Erechtheus': a poem by A. C. Swinburne; [1875]. Autograph draft, written on one side only of forty-four folio leaves, and on both sides of a further twenty-one (ff. 4, 6, 11-17, 20, 30, 33, 38-44, 50, 52). The papers used are as follows:― Cream wove paper, with no watermark: ff. 1-10, 24-28, 3...
'The Bi-centenary of Laurence Sterne': an address delivered to the Authors' Club; 24 Nov. 1913. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of fourteen leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. The MS. is entitled as above in Gosse's hand, and below the title is the deleted note 'Nov. 24...
'Rosamond' (no title in the MS.): a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1857-1860]. Two autograph drafts, the earlier (4354) containing the greater part of scene I, scenes II to IV, and approximately two thirds of scene V, the other (A1842), containing fragments of a later version of scene III. In a letter to Edwin Heath written 17 Feb. 1858 Swinburne first mentions this work, saying '. . . Rosamond is about my favourite poem, and is now verging on a satisfactory completion. The first scene...
'A Channel Passage and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 164-165, 168-170, 178-179, 191, 196, 201-202, 206; vii, p. 54. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904, to which page references apply. As follows:―
Letters (3) from Sir William Watson to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the private printing by Wise of Watson's 'Lachrymae Musarum' and 'Shelley's Centenary' (B4187, A4587), and the suggestion by Wise that he might print a longer poem by Watson (A2201); [Nov. 1892?]-13 Jan. [1894?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 141;] vii, pp. 199-200.
'A Prayer': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Two autograph fair copies, differing slightly, the earlier (1388) dated '1846', the later possibly circa 1869. First printed from the later version in The Works of D. G. Rossetti, 1911, pp. 267-268. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 112, 114.
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