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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A121, B121
Title:: Fragments of 'The Sleeping Bard': a translation from the Welsh of Ellis Wynne by George Borrow; [1857-1860?]. The paper of A121, f. 56 is watermarked 1857, but in the preface Borrow speaks of 1830 as the original date of composition. Borrow's translation of 'The Sleeping Bard' was published in 1860. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 46. ;
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1857-1860?]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A224
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Casa Guidi Windows': a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; circa 1848. Autograph fair copy, with revisions in ink and pencil, of Part I, ll. 332-430, written on both sides of two octavo leaves of cream laid paper. No watermark. The text found in the MS. differs in many places from that publishe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1848
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A3526
Title:
Scope & Content:: Part of 'King James I and Isaac Casaubon': an Imaginary Conver-sation by Walter Savage Landor; n.d. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 66-67. includes: f. 125 Walter Savage Landor, d.1864; author: Prose, 'Imaginary Conversations' by Walter Savage Landor: n.d: Autogr. fragms.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A3543
Title:
Scope & Content:: Discarded Passage from 'Samuel Johnson and John Horne Tooke': an Imaginary Conversation by Walter Savage Landor; n.d. Autograph draft, written on both sides of a part folio leaf of white laid paper. Watermark 'Gamberane / Toscana'. The passage, which was intended to go before 'We are two somnamb...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A4445
Title:
Scope & Content:: Seven Sonnets, in imitation of Shakespeare, by A. C. Swinburne; [1859?]. Autograph fair copies, with revisions. ff. 62-64. Printed by T. J. Wise in Undergraduate Sonnets, 1918. Also included (f. 64b) is a poem beginning 'As she sits in her father's house', written in the manner of Dante Gabriel ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1859?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B4136
Title:
Scope & Content:: Notes concerning the prosecution of certain booksellers for selling Shelley's Poetical Works, 1839, published by Edward Moxon, and of Moxon himself; [1840?], [1875?]. [Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 116]. includes: ff. 45, 46, 46b Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Notes in the hand of — concernin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1839-1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 441
Title:
Scope & Content:: Two Letters, one partly printed, and two printed circulars, from William Knight to A. C. Swinburne, asking him to join a committee formed to purchase Coleridge's cottage at Nether Stowey, Somerset; 14 Sept., Oct. 1906. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 137. Octavo; ff. 7. William Knight: Algern...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3428
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Ye treue and pitifulle historie of ye Poet and ye ancient dame': a series of eleven caricatures by Edward Burne Jones commenting on an incident in the life of Algernon Charles Swinburne; 1868. The caricatures are drawn on eleven irregularly sized and shaped scraps of white laid paper, without w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3843
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'To Mary in Summer': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1847. Autograph fair copy, with two revisions, entitled as above, written on one side only of three quarto leaves of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. Printed by W. M. Rossetti in The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1911, where it is as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1847
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4525
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'The Promise of May': a play by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; [1882]. Fair copy, with revisions and additions, mostly in the hand of H. Hay Cameron, partly in the hand of Hallam, Lord Tennyson (ff. 37-44, 49-59, 67-76, 80), and with autograph corrections and revisions by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (ff. 6-12...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1882]
Extent:: 1 item

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