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351. Ashley MS A3931

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Ashley MS A3931
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'On Chatterton': a sonnet by Siegfried Sassoon; 1930. Autograph fair copy, with three revisions, written on one side only of a scrap of white laid paper 130 x 105mm. Watermark part of a [crown?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 101. includes: f. 110 Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, author and poe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930
Extent:
1 item

352. Ashley MS B4374

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Ashley MS B4374
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'How sweet is chastity in hoary hairs!': a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne; [1871?]. Autograph draft, written on one side only of a scrap of white laid paper, 115 x 105mm. Watermark part of the figure of Britannia. At the head of the page, at right angles to the text, is the date ''71' appare...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1871?]
Extent:
1 item

353. Ashley MS B4904

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Ashley MS B4904
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Letter from William Morris to [ ], concerning Morris' 'The House of the Wolfings'; 17 Nov. [1889]. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 173]. includes: ff. 30, 30b William Morris, poet and artist: Letter to — from William Morris: [1889].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov [1889]
Extent:
1 item

354. Ashley MS 916

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Ashley MS 916
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'Venetian Song' by J. H. Leigh Hunt; before 1823. Autograph draft, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark part of shield and '[ ]P'. The text found in the MS. differs in three places from the text as first printed in The Liberal, No. iv, 1823, with the title 'T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1823
Extent:
1 item

355. Ashley MS 4165

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Ashley MS 4165
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'Rome At the pyramid of Cestius near the graves of Shelley and Keats': a poem by Thomas Hardy; [1913?]. Autograph fair copy, entitled as above, written on one side only of three quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'A PIRIE & SONS 1913'. The MS. is dated '(1887)' and signed at the en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1913?]
Extent:
1 item

356. Ashley MS 4884

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Ashley MS 4884
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Letter from Charles Lamb to [the Rev. James Gillman], written after the death of S. T. Coleridge; [1?] [Aug. 1834]. f. 1a. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 53-54. Quarto; ff. vii+1. Charles Lamb, essayist: Reverend James Gillman: Letter to Rev. James Gillman from Charles Lamb: [1834].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1?] [Aug 1834]
Extent:
1 item

357. Ashley MS B1556, B4186

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Ashley MS B1556, B4186
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Two Letters from W. E. A. Axon to H. S. Salt, concerning a lecture on 'Shelley's Vegetarianism' that he was to deliver to the Shelley Society; 19 May, 5 June 1890. [Ashley Library Catalogue, v, pp. 59, 140.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1890
Extent:
2 items

358. Ashley MS 976

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Ashley MS 976
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Two Letters, with envelopes, from A. C. Swinburne to Harry Buxton Forman; 22 Feb., 15 March 1878. The letters both enthusiastically acknowledge the gift of a copy of Forman's edition of the Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, Written in the Years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX, 1878. Accompanying the l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

359. Ashley MS 1186

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Ashley MS 1186
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Letter from George Moore to A. C. Swinburne, expressing his admiration for Swinburne, mentioning Swinburne's reply to the attack made on him by Robert Buchanan in the article entitled 'The Fleshly School of Poetry' in The Contemporary Review for Oct. 1871, and sending his 'new book' [A Drama in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jul 1887
Extent:
1 item

360. Ashley MS A235

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Ashley MS A235
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'A True Dream': a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; [1833]. Autograph draft, written on both sides of three octavo leaves of cream wove paper. Watermark 'J Whatman / Turkey Mill / 1833'. The title 'A True Dream' has been added in Wise's hand. At the end of the poem, inverted, is the beginning ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1833]
Extent:
1 item