Letter from George Borrow to his wife, describing his travels in the Balkans; 30 July 1844. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 49. includes: ff. 90-91b Mary Borrow, wife of G Borrow: George Borrow, writer: Letters to Mary Borrow from George Borrow: 1832-[1859?].
Letter from George Gissing to Edward Clodd, mentioning his illness, and having sent Clodd a copy of his The Whirlpool, 1897; 14 April 1897. Printed in The Letters of George Gissing to Edward Clodd, ed. Pierre Coustillas, 1973, p. 43. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 112, 113. includes: ff. 39-...
Letters (4), two with envelopes, from George Meredith to Richard Henry Horne, with a pencil copy of a letter from Horne to Meredith; 8 March 1849, 9 Nov. 1871-29 Sept. 1875. In the first letter Meredith asks for Horne's opinion of the former's poems; the others concern Horne's Tragedy of Marlowe...
Letter from Robert Browning to Baron Seymour Kirkup; 19 Feb. 1867. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 105-108. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 136. includes: ff. 125-126b Robert Browning, poet: Seymour Stocker Kirkup, artist; d.1880: Letter t...
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and all the Kindreds of the Mark by William Morris; 1888. Autograph synopsis of Chapters IV-XXIII, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of white laid paper. No watermark. The MS. is headed 'Things to be noted' in Morris' hand. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii...
Letter from Henrik Ibsen to Edmund Gosse, written from Munich, thanking him for praising his new play ['The Lady from the Sea'], telling of its forthcoming German performance in Berlin, and expressing regret that they will be unable to meet that year; 3 Jan. 1889. Norwegian. Printed in E. Bredsd...
Letter from George Barnett Smith to A. C. Swinburne, concerning a review of Swinburne's [The Tale of Balen, 1896?]; 25 April [1896?]. [Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 125.] includes: f. 43 George Barnett Smith, author: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to Algernon Charles Swinburne fr...
Letter from Benjamin Buisson to T. J. Wise, sending a copy of his Les Helléniques de Landor, 1916; 19 Jan. 1916. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 48]. includes: ff. 139-140 Benjamin Buisson: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Benjamin Buisson: 1916.
Letter from Henry W. Thompson of B. F. Stevens and Brown to Harry Buxton Forman, chiefly concerning an offer to buy Buxton Forman's copy of Byron, The Irish Avatar, 1821, and bearing notes in Buxton Forman's hand of his reply; 19 June 1914. The copy of The Irish Avatar is now 2696 in the Ashley ...
Letter from Henry B. Wheatley to G. A. Aitken, concerning the bibliography of John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, 1687; 10 Nov. 1915. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 88]. includes: ff. 181-182 Henry Benjamin Wheatley, author: George Atherton Aitken, MVO; writer: Letter to George Atherto...