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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1849, A1950
Title:: Chastelard: a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1860-1863]. Swinburne was working on Chastelard from the beginning of 1860 until October 1863 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, ii, 1928, pp. 261-262). Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. [55], 216. Early drafts, apparently of three discarded passages of Chastelard, are included in A1851, ff. 17, 17b. According to Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 273-274, Wise formerly possessed an autograph synopsis of Chastelard, but this is no longer...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: [1860-1863]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B1849
Title:
Scope & Content:: Chastelard. Autograph draft of Mary Beaton's French song in Act I, Scene i. The draft is written on both sides of an octavo leaf of mourning paper. No watermark. In the MS. the song has seven stanzas, as opposed to the text printed in 1865 which has six. Stanza 3 in the MS. has been cancelled, s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1950
Title:
Scope & Content:: Chastelard. Autograph early draft of the end of Act I, scene iii, written on one side only (f. 204b) of a folio leaf of blue laid paper. Watermark 'E. A. Gordon / 1859'. On the recto of the leaf is a song, apparently intended for Chastelard, but discarded, beg. 'Though ye be never so fair a may'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Mar 1886
Extent:: 1 item

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