Container Reference (shelfmark): Ashley MS A17-5768 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
Title:: Letters (31) from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse; 16 April 1879-1 Dec. 1894. A1775, 1776, A1779, 1788, A1790, B1794, B1795, A1796, B1800, B4307, B4310 and 5055, letters II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, have envelopes. Stevenson and Gosse probably met in 1873 or 1874, and remained on intimate terms until the end of Stevenson's life - indeed, the last letter in this collection (5055, ff. 28-31, of which ff. 28b, 29b-30b are in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong) was written onl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 16 Apr 1879-1 Dec 1894
Extent:: 23 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1385,B1432,A1436,A1440-4,1446,A1636,A1853,A1870,A1871,A1940,B3864,A3889-90,A4206,A5132,B5255
Title:: Letters (84) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne; 2 Jan. 1866-20 Sept. 1906. Also included are a letter to Swinburne from Lucy Rossetti, [April?] 1876 (1446, ff. 104-105), and a letter from W. M. Rossetti, not to Swinburne, but possibly to J. C. Hotten, 11 Jan. 1867 (1446, f. 18). The letters in 1446, ff. 9-10b, 52, 52b, 102-103b, and 154, 154b, and in A1871 are imperfect. Vol. A IV, f. 33 is not part of the letter on ff. 31-32b, but is the missing portion of the second l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1866-20 Sep 1906
Extent:: 20 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 23
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter, with envelope, from Matthew Arnold to Edmund Gosse complimenting him on his Life of Thomas Gray, 1882 (in the 'English Men of Letters' series), and discussing the works of Gray, William Collins, Tennyson, etc.; 11 Aug. [1882]. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 4. Octavo; ff. i+3. Matthew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Aug [1882]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 26
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (6) from Matthew Arnold to A. C. Swinburne, one with envelope; 10 Oct. 1867-26 July [1882?]. Printed, with omissions and some inaccuracies, in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, i, 1959, pp. 269, 297; iv, pp. 117, 145, 249, 288-289, from the text given in The Times Literary Supplement, 12 Au...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Oct 1867-26 Jul [1882?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 36 (1)-(2)
Title:: 'The Virgin and the Fool': a parody by Frederick Britten Austin and Lambert Williams of Elinor Glyn, 'The Damsel and the Sage'; 1903. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on both sides of twenty six leaves of an ocatavo notebook, and on one side only of another (f. 28). At the beginning is a note (f. 1b) by Austin stating that he and Williams shared the composition of the skit, and that the present MS. was copied out by Williams to serve as printer's copy; 36 (2). The MS. is ac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 51
Title:
Scope & Content:: Volume of Verses by Frederick Britten Austin; July 1901-20 May 1926. Autograph fair copies, written on both sides of 58 leaves, and on one side only of two (ff. 2b, 61), of an octavo notebook. On f. 1 the notebook has been signed and dated 'F. Britten Austin 1903' and later inscribed to T. J. Wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: Jul 1901-20 May 1926
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 70
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Shakespeare's Legacy': a playlet for charity by J. M. Barrie; 1916. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of sixteen octavo leaves of cream wove paper. Watermark 'Runnyme[de] Charta'. The MS. is dated at the end 'April 6 1916'. On f. 1 are the title and a list of dramati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1916
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 71, B2335, A4688, B4691
Title:: Letters (8) from J. M. Barrie to Clement Shorter, three with envelopes; 27 Jan. 1900-1 Sept. 1924. One letter (B4691) concerns Barrie's authorship of a short story 'A Lady's Shoe', but the others are chiefly excuses for refusing invitations from Shorter. For a further letter from Barrie to Shorter see 5750. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 16; [viii, p. 53]; ix, p. 11. MS. 71 is octavo; ff. i+10.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 27 Jan 1900-1 Sep 1924
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 112
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Swayne Vonved': a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; [1830?]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of six leaves of pale grey laid paper formed by cutting folio leaves in half, and on one only of a seventh (f. 7). Watermarks '1830' under a name most of which has been cut ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1830?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 113
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'The Zigany': a poem from the Russian of Pushkin by George Borrow; circa 1860. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of twenty quarto leaves of white laid paper formed by tearing folio leaves in half. No watermark. The poem, a drama in free verse for narrator and voices, is ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1860
Extent:: 1 item

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