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Container Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

101. Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)

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Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)
Title:
Four Notebooks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871-1881. The books contain many notes for, and drafts of, lines, couplets and stanzas of poems printed in Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, but no complete poems, with the exception of a draft of 'The Lamp's Shrine' (book (1), ff. 26-27). In addition they contain many fragments of prose and poetry not used by Rossetti but often, for that reason, very revealing of his state of mind, notes of place and personal names for poems, ideas for pi...
Scope & Content:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter: Notebook by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1871-1881.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1881
Extent:
4 items

102. Ashley MS 1411

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Ashley MS 1411
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Letters (3) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], with one (8 Dec. 1875) from Watts[-Dunton] in reply (ff. 4-18b); 28 Nov. 1875-4 Jan. 1876. The letters chiefly concern a supernatural story told to Rossetti by Watts, which the former intended to use as the subject of a ballad. The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1875-4 Jan 1876
Extent:
1 item

103. Ashley MS 1412

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Ashley MS 1412
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'The Death of Topsy': a burlesque play on the subject of William Morris by D. G. Rossetti, provoked by Morris' insistence on taking over the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. early in 1875; [1875?]. Autograph draft, written on both sides of five leaves of octavo cream laid paper. Waterm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1875?]
Extent:
1 item

104. Ashley MS 1413

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Ashley MS 1413
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Instructions from D. G. Rossetti to George Hake, his secretary, for the cremation of his body and the destruction of certain letters [probably from Mrs William Morris] in the event of his death; 30 April 1876. Printed in O. Doughty and J. R. Wahl, Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, iii, 1967, pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1876
Extent:
1 item

105. Ashley MS 1414

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Ashley MS 1414
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Notes on Charles Wells by D. G. Rossetti; [1879?]. Accompanying the notes are two letters, 21 April 1876 and [March?] 1879, from Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], partly concerning Wells (ff. 7-12). Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 139. Octavo; ff. i+12. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1879?]
Extent:
1 item

106. Ashley MS 1416

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Ashley MS 1416
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Letters (8), five with envelopes, from D. G. Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning the latter's selection of the poems of Thomas Chatterton for Ward's English Poets; [6 May?-9 June?] 1880. With the letters are (ff. 18-39) notes on, and transcripts of, various poems of Chatterton b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 item

107. Ashley MS 1427*

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Ashley MS 1427*
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Two Letters from A. C. Swinburne to W. M. Rossetti, thanking him for the gift of his Dante Gabriel Rossetti His Family-Letters, 1895, and Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism, 1899, discussing the contents, and eulogizing Mrs D. G. Rossetti (Lizzie Siddal); 4, 5 Dec. 1895, 24 Dec. 1898. Printed in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895-1898
Extent:
1 item

108. Ashley MS 1448, A1852, B4060, B5587

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Ashley MS 1448, A1852, B4060, B5587
Title:
Letters (91) and a postcard from W. M. Rossetti to T. J. Wise; 8 Jan. 1886-27 March 1913. The greater part of the letters concerns the Shelley Society (1886-1892), of which Wise was Secretary from 1887 and Rossetti Chairman. One of the factors contributing to the downfall of the Society was Wise's extravagant policy of issuing facsimile reprints, and the letters reveal Rossetti's patience and generosity contrasted with Wise's incompetence and duplicity. Another subject which features largely...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
8 Jan 1886-27 Mar 1913
Extent:
4 items

109. Ashley MS 1449, A3888

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Ashley MS 1449, A3888
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Letters (12) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to F. J. Furnivall; 22 April 1886-26 June 1892. The letters are almost entirely concerned with the affairs of the Shelley Society (1886-1892), of which Rossetti was Chair-man and Furnivall founder. There is in addition mention of Rossetti's unpublished compilation of Shelley biographical material 'Cor Cordium' (1449, ff. 3b, 4, 7-8b, 9b) and of an unfavourable review, which Rossetti believed to be by G. B. Shaw or Oscar Wilde, of his Life of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Norwegian
Date Range:
22 Apr 1886-26 Jun 1892
Extent:
2 items

110. Ashley MS 1451

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Ashley MS 1451
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Letterfrom A. C. Swinburne to W. M. Rossetti, concerning the poems of Christina Rossetti and the works of George Eliot; 25 Jan. 1904. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, vi, 1962, pp. 176-178. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 119-121. Octavo; ff. ii+4. William Michael Rossetti, author a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1904
Extent:
1 item