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Container Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

1221. Ashley MS B3352

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Ashley MS B3352
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Letter from Florence Hardy to T. J. Wise, sending a copy of Thomas Hardy, And there was a Great Calm, 1918; 14 Feb. [1918]. Also included is a letter, with envelope front, (ff. 64, 65) from Thomas Hardy to Wise, thanking him for a copy of his Wordsworth bibliography; 20 Dec. 1916. Printed in The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1918
Extent:
1 item

1222. Ashley MS B3353

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Ashley MS B3353
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, with the reminiscence of an outing to Bridport; 8 Sept. 1886. Printed in The Collected Letters, i, 1978, p. 151. Also included is a letter (ff. 70-71) from Florence Hardy to T. J. Wise sending a copy of Thomas Hardy, Haunting Fingers, 1922; 31 May [1922]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886-1922
Extent:
1 item

1223. Ashley MS B3354

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Ashley MS B3354
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, describing his feelings on the death of his first wife, Emma; 13 Dec. 1912. Printed in The Collected Letters, iv, 1984, p. 239. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 143.] includes: ff. 72, 72b Edward Clodd, banker and author: Thomas Hardy, OM; novelis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1912
Extent:
1 item

1224. Ashley MS B3376

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Ashley MS B3376
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Letter from W. E. Henley to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], mentioning, among other mattters, A. C. Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 1866; 10 May 1889. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 179.] includes: ff. 73b, 74 Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: William Ernest Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1889
Extent:
1 item

1225. Ashley MS B3381

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Ashley MS B3381
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Two Letters from Robert Hoe to T. J. Wise, the first (f. 75) sending a copy of Hoe's Catalogue of Books By English Authors Who Lived Before the Year 1700, 1903, and of his A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700, 1905, and the second (f. 76) accepting an invitation to dine; 27 Aug. 1909,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1909
Extent:
1 item

1226. Ashley MS B3411

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Ashley MS B3411
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Letter from Henry James to Miss M. B. Betham-Edwards, mentioning his health, the prospective visit of 'a young friend' [Hugh Walpole?], W. Hale White (alias Mark Rutherford), and the Atlantic Monthly; 14 Oct. 1909. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 208.] includes: ff. 79, 79b Henry James, no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1909
Extent:
1 item

1227. Ashley MS B3415

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Ashley MS B3415
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Letter from Samuel Johnson to Francesco Sastres informing him 'that he came home last night'; 17 Nov. [1784]. The letter is printed in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman, iii, 1952, p. 248. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 211]. includes: ff. 80, 81b Francesco Sastres: Samuel ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov [1784]
Extent:
1 item

1228. Ashley MS B3460

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Ashley MS B3460
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Letter from Mrs Doris Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, concerning his play The Pacifists; 6 July 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 87]. includes: ff. 82, 83b Mrs Dora Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, dramatist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1929
Extent:
1 item

1229. Ashley MS B3464

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Ashley MS B3464
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Letter from A. W. Pollard to T. J. Wise concerning the inscription in the hand of Ben Johnson on the title page of Wise's copy of Jonson's Seianvs His Fall, 1605 (now Ashley Library No. 3464); 21 June 1911. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 4]. For further letters from Pollard to Wise see B2777...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1911
Extent:
1 item

1230. Ashley MS B3466, B5045

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Ashley MS B3466, B5045
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Letters (4) from Percy Simpson to T. J. Wise, the earliest thanking him for the gift of a copy of his A Swinburne Library, 1925, those written in 1927 and 1928 concerning the loan by Wise to Simpson of his copies of Eastward Hoe, The Fountaine of Selfe-Love, Or Cynthia's Revells, 1601, Poetaster, or The Arraignment, 1602, Seianvs his Fall, 1605, and Volpone, Or The Foxe, 1607, for use in the preparation of Ben Jonson, 1925-52, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson, and the latest the 1612 Quar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1925-1935
Extent:
2 items