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

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1620
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Edward John Trelawny to Claire Clairmont, commenting on Hogg's Life of Shelley, 1858; 5 Jan. 1870. Printed in H. B. Forman, Letters of E. J. Trelawny, 1910, pp. 223-224. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 123. Octavo; ff. i+2. Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: Edward ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Jan 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1621
Title:
Scope & Content:: Two Letters from A. C. Swinburne to W. M. Rossetti, concerning the separation of P. B. Shelley and his first wife Harriet; 22 May, 24 June [1869]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, ii, 1959, pp. 14-15, 17-18. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 189. Octavo; ff. ii+4. William Michael Ros...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1622
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Edward John Trelawny to Claire Clairmont, on the subject of Shelley's reputation; 26 April 1872. Printed in Forman, op. cit., pp. 238-239. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, pp. 123-124. Octavo; ff. i+3. Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: Edward John Trelawny, author and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Apr 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1639
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from A. C. Swinburne to Harry Buxton Forman, concerning Laura Matilda, Zofloya, or The Moor, said to be the model for P. B. Shelley's Zastrozzi, 1810; 22 Nov. 1886. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, v, 1962, pp. 174-175. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 131. Octavo; ff. i+3. Char...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Nov 1886
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1840, 1841, A1851, 1855, B1861
Title:: Poems and Ballads by A. C. Swinburne; 1857-1865. Autograph drafts of poems included in Poems and Ballads, 1866. The poems in this volume were composed at various dates between 1857 and 1865 (see G. Lafourcade, La Jeunesse de Swinburne, tome ii, 1928, pp. 418-419). The drafts are printed, not entirely accurately, in Lafourcade, op. cit., ii, pp. 565-581. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 35-36, 42, 58-60, 63. Except where expressly stated, the drafts are not dated, entitled or signed. As foll...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 1857-1865
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262
Title:: 'Songs Before Sunrise' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Songs Before Sunrise, 1871. Swinburne composed this collection of political poems under the influence of Mazzini, whom he met for the first time in March 1867. Mazzini had already written to him on 10 March 1867, asking him to 'give us a series of "Lyrics for the Crusade" '. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 72-73, 94-95. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1867-1870]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1861, A1903, A1925, A1932, A4399, 4403,4404,5084-5086, 5088, 5268*, 5270, 5272-5275
Title:: 'Astrophel and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 73-74, 144-145, 174-176, 178-179, 182-185, 188-190; viii, p. 199. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1879-1894]
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261
Title:: 'Bothwell': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1868]-[1874]. Autograph drafts, and trial printings with autograph corrections and revisions. Included are a trial printing of Act I and the first half of Act II, Scene I, and fragments of a revise, the draft of the first two scenes of Act I from which the earlier of the trial printings was set up, a draft of the dedicatory sonnet to Victor Hugo, an autograph synopsis of Act V, Scene III, and a letter from Frederick Locker to Swinburne concern...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1868]-[1874]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1872
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning his attitude towards his publishers and would-be publishers; 6 Dec. 1872. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 104-106. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, ii, 1959, pp. 203-207. Octavo; ff. ii+6. Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Dec 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1881
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning F. J. Furnivall, Swinburne's essay on Auguste Vacquerie, and his relations with the Examiner; 22 Jan. 1876. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., iii, 1960, pp. 125-127. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 113. Octavo; ff. ii+4. W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Jan 1876
Extent:: 1 item

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