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Container Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

181. Ashley MS 2588

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Ashley MS 2588
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'Sludge, the medium': a short story in the form of a conversation between several characters, by Robert Browning, the father of the poet; [circa 1860?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of eighteen octavo leaves of white wove paper. No watermark. At the head of each page is a pen an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1860?]
Extent:
1 item

182. Ashley MS 2608, B2608

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Ashley MS 2608, B2608
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Two Letters from Anne Isabella Milbanke to Elizabeth Wilkin-son, written during her engagement to Lord Byron, and expressing her confidence of future happiness; 3 Oct. (ff. 1-2b), 22 Dec. (ff. 3-4b) 1814. At the head of each letter is the note '14th letter copied' and '15th letter copied' respectively. Perhaps this is the result of Lady Byron's known assiduity in copying after the separation all documents concerning her relations with Lord Byron. Printed, not wholly accurately, in Ashley Lib...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1814
Extent:
2 items

183. Ashley MS 2609

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Ashley MS 2609
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'Like reptiles hatched from out the mud of Nile': sixteen lines of satire by Lord Byron, apparently intended for English Bards and Scotch Reviewers but never included in it; [1811?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of a quarto leaf of white wove paper. No watermark. By...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1811?]
Extent:
1 item

184. Ashley MS 2693

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Ashley MS 2693
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'To The Prince Regent - on the repeal of the bill of attainder against Ld. E. Fitzgerald. - july. 1819.': a sonnet by Lord Byron; 3 Aug. 1819. Autograph fair copy, with four revisions, written on one side only of a large quarto leaf of white wove paper. Watermark 'HOC AUSPICE / QVID NON AUSINT /...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1819
Extent:
1 item

185. Ashley MS 2700

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Ashley MS 2700
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Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray, concerning the publication of Sardanapalus and the reception of Marino Faliero; 29 June 1821. The letter occupies ff. 1-2b. Printed in Byron's Letters and Journals, ed. L. A. Marchand, vol. viii, 1978, pp. 144-145. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 67. Quart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jun 1821
Extent:
1 item

186. Ashley MS 2724

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Ashley MS 2724
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Letter from Edward John Trelawny to Jane Williams, among other matters giving an account of the last months of Lord Byron; 29 June 1824. Printed in Letters of E. J. Trelawny, 1910, pp. 83-85. Pasted into the folding case are a lithographic reproduction of a portrait of Trelawny by David Lucas, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jun 1824
Extent:
1 item

187. Ashley MS 2779

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Ashley MS 2779
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Letters (16) from Thomas Hall Caine to William Michael Rossetti; [14 Jan.]-5 Dec. 1882. The letters cover the end of the period when Caine was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's companion (14 Jan., 5 Feb.), Rossetti's death on 9 April and the settlement of his affairs (13, 19, 26, 19 April, 5 May, [16 Jul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[14 Jan ] 1882-5 Dec 1882
Extent:
1 item

188. Ashley MS 2782

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Ashley MS 2782
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Letter from Thomas Carlyle to J. H. Leigh Hunt; 29 Oct. 1833. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, eds. C. R. Sanders and K. J. Fielding, vol. 7, 1977, pp. 26-31. Accompanying the letter are pp. 55-60 of the page proofs of Ashley Library Catalogue, ix (ff. ii-iv). A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1833
Extent:
1 item

189. Ashley MS 2820 (1)-(2)

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Ashley MS 2820 (1)-(2)
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Two Pamphlets used for reminiscences etc. by Claire Clairmont; 1828-1830. Autograph. Accompanying the pamphlets is a newspaper cutting (f. ii) bearing an obituary notice of Claire Clairmont. The date '1879' has been added by an unknown hand. The contents of the pamphlets are printed, with some errors, in Marion L Stocking, The Journals of Claire Clairmont, 1968, pp. 418-438. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 188.
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Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: Diaries and Memoranda: Reminiscences, etc., by Clara Mary Jane Clairmont: 1828-1830: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1830
Extent:
2 items

190. Ashley MS 2884

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Ashley MS 2884
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Letter from Robert Southey to John May; 6 Oct. 1797. Printed in New Letters of Robert Southey, ed. Kenneth Curry, 1965, vol. I, pp. 152-153. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 54. Quarto; ff. i+2. Robert Southey, poet: John May: Letter to John May from Robert Southey: 1797.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1797
Extent:
1 item