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Container Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

11. Ashley MS 114

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Ashley MS 114
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'The Young Boxer': a story translated from the Persian by George Borrow; circa 1860. Autograph fair copy, heavily revised in places, written on both sides of eleven quarto leaves of white laid paper formed by tearing folio leaves in half. No watermark. The story is entitled 'The Young Boxer. / F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

12. Ashley MS 119

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Ashley MS 119
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Account of an Incident at Yarmouth in 1853 by George Borrow; [1853?]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of two conjoined octavo leaves of cream laid paper. No watermark. Printed in C. K. Shorter, George Borrow and his Circle, 1913, pp. 291-292. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 45. Octav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1853?]
Extent:
1 item

13. Ashley MS 128

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Ashley MS 128
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'The Valkyrie and Raven': a ballad translated from the Norse by George Borrow; before 1862. Autograph draft, written on both sides of four octavo leaves of cream laid paper, and one side only of a fifth (f. 6). No watermark. The ballad is entitled by Borrow on f. 1 'The Valkyrie and Raven/[From ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

14. Ashley MS 133

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Ashley MS 133
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Five Ballads: translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1826 or later. Autograph fair copies, written on both sides of eight narrow octavo leaves of cream laid paper. Watermarks 'F L', '1826' and the figure of Britannia. The ballads, which were possibly written out for 'Songs of Scandinavia',...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

15. Ashley MS 154

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Ashley MS 154
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'Self-communion' and 'The Narrow Way': two poems by Anne Brontë; 1847-1848. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white wove paper and on one side only of a tenth. Watermark 'J Whatman/1833'. The longer poem, written on ff. 1-9, is en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847-1848
Extent:
1 item

16. Ashley MS 155

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Ashley MS 155
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Letter from Anne Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers, apologising on behalf of Charlotte who was too overcome by the death of their brother Branwell to reply to a letter from Williams; 29 Sept. 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, ii, pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1848
Extent:
1 item

17. Ashley MS 156

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Ashley MS 156
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''The Search after Hapiness'' (sic): a tale written at the age of thirteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy with many revisions and deletions, written on both sides of seven irregularly sized (average 60 x 90mm.) leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth. Waterm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item

18. Ashley MS 157

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Ashley MS 157
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''Blackwoods Young Men''s Magazine'' (First Series, No. 6): a miniature magazine written by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of nine irregularly sized (average 35 x 50mm.) leaves of white wo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item

19. Ashley MS 158

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Ashley MS 158
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''Matin'' and ''Vesper'': two poems written at the age of fourteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1830. Autograph fair copies with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of a leaf 93 x 57mm. of white wove paper. No watermark. The present MS. originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830
Extent:
1 item

20. Ashley MS 159

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Ashley MS 159
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''The Foundling'' by Charlotte Brontë
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''The foundling'': a tale written at the age of seventeen by Charlotte Brontë; 1833. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white laid paper. No watermark. The leaves have been bound by Charlotte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833
Extent:
1 item