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Container Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

41. Ashley MS 359

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Ashley MS 359
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Letter (f. 8) from Sir Hall Caine to Clement Shorter, as editor of the Sphere, enclosing an article (ff. 1-7) entitled 'Previous "Prodigal Sons"'; 29 Oct. 1904. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 56. Octavo; ff. i+ 8. Clement King Shorter, journalist and author: Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, KBE;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1904
Extent:
1 item

42. Ashley MS 394, 2819 (1)-(4)

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Ashley MS 394, 2819 (1)-(4)
Title:
Five Diaries of Clara Mary Jane Clairmont; 14 Aug. - 9 Nov. 1814, 19 Jan. - 22 April 1818, 7 March 1819 - 1 Aug. 1820, 5 Aug. 1820 - 20 Sept. 1822, 24 May 1825 - 2 Jan. 1826. The diaries cover the period of P. B. Shelley's and Mary Godwin's elopement, accompanied by Claire, as she called herself, their residence in London, their departure for Italy, and residence there. Unfortunately there is a gap covering the period of Shelley's death. There are many references to Byron. The latest diary w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1814-1826
Extent:
1 item

43. Ashley MS 408

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Ashley MS 408
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'Poems on Various Subjects' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 1796-1797. Printed, with autograph corrections and additions. The contents are as follows, viz.: (1) MS. of the 'Advertisement' first printed on pp. 243-245 of the second edition, 1797. ff. 1-4; (2) Cancelled MS. version of ll. 7-12 of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1796-1797
Extent:
1 item

44. Ashley MS 441

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Ashley MS 441
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Two Letters, one partly printed, and two printed circulars, from William Knight to A. C. Swinburne, asking him to join a committee formed to purchase Coleridge's cottage at Nether Stowey, Somerset; 14 Sept., Oct. 1906. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 137. Octavo; ff. 7. William Knight: Algern...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 item

45. Ashley MS 629, 637

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Ashley MS 629, 637
Title:
Two Letters, the second with envelope, from Charles Dickens to J. H. Leigh Hunt, the first describing the delights of the Eel Pie House on Twickenham Island, the second recounting his recent movements, his family affairs, and his impressions of Genoa; 12 May 1840, 31 Jan. 1855. Printed in The Nonesuch Dickens, Letters, 1938, vol. i, pp. 256-257, vol. ii, pp. 621-622. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 38-42. Octavo; ff. ii+2, ii+3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1855
Extent:
2 items

46. Ashley MS 786

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Ashley MS 786
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Letters (7) from George Gissing to Clement Shorter; 31 Aug. 1893- 26 Oct. 1903. The letters chiefly concern contributions by Gissing to various journals of which Shorter was the editor. In the last letter he mentions his Veranilda, published posthumously in 1907. For three further letters from G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1893-26 Oct 1903
Extent:
1 item

47. Ashley MS 822

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Ashley MS 822
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Letters (37) from Edmund Gosse to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 23 Aug. 1876-6 May 1903. The principal subjects of the letters are efforts by Gosse to secure reviews of his work by Watts, and thanks for the reviews, requests from Gosse to Watts to use his influence with Swinburne, and complaints by Goss...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Aug 1876-6 May 1903
Extent:
1 item

48. Ashley MS 843

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Ashley MS 843
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Norman MacColl, recounting that 'the opening incident' in his Tess of the D'Urbervilles, attacked in the Saturday Review as unnatural, was in fact based on a true event; 9 Feb. 1892. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, i, 1978, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Mil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1892
Extent:
1 item

49. Ashley MS 847

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Ashley MS 847
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Letter, with envelope, from Thomas Hardy to A. C. Swinburne, thanking him for his comments on the writer's The Well-Beloved, 1897, and praising a translation by Swinburne of a line of Sappho; 1 April 1897. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1897
Extent:
1 item

50. Ashley MS 849

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 849
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Thomas Hardy to W. T. Watts-Dunton, concerning the writer's Wessex Poems, 1898; 26 Feb. 1899. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 216. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 169. Octavo; ff. i+2. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Walt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1899
Extent:
1 item