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Container Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

51. Ashley MS 852

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Ashley MS 852
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, making fun of the mutually contradictory statements of his reviewers; 3 Aug. 1907. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iii, 1982, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 266. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 127. Octavo; ff. ii+1. Clement K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1907
Extent:
1 item

52. Ashley MS 853

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Ashley MS 853
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Letter, with an envelope addressed in Hardy's hand to Gosse and post-marked 3 June 1925, from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, concerning Gosse's autobiographical Father and Son, 1907; 3 Nov. 1907. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iii, 1982, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 282....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1907
Extent:
1 item

53. Ashley MS 855

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Ashley MS 855
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, expressing his feelings on his 70th birthday; 3 June 1910. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iv, 1984, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 91. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 170. Octavo; ff. i+2. Edward Clodd, banker and author: Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1910
Extent:
1 item

54. Ashley MS 859

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Ashley MS 859
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Two Letters from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, discussing an agree-ment whereby Shorter had the MSS. of Hardy's works bound in return for the gift of the MS. of 'The Return of the Native', and expressing an opinion on Mrs Shorter's [Dora Sigerson's] poems; 4 June 1908, 20 Nov. 1912. Printed i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1912
Extent:
1 item

55. Ashley MS 905

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Ashley MS 905
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'Bacchus and Ariadne': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1819?]. Autograph draft, with numerous corrections, additions and deletions, written on one side only of eight octavo leaves of white wove paper and on both sides of a further four. No watermark. On ff. 13b, 14b, 15b, and 16b are lists in Hunt'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1819?]
Extent:
1 item

56. Ashley MS 906, 907, 4855

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Ashley MS 906, 907, 4855
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'The Story Of Rimini': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1811-1816?]. 906 is an autograph fair copy, with pencil comments by Lord Byron, and occasional corrections by Hunt, of portions of Cantos II and III, written on one side only of thirty octavo leaves of white wove paper, and on both sides of another (f. 1). Watermark (ff. 1-21) 'J Green / 1814'. In a note on f. 4 of this MS. Hunt states that Canto II and a small part of Canto III were composed while he was in prison [3 Feb. 1813-3 Feb. 1815]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1811-1816?]
Extent:
3 items

57. Ashley MS 911

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 911
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Scope & Content:
Poem, beg. 'To gather flowers, one summer day', by J. H. Leigh Hunt; circa 1820. Autograph fair copy, with one revision, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white wove paper. No watermark. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 199. Octavo; ff. i+1. James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 item

58. Ashley MS 912

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Ashley MS 912
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Scope & Content:
'Robin Hood a Child', 'Robin Hood's Flight', 'Robin Hood an Outlaw': three poems by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1820?]. Autograph drafts, written on both sides of seven octavo leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth (f. 7). No watermark. The contents of the MS. are as follows, viz.:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1820?]
Extent:
1 item

59. Ashley MS 915

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Ashley MS 915
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Account of the Death and cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley, together with a description of his life and character and that of his companion Captain Williams, who was drowned with Shelley in his yacht, the ''Don Juan'', by J. H. Leigh Hunt; probably 1822. The MS. is in the hand of Hunt''s wife, b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822
Extent:
1 item

60. Ashley MS 916

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 916
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Scope & Content:
'Venetian Song' by J. H. Leigh Hunt; before 1823. Autograph draft, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark part of shield and '[ ]P'. The text found in the MS. differs in three places from the text as first printed in The Liberal, No. iv, 1823, with the title 'T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1823
Extent:
1 item