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032-001978147 Project / Collection Ashley Manuscripts Name Shorter, Clement King, journalist and author

1. Ashley MS 1152

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Ashley MS 1152
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Letters (9), three with envelopes, from George Meredith to Clement Shorter; 17 May 1891-15 Nov. 1908. Among the subjects of the letters are Meredith's attitude to his reviewers, Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1891, and the review of it in the Spectator, and praise of Frederick Greenwood, the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1891-15 Nov 1908
Extent:
1 item

2. Ashley MS 5731

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Ashley MS 5731
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Letter from Andrew Lang to Clement Shorter, discussing Lockhart and Jane Eyre; 3 March [1896]. Octavo; ff. ii+2. Clement King Shorter, journalist and author: Andrew Lang, author: Letter to Clement King Shorter from Andrew Lang: [1896].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar [1896]
Extent:
1 item

3. 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

4. Ashley MS 3410

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Ashley MS 3410
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'James Payn': an appreciation of James Payn by Henry James; 1898. Autograph draft, nevertheless apparently marked up as printer's copy, written on one side only of sixteen quarto leaves of ruled white wove paper. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'James Payne' in James' hand at the head of the f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898
Extent:
1 item

5. Ashley MS A3638

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Ashley MS A3638
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Note by Clement Shorter concerning George Meredith's poem 'Blest is the sword that leaps from sheath'; n.d. Typewritten, signed. The note records that the poem was written in Mrs Shorter's autograph album, and that she printed six copies of it on her private press. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

6. Ashley MS 3670

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Ashley MS 3670
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Letters (9) from George Moore to C. K. Shorter, concerning his contributions, with which he hoped to finance his novel-writing, to various publications of which Shorter was editor, including The Sketch and The Sphere; 6 May 1892-[1916], and n.d. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 100. Octavo; ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892-[1916]
Extent:
1 item

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Ashley MS B5557

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Ashley MS B5557
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Letter from George Meredith to Clement Shorter relating, among other matters, to H. A. L. Fisher's Bonapartism, 22 Feb. 1908; 1908. Printed in C. L. Cline, Letters of George Meredith, iii, 1970, p. 1632. includes: ff. 89-90b Clement King Shorter, journalist and author: George Meredith, novel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item