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571. Ashley MS 5716

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5716
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Scope & Content:
Account Book, in the hand of Robert Browning, showing expenditure from Jan. 1877 to March 1884, and income for the years 1878 to 1885. The expenditure is on ff. 2, 3-45, while the income is at the end on ff. 47 (inside the back cover), and (rev.) ff. 45b-46b. The book used is a linen-covered not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877-1884
Extent:
1 item

572. Ashley MS 5717

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5717
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Pass Book, showing Robert Browning's account with the Westminster Bank, Marylebone Branch, from 7 May 1884 to 31 December 1889. The book used is a roan-covered notebook. Octavo; ff. i+44. Robert Browning, poet: Pass Book showing account with London & Westminster Bank Ltd. of Robert Brownin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884-1889
Extent:
1 item

573. Ashley MS 5718

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5718
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Scope & Content:
Address Book of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; circa 1855-[1863?]. The majority of the entries are in the hand of Elizabeth, the remainder in that of Robert. The book used is a roan-covered notebook, watermarked 1855. Of the sixty-one folios, 3, 12, 19, 25, 26, 28, 36, 41, 42, 46, 55, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1855-[1863?]
Extent:
1 item

574. Ashley MS 5719

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5719
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Scope & Content:
Notebook of Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, used for autograph notes of the exhibition and sale of his paintings, and for press-cuttings relating to them; 1875-1881. There is a note by Robert Browning on f. 16b. The book used is a roan-covered notebook. Octavo; ff. 30. Robert Wiedemann Barr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1881
Extent:
1 item

575. Ashley MS 5720

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5720
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'The Medium': a dialogue on the loss of a diamond ring, with grotesque water-colour drawings of the speakers, by Robert Browning, the father of the poet; circa 1860. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of twenty-one leaves of cream wove paper. No watermark. Entitled 'The Medium' by Rob...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

576. Ashley MS 5721

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5721
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Scope & Content:
'Lessons for Stray Hours': questions and answers on the natural history of man and other primates, with water-colour drawings, by Edmund Gosse; written in his childhood circa 1857-1860. Autograph fair copy, written in pencil on both sides of two octavo leaves of cream laid paper, and one side on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1857-1860
Extent:
1 item

577. Ashley MS 5722

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5722
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Notebook with notes of events in the life of William Congreve, by Edmund Gosse; 1888. On f. 1 is the note 'Began Feb. 20 1888. Finished May 29 1888'. Gosse's Life of William Congreve was published in July 1888. The book used is a Board of Trade ruled notebook. Also included is a letter from Phil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888
Extent:
1 item

578. Ashley MS 5723

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5723
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Scope & Content:
Letters (11) from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd; 27 June 1891, 17 Jan. 1897, 13 July 1909, 22 July 1909, 6 Oct. 1909, 5 Dec. 1910, [24 Aug. 1911], 8 Oct. 1912, 18 April 1913, 4 June 1924, 26 June 1927. On f. 12b (a blank page of one of Hardy's letters) is a letter from Clodd to [James] Milne, 25 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891-1927
Extent:
1 item

579. Ashley MS 5724

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5724
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, giving an account of his second marriage; 11 Feb. 1914. Printed in The Collected Letters, v, 1985, p. 9. Also included (f. 2) is a letter to Clodd from Florence Hardy, [1914]. Octavo; ff. i+2. includes: ff. 1, 1b Edward Clodd, banker and author: Tho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1914
Extent:
1 item

580. Ashley MS 5725

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 5725
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Scope & Content:
Letters (3) from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, concerning Hardy's 'Two on a Tower'; 4, 10 Dec. 1882, 21 Jan. 1883. Printed in The Collected Letters, i, 1978, pp. 110, 114-115. Octavo; ff. i+5. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letters to Sir Edmund William Gosse fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882-1883
Extent:
1 item