Archive Reference (shelfmark): Ashley MS A17-5768 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1410 (3)
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Scope & Content:: (3). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Last two stanzas of 'Soothsay'. ff. 14 and 14b, 12b;―(b) First two lines of stanzas 1 and 3 of 'Alas, so long'. f. 15;―(c) Two lines 'As much as in a hundred years she's dead Yet is today the day on which she died', possibly referring to the death o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1879-1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1410 (4)
Title:
Scope & Content:: (4). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Notes for 'True Woman I and II'. ff. 43b, 44;―(b) Unused prose introduction to 'The House of Life'. f. 40b; ― (c) Notes for 'The Song-throe'. f. 39;―(d) Notes and drafts for lines 2-6 of 'John Keats'. ff. 37b-38b;―(e) First seven lines of 'Thomas Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1879-1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1411
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (3) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], with one (8 Dec. 1875) from Watts[-Dunton] in reply (ff. 4-18b); 28 Nov. 1875-4 Jan. 1876. The letters chiefly concern a supernatural story told to Rossetti by Watts, which the former intended to use as the subject of a ballad. The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Nov 1875-4 Jan 1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1412
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Scope & Content:: 'The Death of Topsy': a burlesque play on the subject of William Morris by D. G. Rossetti, provoked by Morris' insistence on taking over the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. early in 1875; [1875?]. Autograph draft, written on both sides of five leaves of octavo cream laid paper. Waterm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1875?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1413
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Scope & Content:: Instructions from D. G. Rossetti to George Hake, his secretary, for the cremation of his body and the destruction of certain letters [probably from Mrs William Morris] in the event of his death; 30 April 1876. Printed in O. Doughty and J. R. Wahl, Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, iii, 1967, pp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Apr 1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1414
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Scope & Content:: Notes on Charles Wells by D. G. Rossetti; [1879?]. Accompanying the notes are two letters, 21 April 1876 and [March?] 1879, from Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], partly concerning Wells (ff. 7-12). Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 139. Octavo; ff. i+12. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1879?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1416
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Scope & Content:: Letters (8), five with envelopes, from D. G. Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning the latter's selection of the poems of Thomas Chatterton for Ward's English Poets; [6 May?-9 June?] 1880. With the letters are (ff. 18-39) notes on, and transcripts of, various poems of Chatterton b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1880
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1420
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Scope & Content:: 'Astarte Syriaca' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Dec. 1875 or later. 1409 and 1420 are written on similar paper. Fair copy, written on both sides of an octavo leaf (ff. 1, 1b) of white laid paper. Watermark 'Joy[ ] / 18[ ]'. The text found in the MS. differs in places from the version printed on p. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1875-1930
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1427*
Title:
Scope & Content:: Two Letters from A. C. Swinburne to W. M. Rossetti, thanking him for the gift of his Dante Gabriel Rossetti His Family-Letters, 1895, and Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism, 1899, discussing the contents, and eulogizing Mrs D. G. Rossetti (Lizzie Siddal); 4, 5 Dec. 1895, 24 Dec. 1898. Printed in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1895-1898
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1446
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters from W. M. Rossetti and Lucy Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne and [J. C. Hotten], 2 Jan. 1866-20 Sept. 1906Octavo; ff. i+ 159. includes: ff. 1-17, 19-103, 106-159 William Michael Rossetti, author and art critic: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letters to Algernon Charles Swinburne from ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1866-20 Sep 1906
Extent:: 1 item

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