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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

281. Ashley MS 3075

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Ashley MS 3075
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'To time the tyrant': a poem by Austin Dobson; 1915. Autograph fair copy, apparently written for a Red Cross Sale on one side only of an octavo leaf of pale grey laid paper. The leaf forms a bifolium with another, blank, leaf. Watermark 'J WHATMAN / 1851'. Entitled as above in Dobson's hand, and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 item

282. Ashley MS 3099

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Ashley MS 3099
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'The Poetry of Francis Ledwidge': a review by John Drinkwater; 1918. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in pencil on one side only of sixteen quarto leaves of white ruled laid paper torn from a pad. No watermark. Entitled as above, and the leaves numbered 1-16, in Drinkwater's hand. Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 item

283. Ashley MS 3111

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Ashley MS 3111
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'We Willed It Not', 'Nineteen-Fifteen' and 'On the Picture of a Private Soldier who had gained a Victoria Cross': three poems by John Drinkwater; [1914-1915?]. Autograph fair copies, written on one side only of four quarto leaves of white ruled laid paper. The third leaf (f. 3) is a different pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1914-1915?]
Extent:
1 item

284. Ashley MS 3217

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Ashley MS 3217
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Letter from Edward Fitzgerald to George Borrow; 24 May 1857. Printed in The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, ed. A. M. Terhune and A. B. Terhune, vol. ii, 1980, pp. 276-277. ff. 1-2. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 120. The letter is accompanied by two verse fragments in Fitzgerald's hand, not men...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1857
Extent:
1 item

285. Ashley MS 3262

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Ashley MS 3262
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Journal of John and Maria Gisborne; 2 May-26 Sept. 1820. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and additions, written on both sides of twenty-nine leaves of a quarto vellum-bound notebook, and on one side only of two further leaves (ff. 9b and 39). The journal begins on f. 9b in John Gisborne's ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1820-26 Sep 1820
Extent:
1 item

286. Ashley MS 3263

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Ashley MS 3263
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Letter from George Gissing to Edward Clodd; 28 Aug. 1900. Printed in The Letters of George Gissing to Edward Clodd, ed. Pierre Coustillas, 1973,p. 69. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 80-81. For further letters from Gissing to Clodd see Ashley MS A784, Ashley MS A787, Ashley MS A3266. Octavo; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1900
Extent:
1 item

287. Ashley MS 3267

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Ashley MS 3267
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Letter from William Godwin to his second wife Mary Jane, formerly Mrs Clairmont, paying tribute to her character; 24 Sept. 1812. Endorsed by Claire Clairmont. Printed, slightly inaccurately, in Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, pp. 139-140. Octavo; ff. i+2. William Godwin, the elder; philosopher...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1812
Extent:
1 item

288. Ashley MS 3280

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Ashley MS 3280
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'The Challenge of the Brontës': an address given by Edmund Gosse to the Brontë Society; 28 March 1903. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and additions, written on one side only of twenty quarto leaves of ruled white wove paper. No watermark. An additional leaf (f. 1) bears a signed inscription...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1903
Extent:
1 item

289. Ashley MS 3299

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Ashley MS 3299
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Letters (22) from Edmund Gosse to A. C. Swinburne; 23 Nov. 1875-12 Sept. 1898. Among the subjects are Gosse's essay on Swinburne for Die Banier, 1876 (23 Nov. 1875), Swinburne's 'Erechtheus' (23 Nov. 1875, 5 Jan. 1876), Cardinal Newman's criticism of poets including Byron, Swinburne and Rossetti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1875-12 Sep 1898
Extent:
1 item

290. Ashley MS 3306

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Ashley MS 3306
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Two Letters from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise; 4 April 1906, 18 Nov. 1913. Bound up with a copy of Thomas Gray, The Candidate, 1764. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 160. Quarto; unfoliated. Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letters to Thomas James Wise from Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1913
Extent:
1 item