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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

291. Ashley MS 3333

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Ashley MS 3333
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, giving, among other matters, an account of a visit to the grave of Thomas Gray; 1 June 1900. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 257. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 125. Quarto; ff. ii+2. Edw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1900
Extent:
1 item

292. Ashley MS 3334

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Ashley MS 3334
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, giving his views on religion as prompted by Clodd's Thomas Henry Huxley, 1902; 27 Feb. 1902. Printed in The Collected Letters, iii, 1982, p. 5. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 126. Quarto; ff. ii+2. Edward Clodd, banker and author: Thomas Hardy, OM; no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1902
Extent:
1 item

293. Ashley MS 3343

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Ashley MS 3343
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'To Shakespeare, After three hundred years': a poem by Thomas Hardy; 14 Feb. 1916. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of six large quarto leaves of white laid paper. Entitled as above, with a titlepage in Hardy's hand, signed and dated. The text found in the MS. is identical with that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1916
Extent:
1 item

294. Ashley MS 3351

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Ashley MS 3351
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'At a House in Hampstead (Sometime the Dwelling of John Keats)': a poem by Thomas Hardy; July 1920. Autograph fair copy, with four revisions, written on one side only of two large quarto leaves of white laid paper. The MS. is entitled as above in Hardy's hand, signed and dated. The text found in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1920
Extent:
1 item

295. Ashley MS 3384

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Ashley MS 3384
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Letter from Thomas Jefferson Hogg to Percy Bysshe Shelley, speaking of J. H. Leigh Hunt, of Sunday dinners with T. L. Peacock, and of the Gisbornes; 25 Dec. 1820. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 188-189. Quarto; ff. i+2. Thomas Jefferson Hogg, friend and biographer of P B Shelley: Percy Byss...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Dec 1820
Extent:
1 item

296. Ashley MS 3389

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Ashley MS 3389
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Letters (5), four with envelopes (ff. 4, 7, 18, 23), from William Dean Howells to Edmund Gosse; 9 Sept. 1882-9 March 1885. Among the subjects discussed are a dinner in London with Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Bret Harte, John Hay, Clarence King, Charles Dudley Warner and Edwin Booth (ff. 1-2b), Howell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1882-9 Mar 1885
Extent:
1 item

297. Ashley MS 3393

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Ashley MS 3393
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Letters (9) from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his wife Marianne; 13 Feb. 1806-2 June 1813. Five of the letters (ff. 1-12b) were written during the period of Leigh Hunt's engagement to Marianne Kent, and chiefly contain news of his travels to Lincoln and Doncaster, and to Nottingham (13 Feb. 1806, 13 June...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1806-1815
Extent:
1 item

298. Ashley MS 3399

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Ashley MS 3399
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'Christmas: A Song for Good Fellows, Young & Old': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1835-1836?]. Autograph fair copy, with six revisions, written on one side only of three small folio leaves of grey laid paper, and on both sides of a fourth leaf of the same. Ff. 1 and 2 form a bifolium. Watermar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1835-1836?]
Extent:
1 item

299. Ashley MS 3409

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Ashley MS 3409
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'The Unknown': a short story by W. W. Jacobs; [1900-1914]. Autograph fair copy, with some revisions and corrections, written on one side only of thirty leaves of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. The text is preceded by an autograph title-page written on the same paper, signed and with an ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1900-1914]
Extent:
1 item

300. Ashley MS 3410

Reference (shelfmark):
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