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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

301. Ashley MS 3428

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Ashley MS 3428
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'Ye treue and pitifulle historie of ye Poet and ye ancient dame': a series of eleven caricatures by Edward Burne Jones commenting on an incident in the life of Algernon Charles Swinburne; 1868. The caricatures are drawn on eleven irregularly sized and shaped scraps of white laid paper, without w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

302. Ashley MS 3475

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Ashley MS 3475
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Letter from Joseph Severn to Mrs Brawne written while he was with John Keats during his last illness in Rome; 11 Jan. 1821. Printed in William Sharp, Life and Letters of Joseph Severn, 1892, pp. 77-79. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 19-21. Quarto; ff. iii+2. Joseph Severn, painter: John Ke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1821
Extent:
1 item

303. Ashley MS 3476

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Ashley MS 3476
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Letter from Oscar Wilde to W. M. Rossetti, sending a monograph he had written on the subject of John Keats' grave, and asking Rossetti to support his proposal for erecting a monument to Keats; 14 July 1877 (so dated by the recipient). Printed in The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1877
Extent:
1 item

304. Ashley MS 3477

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Ashley MS 3477
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'John Keats': a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1881?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white ruled laid paper. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Super Fine'. Entitled 'IV John Keats' in Rossetti's hand. The MS. has been used as printer's copy, and the text is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1881?]
Extent:
1 item

305. Ashley MS 3478

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Ashley MS 3478
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'Keats': a critical biography by Andrew Lang; [1896]. Autograph fair copy, with some revisions, written on one side only of sixty-six quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermarks 'FLORENTINE' (ff. 3-7, 42-45), 'GURNEY / IVORY LAID' (ff. 8-41, 46-49, 51-62) and none (ff. 50, 63-68). The biograph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1896]
Extent:
1 item

306. Ashley MS 3493

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Ashley MS 3493
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Letter in verse from Rudyard Kipling to Edmund Gosse, thanking him for the gift of a copy of a work by Gosse, perhaps the 1890 edition of On Viol & Flute; 24 May 1890. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 143. Octavo; ff. i+2. Edward Gosse, poet: Joseph Rudyard Kipling, author: Letter in verse ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1890
Extent:
1 item

307. Ashley MS 3506 (1)

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Ashley MS 3506 (1)
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'Liber Aureus'. Verse compositions; 1783-July 1791. Included are five poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge printed in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. H. Coleridge, 1912 (Poetical Works), viz:― a. 'Nil pejus est caelibe vita' ('What pleasure shall he ever find?'); 1787...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-Jul 1791
Extent:
1 item

308. Ashley MS 3506 (1)-(3)

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Ashley MS 3506 (1)-(3)
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'Liber Aureus': three volumes used by the Rev. James Boyer, headmaster at Christ's Hospital 1776-1799, for the transcription by his students of their best compositions, including five poems and seven essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and one poem by Charles Lamb; 1783-1799. The titles were given by Boyer generally in Latin, but the compositions, sixty five in all, are in English. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, pp. 154-156.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1799
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0 items

309. Ashley MS 3506 (2)

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Ashley MS 3506 (2)
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'Liber Aureus'. Verse compositions; 1791-14 Feb. 1799. Quarto; ff. i+29 (a large number of pages have been cut out at the end). Christ's Hospital; Horsham, Sussex: 'Liber Aureus' compiled from compositions of pupils at Christ's Hospital: 1783-1799. Reverend James Boyer, Headmaster of Christ's...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1791-14 Feb 1799
Extent:
1 item

310. Ashley MS 3506 (3)

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Ashley MS 3506 (3)
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'Liber Aureus'. Prose compositions; Oct. 1786-1799. Included are seven essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, apparently unpublished, viz:― a. 'Temperance'; 6 June 1788. ff. 4, 4b. b. 'Nil dictu faedum, visuque haec limina tangat, Intra quae puerest' ('The tender age of childhood requires the utmo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1786-1799
Extent:
1 item