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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

51. Ashley MS 441

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Ashley MS 441
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Two Letters, one partly printed, and two printed circulars, from William Knight to A. C. Swinburne, asking him to join a committee formed to purchase Coleridge's cottage at Nether Stowey, Somerset; 14 Sept., Oct. 1906. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 137. Octavo; ff. 7. William Knight: Algern...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 item

52. Ashley MS 629

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Ashley MS 629
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James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Charles Dickens, novelist: Letters to James Henry Leigh Hunt from Charles Dickens: 1840, 1855.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

53. Ashley MS 629, 637

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Ashley MS 629, 637
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Two Letters, the second with envelope, from Charles Dickens to J. H. Leigh Hunt, the first describing the delights of the Eel Pie House on Twickenham Island, the second recounting his recent movements, his family affairs, and his impressions of Genoa; 12 May 1840, 31 Jan. 1855. Printed in The Nonesuch Dickens, Letters, 1938, vol. i, pp. 256-257, vol. ii, pp. 621-622. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 38-42. Octavo; ff. ii+2, ii+3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1855
Extent:
2 items

54. Ashley MS 637

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Ashley MS 637
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James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Charles Dickens, novelist: Letters to James Henry Leigh Hunt from Charles Dickens: 1840, 1855.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

55. Ashley MS 786

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Ashley MS 786
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Letters (7) from George Gissing to Clement Shorter; 31 Aug. 1893- 26 Oct. 1903. The letters chiefly concern contributions by Gissing to various journals of which Shorter was the editor. In the last letter he mentions his Veranilda, published posthumously in 1907. For three further letters from G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1893-26 Oct 1903
Extent:
1 item

56. Ashley MS 822

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Ashley MS 822
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Letters (37) from Edmund Gosse to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 23 Aug. 1876-6 May 1903. The principal subjects of the letters are efforts by Gosse to secure reviews of his work by Watts, and thanks for the reviews, requests from Gosse to Watts to use his influence with Swinburne, and complaints by Goss...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Aug 1876-6 May 1903
Extent:
1 item

57. Ashley MS 843

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Ashley MS 843
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Norman MacColl, recounting that 'the opening incident' in his Tess of the D'Urbervilles, attacked in the Saturday Review as unnatural, was in fact based on a true event; 9 Feb. 1892. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, i, 1978, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Mil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1892
Extent:
1 item

58. Ashley MS 847

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Ashley MS 847
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Letter, with envelope, from Thomas Hardy to A. C. Swinburne, thanking him for his comments on the writer's The Well-Beloved, 1897, and praising a translation by Swinburne of a line of Sappho; 1 April 1897. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1897
Extent:
1 item

59. Ashley MS 849

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Ashley MS 849
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to W. T. Watts-Dunton, concerning the writer's Wessex Poems, 1898; 26 Feb. 1899. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 216. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 169. Octavo; ff. i+2. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Walt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1899
Extent:
1 item

60. Ashley MS 852

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Ashley MS 852
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, making fun of the mutually contradictory statements of his reviewers; 3 Aug. 1907. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iii, 1982, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 266. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 127. Octavo; ff. ii+1. Clement K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1907
Extent:
1 item