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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768

71. Ashley MS 916

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Ashley MS 916
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'Venetian Song' by J. H. Leigh Hunt; before 1823. Autograph draft, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark part of shield and '[ ]P'. The text found in the MS. differs in three places from the text as first printed in The Liberal, No. iv, 1823, with the title 'T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1823
Extent:
1 item

72. Ashley MS 920

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Ashley MS 920
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'The Shewe of Faire Seeming': a poem in imitation of Spenser by J. H. Leigh Hunt; before 1858. Autograph rough draft, written on both sides of nine leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'John Smith / Sunny Dale Mill'. The greater part of the text found in the MS. was never used for the first pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1858
Extent:
1 item

73. Ashley MS 929

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Ashley MS 929
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Letter from Henry James to Edmund Gosse on the death of Robert Louis Stevenson; 17 Dec. 1894. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 136. Octavo; ff. iv+4. Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Henry James, novelist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Henry James rel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1894
Extent:
1 item

74. Ashley MS 931

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Ashley MS 931
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Two Letters, one with front of envelope, from Lionel Johnson to Edmund Gosse; [3 July 1886], 24 Feb. 1895. The earlier letter was written from Winchester College, and in it Johnson answers criticisms of his poetry made by Gosse, and states his aims. In the later letter he describes the divisions...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1886-1895
Extent:
1 item

75. Ashley MS 941

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Ashley MS 941
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Letters (3), with envelopes, from Edward Burne-Jones to A. C. Swinburne; [25 April 1859]-3 April 1897. The first letter, postmarked 25 April 1859, and addressed to 'Dear little Carrots', concerns Burne-Jones' designs for St Frides-wide's Window in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, for which Swinb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[25 Apr 1859]-3 Apr 1897
Extent:
1 item

76. Ashley MS 942

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Ashley MS 942
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Letter from Edward Burne-Jones to William Michael Rossetti refusing an invitation to dinner; [13 Aug. 1866?]. On f. 2 is a sketch of the writer's infant daughter Margaret. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 149. Octavo; ff. i+2. William Michael Rossetti, author and art critic: Sir Edward Coley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[13 Aug 1866?]
Extent:
1 item

77. Ashley MS 974*

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Ashley MS 974*
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Letter from A. C. Swinburne to William Michael Rossetti, with suggestions for the editing of a selection from John Keats; 23 May 1870. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, ii, 1959, pp. 113-114. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 149, 150. Octavo; ff. i+2. William Michael Rossetti, author...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1870
Extent:
1 item

78. Ashley MS 975

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Ashley MS 975
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Letter from Robert Browning to Harry Buxton Forman, concerning the ultimate fate of the copy of John Keats, Lamia found on the body of Shelley, and speaking of a letter written to J. H. Leigh Hunt by Browning on 6 Oct. 1857, printed without Browning's permission in Leigh Hunt's Correspondence, e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1877
Extent:
1 item

79. Ashley MS 976

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Ashley MS 976
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Two Letters, with envelopes, from A. C. Swinburne to Harry Buxton Forman; 22 Feb., 15 March 1878. The letters both enthusiastically acknowledge the gift of a copy of Forman's edition of the Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, Written in the Years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX, 1878. Accompanying the l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

80. Ashley MS 988

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 988
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Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Norman MacColl, refusing to accept pay-ment for his poem 'The Rhyme of the Three Captains', published in the Athenæum for 6 Dec. 1890; 8 Jan. 1891. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 32. Octavo; ff. i+1. Norman MacColl, Editor, 'The Athenaeum': Joseph Rudyard Kipl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1891
Extent:
1 item