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11. Ashley MS 4020

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Ashley MS 4020
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Letter from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, chiefly describing an excursion to Lucca to hear an improvisation given by Tommaso Sgricci in the theatre there; [14] Jan. 1821. Printed, with many inaccuracies in the Italian part of the text, in F. L. Jones, The Letters of Mary W. Shelley, vol. i, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[14] Jan 1821
Extent:
1 item

12. Ashley MS 175

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Ashley MS 175
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Poetical Notebook used for fair copies by Emily Brontë; 1839. Autograph fair copies, with revisions, written on both sides of twelve octavo leaves of ruled cream wove paper. Watermark ''J Rump / 1831''. The leaves once formed part of a notebook, but were disbound and mounted on guards by T. J. W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839
Extent:
1 item

13. Ashley MS 2468

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Ashley MS 2468
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''The History Of The Young Men From Their First Settlement To The Present Time'': a volume contributed by Patrick Branwell Brontë to the imaginary history written between 1829 and 1839 principally by Branwell and Charlotte Brontë; 1830-1831. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and deletions, wri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830-1831
Extent:
1 item

14. Ashley MS 4022

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Ashley MS 4022
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Two Letters from Mary Shelley to Jane Hogg, formerly Williams, the earlier (ff. 1-2b) chiefly concerning Mary's discovery that Jane had been spreading scandalous rumours about her, the later chiefly concerned with a request that Jane would see to the removal of Mary's furniture from the house of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1843
Extent:
1 item

15. Ashley MS 1376

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Ashley MS 1376
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Eleven Valentines written by Christina Rossetti to her mother; 1876-1886. Autograph fair copies written on one side only of eleven octavo leaves of various cream and grey laid papers (ff. 20 and 21 are wove paper). With the exception of ff. 2 and 3 all the leaves form bifolia with another leaf o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1886
Extent:
1 item

16. Ashley MS 5023

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Ashley MS 5023
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Letters (6) from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont; 27 Oct. [1844], 7 [July 1845], [12 Oct. 1845], [12 Dec. 1845], 30 Aug. [1846], [15 Dec. 1848]. The letters concern, among other matters, the troubles she had on her son Percy inheriting the baronetcy and the Field Place estate, the recovery by A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1848
Extent:
1 item

17. Ashley MS 157

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Ashley MS 157
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''Blackwoods Young Men''s Magazine'' (First Series, No. 6): a miniature magazine written by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of nine irregularly sized (average 35 x 50mm.) leaves of white wo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item