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1401. Ashley MS B868

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Ashley MS B868
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Picture Postcard (of a bust of Thomas Hardy) from Sidney Cockerell to T. J. Wise; 10 June 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 144.] includes: ff. 38, 38b Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Thomas James Wise, book collector...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1929
Extent:
1 item

1402. Ashley MS B1978

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Ashley MS B1978
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1. Letter from Victor Hugo to Mme [ ], sending four guineas for her bazaar; 3 Nov. 1869. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 33]. 2. Letter from John Morley to A. C. Swinburne, discussing the latter's article, printed in the Fortnightly for Sept. 1872, on Victor Hugo's 'L'Année Terrible'; 25 Aug...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1869-1872
Extent:
1 item

1403. Ashley MS B2890

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Ashley MS B2890
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Review by T. J. Wise of J. Dykes Campbell, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Narrative of the Events of his Life, 1894; 1894. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on one side only of seven folio leaves of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. The review is entitled 'Mr. Campbell's "Life o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1894
Extent:
1 item

1404. Ashley MS B3222

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Ashley MS B3222
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Letter from W. W. Caddell to T. J. Wise, mentioning his discovery of a description of how Edward Fitzgerald found the metre used in his translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; 14 July 1913. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 122]. includes: ff. 2-3b Edward Fitzgerald, translator of Omar ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 item

1405. Ashley MS B4152

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Ashley MS B4152
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Cheque drawn by James Stanley Little and F. J. Furnivall, of the Shelley Society, in favour of William Christian Selle in the sum of ten guineas; 20 Dec. 1886. Endorsed by Selle. The payment was presumably connected with the Shelley Society's publication of Hellas: A Lyrical Drama by Percy Byssh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1886
Extent:
1 item

1406. Ashley MS B1526

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Ashley MS B1526
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Letter from Ebba, Lady Low to T. J. Wise, thanking him for a cheque for £15 given for her copy, inscribed by G. B. Shaw, of the rough proof of his The Apple Cart (published in 1930); 15 March 1932. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 103.] includes: ff. 9, 10 Lady Ebba Cecilia Low, widow of Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1932
Extent:
1 item

1407. Ashley MS B3794

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Ashley MS B3794
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Letter from W. K. Chandler to T. J. Wise, sending him a copy of Chandler's The First Edition of The Dunciad, 1931; 10 Oct. [1931?]. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 98]. includes: f. 50 W. K. Chandler, of the University of Chicago: Alexander Pope, poet: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct [1931?]
Extent:
1 item

1408. Ashley MS B4041

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Ashley MS B4041
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Cheque drawn by T. J. Wise in favour of the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke in the sum of £240, endorsed by Brooke; 12 July 1910. The cheque was payment for P. B. Shelley's own copy of A Refutation of Deism, 1814, with autograph corrections to the text, which had been presented to Brooke by Lady Shelley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jul 1910
Extent:
1 item

1409. Ashley MS 1928

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Ashley MS 1928
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Two Letters from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning the death of Swinburne's brother Edward; both 31 July [1891]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., vi, 1962, pp. 12-15. Also included are three letters (ff. 8-12) from Edward Swinburne to Watts[-Dunton], concerning employment, join...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891-1921
Extent:
1 item

1410. Ashley MS A4436

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Ashley MS A4436
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1. Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, concerning the printing of A. C. Swinburne, Rondeaux Parisiens, 1917; 31 May 1917. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 50-51. Vol. A XI, ff. 48, 48b. 2. Poem of two stanzas, beginning 'Hélas! pucelle', by A. C. Swinburne; after 1879. French. Autograph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1879-1917
Extent:
1 item