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251. Ashley MS A2407

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Ashley MS A2407
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'Sir Jonas and Sir Nielus': a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1828-[1829?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of two quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark '1828' and part of figure of Britannia. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-[1829?]
Extent:
1 item

252. Ashley MS A4441

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Ashley MS A4441
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Poem, beginning 'In the moors round Carlyel' by A. C. Swinburne; [1857-1858?]. Autograph draft. The poem, which consists of nineteen stanzas, was perhaps intended as the conclusion of Swinburne's unfinished poem 'Queen Iseult'. Printed, inaccurately, in Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 59-61. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1857-1858?]
Extent:
1 item

253. Ashley MS B304, B316, B317, B320, B351

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Ashley MS B304, B316, B317, B320, B351
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Letters to T. J. Wise from various correspondents concerning the bibliography of Byron, Hours of Idleness, 1807, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1811 [1816?], Genuine Rejected Addresses, 1812, and the discovery by Sydney Cockerell that an inscription purporting to be by Byron in a copy of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was forged by De Gibler; 29 April 1912-14 Aug. 1933. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 145; x, pp. 54, 55; xi, pp. 15, 51].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1912-14 Aug 1933
Extent:
5 items

254. Ashley MS B1996

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Ashley MS B1996
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'Selections from the Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne'. Draft list, in Swinburne's hand, of poems to be included in Selections from the Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1887, written on one side only of a folio leaf of blue laid paper. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Sup...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

255. Ashley MS B3527

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Ashley MS B3527
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Discarded Fragment of 'Samuel Johnson and John Horne Tooke': an Imaginary Conversation by Walter Savage Landor; n.d. Autograph draft, written on one side only of a fragment of white wove paper. No watermark. The fragment comprises part of a speech by Tooke beginning 'Can anything be more conceit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

256. Ashley MS B3551

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Ashley MS B3551
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Autobiographical Notes by Walter Savage Landor; after 1829. Auto-graph draft, written on both sides of two conjoined octavo leaves of white wove mourning paper bound as a quarto leaf. Watermark illegible. The latest event mentioned is Landor's purchase of the Villa Gherardesca. [Ashley Library C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1829
Extent:
1 item

257. Ashley MS 1369

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Ashley MS 1369
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'By Way of Remembrance': a sequence of four sonnets by Christina Rossetti; [Oct.?] 1870. Autograph fair copies, written on both sides of two leaves of cream laid paper. No watermark. For a discussion of the poems see L. M. Packer, Christina Rossetti, 1963, pp. 255-258. The sestet of the fourth s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Oct ?] 1870
Extent:
1 item

258. Ashley MS 3868

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Ashley MS 3868
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'The Ballad of Jan van Hunks' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [March?] 1882. Autograph fair copy, with additions and revisions in ink and pencil, written on one side only of eleven leaves and on both sides of a further two leaves (ff. 1 and 2) of a quarto notebook of twenty-eight leaves. White, laid ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Mar ?] 1882
Extent:
1 item

259. Ashley MS 5720

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Ashley MS 5720
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'The Medium': a dialogue on the loss of a diamond ring, with grotesque water-colour drawings of the speakers, by Robert Browning, the father of the poet; circa 1860. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of twenty-one leaves of cream wove paper. No watermark. Entitled 'The Medium' by Rob...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

260. Ashley MS B2996

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2996
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'Verses written on the . . . Day of . . . in the year . . .': a poem by George Crabbe; after 1807. Autograph fair copy, entitled as above, written on both sides of an octavo leaf of white laid paper, and on one side only of another, conjoined, leaf. Watermark 'BE & S 1807 BATH?'. The verses ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item