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371. Ashley MS 1886

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Ashley MS 1886
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Letter from A. C. Swinburne to Andrew Chatto, chiefly concerning Poems and Ballads, 1866, and a proposed edition of Early Poems; 20 July [1876]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, iii, 1960, pp. 199-200. For other letters from Swinburne to Chatto see A1903, A1912, A1926, 4378. Ashley Libr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul [1876]
Extent:
1 item

372. Ashley MS 5164

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Ashley MS 5164
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'The Irish Avatar': a poem by Lord Byron; 1821. Autograph draft, written on both sides of two large folio leaves of cream laid paper. Watermark 'VB' below a fleur-de-lys. ff. 1-2b. The MS. is not entitled, but is dated by Byron at the head of the first page (f. 1) 'Ra [Ravenna] Sept. 16th 1821'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1821
Extent:
1 item

373. Ashley MS A4437

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Ashley MS A4437
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Poems by A. C. Swinburne; [1857?]-[1889?]. Autograph drafts. Printed by T. J. Wise in The Ride from Milan and Other Poems, 1918. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 56. As follows:― 1. 'The Ride from Milan'; [1857-1858?]. ff. 51-53. 2. Poem, beginning 'I have no heart to think and think'; [1857-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1857?]-[1889?]
Extent:
1 item

374. Ashley MS B194, B2454

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Ashley MS B194, B2454
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Two Letters from George Edwin MacLean to T. J. Wise, the earlier sending a copy of his article 'Unpublished Essays in Novel Writing by Charlotte Brontë' reprinted from the Publications of the Brontë Society, xxvi, 1916, and the later a copy of Charlotte Brontë, Lament befitting these 'Times of Night', 1916, edited by MacLean and reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine for August 1916; 26 June, 21 Sept. 1916. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 79, 87].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
2 items

375. Ashley MS B561, B565, B571, B572, B573, B574

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Ashley MS B561, B565, B571, B572, B573, B574
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Letters (6) from John Davidson, four to Edmund Gosse, one to 'Mac' [W. S. McCormick?], and one to an unidentified correspondent; 2 March 1892-18 Dec. 1898. The letters concern Gosse's Russet and Silver, a Canadian poet, Richard Hovey, Davidson's reaction on receiving a grant from the Royal Literary Fund, the influence of the Jacobeans on the evolution of his plays, and the illness of his brother. [Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 12-16; ix, pp. 65-66].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1892-18 Dec 1898
Extent:
6 items

376. Ashley MS 71, B2335, A4688, B4691

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Ashley MS 71, B2335, A4688, B4691
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Letters (8) from J. M. Barrie to Clement Shorter, three with envelopes; 27 Jan. 1900-1 Sept. 1924. One letter (B4691) concerns Barrie's authorship of a short story 'A Lady's Shoe', but the others are chiefly excuses for refusing invitations from Shorter. For a further letter from Barrie to Shorter see 5750. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 16; [viii, p. 53]; ix, p. 11. MS. 71 is octavo; ff. i+10.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
27 Jan 1900-1 Sep 1924
Extent:
4 items

377. Ashley MS 988

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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

378. Ashley MS B410, B413, B2879

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Ashley MS B410, B413, B2879
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Letters (5) from Ernest Hartley Coleridge to T. J. Wise; 1903-1913. The letters concern the bibliography of S. T. Coleridge and (28 March 1903) E. H. Coleridge's edition of Byron. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 199, 202, 221].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1903-1913
Extent:
3 items

379. Ashley MS B1290

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Ashley MS B1290
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Verses entitled 'To Omar Khayam', by Stephen Phillips; n.d. Autograph fair copy in pencil, signed in ink, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of cream ruled laid paper. No watermark. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 206.] includes: f. 124 Stephen Phillips, poet and dramatist: Poetry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

380. Ashley MS 156

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Ashley MS 156
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''The Search after Hapiness'' (sic): a tale written at the age of thirteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy with many revisions and deletions, written on both sides of seven irregularly sized (average 60 x 90mm.) leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth. Waterm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item