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381. Ashley MS A1402, A1415, A1418, A1419, B1428, A3851, A3862, A3863

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Ashley MS A1402, A1415, A1418, A1419, B1428, A3851, A3862, A3863
Title:
Letters (18) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning the production of Rossetti's Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, and in particular the ballad 'The White Ship'; early 1880 to Aug. 1881. It seems more likely that the ballad referred to in A1415 is 'The White Ship' than 'The Bride's Prelude'. Wise had an interest in claiming that it was the latter, as he was trying to prove that the proof of 'The Bride's Prelude' in his possession was a separate issu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1871-1881
Extent:
8 items

382. Ashley MS B2416

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B2416
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Scope & Content:
'On Pool Cerys' and 'Surely the wildest whirlpool neath the sky': two translations from the Welsh by George Borrow of the poem by Gruffydd Hiraethog; [before 1857?]. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of A2409. The translations are printed in The Works of George Borrow, viii, 1923, p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before 1857?]
Extent:
1 item

383. Ashley MS 1044

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1044
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Scope & Content:
'A Satire on Satirists' by Walter Savage Landor; 1836-circa 1840. A copy of the first printed edition, 1836, with autograph corrections and additions by the author, and autograph notes by Richard Henry Horne, to whom the volume was given by the author (see f. 1b). There are additions or correcti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-c 1840
Extent:
1 item

384. Ashley MS 1872

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1872
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Scope & Content:
Letter from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning his attitude towards his publishers and would-be publishers; 6 Dec. 1872. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 104-106. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, ii, 1959, pp. 203-207. Octavo; ff. ii+6. Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1872
Extent:
1 item

385. Ashley MS B323

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B323
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Scope & Content:
Fragment of a letter, with the signature 'Noel Byron'. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 65]. includes: f. 75 George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron; poet: Letter to — from George Gordon Noel Byron: n.d.: Fragm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

386. Ashley MS 2884

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 2884
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Robert Southey to John May; 6 Oct. 1797. Printed in New Letters of Robert Southey, ed. Kenneth Curry, 1965, vol. I, pp. 152-153. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 54. Quarto; ff. i+2. Robert Southey, poet: John May: Letter to John May from Robert Southey: 1797.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1797
Extent:
1 item

387. Ashley MS B1282, B1287

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1282, B1287
Title:
Two Letters from H. F. B. Brett-Smith to T. J. Wise, in the earlier sending him copies of his own Selections from Thomas Love Peacock, 1928, and in the later the first collected edition (vol. lvii of Bentley's Standard Novels) of four of Peacock's novels, 'Headlong Hall', 'Nightmare Abbey', 'Maid Marian', and 'Crotchet Castle'; 24 March 1928, 4 Sept. 1930. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 96; x, p. 162.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1930
Extent:
2 items

388. Ashley MS B1500, A4004, 5748

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS B1500, A4004, 5748
Title:
Letters (3) from G. B. Shaw to Clement Shorter; 5 Nov. 1904-16 Sept. 1925. In the letters Shaw sends 'my part of a "real conversation" between you and me' to Shorter, who had wished to interview him (B1500), declines to write a series of articles for the 'Sphere' because he can make more money in the time by writing plays (5748), and expresses his views on ill-health and on Scotland (A4004). For a further letter from Shaw to Shorter see B5019. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 17]; ix, p. 124.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
5 Nov 1904-16 Sep 1925
Extent:
3 items

389. Ashley MS 177

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 177
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Emily Brontë to Ellen Nussey; [22? May 1843] (date supplied by Ellen Nussey). Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, Life and Letters, vol. i, p. 298. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 24. Octavo; ff. ii+1. Emily Jane Brontë, author: Ellen Nussey, friend of C Brontë: Letter to Ell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

390. Ashley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 941
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Scope & Content:
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