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31. Ashley MS 4645

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Ashley MS 4645
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'At Vallombrosa': a poem by William Wordsworth; [1840-1841]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 30. Quarto; ff. ii+1. William Wordsworth, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, 'At Vallombrosa', by William Wordsworth: [1840-1841]: Autogr. fair copy with revisions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1840-1841]
Extent:
1 item

32. Ashley MS 1474

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Ashley MS 1474
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'Two Poems' (i.e. 'The Goldsmith' and 'Picture-Show') by Siegfried Sassoon; [1918-1919]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of grey wove paper. No watermark. Signed 'Siegfried Sassoon'. In the top righthand corner is a note 'from Capt. S. Sassoon. 14 Merton St Oxford....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1918-1919]
Extent:
1 item

33. Ashley MS 4740-4750

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Ashley MS 4740-4750
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Letters (11) from Lord Byron, ten to John Murray, and one (4744) to John Cam Hobhouse; 15 May 1819-21 Dec. 1822. The letters contain, among other matters, contemptuous comments on the work of John Keats, discussion of 'Don Juan' and its reception by the critics, and accounts of Byron's relations with Margarita Cogni (La Fornarina), Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and Lady Byron. The letters also treat of Byron's feat in swimming the Hellespont, his natural daughter Allegra, and Percy Bysshe Shell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1819-21 Dec 1822
Extent:
0 items

34. Ashley MS A978, B978

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Ashley MS A978, B978
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Two Letters from Robert Bridges, the earlier (A978) to Norman MacColl asking him to review or find a reviewer for the writer's Milton's Prosody, 1893, and the later (B978) to Edmund Gosse discussing the advisability of the Poetry Society's celebrating the centenary of Robert Browning's birth; 18 Dec. 1893, 7 Dec. 1911. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 27.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1893-1911
Extent:
2 items

35. Ashley MS 112

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Ashley MS 112
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'Swayne Vonved': a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; [1830?]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of six leaves of pale grey laid paper formed by cutting folio leaves in half, and on one only of a seventh (f. 7). Watermarks '1830' under a name most of which has been cut ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1830?]
Extent:
1 item

36. Ashley MS A1876, A1877

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Ashley MS A1876, A1877
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Two Letters from A. C. Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], concerning, among other matters, the title and 'motto' for Songs of Two Nations, 1875 (A1876), and the publication of 'Dirae' (later included in that volume) in the Examiner (A1877); 8 April [1873], 1 Feb. [1875]. Printed in C. Y. Lang, op. cit., ii, 1959, pp. 237-238 and iii, 1960, p. 4. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 108-110.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873-1875
Extent:
2 items

37. Ashley MS A1966, A3428

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Ashley MS A1966, A3428
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Two Letters from Thomas Purnell to A. C. Swinburne, the earlier concerning Adah Isaacs Menken, the later the possibility of printing Swinburne's novel Love's Cross-Currents in a proposed new periodical to be called The Marlborough, and mentioning Swinburne's burlesque poem 'The Ballad of Bulgarie'; 4 Dec. 1867 and 1 Jan. 1877. Love's Cross-Currents was first published, as 'A Year's Letters', in the Tatler for 25 Aug.-29 Dec. 1877. The earlier letter is printed, with the omission of the first...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1867-1877
Extent:
2 items

38. Ashley MS B3988, A4462 (3)

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Ashley MS B3988, A4462 (3)
Title:
Two Letters from James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps to A. C. Swinburne, the earlier praising Swinburne's Songs of the Springtides, 1880, and the later concerning Swinburne's quarrel with F. J. Furnivall; 13 June 1880, 12 Feb. 1881. Ashley Library Catalogue, [v, p. 11], vii, p. 73.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1880-1881
Extent:
2 items

39. Ashley MS 2444

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Ashley MS 2444
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'Portrait / Pierre l'ermite': an exercise in French composition by Charlotte Brontë; 23 June [1842]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of four quarto leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of a fifth. No watermark. The MS. is entitled as above in Charlotte's hand, and signed a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
23 Jun [1842]
Extent:
1 item

40. Ashley MS 3111

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Ashley MS 3111
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'We Willed It Not', 'Nineteen-Fifteen' and 'On the Picture of a Private Soldier who had gained a Victoria Cross': three poems by John Drinkwater; [1914-1915?]. Autograph fair copies, written on one side only of four quarto leaves of white ruled laid paper. The third leaf (f. 3) is a different pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1914-1915?]
Extent:
1 item