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391. Ashley MS 2479

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Ashley MS 2479
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Review by Andrew Lang of William Wright, The Brontës in Ireland, 1893; 1893. Autograph fair copy, with many revisions and deletions, written on one side only of fourteen quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'Towgood's / Extra Super'. The MS. is entitled 'The Brontës in Ireland', and the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1893
Extent:
1 item

392. Ashley MS 4872

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Ashley MS 4872
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Letters (7) from Joseph Severn to Charles Armitage Brown, concerning John Keats, and in particular his gravestone, P. B. Shelley's 'Adonais', Severn's portrait of Keats, E. J. Trelawny, a proposed monument to Keats in Rome, and Keats as he was in 1813 and then after meeting J. H. Leigh Hunt; 17 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1821-1834
Extent:
1 item

393. Ashley MS A214

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Ashley MS A214
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'A Drama of Exile': a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 1843-1844. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, of ll. 1007-1052, written on both sides of an octavo leaf of white wove paper, and on one side only of a scrap of the same paper. No watermark. The text found in the MS. differs in several p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1843-1844
Extent:
1 item

394. Ashley MS A1916

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Ashley MS A1916
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'Evening by the sea' (thus entitled in a later hand): stanzas by A. C. Swinburne; [1859-1860?]. Autograph draft of five stanzas and two and a half cancelled lines, possibly of another stanza, beginning 'It was between the night and day', and descriptive of the sea shore at evening. The draft is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1859-1860?]
Extent:
1 item

395. Ashley MS B502, B503, B504, B2922, B2923, B2924

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Ashley MS B502, B503, B504, B2922, B2923, B2924
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Letters (8), one with envelope, from Joseph Conrad to C. K. Shorter, mentioning, among other matters, his Suspense (B502), his suppressed Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus (B2922), his One day more (B2923), Well Done! (B2924), and articles on the 'Titanic'; 31 December 1916-5 August 1922, n.d. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 234, 241, 242; viii, pp. 128, 129].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
31 Dec 1916-5 Aug 1922
Extent:
6 items

396. Ashley MS B3552

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Ashley MS B3552
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Part of 'Garibaldi and the President of the Sicilian Senate': an Imaginary Conversation by Walter Savage Landor; n.d. Autograph draft, written on both sides of a large foolscap leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. The portion appears to be part of a speech by Garibaldi beginning 'Sicilians! ne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

397. Ashley MS 276

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Ashley MS 276
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Letters (8) from Robert Browning to Norman MacColl, editor of the Athenæum; 13 June 1876-10 March 1889. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 172, 182, 184, 187, 188, 203, 232, 302. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 61. For another letter from Brow...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1876-10 Mar 1889
Extent:
1 item

398. Ashley MS 975

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Ashley MS 975
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Letter from Robert Browning to Harry Buxton Forman, concerning the ultimate fate of the copy of John Keats, Lamia found on the body of Shelley, and speaking of a letter written to J. H. Leigh Hunt by Browning on 6 Oct. 1857, printed without Browning's permission in Leigh Hunt's Correspondence, e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1877
Extent:
1 item

399. Ashley MS 3073

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Ashley MS 3073
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'Fame is a food that dead men eat': a poem by Austin Dobson; 1915. Autograph fair copy, apparently written for a Red Cross Sale on one side only of an octavo leaf of pale grey laid paper. The leaf forms a bifolium with another, blank, leaf. Watermark stringed horn on crowned shield above elabora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 item

400. Ashley MS A2283, A2284, A2285, A2287, 2288, B2290*, A4677, B5658

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Ashley MS A2283, A2284, A2285, A2287, 2288, B2290*, A4677, B5658
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Letters (13) from W. B. Yeats to C. K. Shorter; after March 1896-30 Oct. 1918. One of the letters (A4677) is in the hand of an amanuensis. The letter of 17 May 1918 is accompanied by an envelope (2288, f. 14). The letters chiefly concern Yeats's refusal to write a poem on a subject suggested by Shorter (2288, ff. 1, 2), an invitation to one of Yeats's 'Monday evenings' (B5658), the agreement with his publisher Unwin (2288, ff. 3-6), The Shadowy Waters (2288, ff. 3-6), the 'Irish Literary The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
after Mar 1896-30 Oct 1918
Extent:
8 items