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501. Ashley MS 1371

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Ashley MS 1371
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Scope & Content:
''Sing Song'': a volume of 121 nursery rhymes by Christina Rossetti; 1869?, 1870. Autograph fair copies, with revisions, written on one side only of one hundred and twenty six octavo leaves of cream laid paper. No watermark. Signed with the address ''56 Euston Square N.W.'' on f. 127. Each rhyme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868-1870
Extent:
1 item

502. Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6

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Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
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Letters (31) from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse; 16 April 1879-1 Dec. 1894. A1775, 1776, A1779, 1788, A1790, B1794, B1795, A1796, B1800, B4307, B4310 and 5055, letters II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, have envelopes. Stevenson and Gosse probably met in 1873 or 1874, and remained on intimate terms until the end of Stevenson's life - indeed, the last letter in this collection (5055, ff. 28-31, of which ff. 28b, 29b-30b are in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong) was written onl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
16 Apr 1879-1 Dec 1894
Extent:
23 items

503. Ashley MS 2820 (1)-(2)

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Ashley MS 2820 (1)-(2)
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Two Pamphlets used for reminiscences etc. by Claire Clairmont; 1828-1830. Autograph. Accompanying the pamphlets is a newspaper cutting (f. ii) bearing an obituary notice of Claire Clairmont. The date '1879' has been added by an unknown hand. The contents of the pamphlets are printed, with some errors, in Marion L Stocking, The Journals of Claire Clairmont, 1968, pp. 418-438. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 188.
Scope & Content:
Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: Diaries and Memoranda: Reminiscences, etc., by Clara Mary Jane Clairmont: 1828-1830: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1830
Extent:
2 items

504. Ashley MS 4020

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Ashley MS 4020
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Letter from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, chiefly describing an excursion to Lucca to hear an improvisation given by Tommaso Sgricci in the theatre there; [14] Jan. 1821. Printed, with many inaccuracies in the Italian part of the text, in F. L. Jones, The Letters of Mary W. Shelley, vol. i, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[14] Jan 1821
Extent:
1 item

505. Ashley MS A1215

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Ashley MS A1215
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Letter from Eiríkr Magnússon to A. C. Swinburne, suggesting that Swinburne should have his works translated into Swedish; 20 Sept. 1878. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 167. includes: ff. 155-156b Eiríkr Magnússon, Icelandic scholar: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to [A. C. Swinb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1878
Extent:
1 item

506. Ashley MS A1889

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Ashley MS A1889
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Letter from Theodor Opitz to A. C. Swinburne, written from Liesthal, Switzerland, thanking him for permission to publish a German translation of 'Bothwell', but stating that there is difficulty in finding a publisher; 16 Dec. 1876. German. For another letter from Opitz to Swinburne on this subje...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
16 Dec 1876
Extent:
1 item

507. Ashley MS A2518

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Ashley MS A2518
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'Psyche Apocalypte': a projected lyrical drama by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and R. H. Horne; [1841]. Synopsis of Act III in the hand of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written on both sides of one octavo leaf of cream wove paper, and on one side only of another, conjoined, leaf. No watermark. The f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841]
Extent:
1 item

508. Ashley MS B2332

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Ashley MS B2332
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Letter from the Hon. Maurice Baring to Edmund Gosse, chiefly concerned with describing his crammer's at Bournemouth and the eccentricities of the Hon. Auberon Herbert at The Old House in the New Forest, and with criticising the Saturday Review; 1 Sept. 1897. For further letters from Baring to Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1897
Extent:
1 item

509. Ashley MS B4267

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Ashley MS B4267
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Letter from Christopher Smart to R. Dodsley, asking him to advertise at once the former's 'Proposals' [Proposals for Printing by Subscription a New Version of the Psalms?]; 3 Jan. 1748. [Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 184]. includes: ff. 6, 7b Christopher Smart: Robert Dodsley, bookseller, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1748
Extent:
1 item

510. Ashley MS 155

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Ashley MS 155
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Letter from Anne Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers, apologising on behalf of Charlotte who was too overcome by the death of their brother Branwell to reply to a letter from Williams; 29 Sept. 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, ii, pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1848
Extent:
1 item