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511. Ashley MS 166

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Ashley MS 166
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers; 20 April 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. ii, pp. 203, 204. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 73. Octavo; ff. ii+2. Charlotte Brontë, author: W. S. Williams, reader at S...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1848
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1 item

512. Ashley MS 359

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Ashley MS 359
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Letter (f. 8) from Sir Hall Caine to Clement Shorter, as editor of the Sphere, enclosing an article (ff. 1-7) entitled 'Previous "Prodigal Sons"'; 29 Oct. 1904. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, p. 56. Octavo; ff. i+ 8. Clement King Shorter, journalist and author: Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, KBE;...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1904
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1 item

513. Ashley MS 852

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Ashley MS 852
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, making fun of the mutually contradictory statements of his reviewers; 3 Aug. 1907. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, iii, 1982, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 266. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 127. Octavo; ff. ii+1. Clement K...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1907
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1 item

514. Ashley MS 859

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Ashley MS 859
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Two Letters from Thomas Hardy to Clement Shorter, discussing an agree-ment whereby Shorter had the MSS. of Hardy's works bound in return for the gift of the MS. of 'The Return of the Native', and expressing an opinion on Mrs Shorter's [Dora Sigerson's] poems; 4 June 1908, 20 Nov. 1912. Printed i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1912
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1 item

515. Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)

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Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)
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Four Notebooks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871-1881. The books contain many notes for, and drafts of, lines, couplets and stanzas of poems printed in Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, but no complete poems, with the exception of a draft of 'The Lamp's Shrine' (book (1), ff. 26-27). In addition they contain many fragments of prose and poetry not used by Rossetti but often, for that reason, very revealing of his state of mind, notes of place and personal names for poems, ideas for pi...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter: Notebook by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1871-1881.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1881
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4 items

516. Ashley MS 3720

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Ashley MS 3720
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Letters (34) from Helen Snee to Arthur O'Shaughnessy; 24 July 1869-17 May 1876. The first twenty-seven letters, from 24 July 1869-24 Dec. 1871, cover the period of O'Shaughnessy's and Helen Snee's love affair (ff. 6-9, 11-15, 17-21b, 23-25b, 31-32b, 34-37b, 39-42b, 44-47b, 49-52b, 54-59b, 61-66b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1869-17 May 1876
Extent:
1 item

517. Ashley MS 4685

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Ashley MS 4685
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'A Dealer in Antiques': a short story by Frederick Britten Austin; 1907. Autograph draft. Also included (f. ii) is a letter from Austin to T. J. Wise; 23 June 1928. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 5. Folio; ff. ii+4. Frederick Britten Austin, author: Fiction: Short story, 'A Dealer in Antiques...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1928
Extent:
1 item

518. Ashley MS 4707

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Ashley MS 4707
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'To Edmund Gosse': a dedicatory poem by Gordon Bottomley; 1920. Auto-graph fair copy. Accompanying the MS. is a letter (ff. i, ib) from Bottomley to Gosse, 15 Dec. 1921. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 22. Folio; ff. i+4. Gordon Bottomley, author: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, 'To Edmund Gosse', by Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

519. Ashley MS 4739

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Ashley MS 4739
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'Could Love forever / Run like a River': stanzas beginning thus by Lord Byron; [1820]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions. The MS. is dated by Byron 'Decr. 1st 1819', but this is the date of composition. First published in The New Monthly Magazine, Vol. xxxv, 1832, pp. 310-312. The MS. has been...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1820]
Extent:
1 item

520. Ashley MS 5119

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Ashley MS 5119
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Letters (12) from Edward John Trelawny to Claire Clairmont; 19 Sept. 1822-7 April 1829. The letters chiefly treat of his love for Claire, of Byron and Shelley, and of Trelawny's adventures in Greece. Extracts are printed in Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 149-151. Printed, not always in full, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Sep 1822-7 Apr 1829
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1 item