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591. Ashley MS 2078

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Ashley MS 2078
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Letter from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to J. H. Leigh Hunt, chiefly concerning the provision of autobiographical details for S. C. Hall; postmarked 13 July 1837. The letter is printed, not wholly accurately, in Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 110, and a facsimile is included between pp. 108 and 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1837
Extent:
1 item

592. Ashley MS 2946

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Ashley MS 2946
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'The Secret Agent': an adaptation for the stage by Joseph Conrad of his novel The Secret Agent, 1907; 1919-1920. Typescript, with many autograph revisions and corrections, written on one side only of 172 quarto leaves of white laid paper, and on both sides of two more of the same (ff. 2, 90). Wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1920
Extent:
1 item

593. Ashley MS 3477

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Ashley MS 3477
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'John Keats': a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1881?]. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white ruled laid paper. Watermark 'J Allen & Sons / Super Fine'. Entitled 'IV John Keats' in Rossetti's hand. The MS. has been used as printer's copy, and the text is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1881?]
Extent:
1 item

594. Ashley MS 4128

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Ashley MS 4128
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Letter from Thomas Noon Talfourd to James Ollier, brother of Charles Ollier, P. B. Shelley's publisher, regretting that he had been unable to secure acceptance by Henry Colburn, probably for the New Monthly Magazine, of Talfourd's review of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; 9 Sept. 1820. Ashley Libr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1820
Extent:
1 item

595. Ashley MS 4902

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Ashley MS 4902
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'The Story of Aristomenes': a poem by William Morris; [1868]. Auto-graph fair copy. The text found in the MS. is identical with that printed in the first edition. Also included is a letter (ff. v, vb) from Morris to W. T. Watts [-Dunton], concerning the printing of an extract from the poem as 'T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1868]
Extent:
1 item

596. Ashley MS 4996

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Ashley MS 4996
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Letters (33) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1872-1882. Printed in O. Doughty and J. R. Wahl, Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, iii, iv, 1967, passim. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, pp. 134-135. As follows: 18 Dec. 1872. ff. 1-2b. 20 June 1873. ff. 3-4. 23 Aug. 1873. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1882
Extent:
1 item

597. Ashley MS 5249

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Ashley MS 5249
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Letter from P. B. Shelley to his father [Sir] Timothy Shelley, announcing his marriage [to Harriet Westbrook], and asking for, even demanding, his father's forgiveness for not having consulted him; 27 Sept. 1811. ff. 1-2b. Printed in F. L. Jones, op. cit., vol. i, 1964, pp. 141-143. Ashley Libra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1811
Extent:
1 item

598. Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692

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Ashley MS A61, A62, A63, B65, A66, B68, 69, B2336, B4689, B4690, B4692
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Letters (12) from J. M. Barrie to Edmund Gosse containing, among other matters, congratulations to Gosse on his appointment as Librarian of the House of Lords (A66), a reference to Peter Davies's first production as a publisher (A63), and a request for help in securing a second grant from the Royal Literary Fund for Robert Buchanan, the calumniator of Swinburne and Rossetti (69); 8 Nov. 1892-11 Nov. 1925. A61, A63, B65, and B4689 are written with the left hand. A62, A66, B65, B68, both lette...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
8 Nov 1892-11 Nov 1925
Extent:
11 items

599. Ashley MS A1587

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Ashley MS A1587
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Letter from Mary Shelley to Charles Ollier, asking to see him, and mentioning that she has 'Mr Trelawny's MS.' [probably his The Adventures of a Younger Son, published 1831]; [Dec. 1830?]. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 93. includes: ff. 123, 123b Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin; wr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Dec 1830?]
Extent:
1 item

600. Ashley MS A3541

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Ashley MS A3541
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Letter from Walter Savage Landor to Lt.-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith, replying to criticism of Landor's Andrea of Hungary, and Giovanna of Naples, 1839, and quoting from Act V, Scene vii of his Fra Rupert (published in 1840); postmarked 29 Aug. [1839]. The text quoted in the letter differs con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1839]
Extent:
1 item