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601. Ashley MS A3666

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Ashley MS A3666
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Letters (4) from William Minto to A. C. Swinburne; 15 Oct. 1884-8 Oct. 1891. In the two earlier letters Minto asks Swinburne's opinion of a passage of Prior's 'Epistle to Montague', quoted by Thackeray in his The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century, and apparently in the stanza of Tennys...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1884-8 Oct 1891
Extent:
1 item

602. Ashley MS A4136

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Ashley MS A4136
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Letter, with envelope (f. 128), from Mary Shelley to Edward Moxon, chiefly concerning his trial for blasphemous libel as a result of publishing 'Queen Mab' in the second edition of Shelley's Poetical Works, 1839, and the printing of 'A Dirge' ('Rough wind that roarest loud'); 14 July 1841. Ashle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1841
Extent:
1 item

603. Ashley MS B1054, B1891-B1892, 1898, B4428 (1)-B4428 (5), B5131, B5517

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Ashley MS B1054, B1891-B1892, 1898, B4428 (1)-B4428 (5), B5131, B5517
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Letters (11) from A. C. Swinburne to Edmund Gosse; 14 Sept. 1867-18 March 1899. Also included are a letter from Norman Gullick to T. J. Wise, 4 March 1924, offering to give him a copy of Gosse's Memoir of Thomas Lodge, 1882, (B5517, ff. 64-65), and an engraved portrait of Walt Whitman inscribed in pencil 'Walt Whitman to Edmund Gosse' (B5131, f. 88). The letters in 1898, B5131 and B5517 are accompanied by their envelopes. For further letters from Swinburne to Gosse see 5739. The letters are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1867-1924
Extent:
11 items

604. Ashley MS B1918

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Ashley MS B1918
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Fragment of a Letter from A. C. Swinburne to [ ]; [1872?]. The fragment records the writer's delight that 'Citizen Bradlaugh' [Charles Bradlaugh] has publicly denounced Queen Victoria, to whom reference is made in libellous terms. The allusion is possibly to Bradlaugh's Impeachment of the House ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1872?]
Extent:
1 item

605. Ashley MS B1931

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Ashley MS B1931
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Letter from John Bright to Richard Hengist Horne, thanking him for a copy of his Soliloquium Fratris Rogeri Baconis, 1882; 9 Oct. 1882. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, p. 188]. includes: f. 109 John Bright, PC; MP: Hengist Horne, or Richard Henry; author: Letter to Richard Henry Horne from Jo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1882
Extent:
1 item

606. Ashley MS B2200

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Ashley MS B2200
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Envelope addressed by Sir William Watson to Edmund Gosse; 8 June 1892. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 199]. includes: f. 8 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Sir John William Watson, poet: Envelope addressed to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Sir John William Watson: 1892.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1892
Extent:
1 item

607. Ashley MS B2395

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Ashley MS B2395
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Letter from Mary Borrow to her husband George Borrow, concerning the stay of herself and her daughter at Brighton, and the arrangements for their return to London; [1864-1865?]. The paper is watermarked 'Joynson / 1864'. Mrs Borrow's daughter was married in the course of 1865. Printed in C. K. S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1864-1865?]
Extent:
1 item

608. Ashley MS B4146

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Ashley MS B4146
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Letter from the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke to Miss Lawrence, expressing his gratitude and pleasure at having received an Address on his eightieth birthday; 1 Dec. 1912. [Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p, 128]. includes: ff. 50, 50b Reverend Stopford Augustus Brooke, author: Miss Lawrence: Letter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1912
Extent:
1 item

609. Ashley MS B4935

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Ashley MS B4935
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'An Ode Compos'd for the Publick Commencement' (1730) by Alexander Pope. Copy in the hand of Harold Brent Wrenn; [1916]. The copy is mentioned in B4919. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 36]. includes: ff. 34-36b Harold Brent Wrenn, American book collector: Poetry ENGLISH: Alexander Pope, po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1916]
Extent:
1 item

610. Ashley MS B5135

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Ashley MS B5135
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Letter from Tom Hutchinson to T. J. Wise, concerning Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poetry, and catchphrases derived from early plays; 31 March 1904. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 1]. includes: ff. 89-90b Tom Hutchinson: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Tom ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1904
Extent:
1 item