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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1388*, A1389, A1392
Title:: Letters (4) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; Oct. 1877, [1877?], 4 April 1878. Among the subjects are the sale of pictures to Clarence Fry and Constantine Ionides (A1392), the value of Watts[-Dunton]'s friendship to Rossetti while the latter was recuperating at Hunter's Forestall in 1877 (A1388*), a possible printing of Rossetti's ballad 'Sister Helen', the completion of a 'ballad' [stated by Wise to be 'Sister Helen'] (A1389, ff. 15, 15b), and Rossetti's mistress, Fanny ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1877-1880
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1907, A4381, 4450, 5277
Title:: 'Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems, 1882. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp 146-147, 149-150; vii, pp. 67, 69. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems, 1882, to which page references apply.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1876-1883]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2117, 2135, A4528
Title:: Letters (3, two, 2135 and A4528, with envelope) from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 1883-1892. In the letters Tennyson sends a copy of his play Becket, 1884 (A2117), justifies his use of the word 'crow' for the rook in 'Locksley Hall', l. 68 (2l35), and thanks Watts[-Dunton] for a letter (A4528). For another letter from Tennyson to Watts[-Dunton] see A2131. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, pp. 140-141, 156, 157.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1892
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B4113, B4174, B4236
Title:: Notes on certain poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley by W. M. Rossetti, probably written for Cor Cordium, Rossetti's projected collection of Shelley's autobiographical writings; [1879?], n.d. The poems discussed by Rossetti are 'On a Dead Violet' (B4113), 'Julian and Maddalo' (B4174), and 'Queen Mab' (B4236). Each leaf of the notes has been numbered by Rossetti at top and bottom, as follows: B4113, 266 and 1265; B4174, 268 and 1259; B4236, 1936 and 1037b. On the verso of B4236 is the pencil note ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1878-1880]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1860, B1860, 1869, A4373, 5259, 5262
Title:: 'Songs Before Sunrise' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Songs Before Sunrise, 1871. Swinburne composed this collection of political poems under the influence of Mazzini, whom he met for the first time in March 1867. Mazzini had already written to him on 10 March 1867, asking him to 'give us a series of "Lyrics for the Crusade" '. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 72-73, 94-95. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1867-1870]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2535, A2536, 2538, A2548, A2550, A2551, A2552, A2553
Title:: Letters (21) from Robert Browning to Isabella Blagden; 4 Sept. 1858-19 July 1871. Among the subjects of the letters are the monument to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence (19 Jan. 1863, 19 Oct. 1864), the character of his son (24 Sept. 1866, 19 July 1871), Robert Browning's reputation (19 Aug. 1865), his 'The Ring and the Book' (19 Oct. 1864) and 'Balaustion's Adventure' (19 July 1871), the offer to him of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford (19 Feb. 1867), the Franco-Prussian War and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Sep 1858-19 Jul 1871
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A2385, B5424, 5735
Title:: 'The Bible in Spain' by George Borrow; [1841-1842]. Autograph drafts and fair copies of various passages of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, 42-43.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1841-1842]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1866, A1866, 1867, 1868, A1873, 5261
Title:: 'Bothwell': a verse tragedy by A. C. Swinburne; [1868]-[1874]. Autograph drafts, and trial printings with autograph corrections and revisions. Included are a trial printing of Act I and the first half of Act II, Scene I, and fragments of a revise, the draft of the first two scenes of Act I from which the earlier of the trial printings was set up, a draft of the dedicatory sonnet to Victor Hugo, an autograph synopsis of Act V, Scene III, and a letter from Frederick Locker to Swinburne concern...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1868]-[1874]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 3853
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'After the German Subjugation of France', 1871': a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, entitled as above, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of ruled white laid paper. No watermark. At the foot of the page is the deleted line-and-a-half 'whose eyes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4352
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'The Laws of Corinth': an unfinished play by Algernon Charles Swin-burne; [1857?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of twenty-two leaves of white ruled quarto paper, and on one side only of another (f. 1). Watermarks 'Fellows / 1849' (ff. 3, 10), 'Edward Smith / 1846' (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1857?]
Extent:: 1 item

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