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731. Ashley MS 5036

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Ashley MS 5036
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Letters (3) from Mrs Jefferson Hogg [formerly Jane Williams] to Claire Clairmont, concerning Mrs Hogg's daughter Dina Hunt and her financial affairs, other members of her family, and relations between herself, Claire Clairmont and Thomas Love Peacock; 4 Sept. 1843 (ff. 1-2b), 12 July 1852 (ff. 3...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1843-1863
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1 item

732. Ashley MS 5162

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Ashley MS 5162
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Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray, comparing Keats' poetry to Samuel Solomon's 'Guide to Health'; 18 Nov. 1820. Printed in Marchand, op. cit., vol. vii, 1977, pp. 228-229. Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 39. Folio; ff. viii+2. John Murray, publisher; d.1843: John Keats, poet: George Gordo...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1820
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1 item

733. Ashley MS 5740

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Ashley MS 5740
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse, enclosing violets from Keats' grave; 31 March 1887. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, i, 1978, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 163. Quarto; ff. i+5. Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: John Keats, poet: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Le...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1887
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1 item

734. Ashley MS 5764

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Ashley MS 5764
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Letters from John Addington Symonds to R. L. Stevenson and his wife; 1881-1885. Quarto; ff. ii+19. includes: ff. 1-11b, 18-19 John Addington Symonds, author: Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Letters to Robert Louis Stevenson from John Addington Symonds: 1881-1885.ff. 12-17b John Addington ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1881-1885
Extent:
1 item

735. Ashley MS A807

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Ashley MS A807
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Letter from Edmund Gosse to W. T. Watts-Dunton, explaining the intention of the writer's 'little novel' The Secret of Narcisse, 1892; 14 May 1901. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 153. includes: ff. 49-50b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1901
Extent:
1 item

736. Ashley MS A1417

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Ashley MS A1417
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Letter from D. G. Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], mentioning among other matters that he has made 'a decidedly successful start' to his painting 'The Blessed Damozel'; [11 Nov. 1875]. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 144. includes: ff. 50-51b Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[11 Nov 1875]
Extent:
1 item

737. Ashley MS A1541

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Ashley MS A1541
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Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to Claire Clairmont, asking her to transmit to Mrs Larkins the £20 sent by Alexander Berry; 26 Aug. [1840]. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, pp. 44-45. includes: ff. 119, 119b Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, mistress of Lord Byron: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Aug [1840]
Extent:
1 item

738. Ashley MS A3089 (2)

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Ashley MS A3089 (2)
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Two Letters from Lord Alfred Douglas to Clement Shorter, the earlier letter (ff. 171-174b) explaining why he had written his satire The Rossiad, 1916, attacking the Address and Presentation made to Robert Ross in March 1915, and the later taking Shorter to task for suggesting that Douglas should...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1916
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1 item

739. Ashley MS A4048

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Ashley MS A4048
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''Laon and Cythna'': a poem by P. B. Shelley; 1817. Autograph fair copy, with two revisions, of Canto I, stanza VII (ll. 181-189), written on one side only of a fragment of white wove paper, 111 x 145mm. No watermark. This fragment may once have been added to Bodleian Library MS. Shelley D.3, a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817
Extent:
1 item

740. Ashley MS A4412

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Ashley MS A4412
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Letter from W. T. Watts[-Dunton] to A. C. Swinburne, warning him against publishing ['A Year's Letters'?] in Purnell's 'projected weekly' [The Tatler]; 16 Feb. 1877. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 202-203. includes: ff. 24-27b Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1877
Extent:
1 item