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891. Ashley MS 5033

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Ashley MS 5033
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Letter from P. B. Shelley to Lord Byron, concerning Byron''s poem ''Don Juan''; 21 Oct. 1821. Printed in F. L. Jones, op. cit., vol. ii, 1964, pp. 351-359. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, pp. 83-84. Quarto; ff. x+2. Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron; poet: Lett...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Oct 1821
Extent:
1 item

892. Ashley MS A449

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Ashley MS A449
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Letter from A. C. Swinburne to Theodore Watts[-Dunton], mentioning that he is writing an article on William Congreve for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and enclosing a letter from Theodore Opitz (Liestal, Switzerland, 22 Oct. 1876), in which he seeks permission to publish a German translation of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1876
Extent:
1 item

893. Ashley MS B3460

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Ashley MS B3460
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Letter from Mrs Doris Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, concerning his play The Pacifists; 6 July 1929. [Ashley Library Catalogue, xi, p. 87]. includes: ff. 82, 83b Mrs Dora Thorne, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones, dramatist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1929
Extent:
1 item

894. Ashley MS B3735

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Ashley MS B3735
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Letter from Coventry Patmore to Edmund Gosse, discussing the extent to which FitzGerald had understood and been faithful to Omar Khayyam's intention in his translation of the Rubaiyat; 17 Nov. 1896. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 199]. includes: ff. 21-22 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1896
Extent:
1 item

895. Ashley MS 5729

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Ashley MS 5729
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Letters (3) from Thomas Hardy to T. J. Wise; 1 March, 24 Oct. 1924, 11 Feb. 1927. In the second letter Hardy mentions that 'Mr. Sheridan who lives near here [Dorchester] ― the direct descendant of R. B. S., has the manuscripts of all his plays'. Printed in The Collected Letters, vi, 1987, pp. 23...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1927
Extent:
1 item

896. Ashley MS A845, A846, A850, A854, A857, A858, A861, B862

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Ashley MS A845, A846, A850, A854, A857, A858, A861, B862
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Letters (9) and a postcard from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse; 2 Aug. 1886-14 Feb. 1922. The principal subjects of the letters are thanks to Gosse for his review of Hardy's The Well-Beloved, 1897 (A846), literary censorship (A845), A. C. Swinburne's reaction to an article that had linked him and Hardy (A850), Hardy's Time's laughingstocks, 1909 (A854), his doubts as to whether to print the poems which eventually appeared as Satires of Circumstance, 1914 (A857), Granville Barker's production o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1886-14 Feb 1922
Extent:
8 items

897. Ashley MS A918

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Ashley MS A918
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Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to William Howitt, thanking him for his pen-portrait of Hunt in The People's Journal, 1846, pp. 268-270; 16 May 1846. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 205. includes: ff. 91-92b James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: William Howitt, author: Letter to William H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1846
Extent:
1 item

898. Ashley MS A1647

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Ashley MS A1647
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Letter from Félix Rabbe to W. M. Rossetti, speaking of the writer's Shelley: sa vie et ses oeuvres, published in 1887; 26 July 1886. Ashley Library Catalogue, v, p. 137. includes: ff. 150, 151 William Michael Rossetti, author and art critic: Felix Rabbe, French critic: Letter to William Mich...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
26 Jul 1886
Extent:
1 item

899. Ashley MS A4141

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Ashley MS A4141
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Letter from Charles W. Frederickson to T. J. Wise, commenting on the price, £52-10/-, that Wise had paid for a copy of P. B. Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1820, and sending a copy of Charles Sotheran, Percy Bysshe Shelley As a Philosopher and Reformer, 1876, which contains a sonnet by Frederickson ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1893
Extent:
1 item

900. Ashley MS A4304

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Ashley MS A4304
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Letter from W. Carey of the Century Magazine, New York to Edmund Gosse, concerning the MS. and the copyright of R. L. Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters, 1883; 3 Oct. 1883. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 197. includes: ff. 213, 213b W. Carey, journalist: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1883
Extent:
1 item