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901. Ashley MS A4524

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Ashley MS A4524
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Letter from George P. Brett, president, the Macmillan Co., New York, to W. H. Arnold; 25 April 1906. Signed. There is a note on the letter initialled by Arnold. Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 144. includes: f. 10 William Harris Arnold: George P. Brett, president, the Macmillan Co., New Yo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1906
Extent:
1 item

902. Ashley MS B1038

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Ashley MS B1038
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Letter from Frederick G. Burmester to T. J. Wise, giving the pedigree of Wise's copy of W. S. Landor, Simonidea, 1806; 30 April 1893. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 65]. includes: ff. 63-64 Frederick G. Burmester: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter rel. to Wise's copy of W. S. Lan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1893
Extent:
1 item

903. Ashley MS B2130

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Ashley MS B2130
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Letter from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Edmund Gosse, thanking him for a copy of his From Shakespeare to Pope, 1885; 19 Oct. 1885. For further letters from Tennyson to Gosse see 4522. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 154]. includes: f. 4 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Alfred Tennyson, 1st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1885
Extent:
1 item

904. Ashley MS B5477

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Ashley MS B5477
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Letter from W. G. Collingwood to T. J. Wise, thanking him for the gift of a copy of John Ruskin, Harbours of England, reprinted by Wise; 29 May 1895. includes: ff. 50-51b Thomas James Wise, book collector: William Gershom Collingwood: Letter to Thomas James Wise from William Gershom Collingw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1895
Extent:
1 item

905. Ashley MS 2942

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Ashley MS 2942
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'The Dover Patrol': an article by Joseph Conrad; 1921. Typescript, with many autograph revisions and corrections, written on one side only of ten large quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark a ram's head above 'ORIGINAL / CHARTHAM MILLS / KENT'. At the head of the first page (f. 2) Conrad ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:
1 item

906. Ashley MS 3856

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Ashley MS 3856
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'The Bride's Prelude': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1870?]. Auto-graph fair copy, with many revisions, deletions and additions, written on one side only of twenty-eight quarto leaves of ruled white laid paper, and on both sides of a further seventeen (ff. 1, 4, 7, 10, 15, 16, 22, 29, 32, 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870?]
Extent:
1 item

907. Ashley MS A2543

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Ashley MS A2543
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Letter, with envelope (f. 47), from Robert Browning to his sister Sarianna Browning, giving an account of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's death; 30 June 1861. Printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected byT. J. Wise, 1933, pp. 58-63. For another letter from Browning to Sarianna see ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1861
Extent:
1 item

908. Ashley MS A4359

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Ashley MS A4359
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'Atalanta in Calydon': a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne; 1863-1864. Autograph draft of lines 81-120, written on both sides of a folio leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. The MS. is an early, possibly the first, draft and exhibits a large number of revisions, and variants from the text fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1863-1864
Extent:
1 item

909. Ashley MS B2488

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Ashley MS B2488
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Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell to Marianne Gaskell; [1850-1865]. The letter is headed 'Saturday Plymouth Grove', so must have been written in or after 1850 when the Gaskells moved to that address. Mrs Gaskell died on 12 Nov. 1865. Printed in J. A. V. Chapple and Arthur Pollard, The Letters of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1850-1865]
Extent:
1 item

910. Ashley MS B2588

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Ashley MS B2588
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Letter from Maude Bazley-White to T. J. Wise, accepting five pounds for 'the manuscripts'; 21 Dec. [1927-1930?]. The contents of the letter make it probable that she is referring to the two MSS. in the Ashley Library in the hand of Robert Browning the father of the poet (2588 and 2720), which we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec [1927-1930?]
Extent:
1 item