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1. Add MS 43474-43487

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Title:
GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST
Scope & Content:
The following, Add. MSS. 43474-43487, were bequeathed to the British Museum (subject to a life-interest of her children) by Mrs Elizabeth Smith (d. 1914), as a memorial of her late husband, George Murray Smith (d. 1901), head of the firm of Smith, Elder and Co. In 1933 Mrs Smith’s three survivin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841-1869]
Extent:
14 items

2. Add MS 43485-43486

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GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vols. XII, XIII. 'The Ring and the Book', by Robert Browning: the autograph manuscript, as sent to the printers for the first edition published by Smith, Elder and Co. in four vols. between 21 Nov. 1868 and 27 Feb. 1869. Add MS 43485 contains Parts I-VI and Add MS 43486 Parts VII-XII. The text of the MS., which has minor corrections throughout, differs at many points from that eventually printed. In particular, Part IV, 'Tertium Quid', was expanded before publi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868-1869
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 43477-43479

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Title:
GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vols. IV-VI. The autograph fair copy of 'Shirley', by Charlotte Brontë.
Scope & Content:
The autographfair copy transcribed in 1848 (the last leaf of Vol. iv, f. 284, is dated Sept. 1848) and sent to the printers. First published, in 3 vols., on 26 Oct. 1849 as Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell, Author of 'Jane Eyre'. The manuscript was originally written as one volume, the pages being...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
3 volumes

4. Add MS 43480-43482

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GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vols. VII-IX. The autograph fair copy of "Villette" by Charlotte Brontë.
Scope & Content:
The autograph fair copy transcribed in 1852, vol. VII, f. 1 being dated 29 Mar. 1852, and sent to the printers. First published, in 3 vols., On 28 Jan. 1853 as Villette. By Currer Bell, Author of 'Jane Eyre', 'Shirley', etc. The manuscript, like those of the two preceding novels, was originally ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
3 volumes

5. Add MS 43487

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GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vol. XIV. ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' (here simply headed ''Sonnet I'' II, etc.), and seven other poems (see below), by Elizabeth Barrett afterwards Barrett Browning: autograph, with corrections, particularly to the later sonnets and the other poems. The text ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1846
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 43484

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GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vol. XI (ff. 76). 'The Wolves and the Lamb', a play in two Acts, by William Makepeace Thackeray; the autograph manuscript, written probably in 1854 (certainly submitted for theatrical performance in March 1855; see The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 43474-43476

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Title:
GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vols. I-III. The autograph fair copy of ''Jane Eyre'' by Charlotte Bronte.
Scope & Content:
The autograph fair copy written out 16- 19 March 1847 (see vol. 1, f. i, and vol. I I I, f. 265) and sent to Messrs Smith, Elder and Co. on 24 Aug. 1847. First published, in 3 vols., on 16 Oct. 1847 as Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. The manuscript was originally written as o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1847
Extent:
3 volumes

8. Add MS 43483

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Title:
Emily Brontë, 'The Gondal Poems'. George Smith Memorial Bequest Vol X
Scope & Content:
Autograph volume of juvenilia, entitled ''The Gondal Poems'', by Emily Jane Brontë with pencil notes and headings throughout by Charlotte Brontë. The poems were ''Transcribed February 1844'' (sic, f. 1), with additions made later in the same year and down to 13 May 1848 (see f. 346) (the first p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1848
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 43480

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Title:
Villette by Charlotte Brontë, autograph fair copy. Volume I
Scope & Content:
GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST VOLUME VII. © Public Domain in most countries except the UK. Digitisation funded by the Australian Research Council as part of the project Strangely altered: a textual and critical study of Charlotte Brontë (LP170100364).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 43482

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Title:
Villette by Charlotte Brontë, autograph fair copy. Volume III
Scope & Content:
GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST VOLUME IX. © Public Domain in most countries except the UK. Digitisation funded by the Australian Research Council as part of the project Strangely altered: a textual and critical study of Charlotte Brontë (LP170100364).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 volume