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Ashley MS 976
- Record Id:
- 040-001978515
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001408.0x000377
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 976
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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Two Letters, with envelopes, from A. C. Swinburne to Harry Buxton Forman; 22 Feb., 15 March 1878. The letters both enthusiastically acknowledge the gift of a copy of Forman's edition of the Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, Written in the Years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX, 1878. Accompanying the letters is a note (ff. 5-6) by Forman, dated 29 Oct. 1888, commenting in unfavourable terms on this double acknowledgement and on Swinburne's sequence of sonnets attacking the publication of Keats' letters, printed in The Fortnightly Review for Jan. 1884, pp. 65-66, under the title 'Post Mortem'. On the same sheet of paper is a sonnet by Forman beg. 'Now, what a thing it is to be an ape!', written in parody of one of the sonnets in Swinburne's sequence, which beg. 'Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!' The letters from Swinburne are printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, iv, 1960, pp. 44, 46. There is also included a signed photograph of Forman (ff. 7, 7b), dated 1905. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 26.
Octavo; ff. i+7.
includes:
- ff. 1-4 Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Harry Buxton Forman, CB; author: Letters to Harry Buxton Forman from Algernon Charles Swinburne: 1878.
- f. 6 Poetry ENGLISH: Harry Buxton Forman, CB; author: Sonnet beg. `Now, what a thing it is to be an ape!' by Harry Buxton Forman: [1888].
- ff. 7, 7b Harry Buxton Forman, CB; author: Photograph of Harry Buxton Forman: 1905: Signed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001978515 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS 976 : Two Letters, with envelopes, from A. C. Swinburne to Harry Buxton Forman; 22 Feb., 15 March 1878. The letters both… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0204]/040-001978515
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ashley MS A17-5768
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1878
- End Date:
- 1878
- Date Range:
- 1878
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Forman, Harry Buxton, CB, author
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, poet, 1837-1909