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Ashley MS 4378
- Record Id:
- 040-001979824
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001482.0x000057
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 4378
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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Letters from Algernon Charles Swinburne and other correspondents, chiefly concerning Swinburne's novel, the so-called Lesbia Brandon; 1868-1910, n.d. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 134-136. As follows:―
1. Letter from Bayard Taylor to Swinburne, apparently concerning the possible publication in America of Swinburne's novel Love's Cross-Currents; 31 Oct. 1868. ff. 1, 1b.
2. Two letters, each with envelope (ff. 4, 7), from Swinburne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], requesting the return of portions of the MS. of Lesbia Brandon; 21 June 1875, 11 Feb. 1877. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, iii, 1960, pp. 34, 272-273. ff. 2-7.
3. Letter from Swinburne to Andrew Chatto, asking for the proofs of Poems and Ballads Second Series and for the return of part of the MS. of Lesbia Brandon; 20 Jan. 1878. Printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, iv, 1960, pp. 34-35. ff. 8, 9b.
4. Letter from Chatto and Windus to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], asking for the MS. of Lesbia Brandon as requested by Swinburne which had been sent on to him; 21 Jan. 1878. f. 10.
5. Notes, written on Cornhill Magazine writing paper, by Leslie Stephen, criticising the MS. of Oliver Maddox Brown, The Dwale Bluth, 1876; before 1876. ff. 11-12.
6. Letter from Edmund Gosse to T. J. Wise, concerning, among other matters, the acquisition by Wise of the MS. of Lesbia Brandon (Ashley MS. 5264); 30 June [1910]. ff. 13-14b.
Octavo; ff. i+14.
includes:
- ff. 1, 1b Bayard Taylor, writer: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to Algernon Charles Swinburne from Bayard Taylor: 1868.
- ff. 2-7 Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letters rel. to 'Lesbia Brandon' to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton from Algernon Charles Swinburne: 1875, 1877.
- ff. 8, 9b Andrew Chatto, publisher: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter rel. to 'Lesbia Brandon' to Andrew Chatto from Algernon Charles Swinburne: 1878.
- f. 10 Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: Chatto and Windus; publishers, London: Letter rel. to 'Lesbia Brandon' to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton from Chatto and Windus: 1878.
- ff. 11-12 Sir Leslie Stephen, KCB; author: Notes rel. to O. M. Brown's 'The Dwale Bluth' by Sir Leslie Stephen: bef. 1876.
- ff. 13-14b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter rel. to the MS. of A. C. Swinburne's 'Lesbia Brandon' to Thomas James Wise from Sir Edmund William Gosse: [1910].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001979824 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS 4378 : Letters from Algernon Charles Swinburne and other correspondents, chiefly concerning Swinburne's novel, the so-called Lesbia… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[1100]/040-001979824
- 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:
- 1868
- End Date:
- 1910
- Date Range:
- 1868-1910
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chatto and Windus, publishers, of London, 1855-
Chatto, Andrew, publisher
Dunton, Walter Theodore, critic and poet, 1832-1914
Gosse, Edmund William, Knight, writer, 1849-1928
Stephen, Leslie, Knight, author, 1832-1904,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121259159
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, poet, 1837-1909
Taylor, Bayard, writer
Wise, Thomas James, book and manuscript collector, 1859-1937