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BC MS 19c Swinburne

1851-1999

Comprises a substantial collection of manuscripts (many of them autographs), typed or pencilled transcriptions, and some printed proofs and early editions of literary works by Swinburne, including poe...

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BC MS 19c Gosse

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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BC MS 20c Wise

1909-1917

Nine separate titles, as follows, printed for Wise in very limited editions, some annotated by Wise and all of them having proof corrections, often in the hand of Edmund Gosse: (1) "Letters from Alger...