Loose papers in 'Savonarola', 1884 - 1935
Scope and Contents
These originals and photocopies of papers were found loose in C.R. Ashbee's inscribed copy of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's 'Savonarola' (1884). The file comprises letters to C.R. and Janet Ashbee as well as autograph manuscript poems by G.L. Dickinson as follows:
1. 1 typed letter, signed, from 'The Times' to C.R. Ashbee enclosing his rejected contribution to F.C. Burkitt's obituary, 14 May 1935.
2. Second typescript of C.R. Ashbee's obituary of F.C. Burkitt, undated.
3. Fly-leaf of 'Savonarola' with C.R. Ashbee's book-plate and inscription, [1884].
4. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Tynemouth', undated.
5. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Eros', undated.
6. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'To A Beech-Wood', undated.
7. Title page of 'Savonarola', inscribed by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson to C.R. Ashbee, [1884].
8. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Reichenstein', undated.
9. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Apollo, Apollo, youngest, fairest god...' and note by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, undated.
10. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Philosophi Quidam', 22 Nov. 1885.
11. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Erdgeist', undated.
12. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Shelley', undated.
13. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Sunrise on Hynde Head', Aug. 1887.
14. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'We live and die and every task...', before Jan. 1889.
15. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'To the Editor of the Epitome of Nonsense', undated.
16. 'The Church Reformer' cutting: article on Emerson, 16 Nov. 1885.
17. 1 postcard from Siegfried Sassoon to C.R. Ashbee, after a meeting with Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 16 Dec. 1925.
18. 1 autograph letter, signed from Laurence Binyon to C.R. Ashbee, on Russell Loines memorial, 20 Nov. 1925.
19. 1 typed letter, signed from John Drinkwater to C.R. Ashbee, on Russell Loines memorial, 9 Feb. 1926.
20. 1 autograph letter, signed from [Miss] A.P. Burkitt to Janet Ashbee with autograph manuscript
note from F.C. Burkitt, undated [before 1935].
21. 1 autograph letter, signed from R.C. Trevelyan to C.R. Ashbee on Russell Loines memorial, 14 Dec. 1925.
22. 1 autograph letter, signed from Gordon Bottomley to C.R. Ashbee on Russell Loines memorial, 22 Nov. 1925.
23. 1 autograph letter, signed from W.R. [William Rothenstein] to C.R. Ashbee, 31 Jan. 1925.
24. 1 typed letter, signed from Sydney Webb to C.R. Ashbee, 26 Jan. 1924.
25. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'Once there was a little lad...', undated.
26. Autograph manuscript in Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's hand of his 'The Elgin Marbles', undated.
Dates
- Creation: 1884 - 1935
Creator
- Trevelyan, Robert Calverley, 1872 - 1951 (poet and dramatist) (Person)
- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886 - 1967 (poet and author) (Person)
- Binyon, Robert Laurence, 1869 - 1943 (poet and art historian) (Person)
- Bottomley, Gordon, 1874 - 1948 (poet and dramatist) (Person)
- Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 1862 - 1932 (humanist, historian and philosopher) (Person)
Extent
54 sheet(s) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The photocopies in this file were made in 1983. The originals were recovered from Felicity Ashbee in Nov 2008. Not all the originals have been found and the photocopies of missing originals have been retained.
Originator(s)
Various
Finding aid date
2003-03-21 10:41:14+00:00
Repository Details
Part of the Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge Repository
Archivist
King's College
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