H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His Friends (1888), with inserts including letters and "a flower taken from Wordsworth's garden in 1844."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'Wednesday 3rd November.
?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838:
'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of them -- but [italics]there is a
want of abiding power[end italics]. Do you not think so? -- It might be a fault in my humour at
the time I read them.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Some marginalia in pencil in English on page 5 only.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee Print: Book
Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughout
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842:
'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my
face" & I did not complain of the briefness of the vision [...] I have been reading too by the
same grace .. of dear Mr Kenyon .. Mr Alford's Chapters on the Greek poets. I dont like them
at all. Such criticism, on the surface & of long familiarity with the common eye, the sense of
the world has outgrown. It wd have done for those days when poetry was considered a pretty
play like skittles, but is not suitable to this [italics]now[end italics], when its popularity as a
toy is passed, & its depth & holiness as a science more surely tho' partially regarded.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Much marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. 'Finished reading Giovedi Santi 1929' written on the half-title page. Received from Evelyn Wimbush, Christmas 1928.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee Print: Book
