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Indexed names
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 9
University of Oxford 8
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 7
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 6
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 4
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 4
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4
Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 3
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 3
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 3
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 3
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 3
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 3
Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 3
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 3
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 3
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 3
Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 3
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 2
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 2
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 2
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 2
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 2
Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 2
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
Dodgson | Charles Lutwidge | 1832-1898 | author, mathematician and photographer known as Lewis Carroll 2
Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 2
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 2
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 2
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 2
Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 2
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 2
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 2
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 2
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 2
Moore | Edward | 1835-1916 | Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 2
Nichols | John Bowyer | 1779-1863 | printer and antiquary 2
Nichols | John Gough | 1806-1873 | Printer and Antiquary 2
Percy | Thomas | 1729-1811 | Bishop of Dromore and antiquary 2
Phillips | James Orchard | Halliwell- | 1820-1889 | Antiquary and literary scholar 2
Price | John | 1735-1813 | librarian 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 2
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 2
Trollope | Anthony | 1815-1882 | novelist 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Warton | Thomas | 1728-1790 | Poet, antiquary and literary Scholar 2
A'Court | William | 1779-1860 | 1st Baron Heytesbury | Diplomat 1
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 1
Adcock | Arthur St John | 1864-1930 | Novelist 1
Adcock | Marion L | fl 1879-1890 1
Aeschylus | ? 525 BC-? 456 BC | Greek playwright 1
Aikin | Lucy | 1781-1864 | historian 1
Algarotti | Francesco | 1712-1764 | Poet and scholar 1
Allen | Percy Stafford | 1869-1933 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford 1
Arlott | (Leslie Thomas) John | 1914-1991 | writer and broadcaster 1
Ashburnham | Bertrum | 1797-1878 | 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1
Atkins | Edwin | Martin- | fl. 1852 1
Austen | Cassandra Elizabeth | 1773–1845 | sister of Jane Austen 1
Baker | Mary | fl. 1813-1841 1
Banks | J. C. | fl. 1810-1822 1
Barrett | John | 1753-1821 | Antiquary Biblical Scholar 1
Bast | Friedrich Jakob | 1771-1811 | Greek Scholar 1
Bayley | Peter | 1778-1823 | Poet 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Bekker | August Immanuel | 1785-1871 | German philologist and critic 1
Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 1
Bennett | Arnold | 1867-1931 | Writer 1
Benson Arthur Christopher | 1862-1925 | Writer 1
Benson family 1
Benson | Edward White | 1829-1896 | Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Benson | Margaret | 1865-1916 | Egyptologist and religious philosopher 1
Benson | Robert Hugh | 1871-1914 | Roman Catholic writer and apologist 1
Bentley | Edmund Clerihew | 1875-1956 | Writer 1
Bernières | Louis de | b.1954 | novelist 1
Betham | William | 1749-1839 | Antiquary and clergyman 1
Bialloblotzky | Christopher Henry Frederick | 1799-1869 | author 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | antiquary and editor 1
Bodleian Library 1
Bosworth | Joseph | 1788-11876 | Scholar and compiler of the first major Anglo-Saxon dictionary 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bradley | A. C. | fl. 1895 1
Bridges | Edward Ettingdene | 1892-1969 | civil servant 1
Brooke | Stopford Augustus | 1832-1916 | preacher and writer 1
Brown | Ford Madox | 1821-1893 | Painter and designer 1
Bruce | John | 1802-1869 | Antiquary 1
Burges | George | 1786-1864 | classical scholar 1

27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1819

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 342
Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: c. 1910

Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 106-116
Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 1963

An account of the Church of St. James, Cowley, Oxon

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. c. 71
An account of the Church of St. James, Cowley, Oxon, written in A.D. 1876 by H. Hurst.
Extents: 62 Leaves
Dates: written in A.D. 1876 by H. Hurst

'An Account of the Visit of ... the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 1
'An Account of the Visit of ... the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia...'
Extents: 63 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1814

Accounts, notes, plans, etc.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Surrey e. 3
Accounts, notes, plans, etc.
Extents: 139 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1827-1833, chiefly by J. B. Nichols

Additional correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and family

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6408
Letters of the engineer, inventor and educationist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) and his daughter, the writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), 1763-1849.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1763-1849

Additional Papers of Edmond Malone

 Collection
Additional Papers of Edmond Malone, including private papers and literary pieces.
Extents: 5 shelfmarks
Dates: 1690-1817

Additional papers of Henry Wentworth Acland and his daughter Sarah Angelina Acland

 Collection
Commonplace book of H.W. Acland and visitors' book of S.A. Acland.
Extents: 0.11 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1852-1886

Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. d. 33
Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings, 19th century.
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: 19th century

Album entitled 'Decorative design' by Frances A. Gunning

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 717
Album entitled 'Decorative design' by Frances A. Gunning
Extents: 113 Leaves
Dates: 1857-1875

Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 181
Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates: 1827-1836

Album of manuscript verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1844-1848

Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.

Album of Mary Barker

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 36
Album of Mary Barker
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates: Compiled c. 1813-1841

An alphabetical list of Symbols of Christian Saints

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Douce e. 2
An alphabetical list of Symbols of Christian Saints
Extents: 167 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1810 by F. Douce

'Alphabetical list of the principal Sales of Literary Property and Works of Art, sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: P. & S. 88
'Alphabetical list of the principal Sales of Literary Property and Works of Art, sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson...'
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1870 or 1871

Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock

 Collection
Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock
Extents: 4.03 Linear metres (71 boxes)
Dates: 19th-20th century

Archive of Audrey Beecham

 Collection
Papers of Audrey Beecham (1915-1989), poet and academic, with a small number of boxes concerning the wider Beecham family.
Extents: 6.70 Linear metres (100 boxes)
Dates: 1845-1988, n.d.