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Collection
The Abinger Papers
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
Collection
Archive of E.R. Eddison
Archive of E.R. Eddison
Extents: 1.13 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates:
1892-1958
Collection
Archive of Hilary Bailey
Archive of Hilary Bailey, (1936-2017) writer and editor.
Extents: 11.85 Linear metres (79 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1963-2009, n.d.
Collection
Archive of T.G. and R.G. Gayer-Anderson
Archive of T.G. and R.G. Gayer-Anderson
Extents: 1.92 Linear metres (24 boxes)
Dates:
19th-20th century
Collection
Archive of the Oman family
Papers and photographs of Sir Charles Oman, British military historian, his wife Lady Oman and members of their respective families. The collection includes writings and personal papers of Sir Charles's parents, C. P. A. Oman, indigo planter in India, and Annie Chadwick, daughter of William Chadwick, a railway constructor. Lady Oman's family papers contain her father Gen. Maclagan's diaries and James Anderson Rose's collection of autographs and letters from Pre-Raphaelite artists. Their…
Extents: 26.6 Linear metres (269 physical shelfmarks, 1 digital shelfmark)
Dates:
1727-2003
Single Item
Autograph manuscript of 'Puck of Pook's Hill' by Rudyard Kipling (first published, London, 1906)
Autograph manuscript of 'Puck of Pook's Hill' by Rudyard Kipling (first published, London, 1906)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 127
Extents: 110 Leaves
Dates:
c. 1906
Collection
Books and papers of James Blish (1921-75)
Books and papers of James Blish (1921-75), science fiction writer.
Extents: 44.1 Linear metres (441 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
c. 1936-77
Single Item
'The century [of] books printed at Oxford'
'The century [of] books printed at Oxford'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 57
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates:
Written in 1667
Single Item
A collection of anecdotes, chiefly facetious, extracted from printed books
A collection of anecdotes, chiefly facetious, extracted from printed books
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. f. 18
Extents: 60 Leaves
Dates:
Written in the second half of the 17th century
Collection
Four albums compiled by Brian Aldiss
Four volumes of photograph album scrapbooks compiled by Brian Aldiss, containing original artwork for the covers of many of his books, with extensive authorial comments inserted throughout.
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 shelfmarks)
Dates:
n.d.
Single Item
Gladium Propheli. By the author of “Hope” &c&c &c' (i.e. Francis Edward Paget)
'Gladium Propheli. By the author of “Hope” &c&c &c' (i.e. Francis Edward Paget)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3968
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates:
c. 1835
Single Item
Letters from Elizabeth Jenkins to A.L. Rowse
Letters from Elizabeth Jenkins to A.L. Rowse, 1960-1993.
Shelfmark: MS. 12052
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1960-1993
Collection
Literary papers of Elizabeth Jenkins
Literary papers of Elizabeth Jenkins, 1962-1982.
Extents: 1.2 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates:
1962-1982
Collection
Papers of Ursula Roberts (Susan Miles)
The collection consists mainly of typescripts of novels, articles and poems.
Extents: 12 shelfmarks
Dates:
1932-68
Single Item
Printed invitation to an exhibition of artwork by Brian Aldiss, The Other Hemisphere, at The Jam Factory Gallery, Oxford
Printed invitation to an exhibition of artwork by Brian Aldiss
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 21-4
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
15 Aug 2010
Collection
Two Manuscripts by Edgar Wallace
Two manuscripts by Edgar Wallace comprising:
a manuscript notebook containing twenty-two 'Tommy Poems', 1898-9, fourteen of which were published in Writ in Barracks (1900), with related material, 1900-1
an undated manuscript notebook containing chapter one and two of 'How Dyne Came', the first thriller story written by the author,
Extents: 2 shelfmarks
Dates:
1898-1901, n.d.
Single Item
Typescript of 'Bertie's Escapade' by Kenneth Grahame
Typescript of 'Bertie's Escapade' by Kenneth Grahame.
Shelfmark: MS. 15600
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1907-2008
Collection
Typescript of The Gaudy (A Staircase in Surrey, 1) by J.I.M. Stewart
Typescript of The gaudy, first of the A staircase in Surrey quintet, by J.I.M. Stewart (London: 1974), with holograph corrections; and leaves from drafts of passages in The gaudy with holograph alterations, 1972.
Extents: 2 shelfmarks
Dates:
1972
Single Item
Typescript press copies of five stories published in the science fiction magazine New Worlds
Typescript press copies of five stories published in the science fiction magazine New Worlds, May-Jun 1965.
Shelfmark: MS. 19544
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
May-Jun 1965
Collection
Typescripts of Two Novels by Alice Harwood
Typescripts of two novels by Alice Harwood:
carbon typescript of 'She had to be queen', as published, 1948.
carbon typescript of 'A king went that way', published as Merchant of the ruby (London: 1951).
Extents: 2 shelfmarks
Dates:
mid 20th cent.
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- Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
- Jenkins | Margaret Elizabeth Heald | 1905-2010 | novelist and biographer 2
- Bailey | Hilary | 1936-2017 | writer, critic and editor 1
- Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
- Blish | James Benjamin | 1921-1975 | writer 1
- Brunner | John Kilian Houston | 1934-1995 | science-fiction writer 1
- Cape | Herbert Jonathan | 1879-1960 | Publisher 1
- EP Dutton & Co | New York | publishers 1
- Eddison | Eric Rucker | 1882-1945 | Author 1
- Gayer-Anderson | Robert Grenville | 1881-1945 | Major, Egyptian Administrator, and Author 1
- Gayer-Anderson | Thomas Gayer | 1881-1960 | Illustrator 1
- Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
- Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1
- Godwin | family 1
- Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 1
- Harwood | Alice | fl 1939-1985 | author 1
- Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
- Kipling | Rudyard | 1865-1936 | writer 1
- Maclagan | Robert | 1820-1894 | General 1
- Maclagan | Sir | Edward Douglas | 1864-1952 | Knight | Indian administrator 1
- Miles | Susan | 1887-1975 | see Roberts Ursula 1
- Moorcock | Michael | b 1939 | Author 1
- Oman | Carola Mary Anima | 1897-1978 | wife of Sir Gerald Lenanton | writer 1
- Oman | Charles Chichele | 1901-1982 | son of Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman | curator of metalwork at Victoria & Albert Museum 1
- Oman | Julia Trevelyan | 1930-2003 | set designer 1
- Oman | Sir | Charles William Chadwick | 1860-1946 | Knight | historian | MP 1
- Oxford University | All Souls College 1
- Oxford University | New College 1
- Paget | Francis Edward | 1851–1911 | clergyman and author 1
- Pilkington | Colin | 1937-2002 | writer, pseudonym George Collyn 1
- Roberts | Ursula | 1887-1975 | writer 1
- Rowse | Alfred Leslie | 1903-1997 | author and historian 1
- Shelley | Jane | d 1899 | nee Gibson | 1st wife of 3rd Baronet | x St. John 1
- Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 1
- Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 1
- Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 1
- Shelley | family 1
- Shepard | Ernest Howard | 1879-1976 | painter and illustrator 1
- Stewart | John Innes Mackintosh | 1906-1994 | critic and novelist 1
- Tubb | Edwin Charles | 1919-2010 | writer 1
- Vance | John Holbrook ('Jack') | 1916-2013 | writer 1
- Wallace | Richard Horatio Edgar | 1875-1932 | novelist, playwright and journalist 1
- Wollstonecraft | Everina | 1765-1841 1
- Wollstonecraft | Mary | 1759-1797 | later Godwin | novelist and essayist 1
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