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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
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'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England'

'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England.'
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 172
Extents: 137 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1770-1780
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Account of the proceedings of the Tusculan Society, a London literary and debating society

Account of the proceedings of the Tusculan Society, a London literary and debating society
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 261
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates: Jan 1739-Feb 1742
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Accounts of religious ceremonies of heathen nations

ccounts of religious ceremonies of heathen nations
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 192
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1740-1750
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Accounts of rent and taxes relating to a malthouse in Kingsbury st.

Accounts of rent and taxes relating to a malthouse in Kingsbury st.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts d. 1
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1734-1776, chiefly by J. Pocock
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Additional correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and family

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

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

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

Commonplace book of H.W. Acland and visitors' book of S.A. Acland.
Extents: 0.11 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1852-1886
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Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 23 March 1714-1720
Single Item

'Analecta Wiltoniensia'

'Analecta Wiltoniensia'
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts e. 1
Extents: 145 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly about A.D. 1697-1700 by T. Tanner
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Anonymous drama

Anonymous drama
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4233
Extents: 2.0 Volumes
Dates: 18th century
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An 'Apology' addressed to bp. Burnet by the rev. George Lewis

An 'Apology' addressed to bp. Burnet by the rev. George Lewis
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 19
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1709 by G. Lewis
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Archive of Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel

Thirteen volumes, chiefly Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel's notebooks, 15th-19th century.
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 15th-19th century
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Archive of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and his descendants

Papers of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London, with papers of his descendants, 1388-1797.
Extents: 7.45 Linear metres (23 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1388-1797
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Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1964
Collection

Archive of Jane Johnson of Olney, Buckinghamshire and of her family

Correspondence and papers of Jane Johnson of Olney, Buckinghamshire (1706-1759) and of her family, 17th-19th cent.
Extents: 2.7 Linear metres (18 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1706-1759, 17th-19th cent.
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Archive of John Everett Butt

Correspondence and notes of John Everett Butt, 1932-64.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-64
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Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century

Correspondence and literary papers of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), with papers of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Michael Pakenham Edgeworth and other members of the Edgeworth family, mainly 1778-1886.
Extents: 12.65 Linear metres (115 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1768-1849, 17th-19th century
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Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families

Papers of Annabella, Lady Byron (1792-1860), including papers of her parents, Sir Ralph and Judith Milbanke (later Noel), papers of her daughter, Ada Byron (later Lady Lovelace), and her grand-children, Ralph King (2nd Earl of Lovelace) and Anne Blunt.
Extents: 50.6 Linear metres (460 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1669-1930
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Archive of Thomas Percy

Archive of Thomas Percy (1729-1811).
Extents: 2.59 Linear metres (34 boxes)
Dates: 17th-19th century

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Indexed subjects
18th century 220
Literature 160
19th century 62
17th century 58
Letters 27
Poetry 27
16th century 25
English literature 22
History 17
Religion 14
English literature -- 18th century 13
x - 15th century 13
Antiquarians 12
20th century 11
Theology 10
Religious literature, English 9
Authors 8
Church 8
Classical literature 8
Literature -- Translations 8
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14th century 7
Books 7
Ireland 7
Law 7
Poets 7
13th century 6
Diaries 6
Drama 6
English literature -- 19th century 6
London (England) 6
Poems 6
Authors, Classical 5
Norfolk (England) 5
Sermons 5
x - 12th century 5
Antiquities 4
Children's literature 4
Church of England -- Clergy 4
Medicine 4
Northamptonshire (England) 4
Oxford (England) 4
Playwriting -- Drama 4
x - 11th century 4
Bodleian Library 3
Catalogs 3
Commonplace books 3
Cornwall (England) 3
Correspondence 3
England 3
Essex (England) 3
Humanities 3
Latin literature 3
Manuscripts 3
Music 3
Nonjurors 3
Novelists 3
Oxfordshire (England) 3
Politics and Government 3
Warwickshire (England) 3
Wiltshire (England) 3
x - 10th century 3
Accounts 2
Administration of estates 2
Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 2
Bible 2
China -- History 2
Christian literature 2
Christian literature -- England 2
Diaries -- 18th century 2
Dissenters 2
Dorset (England) 2
Drawings 2
Durham (England) 2
English Literature 2
English language 2
English poetry -- 18th century 2
Essays 2
Forests and forestry -- England 2
France 2
Gloucestershire (England) 2
Great Britain -- History 2
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 2
Greek literature 2
Literature -- 18th century 2
Liturgies 2
Nature (Aesthetics) 2
Photography 2
Poetry, English -- 18th century 2
Poets, English -- 18th century 2
Political satire 2
Prayers 2
Publishers and publishing 2
Romances 2
Societies 2
Suffolk (England) 2
Sussex (England) 2
Travel 2
Westminster (London, England) 2
x - 9th century 2
21st century 1
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Indexed names
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 6
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 4
Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4
University of Oxford 4
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 3
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 3
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 3
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 3
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 2
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Burton | Edward | 1794-1836 | Professor of Divinity 2
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 2
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Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 2
Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 2
Johnson | Jane | 1706-1759 | of Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire 2
Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 2
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 2
Percy | Thomas | 1729-1811 | Bishop of Dromore and antiquary 2
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | playwright and poet 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 2
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 2
Terentius Afer | Publius | ? 195 BC-? 159 BC | Roman comic dramatist 2
Wallis | John | 1616-1703 | Mathematician 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Warton | Thomas | 1728-1790 | Poet, antiquary and literary Scholar 2
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | writer and politician 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
Alleyne | John | c. 1731-1792 | Fellow of University College, Oxford 1
Askew | Anthony | 1722-1774 | Classical Scholar, Physician, and Collector of MSS and Books 1
Astle | Thomas | 1735-1803 | Archivist, antiquary and paleography 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 1
Ballard | George | 1705-1755 | Antiquary 1
Banmer | Sir | Thomas | d. 1746 1
Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 1
Baron | John | fl. 1726-1737 1
Bast | Friedrich Jakob | 1771-1811 | Greek Scholar 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beck | Felix D | author 1
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Bennett | Thomas | 1665-1706 | London bookseller 1
Birch | George | fl. 1777 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blackstone | Sir | William | 1723-1780 | Judge, MP and historian 1
Bowles | William Lisle | 1762-1850 | Canon of Salisbury, Poet, and Antiquary 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Burnet | Gilbert | 1643-1715 | Bishop of Salisbury and Historian 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Bywater | Ingram | 1840-1914 | Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford 1
Calamy | Edmund | 1671-1732 | Presbyterian minister and historian 1
Campbell | Thomas | 1777-1844 | Poet 1
Canning | George | 1770-1827 | Politician and parodist, prime minister of Great Britain 1827 1
Caravella | Johannes | fl. 1730-1770 | classical scholar 1
Carte | Thomas | 1686-1754 | historian 1
Cartwright | William | d 1799 | Nonjuror 1
Chapman | Thomas | fl 1766 | author 1
Charleton | W. | fl. 18th century 1
Charlett | Arthur | 1655-1722 | Master of University College Oxford 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Cherry | Francis | ? 1665-1713 | Nonjuror, Antiquary, and Collector of MSS. and Coins 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Churton | Ralph | 1754-1831 | Archdeacon of St David's and a biographer 1
Cibber | Colley | 1671-1757 | Actor and dramatist 1
Clements | Henry | 1686-1719 | London bookseller 1
Cobb | Samuel |1675-1713 | schoolmaster and author 1
Coke | Sir | Edward | 1552-1634 | Knight | lawyer, legal writer, and politician 1
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 1
Colman | George | 1762-1836 | dramatist 1
Colman | George | bap. 1732-d. 1794 | Playwright and theatre manager 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | dramatist 1
Cooke | Caleb | d 1708 | clergyman 1
Cooke | Sarah | fl 1718 | wife of Caleb Cooke 1
Cooper | J.G. | fl 1745-1762 1
Coxe | Henry Octavius | 1811-1881 | Librarian, Palaeographer, and Antiquary 1
Crespigny | Mary Champion de | 1750-1812 | née Clark | wife of 1st Baronet Champion de Crespigny 1
Crynes | Nathaniel | 1686-1745 | Fellow of St John's College, Oxford 1
D'Orville | Jacques Philippe | 1696-1751 | Classical Scholar 1
Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 1
Dawnay | Henry | fl. 1711 | of Christ Church, Oxford 1
De Missy | Cesar | 1703-1775 | Theologian 1
Delafield | Thomas | d 1755 | antiquary | of Great Haseley 1
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Language
Latin 49
Italian 14
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 13
French 11
German 8
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 3
Cornish 3
Dutch; Flemish 3
Irish 3
Greek, Modern (1453-) 3
Spanish; Castilian 3
Welsh 3
Arabic 2
Multiple languages 2
Portuguese 2
Catalan; Valencian 1
Coptic 1
Danish 1
Hebrew 1
Persian 1
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