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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
Single Item

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
Collection

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

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

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
Collection

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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Collection, copied c.1735, of satires, occasional verse and prose

Collection, copied c.1735, of satires, occasional verse and prose.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. f. 12
Extents: 168 pages
Dates: c.1735
Single Item

Collection of English and Latin verse, riddles and epitaphs in the hand of William Parry

Collection of English and Latin verse, riddles and epitaphs in the hand of William Parry
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 183
Extents: 83 Leaves
Dates: Begun 1741
Single Item

Collection of fables, epigrams, satires and topical verse entitled 'Lusus seniles or trifles to kill time'

Collection of fables, epigrams, satires and topical verse entitled 'Lusus seniles or trifles to kill time'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 47
Extents: 180 Leaves
Dates: Mid-18th century
Single Item

Collection of religious and didactic verse and prose, mainly copied from printed works

Collection of religious and didactic verse and prose, mainly copied from printed works, 18th century.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 47
Extents: 151 pages
Dates: 18th century
Collection

Collection of Welsh Poems

Collection of Welsh Poems
Extents: 0.20 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 17th-18th century
Single Item

Copy of The college: a satire (London, 1797)

Copy of The college: a satire (London, 1797) with (fols. 1-25) a draft of the poem, an attack on the Royal College of Physicians, Nov. 1796.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. London d. 3
Extents: 73 Leaves
Dates: 1796-1797
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Corrected copy by George Stubbes of his work 'The laurel and the olive'

Corrected copy by George Stubbes of his work 'The laurel and the olive'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 19
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates: 1710
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Fair copy of a prose romance 'Harold or the castle of Morford' by Robert Southey

Fair copy of a prose romance 'Harold or the castle of Morford' by Robert Southey
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 114
Extents: 203 Leaves
Dates: n.d.
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'Fair Virtue the Mistresse of Philarete, written by George Wither'

'Fair Virtue the Mistresse of Philarete, written by George Wither'
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 7
Extents: 91 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1708
Single Item

A few pieces of English verse

A few pieces of English verse
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 10
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 18th and 19th century
Single Item

Guard-book of documents, letters and literary manuscripts

Guard-book of documents, letters and literary manuscripts, 16th-20th century
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 79
Extents: 172 Leaves
Dates: 16th-20th century
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Guard-book of miscellaneous papers

Guard-book of miscellaneous papers
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 247
Extents: 179 Leaves
Dates: 16th-20th century
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Holograph fair copy of 'The library' by George Crabbe

Holograph fair copy of 'The library' by George Crabbe
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 80
Extents: 65 Leaves
Dates: 1781
Collection

The Howard Gray Swann collection of Warton Family Papers

Papers of the Warton family, 1688-1864, including Thomas Warton (1688-1745), Joseph Warton (1722-1800), Thomas Warton (1728-1790).
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1688-1864
Single Item

Letters from J. G. Cooper to Robert Dodsley

Letters from J. G. Cooper to Robert Dodsley
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 174
Extents: 104 pages
Dates: 1745-1762

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18th century 35
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Indexed names
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | 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
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 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
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
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Cooper | J.G. | fl 1745-1762 1
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 1
Desaguliers | John Theophilus | 1683-1744 | natural philosopher and engineer 1
Dodsley | Robert | 1703-1764 | Poet, dramatist and bookseller 1
Dryden | John | 1631-1700 | poet, playwright, and critic 1
England and Wales | Exchequer 1
England and Wales | Royal Navy 1
Eton College 1
Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror 1
Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister 1
French Protestant Church 1
Gilbert | Davies | 1767-1839 | Cornish engineer, author and politician 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
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 1
Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville 1
Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 1
Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely 1
Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror 1
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 1
Holman | William | d 1730 | Essex Antiquary Congregational Minister 1
Ingram | James | 1774-1850 | Anglo Saxon Scholar Antiquary Archaeologist 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Jordan | William | fl. 18th century | Cornish dramatist 1
King | Ada Augusta | 1815-1852 | mathematician | wife of 1st Earl Lovelace 1
King | William | 1805-1893 | 1st Earl of Lovelace 1
L'Estrange | Hamon | 1605-1660 | theologian and historian 1
Lewis | John | c 1700-1799 | Minister of Margate 1
Lintot | Bernard | 1675-1736 | Bookseller 1
Livius | Titus | ? 59 BC-AD 17 | Roman historian 1
Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher 1
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 1
Mandeville | Sir | John | d 1372 | travel writer 1
Mason | William | 1724-1797 | poet 1
Milbanke | Ralph Gordon Noel King | 2nd Earl of Lovelace | 1839-1906 1
Milbanke-Noel | Judith | 1751-1822 | nee Noel, afterwards Milbanke | wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke-Noel 1
Milbanke-Noel | Sir | Ralph | 1747-1825 | | 6th Baronet | MP for Durham 1
Montagu | Montagu | 1787-1863 | Captain RN, Author, and Autograph Collector 1
Morgan | Mary | 1758-1847 | nee Warton | Daughter of Joseph Warton 1
Nedam | James | fl 1532-1543 | Royal Surveyor of Works 1
Neve | John Le | 1679-1741 | Antiquary 1
Nichols | John Bowyer | 1779-1863 | printer and antiquary 1
Ovidius Naso | Publius | 43 BC-AD 17 | Roman poet 1
Oxford University | Brasenose College 1
Parry | William | fl. 1741 | Vicar of Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire 1
Pepys | Samuel | 1633-1703 | MP, Diarist, Public Servant, Antiquary 1
Pleydell | Sir | Mark Stuart | 1692-1768 | 1st Baronet Pleydell of Coleshill, Berkshire 1
Potenger | John | 1647-1733 | legal official and writer 1
Price | Daniel | fl 1685-1706 | Dean of St Asaph 1
Prior | Matthew | 1664-1721 | poet and diplomat 1
Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 1
Roach | Richard | 1662-1730 | Anglican clergyman 1
Robinson | John | 1650-1723 | Bishop of London 1
Royal College of Physicians 1
Sallustius Crispus | Gaius | ? 86-? 34 BC | Roman historian 1
Samber | Robert | fl 1710-1729 | Poet 1
Sancroft | William | 1617-1693 | Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 1
Shelley | Jane | d 1899 | nee Gibson | 1st wife of 3rd Baronet | x St. John 1
Shelley | Sir | Bysshe | 1731-1815 | 1st Baronet 1
Shelley | Timothy | 1753-1844 | Sir | 2nd Baronet and MP 1
Shelley | family 1
Shelley | family | baronets | Castle Goring 1
Shippen | Robert | 1675-1745 | Principal of Brasenose College Oxford 1
Skinner | John | fl. 1789-1814 1
Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian 1
St Paul's Cathedral 1
Stanton | William | fl 1697-1704 1
Stokes | Whitley | 1830-1909 | Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar 1
Stubbes | George | d. 1737 | Author 1
Swadlin | Thomas | 1600-1670 | Royalist divine 1
Swan | Family 1
Swann | John | fl 1848 | Poet 1
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 1
Terentius Afer | Publius | ? 195 BC-? 159 BC | Roman comic dramatist 1
Thurloe | John | 1616-1668 | Secretary to the Council of State 1
Tillotson | Geoffrey | 1905-1969 | Professor of English Literature London University 1
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 1
Turner | Francis | ? 1638-1700 | Bishop of Ely 1
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Language
Latin 10
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 6
Italian 4
German 3
French 2
Welsh 2
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
Arabic 1
Catalan; Valencian 1
Cornish 1
Danish 1
Dutch; Flemish 1
Irish 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Hebrew 1
Portuguese 1
Spanish; Castilian 1