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27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5
27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1819
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41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother
41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother, probably about 1925, in a notebook.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 153
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates:
c. 1925
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
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'An Abridgement of the Life and Death of Julius Cæsar. London. Written by Io. Raymond Anno: MDCXLIX'
'An Abridgement of the Life and Death of Julius Cæsar. London. Written by Io. Raymond Anno: MDCXLIX'
Shelfmark: MS. Fairfax 39
Extents: 96 pages
Dates:
Written in 1649 by J. Raymond
Single Item
'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
Single Item
'An Abstract of the Names of the People called Quakers lately convicted as Popish Recusants...'
'An Abstract of the Names of the People called Quakers lately convicted as Popish Recusants...'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 1 (R)
Extents: 1 roll
Dates:
Written about A.D. 1660-1670
Single Item
Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli
Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 342
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates:
c. 1910
Single Item
Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan
Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 106-116
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates:
1963
Single Item
An account of sir Thomas Bodley's negotiations in the Netherlands
An account of sir Thomas Bodley's negotiations in the Netherlands
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 46
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates:
Written in about 1597 (?)
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An account of the Church of St. James, Cowley, Oxon
An account of the Church of St. James, Cowley, Oxon, written in A.D. 1876 by H. Hurst.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. c. 71
Extents: 62 Leaves
Dates:
written in A.D. 1876 by H. Hurst
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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
Single Item
'An Account of the Visit of ... the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia...'
'An Account of the Visit of ... the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia...'
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 1
Extents: 63 Leaves
Dates:
Written in A.D. 1814
Single Item
Accounts and diary of sir John North etc.
Accounts and diary of sir John North etc.
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 193
Extents: 93 Leaves
Dates:
Written in A.D. 1575-1589 in three hands
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Accounts, notes, plans, etc.
Accounts, notes, plans, etc.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Surrey e. 3
Extents: 139 Leaves
Dates:
Written in A.D. 1827-1833, chiefly by J. B. Nichols
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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
Single Item
Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.
Collection
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates:
1912-1976
Collection
Additional Papers of Edmond Malone
Additional Papers of Edmond Malone, including private papers and literary pieces.
Extents: 5 shelfmarks
Dates:
1690-1817
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- Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 54
- Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 13
- Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12
- Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11
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- Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10
- Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9
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- Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 8
- Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
- Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
- Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 7
- Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7
- Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
- Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 6
- Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6
- Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5
- Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5
- Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5
- Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
- Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5
- Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 4
- Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
- Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4
- Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4
- Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
- Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4
- Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 4
- Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
- Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4
- Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
- Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 4
- Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4
- Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4
- MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
- Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
- Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
- Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 4
- Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3
- Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
- Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 3
- Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
- Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3
- Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3
- Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 3
- Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 3
- Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
- Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 3
- Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
- Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3
- Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
- Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
- Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3
- Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 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
- Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
- Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3
- Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
- Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 3
- Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 3
- Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3
- Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 3
- Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3
- Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 3
- Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | writer and poet 3
- Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 3
- Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 3
- Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 2
- Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 2
- Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
- Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
- Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 2
- Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
- Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2
- Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2
- Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 2
- Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
- Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2
- Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2
- Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 2
- Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
- Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2
- Burton | Edward | 1794-1836 | Professor of Divinity 2
- Codrington | Robert | 1601/2-1665 | Translator and writer 2
- Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 2
- Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
- Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 2
- Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2
- Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2
- Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 2
- Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
- Dodds | Annie Edwards | 1886/7–1973 | née Powell | lecturer in English at Reading University 2
- Dodgson | Charles Lutwidge | 1832-1898 | author, mathematician and photographer known as Lewis Carroll 2
- Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 2
- Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 2
- Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 2
- Fairfax | Thomas | 1612-1671 | 3rd Baron Fairfax | politician, general, and Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War 2 ∧ less
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