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Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14
University of Oxford 14
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 9
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 6
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 6
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | 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
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 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
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 3
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 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
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 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
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 3
University of Oxford | Students 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 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
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 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
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
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 2
Codrington | Robert | 1601/2-1665 | Translator and writer 2
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 2
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 2
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2
Davids | Roy | 1942-2017 | book dealer, collector, writer 2
Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2

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

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

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

A.K. Chesterton, 'Leopard Valley', unpublished play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1276
A.K. Chesterton, 'Leopard Valley', unpublished play
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates: [1944]

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

Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 2022

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

Amended typescript by Bevis Hillier, 'The Hospital of St Cross, Winchester'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fols. 7-11
Amended typescript by Bevis Hillier, 'The Hospital of St Cross, Winchester'.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: n.d. [c. 2002]

Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2571/1-3
Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium', completed
Extents: 402 Leaves
Dates: 1991

Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22073
Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond, c.1968.
Extents: 1 box (2 folders)
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1968-1997; c.1968

'Analecta Wiltoniensia'

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

'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 154
'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1608

Andrés Lamas, Rivadavia

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 474
Andrés Lamas, Rivadavia
Extents: 307 Leaves
Dates: 1950's

'Anno 1661. An Abstract of the Checques on the respective Companies of Foote of his Majestys Army in Ireland...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. b. 116 (R)
'Anno 1661. An Abstract of the Checques on the respective Companies of Foote of his Majestys Army in Ireland...'
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written in A.D. 1661

Anonymous drama

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4233
Anonymous drama
Extents: 2.0 Volumes
Dates: 18th century