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27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1819
The Abinger Papers
Collection
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
Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Collection
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates:
1912-1976
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
Album connected with the Byron family
Single Item
Album connected with the Byron family, 19th century.
Extents: 162 Leaves
Dates:
19th century
An album containing poems written in a faux-Gothic calligraphic hand and illuminated in the style of a medieval manuscript
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4169
An album containing poems written in a faux-Gothic calligraphic hand and illuminated in the style of a medieval manuscript, by an unidentified author-artist
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates:
n.d.
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 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
Album of verse and letters by Austin Dobson, 1885-1920, collected by and mainly addressed to J. W. Martyn
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 186
Album of verse and letters by Austin Dobson, 1885-1920, collected by and mainly addressed to J. W. Martyn.
Extents: 144 Leaves
Dates:
1885-1920
Albums of the Edgeworth and Fox families
Collection
Three albums, consisting of a commonplace book of Frances Anne Edgeworth, an embroidery pattern book, and an album of sketches and watercolours, with drawings by Mary Anne Fox.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (4 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
19th century
Alchemical treatises and poems, and Welsh pieces
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. e Mus. 63
Alchemical treatises and poems, and Welsh pieces
Extents: 175 Leaves
Dates:
Made up of two MSS. written in the 16th century in England
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
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
'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
Anne Ridler, letter, 1976, and drafts of a poem, 'A Pirated Edition', published in Some Time After, and Other Poems (London, 1972)
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 179, fols. 1-6
Anne Ridler, letter, 1976, and drafts of a poem, 'A Pirated Edition', published in Some Time After, and Other Poems (London, 1972)
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
1976
An Annotated Copy of Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia poetica
Collection
An Annotated Copy of Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia poetica
Extents: 10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates:
19th century