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University of Oxford 3
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2
Barea | Ilsa | 1902-1973 | nee Pollak | Austrian writer and translator 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Blish | James Benjamin | 1921-1975 | writer 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Bywater | Ingram | 1840-1914 | Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford 1
Chandler | Raymond | 1888-1959 | writer 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Crespigny | Caroline Champion de | née Bathurst | 1796-1861 | poet 1
D'Orville | Jacques Philippe | 1696-1751 | Classical Scholar 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 1
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Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister 1
Fosbroke | Thomas Dudley | 1770-1842 | Antiquary 1
French Protestant Church 1
Gentili | Alberico | 1552-1608 | Italian jurist 1
Gentilis | Scipio | 1563-1616 | Professor of Law at Altdorf 1
Glendinning | Victoria | b 1937 | author and journalist 1
Greene | Graham Carleton | 1936-2016 | publisher 1
Greene | Sir | Hugh Carleton | 1910-1987 | Knight | journalist and broadcaster 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
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 1
L'Estrange | Hamon | 1605-1660 | theologian and historian 1
Lewis | John | c 1700-1799 | Minister of Margate 1
Livius | Titus | ? 59 BC-AD 17 | Roman historian 1
Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher 1
MacNeice | Antoinette Millicent Hedley ('Hedli') | 1907-1990 | nee Anderson | singer and actress 1
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 1
Mandeville | Sir | John | d 1372 | travel writer 1
Medwin | Thomas | 1788-1869 | biographer of P.B. Shelley 1
Montagu | Montagu | 1787-1863 | Captain RN, Author, and Autograph Collector 1
Nedam | James | fl 1532-1543 | Royal Surveyor of Works 1
Neve | John Le | 1679-1741 | Antiquary 1
Ogazón | Arturo Barea | 1897-1957 | Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writer 1
Ovidius Naso | Publius | 43 BC-AD 17 | Roman poet 1
Pasley | Sir | John Malcolm Sabine | 1926-2004 | 5th baronet | German scholar and literary critic 1
Pepys | Samuel | 1633-1703 | MP, Diarist, Public Servant, Antiquary 1
Phillipps family | baronets | Middle Hill 1
Phillipps | Sir Thomas | 1792-1872 | Baronet | Antiquary, and Collector of MSS and Books 1
Price | Daniel | fl 1685-1706 | Dean of St Asaph 1
Raleigh | Alice | fl. 20th century | Sir Walter Raleigh's sister 1
Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 1
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 1
Ridler | Vivian Hughes | 1913-2009 | printer, typographer and scholar 1
Roach | Richard | 1662-1730 | Anglican clergyman 1
Robinson | John | 1650-1723 | Bishop of London 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
Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian 1
St Paul's Cathedral 1
Stanton | William | fl 1697-1704 1
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 1
Swadlin | Thomas | 1600-1670 | Royalist divine 1
Terentius Afer | Publius | ? 195 BC-? 159 BC | Roman comic dramatist 1
Theocritus | c 300 BC-260 BC | Greek poet 1
Thurloe | John | 1616-1668 | Secretary to the Council of State 1
Trollope | Joanna | 1943-2025 | writer 1
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 1
Turner | Francis | ? 1638-1700 | Bishop of Ely 1
Turner | Thomas | 1645-1714 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford 1
University of Cambridge 1
University of Nottingham 1
University of Oxford | Agricultural Economics Research Institute 1
University of Oxford | Institute of Agricultural Economics 1
Wharton | Philip | 1613-1696 | 4th Baron Wharton 1
Wilkinson | Thomas | fl 1600-1699 | Anglican clergyman 1
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 1
Williams | John | fl 1709-1726 | Poet 1
Zamboni | Giovanni Giacomo | fl 1723-1751 | resident in England for Duke of Modena 1

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.

Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the poet and writer Anne Ridler (1912-2001) and her husband Vivian Ridler (1913-2009), printer to the Oxford University Press and founder of Perpetua Press.
Extents: 5.596 Linear metres (81 boxes)
Dates: 1836-2011, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2011

Archive of Arturo and Ilsa Barea

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Arturo and Ilsa Barea.
Extents: 8.0 Linear metres (56 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1900-2018, bulk c. 1930-1970

Archive of Audrey Beecham

 Collection
Papers of Audrey Beecham (1915-1989), poet and academic, with a small number of boxes concerning the wider Beecham family.
Extents: 6.70 Linear metres (100 boxes)
Dates: 1845-1988, n.d.

Archive of Enid Starkie

 Collection
Archive of Enid Starkie, literary critic, author and fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Extents: 6.55 Linear metres (95 boxes)
Dates: 1879-1985, n.d.

Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice

 Collection
Papers of the poet and playwright Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), with papers of Hedli MacNeice, née Anderson (1907-1990)
Extents: 10.17 Linear metres (76 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1917-1989; n.d.

Archive of Joanna Trollope

 Collection
Archive of Joanna Trollope (1943-2025), writer, including literary and personal papers, [1908]-2019.
Extents: 5.26 Linear metres (109 boxes)
Dates: [1908]-2019; Majority of material found within 1952-2019

Archive of Raymond Chandler

 Collection
Papers of Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), writer, 1880-2005
Extents: 7.05 Linear metres (132 boxes)
Dates: 1880-2005, n.d.

Archive of the Greene Family

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Graham Carleton Greene (1936-2016) publisher and his mother, Helga Greene (née Guinness) (1916-1985) literary agent.
Extents: 4.7 Linear metres (70 boxes)
Dates: [c.1890]-2004

Archive of Victoria Glendinning

 Collection
Archive of Victoria Glendinning
Extents: 7.05 linear metres (113 boxes)
Dates: c.1865-2023; Majority of material found within 1958-2023, n.d.

Books and papers of James Blish (1921-75)

 Collection
Books and papers of James Blish (1921-75), science fiction writer.
Extents: 44.1 Linear metres (441 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c. 1936-77

Archive of Sir Malcolm Pasley

 Collection
Archive of Sir Malcolm Pasley (1926-2004), with the majority of papers relating to Franz Kafka, 1910-2002, n.d.
Extents: 5 Linear metres (20 boxes)
Dates: 1910-2002, n.d.

A commonplace book with index

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. V. 1. subt. 2
A commonplace book with index
Extents: 350 pages
Dates: Written in the first half of the 18th century

Douce Manuscripts

 Collection
Douce Manuscripts.
Extents: 54.12 Linear metres (492 boxes)
Dates: 8th-19th century

Fair copy of poems, and translations from French, Italian, Spanish and German poems, by A. R.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. e. 117
Fair copy of poems, and translations from French, Italian, Spanish and German poems, by A. R.
Extents: 91 Leaves
Dates: early 20th century

The John Ryder Archive

 Collection
Papers and correspondence of John Ryder (1917–2001), book designer, art director, and typographer.
Extents: 156.22 Linear metres (440 boxes)
Dates: Majority of material found within [1548]-2001; [1890]-2001

Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence of James Elroy Flecker

 Collection
Literary manuscripts and correspondence of James Elroy Flecker, 1902-1951.
Extents: 0.77 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1902-1951

Manuscripts and Papers of Ingram Bywater

 Collection
Collection of manuscripts collected by Ingram Bywater (1840-1914), Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, 1893-1908.
Extents: 5.83 Linear metres (53 boxes)
Dates: 16th cent.-1914

Manuscripts of Jacques Philippe D'Orville

 Collection
Manuscripts of Jacques Philippe D'Orville (1696-1751), classical scholar.
Extents: 67.98 Linear metres (618 boxes)
Dates: 9th-18th cent.

Montagu Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts collected by Captain Montagu, 15th-19th century.
Extents: 3.52 Linear metres (62 boxes)
Dates: 15th-19th century