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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 As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished.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.
'Annotationes ad Freyeri Tabulas Oratoriae'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 34
'Annotationes ad Freyeri Tabulas Oratoriae'
Extents: 208 pages
Dates:
Written in the middle of the 18th century in Germany
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 Clara Sophie Deneke
Collection
Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Extents: 1.70 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates:
1882-1969
Archive of Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel
Collection
Thirteen volumes, chiefly Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel's notebooks, 15th-19th century.
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates:
15th-19th century
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 Franz Kafka
Collection
Papers of Franz Kafka (1883-1924) comprising diaries and literary notebooks, with some loose fragments, correspondence and photographs, 1882-1924, and some family papers to 1940. Predominantly in German, some correspondence in Czech and vocabularies in Hebrew. Drawings by Kafka are also present.
Extents: 6.05 Linear metres (55 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
[1882]-1940, 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 O. S. Matura
Collection
Archive of O. S. Matura
Extents: 0.25 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates:
1956
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 Rijn Thaland
Collection
Archive of Rijn Thaland (1906-1979).
Extents: 0.16 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates:
[1960s]
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 the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families
Collection
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
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
Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall
Collection
Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall, 1973-2015.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates:
1973-2015
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.