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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
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 As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished.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.
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
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 John Masefield
Collection
The archive of the poet, novelist and playwright John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
Extents: 7.188 Linear metres (135 boxes)
Dates:
1901-1968
Bookplate depicting Thomas Lovell Beddoes, engraved by Rosalind Bliss and Chris Daunt
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fols. 73-4
Bookplate depicting Thomas Lovell Beddoes, engraved by Rosalind Bliss and Chris Daunt
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
2007
'Catalogue of 106 Poetical Tracts from a MS. written in the reign of K. James I. and found in the cover of a volume...'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 227
'Catalogue of 106 Poetical Tracts from a MS. written in the reign of K. James I. and found in the cover of a volume...'
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates:
Written about A.D. 1830 by P. Bliss
Collection of anonymous lyrics and sonnets, probably by a member of the Woolner family
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 198
Collection of anonymous lyrics and sonnets, probably by a member of the Woolner family. 19th century.
Extents: 239 Leaves
Dates:
19th century
Collection of verse entitled Leisure moments or metrical attempts by Tyro, part 3rd, Canterbury, 1831
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 132
Collection of verse entitled Leisure moments or metrical attempts by Tyro, part 3rd, Canterbury, 1831.
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates:
1831
Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23614
Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c. 1822-1852
A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc.
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 284
A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc., written about A.D. 1820-1830.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates:
written about A.D. 1820-1830
Copy of John Clare's The Village minstrel, and Other Poems (1821) with autograph manuscript 'Sonnet to T. Inskip, Shefford'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24097
Copy of John Clare's The Village minstrel, and Other Poems (1821) with autograph manuscript 'Sonnet to T. Inskip, Shefford' dated 16 Jul 1847 inscribed on front endleaf.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres
Dates:
1821-1847
Copy, on paper watermarked 1812, of S. T. Coleridge, 'Christabel', dated 'Grassmere Augt. 18th 1800' the last two figures apparently written over an erasure, an offset possibly reading '1818'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 26
Copy, on paper watermarked 1812, of S. T. Coleridge, 'Christabel', dated 'Grassmere Augt. 18th 1800' the last two figures apparently written over an erasure, an offset possibly reading '1818'.
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates:
1800-1878
Drafts of four 'inscriptions' by Robert Southey
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 129
Drafts of four 'inscriptions' by Robert Southey.
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates:
1838
Drafts of poems by Leigh Hunt
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 38
Drafts of poems by Leigh Hunt, c.1815-1819, mainly printed in Foliage (London, 1818).
Extents: 47 Leaves
Dates:
c.1815-1819
Early manuscript volume of Lord Byron's poetry, made by or for Dr Francis le Mann
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17560
Early manuscript volume of Lord Byron's poetry, made by or for Dr Francis le Mann, c.1810-1816.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c.1810-1816
Evan Jones Archive
Collection
Papers of the writer Evan Jones.
Extents: 8.5 Linear metres (43 shelfmarks)
Dates:
1949-2011, n.d.
Facsimiles of letters by Jane Austen and poems by James Austen
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 92, fols. 1-44
Facsimiles of letters by Jane Austen and poems by James Austen.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
originals dated between 1686 and 1817
Holograph draft of 'Binsey Poplars', poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8235
Holograph draft of 'Binsey Poplars', poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
1879