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Collection

The Abinger Papers

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
Single Item

Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs

Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.
Collection

Additional papers of Adam Fox

Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1912-1976
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Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

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
Collection

Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon

The archive of the poet and novelist C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] (1904-1972) and his wife, the actress Jill Balcon (1925-2009).
Extents: 9.3 Linear metres (66 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1928-2009; 1778-2009
Collection

Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice

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.
Collection

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1964
Collection

Archive of John Everett Butt

Correspondence and notes of John Everett Butt, 1932-64.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-64
Collection

Archive of John Masefield

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
Collection

Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker

Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker
Extents: 1.67 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates: 1807-1965
Collection

Collection of photographic portraits by Mariana Cook

15 silver gelatin photographic prints by Mariana R. Cook. 6 works depicting tools, and 9 portraits of notable figures.
Extents: 0.7 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1987-2021
Collection

Correspondence between Charles Williams and Phyllis Jones

Correspondence between Charles Williams and Phyllis Jones, with poems and lecture notes by Charles Williams.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1926-1936 and 1983
Single Item

Cyclostyled typescript, with holograph notes, of a poem by Fania Marinoff 'To Carlo (1948)'

Cyclostyled typescript, with holograph notes, of a poem by Fania Marinoff 'To Carlo (1948)'.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fol. 67
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1948
Collection

Evan Jones Archive

Papers of the writer Evan Jones.
Extents: 8.5 Linear metres (43 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1949-2011, n.d.
Single Item

Facsimiles of manuscripts by and about John Keats

Facsimiles of manuscripts by and about John Keats.
Shelfmark: MS. 23759
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1930s-1950s (originals 1815-1861)
Single Item

Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph

Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph, c.1986.
Shelfmark: MS. 21785
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1986
Single Item

A guard-book, containing Robert Bridges, A song of my heart

A guard-book, containing Robert Bridges, A song of my heart.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. a. 3, fol. 1
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Single Item

Interview of Philip Larkin with Miriam Gross, with correspondence

Typescript interview of Philip Larkin with Miriam Gross for The Observer, with manuscript corrections by Larkin, and associated correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 16084
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1979
Single Item

'The Lambton Worm', libretto by Anne Ridler for opera by Robert Sherlaw Johnson

'The Lambton Worm', libretto by Anne Ridler for opera by Robert Sherlaw Johnson.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 210
Extents: 34 Leaves
Dates: 1976-1978
Single Item

Letter from Edmund Blunden to Jack Isaacs

Letter from Edmund Blunden to Jack Issacs, c.1920s.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fol. 86
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: c.1920s

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20th century 46
English literature 27
Poetry 21
English poetry -- 20th century 19
English literature -- 20th century 17
Humanities 13
19th century 10
English poetry 10
Correspondence 8
Literature 8
Poets 8
English Literature 7
Literature -- 20th century 7
Letters 5
Poets -- 20th century 5
21st century 4
Literary criticism 4
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 4
Authors 3
Poetry -- 20th century 3
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Sermons 3
War poetry 3
18th century 2
Children's literature 2
English language 2
English literature -- 18th century 2
English literature -- 19th century 2
English poetry -- Women authors 2
Inklings (Group of writers) 2
Lectures and lecturing 2
Novelists 2
Novelists -- 20th century 2
Playwriting -- Drama 2
Poets, English -- Correspondence 2
Theater 2
16th century 1
17th century 1
Authors -- 19th century 1
Authors -- 20th century 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
Christianity -- 20th century 1
Classicists 1
Concerts -- England -- Oxford 1
Cricket 1
Diaries 1
Drama -- 20th century 1
Economics 1
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 1
English literature -- History and criticism 1
English poetry -- 18th century 1
Feminism 1
Fiction 1
Germany 1
Historians 1
Industry 1
Jamaica -- poetry -- 20th century 1
Journalism 1
Law 1
Liberalism 1
London | Middlesex x Greater London 1
Mathematics 1
Music 1
Obituaries 1
Operas -- Librettos 1
Philosophy 1
Philosophy -- Greece -- History and criticism 1
Philosophy, Ancient -- History and criticism 1
Photography 1
Poems 1
Poetry -- 19th century 1
Poetry -- printing-press -- publishing 1
Poetry, Ancient -- Greece -- History and criticism 1
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Poetry, English -- 18th century 1
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Spender, Stephen -- 1909-1995 1
Theater -- England 1
University of Oxford 1
Women authors, English -- 20th century 1
Women scientists 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
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Indexed names
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 3
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 3
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 2
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 2
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 2
Abbott | Claude Colleer |17 April 1889–17 Sept. 1971 | Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Durham, 1932–54, Emeritus Professor, 1954 1
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 1
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
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Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Cook | Mariana R. | b.1955 | Photographer 1
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 1
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Fox | Adam | 1883-1977 | Canon of Westminster 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1
Godwin | family 1
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 1
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 1
Holland | Vyvyan Beresford | 1886-1967 | author and translator 1
Holmes | Arthur | fl.1918 | poet 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 1
Jones | Evan | 1927-2023 | poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter 1
Jones | Monica Margaret Beal | 1922-2001 | lecturer in English 1
Joseph | Jenny | 1932-2018 | writer, lecturer and reader 1
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 1
MacNeice | Antoinette Millicent Hedley ('Hedli') | 1907-1990 | nee Anderson | singer and actress 1
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 1
Mare | Richard Herbert Ingpen de la | 1901-1986 | publisher 1
Marinoff | Fania | fl. 1948 1
Masefield | (Isabel) Judith | 1904-1988 | book illustrator 1
McDougall | Phyllis (née Jones, afterwards Somervaille) | 1901-2001 1
Moore | Thomas Sturge | 1870-1944 | writer and wood engraver 1
Plunkett | Edward John Moreton Drax | 1878-1957 | Writer and 18th Baron of Dunsany 1
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 1
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 1
Ridler | Vivian Hughes | 1913-2009 | printer, typographer and scholar 1
Ross | Nicholas | fl. 1956-1965 1
Ross | Robert Baldwin | 1869-1918 | journalist and editor 1
Shelley | Jane | d 1899 | nee Gibson | 1st wife of 3rd Baronet | x St. John 1
Shelley | Sir | Bysshe | 1731-1815 | 1st Baronet 1
Shelley | Timothy | 1753-1844 | Sir | 2nd Baronet and MP 1
Shelley | family 1
Shelley | family | baronets | Castle Goring 1
Skinner | Martyn | 1906-1993 | Poet 1
Spender | Family 1
Spender | Natasha | 1919-2010 | née Litvin | concert pianist 1
Thomas | Philip Edward | 1878-1917 | poet and writer 1
Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 1
Thwaite | Anthony | b. 1930 | poet and writer 1
Tillotson | Geoffrey | 1905-1969 | Professor of English Literature London University 1
Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 1
Walker | Ernest | 1870–1949 | author, pianist and composer 1
Wilde | Oscar O'Flahertie Wills | 1856-1900 | author 1
Wollstonecraft | Everina | 1765-1841 1
Wollstonecraft | Mary | 1759-1797 | later Godwin | novelist and essayist 1
Wollstonecraft | family 1
Wood | Anthony | 1632-1695 | Antiquary 1
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Language
French 5
German 3
Latin 2
Chinese 1
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Italian 1
Spanish; Castilian 1