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Indexed names
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 3
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 3
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 3
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 3
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 3
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 2
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 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
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
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
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 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
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
Filler | Martin Myles | b.1948 | American architecture critic and writer 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Fox | Adam | 1883-1977 | Canon of Westminster 1
Franklyn | Edna | née Lomas | 1903-1999 | dressmaker and writer 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
Green | Candida Rose Lycett | 1942-2014 | née Betjeman | author and conservationist 1
Grigson | Geoffrey Edward Harvey | 1905-1985 | poet and writer 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
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 1
MacDonald | George | 1824–1905 | poet and novelist 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 | 18th Baron of Dunsany | writer 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
University of Nottingham 1
University of Oxford 1
University of Oxford | Agricultural Economics Research Institute 1
University of Oxford | Institute of Agricultural Economics 1
University of Oxford | Prizes 1
University of Oxford | Students 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

Literary papers of Charles Williams

 Collection
Literary papers and correspondence by and relating to Charles Williams, author (1886-1945).
Extents: 1.05 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: c.1908-1957

Lord Alfred Douglas prize poems, University of Oxford, word-processed

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7029
Alfred Douglas prize poems, University of Oxford, word-processed.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2000-2022

Manuscript volume of poetry "This Happy World of Things" by "Troglodyte"

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23409
Manuscript volume of poetry "The Happy World of Things" by a female poet under the pseudonym "Troglodyte".
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1918

Manuscripts and papers of Charles Williams

 Collection
Manuscript and typescript copies of poetry, plays, and lectures by Charles Williams, author (1886-1945), and reviews of his work.
Extents: 0.9 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates: 1920-1960

Papers of Ernest Walker

 Collection
Papers related to Ernest Walker in the archive of Albi and Maud Rosenthal, 1889-1963, n.d.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1889-1963, n.d.

Papers of Martyn Skinner

 Collection
Skinner's correspondence and literary papers. The bulk of the collection consists of literary and personal correspondence. Biographical notes by Skinner on the major correspondents are to be found at MS. Eng. lett. c. 638, fols. 139-42.
Extents: 4.18 Linear metres (38 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1930-1988

Papers of Robert Ross and Vyvyan Holland relating to the Literary Estate of Oscar Wilde

 Collection
Papers relating to the administration of the literary estate of the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
Extents: 1.35 Linear metres (9 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1890-1936

Papers of Stephen Spender

 Collection
The archive of the poet, writer and literary critic Sir Stephen Spender (1909-1995).
Extents: 24.31 Linear metres (221 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1917-2004, n.d.

Photocopies of the printed text of five poems published by Philip Larkin when he was an undergraduate

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 160
Photocopies of the printed text of five poems published by Philip Larkin when he was an undergraduate.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: 1941-1942

Poems by Arthur Holmes (1918), with manuscript and typescript drafts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22598
Poems by Arthur Holmes (1918), with manuscript and typescript drafts, 1915-1918, n.d.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1915-1918, n.d.

Poems for Anthony Thwaite, a manuscript volume of signed holograph poems collected from notable poets

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22154
A volume of signed holograph poems collected from notable poets, given by Ann Thwaite to her husband Anthony Thwaite for his 50th birthday.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1980

Pre-publication mock up of Stephen Spender's The Edge of Being

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21432
Pre-publication mock up of Stephen Spender's The Edge of Being, 1949.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1949

Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)

 Collection
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
Extents: 82 shelfmarks and 37 objects
Dates: 1577-1992 (predominantly 18th-20th cent.)

Three letters from Stephen Spender to Martin Filler regarding his contributions to Design Quarterly

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 92-95
Three letters from Stephen Spender to Martin Filler regarding his contributions to Design Quarterly, 1992.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: 1992

Typescript copy of an article on John Masefield from the San Francisco Call

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 104-105
Typescript copy of an article on John Masefield from the San Francisco Call
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1913

Typescript poem ('the pubic hair collection') by Ivor Treby with related material including Dorian Opera programmes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 79-87
Catalogue of typescript poem ('the pubic hair collection') by Ivor Treby with related material including Dorian Opera programmes, 1982-1983.
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates: 1982-1983

W.H. Auden's typescript introduction to The Pied Piper and other fairy tales of Joseph Jacobs (1962); and corrected page proofs for his Afterwards to George MacDonald's The Golden Key (1967)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 1-16
W.H. Auden's typescript introduction to The Pied Piper and other fairy tales of Joseph Jacobs (1962); and corrected page proofs for his Afterwards to George MacDonald's The Golden Key (1967).
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: 1962-1967