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Africa -- Description and travel 1
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Archaeology 1
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Argentina -- Description and travel 1
Art, British -- 19th century 1
Art, British -- 20th century 1
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 7
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 5
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 5
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 3
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 3
Spalding | Philip Anthony | 1911-1989 | writer 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 2
Bennett | Alan | b 1934 | author and playwright 2
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 2
Daryush | Elizabeth | 1887-1977 | née Bridges | poet 2
Eddison | Eric Rucker | 1882-1945 | Author 2
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2
Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 2
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 2
Jenkins | Margaret Elizabeth Heald | 1905-2010 | novelist and biographer 2
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 2
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 2
Rolfe | Frederick William | 1860-1913 | Author 'baron Corvo' 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
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | writer and philologist 2
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 1
Adcock | Arthur St John | 1864-1930 | Novelist 1
Adcock | Marion L | fl 1879-1890 1
Arlott | (Leslie Thomas) John | 1914-1991 | writer and broadcaster 1
Ault | Norman | 1880-1950 | Author and Artist 1
Bailey | Hilary | 1936-2017 | writer, critic and editor 1
Baynes | Emma Katherine | fl 1862-1935 1
Baynes | Norman Hepburn | 1877-1961 | historian 1
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Bensly | Edward Von Blomberg | 1863-1939 | English Scholar 1
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 1
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | novelist 1
Bentley | Edmund Clerihew | 1875-1956 | Writer 1
Bernières | Louis de | b.1954 | novelist 1
Betjeman | Penelope Valentine Hester | 1910-1986 | née Chetwode | writer and wife of John Betjeman 1
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | Author 1
Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | author 1
Bligh | Eric Walter | fl 1889-1965 | bookseller and writer 1
Blish | James Benjamin | 1921-1975 | writer 1
Blome | Richard | bap. 1635, d. 1705 | Cartographer and bookseller 1
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 1
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
Bodkin | Amy Maud | 1875-1967 | Author and Literary Critic 1
Bodleian Library | University of Oxford 1
Bond | (Thomas) Michael | 1926-2017 | author 1
Bone | Lady | Gertrude Helena | 1876-1962 | née Dodd | writer 1
Bone | Sir | Muirhead | 1876-1953 | printmaker and draughtsman 1
Bowen | Elizabeth Dorothea Cole | 1899-1973 | afterwards Cameron | novelist 1
Bradby | Eliza Dorothy | 1861-1927 | Author 1
Bradley | Katherine Harris | 1846-1914 | Poet and Dramatist called Arran Leigh also shared pseudonym with Edith Emma Cooper, Michael Field 1
Bretherton | John Christopher | 1925-2015 1
Brod | Max | 1884-1968 | author, composer and journalist 1
Brown | Edna | fl 1935-6 | nee Young | wife of Philip Anthony Spalding 1
Brunner | John Kilian Houston | 1934-1995 | science-fiction writer 1
Burton | Robert | 1577-1640 | Author 1
Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
Cannan | May Wedderburn | 1893-1973 | poet and writer 1
Cape | Herbert Jonathan | 1879-1960 | Publisher 1
Chandler | Raymond | 1888-1959 | writer 1
Chatwin | Charles Bruce | 1940-1989 | Writer 1
Church | Richard Thomas | 1893-1972 | poet and writer 1
Cobb | Richard Charles | 1917-1996 | historian 1
Collis | John Stewart | 1900-1984 | writer and naturalist 1
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 1
Conrad | Joseph | 1857-1924 | novelist 1
Conran | Dame | Shirley Ida | 1932-2024 | writer 1
Cooper | Edith Emma | 1862-1913 | poet and dramatist called Isa Leigh and shared pseudonym with Katherine Bradley as Michael Field 1
Craft | Robert Lawson | 1923-2015 | conductor and author 1
D'Israeli | Isaac | 1766-1848 | Author 1
David | Ottilie | b. 1892 1
Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 1
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adele | 1882-1969 | Author and Musicologist 1
Disraeli | Benjamin | 1804-1881 | Earl of Beaconsfield | statesman 1
Disraeli | Mary Anne | 1792-1872 | nee Evans | 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield | wife of Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield 1
Dougall | Lily | 1858-1923 | novelist and religious author 1
Douglas | Alfred Bruce | 1870-1945 | Lord | Poet 1
Drew | Samuel | 1765-1833 | Metaphysical writer 1
Drummond | William | 1585-1649 | Poet 1
Ducarel | Andrew Coltee | 1713-1785 | Antiquary 1
EP Dutton & Co | New York | publishers 1
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and children's writer 1
Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet 1
Ellis | Robinson | 1834-1913 | Classical Scholar and Philologist 1
Evans | Isabelle Dorothy Joyce | née Dennys | 1893-1991 | artist and author 1
Feisenberger | Joan | d. 1992 1
Field | Michael | fl 1871-1911 | see Bradley Katherine Harris 1
Filler | Martin Myles | b.1948 | American architecture critic and writer 1
Fleming | Sir | Daniel | 1633-1701 | Knight | Antiquary, MP 1
Fraenkel | Eduard David Mortier | 1888-1970 | classical scholar 1

Papers of Ruth Pitter

 Collection
Papers of Ruth Pitter (1897-1992), poet
Extents: 3.99 Linear metres (29 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c.1884-1998

Papers of T.E. Lawrence and A.W. Lawrence

 Collection
Papers of T.E. Lawrence, with some related material c.1894-1970, and the correspondence and papers of A.W. Lawrence relating to his brother T.E. Lawrence, 1917-85
Extents: 6.6 Linear metres (62 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c.1894-1985

Papers relating to Elizabeth Daryush

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6980
Papers of Donald E. Stanford (1913-1998), writer and teacher, relating to the poet Elizabeth Daryush (1887-1977).
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1920s-1986

Part of a letter from Dorothy Leigh Sayers to Charis Ursula Frankenburg

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. e. 141, fol. 139-140
Part of a letter from Dorothy Leigh Sayers to Charis Ursula Frankenburg
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 19 Jul 1948

Photocopies of material relating to C.S. Lewis and one original postcard from C.S. Lewis to A. Cecil Harwood

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12631
Photocopies of various material related to C.S. Lewis and an original postcard, with correspondence between Walter Hooper and the donors, 1955, 1981, 2003.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1954, 1981, 2003

Photographs relating to T.E. Lawrence, with letters from Sarah Lawrence to Mrs Hutchins

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12479
Photographs relating to T.E. Lawrence, with letters from Sarah Lawrence to Mrs Hutchins, c.1911-1952.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1911-1952

Pictogram letter from Shirley Hughes to 'Sebastian'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21835
Pictogram letter from Shirley Hughes to 'Sebastian', 4 Oct 1988.
Extents: 1 box (1 folder)
Dates: 4 Oct 1988

Poems written by Elizabeth Jennings

 Collection
Manuscript poems by Elizabeth Jennings, 1963-1969.
Extents: 0.12 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1963-1969

Postcards Richard Adams and (Barbara) Elizabeth Acland sent to each other before their marriage in 1949

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23921
Postcards Richard Adams and (Barbara) Elizabeth Acland sent to each other before their marriage in 1949, 3 May 1947-19 Oct 1948, n.d.
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: 3 May 1947 -19 Oct 1948, n.d.

Printed flyer for a performance of Alan Bennett's Single Spies, Oxford Playhouse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8238, fol. 97
Printed flyer for a performance of Alan Bennett's Single Spies, Oxford Playhouse, 21-26 March 2016.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 21-26 March 2016

RADA playscript for a production of Kafka's The Castle written by Max Brod and translated by James Clark, 1963 with associated ephemera and newspaper cuttings

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24098
RADA playscript for a production of Kafka's The Castle written by Max Brod and translated by James Clark, 1963 with associated ephemera and newspaper cuttings
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1963-1992

Rose E. Hubbard, Ornamental waterfowl (Walsall, 1907)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 653
Rose E. Hubbard, Ornamental waterfowl (Walsall, 1907)
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c. 1907-1917

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

Three printed volumes of poetry by May Wedderburn Cannan with associated autograph and manuscript poems

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 16085
Three printed volumes of poetry by May Wedderburn Cannan with associated autograph and manuscript poems, 1917-1923.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1917-1923

Transcript of BBC radio broadcast by Ruth Pitter, 'We Cannot Take Less', with autograph letter

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17234
Transcript of BBC radio broadcast by Ruth Pitter, 'We Cannot Take Less', with autograph letter, 1961-1977.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1961-1977

Typescript draft of Lace by Shirley Conran

 Collection
Typescript draft of Lace by Shirley Conran with research notebook
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1979-1991

Typescript play, 'Such is Life: a sketch in two scenes', by Florence Hopkins

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 882, fols. 17-41
Typescript play, 'Such is Life', by Florence Hopkins
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: early 20th century

Typescript press copies of five stories published in the science fiction magazine New Worlds

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 19544
Typescript press copies of five stories published in the science fiction magazine New Worlds, May-Jun 1965.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: May-Jun 1965

Undergraduate notes and essays of John Wain

 Collection
Undergraduate notes and essays of John Barrington Wain, 1943-1946.
Extents: 0.3 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1943-1948