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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

Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

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 As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished.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.
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.
Collection

Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock

Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock
Extents: 4.03 Linear metres (71 boxes)
Dates: 19th-20th century
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Archive of Audrey Beecham

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.
Collection

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Extents: 1.70 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates: 1882-1969
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Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Extents: 2.11 Linear metres (29 boxes)
Dates: 1890-1955
Collection

Archive of Enid Starkie

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.
Collection

Archive of E.R. Eddison

Archive of E.R. Eddison
Extents: 1.13 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 1892-1958
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Archive of Ethel Sidgwick

Archive of Ethel Sidgwick
Extents: 1.28 Linear metres (16 boxes)
Dates: 1876-1960
Collection

Archive of Falconer Madan relating to Manuscripts of Vergil

Archive of Falconer Madan relating to Manuscripts of Vergil.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1876-80
Collection

Archive of Franz Kafka

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.
Collection

Archive of John Hungerford Pollen and the Pollen Family

The archive of John Hungerford Pollen (1820-1902), decorative artist and Roman Catholic convert, and the Pollen family, 1828-2017.
Extents: 6.0 Linear metres (44 boxes; 2 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1828-2017
Collection

Archive of Kenneth Grahame

Archive of Kenneth Grahame
Extents: 2.27 Linear metres (37 boxes)
Dates: 19th-20th century
Collection

Archive of Lily Dougall

Papers of Lily Dougall (1858-1923), novelist and religious author, 1869-1926.
Extents: 6.86 Linear metres (18 boxes)
Dates: 1869-1926
Collection

Archive of Raymond Chandler

Papers of Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), writer, 1880-2005
Extents: 7.05 Linear metres (132 boxes)
Dates: 1880-2005, n.d.
Collection

Archive of William Beckford

Papers of William Beckford (1760-1844), author
Extents: 17.6 Linear metres (176 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1515-19th cent., n.d.
Single Item

Autograph letter from John le Carré to 'Doris'

Autograph letter from John le Carré to 'Doris', 27 Mar 2020.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fol. 78
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: 27 Mar 2020
Collection

Beddoes and Edgeworth family papers

Papers relating to the Beddoes and Edgeworth family.
Extents: 3.21 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: late 17th century-1942
Collection

Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall

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
Collection

Collections for biographical and bibliographical notices of Oxford Writers

Collections for biographical and bibliographical notices of Oxford Writers from the point where Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses leaves off, to about 1800, with additions to about 1815, written in about 1780-1815 by J. Gutch.
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: c.1780-1815

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19th century 36
20th century 22
Authors 17
Literature 17
Humanities 12
English literature 11
18th century 10
Authors -- 20th century 10
English literature -- 19th century 8
English literature -- 20th century 8
Authors -- 19th century 7
Novelists -- 19th century 7
Poets 7
Poetry 6
Authors, English 5
17th century 4
21st century 4
Authors, English -- 20th century 4
Authors, classical 4
Classical literature 4
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16th century 3
Authors, English -- 19th century 3
Children's literature -- 20th century 3
Diaries 3
Diaries -- 20th century 3
Novelists -- 20th century 3
Women 3
Antiquarians 2
Art 2
Church Architecture | England 2
English Literature 2
English poetry -- Women authors 2
Feminism 2
Fiction -- 20th century 2
Great Britain 2
Literature -- 20th century 2
Photographs 2
Photography 2
Publishers and publishing 2
Religion 2
University of Oxford 2
Women authors, English -- 20th century 2
x - 15th century 2
Academics 1
Activism 1
Agriculture 1
Art, British -- 19th century 1
Art, British -- 20th century 1
Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Art, Victorian -- England 1
Artists 1
Authors -- 18th century 1
Authors, English - 21st century 1
Authors, English -- Correspondence 1
Authors, German -- 20th century 1
Authors, Irish -- 20th century 1
Autographs -- Collections 1
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
Book design 1
Books and reading 1
Booksellers and bookselling 1
Catalogs, Book 1
Catholic Church 1
Catholic Church -- England 1
Catholics -- England -- Intellectual life 1
Christianity -- 20th century 1
Church music -- Catholic Church 1
Church of England -- Clergy 1
Civil Service -- India 1
Classicists 1
Collectors and collecting 1
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Detective and mystery stories 1
Diaries -- 19th century 1
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England -- Nottingham 1
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English Fiction -- 20th century 1
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English language -- Dialects -- England, Northern 1
English literature -- 18th century 1
English literature -- 21st century 1
English poetry 1
English poetry -- 20th century 1
Fantasy fiction, English 1
Fiction 1
Folklore 1
French literature 1
German poetry -- Women authors 1
Great Britain -- Colonies -- India 1
Great Britain -- Colonies -- India -- Administration -- 20th century 1
Greece -- History 1
Heralds 1
Historians 1
Historical Fiction 1
History 1
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Indexed names
University of Oxford 3
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 2
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 2
Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 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
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
Austen | Cassandra Elizabeth | 1773–1845 | sister of Jane Austen 1
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 1
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 1
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 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
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 1
Bentley | Edmund Clerihew | 1875-1956 | Writer 1
Bernières | Louis de | b.1954 | novelist 1
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Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
Bodleian Library 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
Burges | George | 1786-1864 | classical scholar 1
Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
Cape | Herbert Jonathan | 1879-1960 | Publisher 1
Chandler | Raymond | 1888-1959 | writer 1
Church | Richard Thomas | 1893-1972 | poet and writer 1
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 1
Conrad | Joseph | 1857-1924 | novelist 1
Crespigny | Caroline Champion de | née Bathurst | 1796-1861 | poet 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
Dougall | Lily | 1858-1923 | novelist and religious author 1
EP Dutton & Co | New York | publishers 1
Eddison | Eric Rucker | 1882-1945 | Author 1
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and children's writer 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | family 1
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | Author and Secretary of the Bank of England 1
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 1
Griffith | Llewelyn Wyn | 1890-1977 | writer and broadcaster 1
Gutch | John | 1746-1831 | clergyman, antiquary, Registrar of Oxford University 1
Haggard | Sir | (Henry) Rider | 1856-1925 | novelist 1
Hamilton | Sir | George Rostrevor | 1888-1967 | Knight, Poet, Writer, and Civil Servant 1
Heber | Richard | 1773-1833 | MP, Book Collector, and Classical Scholar 1
Holland | Vyvyan Beresford | 1886-1967 | author and translator 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 1
Jones | Walter David Michael | 1895–1974 | painter and poet 1
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 1
Lamb | Charles | 1775-1834 | essayist and humorist 1
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 1
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 1
Madan | Falconer | 1851-1935 | Bodley's Librarian, palaeographer and bibliographer 1
Maro | Publius Vergilius | c 70-19 BC | Roman poet known as Virgil 1
Medwin | Thomas | 1788-1869 | biographer of P.B. Shelley 1
Montagu | Montagu | 1787-1863 | Captain RN, Author, and Autograph Collector 1
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 1
Oxford Ladies Musical Society 1
Poe | Edgar Allan | 1809-1849 | American writer and poet 1
Pollen | Anne Gertrude Mary | 1856-1934 | biographer and nun 1
Pollen | Anthony Cecil Hungerford | 1860-1940 | priest and composer 1
Pollen | Arthur Joseph Hungerford | 1866–1937 | expert on gunnery and businessman 1
Pollen | Arthur Joseph Lawrence | 1899-1968 | sculptor 1
Pollen | Daphne | 1904-1986 | née Baring | artist 1
Pollen | John Hungerford | 1820-1902 | decorative artist and writer 1
Pollen | John Hungerford | 1858-1925 | English Jesuit and historian 1
Pollen | Maria Margaret | 1838-1919 | née La Primaudaye | decorative arts collector and writer 1
Ross | Robert Baldwin | 1869-1918 | journalist and editor 1
Sandford | Christopher | 1902-1983 | typographer and publisher 1
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 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
Sidgwick | Ethel | 1877-1970 | Novelist 1
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 1
Stephens | James | 1880-1950 | poet and novelist 1
Thomson | Winifred Hope | fl 1884-1943 | artist 1
University of Nottingham 1
University of Oxford | Agricultural Economics Research Institute 1
University of Oxford | Institute of Agricultural Economics 1
Upcott | William | 1779-1845 | Antiquary and Autograph Collector 1
Wakefield | Gilbert | 1756-1801 | Unitarian and author 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
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Language
English 38
French 10
German 10
Latin 9
Italian 5
Spanish; Castilian 4
Danish 3
Czech 2
Dutch; Flemish 2
Greek, Modern (1453-) 2
Norwegian 2
Polish 2
Afrikaans 1
Chinese 1
Finnish 1
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 1
Hebrew 1
Hungarian 1
Japanese 1
Portuguese 1
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