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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 As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished.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.
Single Item

Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond

Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond, c.1968.
Shelfmark: MS. 22073
Extents: 1 box (2 folders)
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1968-1997; c.1968
Collection

Archive of A. Maud Bodkin

Archive of A. Maud Bodkin
Extents: 0.21 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1928-1967
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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 (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 Barbara Mary Crampton Pym

Papers of Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (1913-80), novelist.
Extents: 11 Linear metres (178 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1913-1980
Collection

Archive of Brian Aldiss

The archive of the author Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925-2017).
Extents: 12.61 Linear metres (190 boxes)
Dates: 1942-2017
Collection

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke

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

Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Extents: 2.11 Linear metres (29 boxes)
Dates: 1890-1955
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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
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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 Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer

Correspondence and papers of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer
Extents: 8.22 Linear meters (117 containers)
Dates: 1799-2021
Collection

Archive of Joanna Trollope

Archive of Joanna Trollope (1943-2025), writer, including literary and personal papers, [1908]-2019.
Extents: 5.26 Linear metres (109 boxes)
Dates: [1908]-2019; Majority of material found within 1952-2019
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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

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20th century 62
Literature 45
19th century 36
English literature 35
Humanities 34
Authors 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
English literature -- 20th century 20
Poetry 16
18th century 14
Authors, classical 14
21st century 12
Authors, English -- 20th century 12
Poets 12
Authors, English 11
English poetry -- Women authors 11
Literature -- 20th century 11
English poetry 10
17th century 9
Classical literature 8
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English literature -- 19th century 8
English poetry -- 20th century 8
Novelists -- 20th century 8
Women authors, English -- 20th century 8
Authors -- 19th century 7
Children's literature -- 20th century 7
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 6
Novelists -- 19th century 6
16th century 4
Art 4
Correspondence 4
Diaries 4
English language 4
English poetry -- 21st century 4
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 4
Authors, English -- 19th century 3
Authors, English -- Correspondence 3
Diaries -- 20th century 3
English Literature 3
English literature -- 21st century 3
Ireland 3
Latin literature 3
Letters 3
Letters -- 20th century 3
Literature -- Translations 3
Photographs 3
Poets, English 3
Poets, English -- Correspondence 3
Publishers and publishing 3
United States of America 3
University of Oxford 3
Women 3
Antiquarians 2
Authors, English - 21st century 2
Authors, German -- 20th century 2
Church Architecture | England 2
Church of England -- Clergy 2
Drama 2
Drama -- 20th century 2
Feminism 2
Great Britain 2
Illustration of books 2
Illustrations 2
India 2
Manuscripts, Greek 2
Manuscripts, Latin 2
Middle East 2
Photography 2
Playwriting -- Drama 2
Poetry -- 20th century 2
Publishers and publishing -- 20th century 2
Religion 2
Theology 2
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
x - 15th century 2
Academics 1
Activism 1
Agriculture 1
Anabaptists 1
Apartheid -- South Africa 1
Archaeology 1
Architecture 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, Irish -- 20th century 1
Autographs -- Collections 1
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting 1
Bible 1
Bible -- O.T. -- Psalms 1
Biography 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
Book design 1
Books and reading 1
Booksellers and bookselling 1
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Indexed names
University of Oxford 6
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 3
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 3
University of Oxford | Prizes 3
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 2
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
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 2
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 2
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 2
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 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
Terentius Afer | Publius | ? 195 BC-? 159 BC | Roman comic dramatist 2
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
Adcock | Arthur St John | 1864-1930 | Novelist 1
Adcock | Marion L | fl 1879-1890 1
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Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 1
Apollonius | b. 295 BC | of Rhodes | author and poet 1
Arlott | (Leslie Thomas) John | 1914-1991 | writer and broadcaster 1
Askew | Anthony | 1722-1774 | Classical Scholar, Physician, and Collector of MSS and Books 1
Ault | Norman | 1880-1950 | Author and Artist 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
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 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
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | Author 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 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
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Bretherton | John Christopher | 1925-2015 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
Brod | Max | 1884-1968 | author, composer and journalist 1
Burges | George | 1786-1864 | classical scholar 1
Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
Cape | Herbert Jonathan | 1879-1960 | Publisher 1
Caravella | Johannes | fl. 1730-1770 | classical scholar 1
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 1
Chandler | Raymond | 1888-1959 | writer 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 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
Conran | Dame | Shirley Ida | 1932-2024 | writer 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
England and Wales | Exchequer 1
England and Wales | Royal Navy 1
Eton College 1
Evans | (Isabelle Dorothy) Joyce | née Dennys | 1893-1991 | artist and author 1
Filler | Martin Myles | b.1948 | American architecture critic and writer 1
Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister 1
Fraenkel | Eduard David Mortier | 1888-1970 | classical scholar 1
Franklyn | Edna | née Lomas | 1903-1999 | dressmaker and writer 1
French Protestant Church 1
Gellhorn | 1908-1998| American novelist and journalist 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | family 1
Gordimer | Nadine | 1923-2014 | writer 1
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 1
Grahame | Elspeth | 1862-1946 | née Thomson | wife of Kenneth Grahame 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
Green | Leonard | fl 1906-1957 1
Green | Peter Morris | 1924-2024 | scholar and writer 1
Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville 1
Griffith | Llewelyn Wyn | 1890-1977 | writer and broadcaster 1
Grigson | Geoffrey Edward Harvey | 1905-1985 | poet and writer 1
Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 1
Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely 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
Harvey | Henry Stanley | 1911-1995 1
Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror 1
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Language
English 95
Latin 15
German 14
French 13
Italian 8
Spanish; Castilian 6
Danish 4
Dutch; Flemish 4
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 4
Greek, Modern (1453-) 3
Norwegian 3
Polish 3
Catalan; Valencian 2
Czech 2
Hebrew 2
Portuguese 2
Russian 2
Swedish 2
Welsh 2
Afrikaans 1