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Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
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 As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished.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.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates:
1838-1861, n.d.
Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler
Collection
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
Archive of Audrey Beecham
Collection
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.
Archive of Candida Lycett Green (1942-2014), author and conservationist
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Archive of Candida Lycett Green (1942-2014), author and conservationist
Extents: 8.9 Linear metres (131 boxes)
Dates:
1879-2016 and n.d. [c.1898-2015]
Archive of Joanna Trollope
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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
Archive of John Hungerford Pollen and the Pollen Family
Collection
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
Archive of Lily Dougall
Collection
Papers of Lily Dougall (1858-1923), novelist and religious author, 1869-1926.
Extents: 6.86 Linear metres (18 boxes)
Dates:
1869-1926
Archive of the Oman family
Collection
Papers and photographs of Sir Charles Oman, British military historian, his wife Lady Oman and members of their respective families. The collection includes writings and personal papers of Sir Charles's parents, C. P. A. Oman, indigo planter in India, and Annie Chadwick, daughter of William Chadwick, a railway constructor. Lady Oman's family papers contain her father Gen. Maclagan's diaries and James Anderson Rose's collection of autographs and letters from Pre-Raphaelite artists. Their...
Extents: 26.6 Linear metres (269 physical shelfmarks, 1 digital shelfmark)
Dates:
1727-2003
Archive of Ursula Roberts (Susan Miles)
Collection
Archive of Ursula Roberts (Susan Miles)
Extents: 1.32 Linear metres (12 boxes)
Dates:
1912-1969
Archive of Victoria Glendinning
Collection
Archive of Victoria Glendinning
Extents: 7.05 linear metres (113 boxes)
Dates:
c.1865-2023; Majority of material found within 1958-2023, n.d.
Autograph letter from Christine Brooke-Rose to Raymond Mortimer, enclosing typescript transcripts of four unpublished short stories
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 7, fols. 15-37
Autograph letter from Christine Brooke-Rose to Raymond Mortimer, enclosing typescript transcripts of four unpublished short stories, 3 Jan 1948.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
3 Jan 1948
Diaries of two members of the Rivington family
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Diaries of two members of the Rivington family
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates:
1778-1782, 1787-1791
Drawing of Ruth Pitter by Sir William Rothenstein
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 18649
Drawing of Ruth Pitter by Sir William Rothenstein, c.1938.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c.1938
English Poem on a Sacred Subject, Prize Poems, University of Oxford
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 24-29
Printouts of English Poem on a Sacred Subject, Prize Poems, University of Oxford, 2010-2019.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
2010-2019
Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21785
Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph, c.1986.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c.1986
Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Poems, University of Oxford
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 30-36.
Printouts of Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Poems, University of Oxford, 2016-2022.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates:
2016-2022
Letter from Elspeth Huxley to Dea Birkett
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 7, fol. 1
Letter from Elspeth Huxley to Dea Birkett.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
27 Oct 1991
Letter from John Wain to Constantine Trypanis
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 121
Letter from John Wain to Constantine Trypanis
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
18 Dec 1958
Letters from Elizabeth Jenkins to A.L. Rowse
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12052
Letters from Elizabeth Jenkins to A.L. Rowse, 1960-1993.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1960-1993
Letters from Jenny Joseph to Bernard and Angela Levy
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 49-67
Letters from Jenny Joseph to Bernard and Angela Levy, [1926]-2015.
Extents: 19 items
Dates:
[1926]-2015