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Papers of Mary Marquand

Photocopied typescript and manuscript of Him now; a Solomon Islands honeymoon, reminiscences of life as the wife of a colonial officer, 1946, with part of a re-write, 1949-1950.
Shelfmark: MSS. Pac. s. 99
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1946-1950
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Papers of Michael Francis Strachan, relating to his work, Esmond de Beer: scholar and benefactor: a personal memoir (Norwich, 1995)

Papers of Michael Francis Strachan, relating to his work, Esmond de Beer: scholar and benefactor: a personal memoir (Norwich, 1995)
Extents: 157.0 Leaves
Dates: 1960-1996
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Papers of Mike Bevan

Diary, 1941-1945, written by Bevan while interned in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, 1940-1945 and typed up in 1965 from his notes; with copy of Sweet Waters by Lieut. John Gibson on the surrender of Hong Kong by the Japanese, [fron] Blackwood Magazine, January 1946, and press cutting on the surrender.
Shelfmark: MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 359
Extents: 22 ff.
Dates: 20th century
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Papers of Patrick Brian Sweeney

Typescript autobiography and papers relating to service as a customs officer in India, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Somaliland and Aden, 1933-1965.
Extents: 1 volume, 1 box
Dates: 1933-1965
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Papers of Ralph N. Mann

Letters home, 1954-1958, with correspondence relating to research into the lives of Button Gwinnett, President of Georgia and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, and of Elias Vanderhorst, British Consul in the USA (d. 1816).
Shelfmark: MSS. W. Ind. s. 50
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1954-1958
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Papers of R.E.N. Smith

Six chapters of Smith's memoirs, c1987, relating to his probationer cadetship at Oxford, 1948-1950 and service in Nyasaland, 1950-1961; with curriculum vitae.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2277
Extents: 58 ff.
Dates: c1987
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Papers of Revd. Henry Clarke (1)

Five volumes of The Journal of Henry Clarke, comprising a typescript version of an autobiography written by the Revd. Clarke with reference to his diaries of 1847-1897; two volumes of typed transcripts of his letters, 1855-1876; three volumes containing photocopies of his letters, 1877-1888.
Extents: 10 Volumes
Dates: 1847-1897
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Papers of Robert Hepburn Wright

Letters written to parents from northern Nigeria, 1938-1939 Letters and diary extracts on journey out via Egypt and then from Cyprus, as Administrative Officer and Private Secretary to the island's Governor, 1942-[1964]; letters written on service with the R.A.F., 1943-1946 Letters to father from northern Nigeria, 1946-1951 Bound volumes of transcripts of letters…
Extents: 5 boxes
Dates: [1936-1964]
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Papers of Robert Noel Turner

From the depths of my memory, reminiscences of service in Malaya, Brunei, Singapore, Sarawak, Barbados and Malaysia, 1912-1976 (photocopied typescript), with texts of speeches made in Barbados.
Extents: 3 Files
Dates: [1912-1976]
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Papers of W.F.P. Kelly

Diary of travels in charge of a mobile cinema, Kenya, 1944; three volumes of memoirs of service, Kenya, 1936-1963; four volumes of travel diaries, Kenya, 1981-1982, 1989, 1992, 1996; one travel diary, South Africa, 1990; report by Miss S. Brodribb Pughe on the wells of the Northern District, Kenya, 1962.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: 1944-[1996]
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Papers relating to Cecil John Rhodes (2)

Album of newspaper cuttings and printed material relating to the life and career of Rhodes in Southern Africa, including a biography (Miniature series) by Ada S. Frost entitled The right hon. Cecil J. Rhodes (London: 1902).
Extents: 38 ff.
Dates: 1896-1902
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A postcard of Elizabeth Jennings and an Oxford University Poetry Society performance ticket given by Ann Thwaite

A note by Ann Thwaite describing her gift of a 1958 postcard from Elizabeth Jennings a ticket for a 1953 Oxford University Poetry Society performance of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8238, fols. 104-6
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 1953, 1958, 2016
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Proof sheets of sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort

Proof sheets of sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 56
Extents: 388 Leaves
Dates: Printed in 1874-1878
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R. C. Nichols, Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.

R. C. Nichols, Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 145
Extents: 79 Leaves
Dates: c. 1874
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Rambling notes, chiefly legal and biographical

Rambling notes, chiefly legal and biographical
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. g. 3
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1821
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'Recueil des Chansons critiques, satyriques, libres, joyeuses et grivoises', by Roger Rabutin

'Recueil des Chansons critiques, satyriques, libres, joyeuses et grivoises', by Roger Rabutin
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 4
Extents: 181 Leaves
Dates: 17th century
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Reminiscences of Theodore Hook (1788-1841), by R. H. Barham

Reminiscences of Theodore Hook (1788-1841), by R. H. Barham
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 291
Extents: 44 pages
Dates: 1843
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Roy Jenkins papers

Correspondence and papers of Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (1920-2003), politician and author, with additional papers of his father Arthur Jenkins, MP for Pontypool (1882-1946).
Extents: 100 Linear metres (607 shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1940-2003; 1882-2006
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Savile Collection

Manuscript collections from the Savilian Library, 12th-19th century
Extents: 11.08 Linear metres (108 boxes)
Dates: 12th-19th century
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'Seldeniana', collected by dr. David Wilkins

'Seldeniana', collected by dr. David Wilkins, written in about 1720-1724 by D. Wilkins.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 1022
Extents: 102 Leaves
Dates: written in about 1720-1724 by D. Wilkins

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Biography 74
20th century 61
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18th century 22
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16th century 7
21st century 6
Antiquarians 5
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration 5
Letters 4
Composers -- England -- Biography 3
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Officials and employees -- Biography 2
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Historical fiction, English 2
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Indexed names
Jenkins | Margaret Elizabeth Heald | 1905-2010 | novelist and biographer 2
Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 2
Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 2
Rubbra | Charles Edmund Duncan | 1901-1986 | pianist and composer 2
Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 2
Acworth | Harriet Garland | d 1846 | Wife of William Acworth 1
Acworth | William | 1803-1899 | Evangelical clergyman 1
Ainley | J M | b 1925 | Agricultural Officer 1
Aldhelm | c. 639-709 | Saint | Bishop of Sherborne 1
Alexander III | 356-323 BC | known as Alexander the Great | King of Macedon 1
Alexander VI | d 1503 | Pope 1
Alexander | Boyd | 1913-1980 | writer 1
Andrew | b. c.650 | Saint | of Jerusalem 1
Annan | Kofi Atta | 1938-2018 | diplomat 1
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 1
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 1
Bantock | J.R. Granville | fl 1920-1939 | colonial police officer 1
Barham | Richard Harris | 1788-1845 | Author 1
Barnard | Basil Henry F. | fl 1901-1948 | forester 1
Barnard | H. John | fl 1901-1948 | colonial police officer 1
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Barnes | N. F. | fl. 1973 1
Bartholomew | fl. 1st century | Saint 1
Beardsley | Aubrey Vincent | 1872-1898 | illustrator 1
Beckford | William Thomas | 1760-1844 | writer and art collector 1
Bede | 672/3-735 | Saint 1
Beer | Esmond Samuel | de | 1895-1990 | historical scholar and editor 1
Bevan | James | 1828-1917 | entrepreneur explorer 1
Bevan | Mike | fl 1940-1945 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blakiston | J. M. G | fl. 1975 1
Bowen | Elizabeth Dorothea Cole | 1899-1973 | afterwards Cameron | novelist 1
Bradley | James | 1693-1762 | Chaplain to Bishop of Hereford, astronomer 1
Bradley | Meta | fl 1879-1884 1
Brand | John | 1744-1806 | Antiquary and Historian 1
Braun | Helene Margarete Hedwig Hildburg | 1910-2004 | née Weber 1
Braun | Konrad Ernst Leonard | 1896-1969 | lawyer and judge, Quaker scholar 1
Braun | Thomas Felix Rudolf Gerhard | 1935-2008 | classicist and Dean of Merton College, Oxford 1
Brooke | F. C. | fl. 1801-1900 1
Bruce | John | 1802-1869 | Antiquary 1
Bullock | John Frederick Watkinson | 1840-1918 | Author 1
Butler | Stephen Seymour | 1880-1964 | Major-General 1
Cather | Willa | 1873-1947 | novelist and short-story writer 1
Cenci | Beatrice | 1577-1599 | noblewoman 1
Chalmers | Alexander | 1759-1834 | Writer 1
Church of England | Jamaica | Clergy | Biography 1
Clark Kerr | Archibald John Kerr | 1882-1951 | Baron Inverchapel | British diplomat 1
Clarke | Henry | 1828-1907 | Church of England clergyman and politician 1
Codrington | family | 1700-1869 | baronets | Antigua and Barbuda 1
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 1
Collingwood | Robin George | 1889-1943 | philosopher and historian 1
Davis | Henry William Carless | 1874-1928 | historian 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 1
Devereux | Robert | 1591-1646 | third earl of Essex | parliamentarian army officer 1
Dickens | Charles John Huffam | 1812-1870 | Novelist and Journalist 1
Dictionary of National Biography | Oxford 1
Douie | James Mccrone | 1854-1933 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Administrator 1
Eckert | Robert Paul | d. 1966 | biographer 1
Eckhard | Frederic | fl. 1970s-present | spokesperson and civil servant 1
Elias | fl. 9th century | prophet 1
European Commission x Commission Européenne 1
Fell | John | 1625-1686 | Bishop of Oxford 1
Ferris | John William | 1920-1992 | airman and colonial administrator 1
Fitzgerald | Penelope Knox | 1916-2000 | Novelist 1
Forrest | Jack W. | b 1908 | colonial education officer 1
Fox | Yvonne | fl 1939-1960 | wife of S.A. Fox, colonial administrator 1
Freind | John | d 1673 | student of St Edmund Hall, Oxford University 1
Frost | Ada S | fl 1902 1
Germanus | Saint 1
Gilpin | Bernard | 1517-1583 | Archdeacon of Durham 1
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 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
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 1
Gray | A F | b 1925 | Meteorological Officer 1
Great Britain and Northern Ireland | HM Treasury 1
Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Home Office 1
Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Liberal Democrats 1
Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Ministry of Aviation | 1964-1965 1
Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Social Democratic Party | 1981-1988 1
Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Social and Liberal Democrats | 1988-1989 1
Gwinnett | Button | [1735]-1777 | President of Georgia signatory of the American Declaration of Independence 1
Halden | Gerald | fl c1995 | biographer? 1
Halley | Edmond | 1656-1742 | Astronomer 1
Hamilton | Ian | 1938-2001 | critic, biographer and poet 1
Heaney | Leonard M. | b 1906 | colonial officer 1
Henri IV | 1553-1610 | King of France and Navarre 1
Herbert | George | 1593-1633 | Anglican clergyman and public orator 1
Herbert | Sir | Thomas | 1606-1682 | first baronet | traveller and government official 1
Hook | Theodore | 1788-1841 | Novelist 1
Hooker | Richard | 1554-1600 | theologian and philosopher 1
Huet | Pierre Daniel | 1630-1721 | French Bishop of Avranches, scholar 1
Jenkins | Arthur | 1882-1946 | politician 1
Jenkins | Dame | Mary Jennifer | née Morris | 1921-2017 | public servant 1
Jenkins | Roy Harris | Baron Jenkins of Hillhead | 1920-2003 | politician 1
Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 1
John | d. A.D. 28 | Saint | the Baptist 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Jónsson | Eyjólfur | 1670-1745 | priest and chronicler 1
Kelly | W.F.P. | b 1912 | colonial administrator 1
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Language
English 104
French 9
Latin 7
Italian 4
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 3
Chinese 1
Czech 1
Danish 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Hebrew 1
Polish 1
Portuguese 1
Spanish; Castilian 1