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Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose, chiefly in English, some of which are printed in Dryden's Miscellany Poems

Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose, chiefly in English, some of which are printed in Dryden's Miscellany Poems, written in the first half of the 18th century.
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 105
Extents: 108 Leaves
Dates: written in the first half of the 18th century
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'The most remarkable ... politico-economical history of A, B, and C. Birmingham, 1833'

'The most remarkable ... politico-economical history of A, B, and C. Birmingham, 1833'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 78
Extents: 212 pages
Dates: Written in 1833 at Birmingham
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'The Motor': juvenile miniature motoring magazines

'The Motor', a juvenile miniature motoring magazine
Shelfmark: MS. 19654
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1921-1927
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'The Mouse-Trap', by E. Holdsworth and Samuel Cobb, 2nd ed., and 'The Chase', by William Somerville, 3rd ed.

'The Mouse-Trap', by E. Holdsworth and Samuel Cobb, 2nd ed., and 'The Chase', by William Somerville, 3rd ed.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 154
Extents: 136 pages
Dates: 1720-1750
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M.T.H. Sadleir Manuscript

M.T.H. Sadleir Manuscript, c. 1927
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: c. [1927?]
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Natasha Spender papers

Correspondence and papers of Natasha Spender, concert pianist, academic, writer, and wife of the British poet Stephen Spender.
Extents: 27.0 Linear metres (180 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c. 1800-2011, n.d.
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Nevill Coghill's prose translation of Beowulf

Nevill Coghill's prose translation of Beowulf
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1076
Extents: 110 Leaves
Dates: 18 Nov 1924
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Nine letters from Maria Edgeworth to Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert and Madame François Delessert

Nine letters from Maria Edgeworth to Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773-1847) and Madame François Delessert (1796-1877).
Shelfmark: MS. 11493
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1818-1845
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Note from Alan Bennett to David Vaisey

Note from Alan Bennett to David Vaisey, 1991.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2720, fol. 108
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1991
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Notebook containing a miscellany of verses copied by Joseph Wills

Notebook containing a miscellany of verses copied by Joseph Wills.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 184
Extents: 144 pages
Dates: 1761-1769
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Notebook containing copies of poems and essays in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps

Notebook containing copies of poems and essays in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 1636
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: c.1806-1815
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Notebook containing verses recited at Reading School

Notebook containing verses recited at Reading School
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 1527
Extents: 41 Leaves
Dates: 1797-1806
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Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns

Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns and (fols. 19-42) 'A very pretty story to tell children when they are about five or six years of age'
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 198
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1733-52
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Notebook of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers

Notebook of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, containing fair copies of poems by him, 1885-1919, with later amendments, 1940-1948.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 257
Extents: 112 Leaves
Dates: 1885-1919, 1940-1948
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Notes by Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, on arms and marks of ownership in early printed books and manuscripts

Notes by Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, on arms and marks of ownership in early printed books and manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 579
Extents: 66 Leaves
Dates: 19th century
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Old English and other linguistic papers of Humphrey Wanley

Old English and other linguistic papers of Humphrey Wanley
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. bibl. c. 3
Extents: 198 pages
Dates: Written in the first quarter of the 18th century by H. Wanley
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Page proofs of William Watson, 'The Dream of Man'

Page proofs of William Watson, 'The Dream of Man'.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 256
Extents: 39 Leaves
Dates: 1892
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Papers of Alfred Edgar Coppard

Papers of Alfred Edgar Coppard, 1900-1957, n.d.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1900-1957, n.d.
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Papers of Ernest Walker

Papers related to Ernest Walker in the archive of Albi and Maud Rosenthal, 1889-1963, n.d.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1889-1963, n.d.
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Papers of Hilary Walton relating to Barbara Pym

Papers of Hilary Crampton Walton née Pym (1916-2004) relating to her sister, the novelist Barbara Pym (1913-1980), c.1920-2008.
Extents: 3.45 Linear metres (23 boxes)
Dates: 1920-2008

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20th century 226
English literature 172
English literature -- 20th century 122
19th century 99
Humanities 50
English literature -- 19th century 42
English Literature 40
18th century 36
Poetry 36
Literature 34
21st century 31
Letters 30
17th century 28
Poems 27
English poetry 20
English poetry -- 20th century 19
Correspondence 18
Literature -- 20th century 17
Authors -- 20th century 15
Novelists -- 20th century 14
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Children's literature 13
English literature -- 18th century 13
Poets 13
Religion 12
Authors 10
English language 10
Novelists 9
Art 8
English literature -- 17th century 7
Lectures and lecturing 7
16th century 6
English poetry -- 21st century 6
Manuscripts 6
Women authors, English -- 20th century 6
Authors -- 19th century 5
Commonplace books 5
Diaries 5
English poetry -- 19th century 5
Journalism 5
Letters -- 20th century 5
Photographs 5
Poets -- 20th century 5
Sermons 5
Theater -- England 5
University of Oxford 5
Women 5
Authors, English 4
Authors, English -- 20th century 4
Diaries -- 20th century 4
Drama 4
English literature -- 21st century 4
History 4
Ireland 4
Literary criticism 4
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Playwriting -- Drama 4
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 4
Art, British -- 20th century 3
Artists 3
Authors, English -- 19th century 3
Children's stories, English 3
Childrens literature -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 16th century 3
Illustration of books 3
Letters -- 19th century 3
Music 3
Novelists -- 19th century 3
Oxford (England) 3
Poetry -- 20th century 3
Politics and Government 3
Portrait photography 3
Theater 3
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 3
War poetry 3
x - 15th century 3
Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 2
Art, British -- 21st century -- Exhibitions 2
Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 2
Biography 2
Books and reading 2
Calligraphy 2
Christianity -- 20th century 2
Church Architecture | England 2
Dissertations, Academic 2
Drama -- 19th century 2
Drawing 2
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 2
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 2
English literature -- Old English, c.450-1100 2
English poetry -- 17th century 2
English poetry -- 18th century 2
English poetry -- Women authors 2
Essays 2
Fantasy fiction 2
Germany 2
Illustrations 2
Inklings (Group of writers) 2
Journalists -- 20th century 2
Latin literature 2
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 43
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 7
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 7
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 6
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6
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
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 4
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 4
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 4
Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 4
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 4
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
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Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 3
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 3
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 3
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 3
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 3
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 2
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 2
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 2
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 2
Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
Dodgson | Charles Lutwidge | 1832-1898 | author, mathematician and photographer known as Lewis Carroll 2
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 2
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 2
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 2
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 2
Greene | Vivien | 1904-2003 | collector 2
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 2
Hewitt | William Graily | 1864-1952 | Novelist and calligrapher 2
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 2
Lamb | Charles | 1775-1834 | essayist and humorist 2
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 2
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 2
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Spender | Natasha | 1919-2010 | née Litvin | concert pianist 2
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 2
University of Oxford | Prizes 2
Abbott | Claude Colleer |17 April 1889–17 Sept. 1971 | Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Durham, 1932–54, Emeritus Professor, 1954 1
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 1
Adcock | Arthur St John | 1864-1930 | Novelist 1
Adcock | Marion L | fl 1879-1890 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | writer and politician 1
Aikin | Lucy | 1781-1864 | historian 1
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 1
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 1
Amis | Martin Louis | b 1949 | author 1
Arlott | (Leslie Thomas) John | 1914-1991 | writer and broadcaster 1
Ashburnham | Bertrum | 1797-1878 | 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1
Austen | Cassandra Elizabeth | 1773–1845 | sister of Jane Austen 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Banmer | Sir | Thomas | d. 1746 1
Bayley | John Oliver | 1925-2015 | literary critic and novelist 1
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 1
Beckford | William Thomas | 1760-1844 | writer and art collector 1
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Beeching | Henry Charles |1859–1919 | dean of Norwich and author 1
Beerbohm | Sir | Henry Maximilian | 1872-1956 | Knight | author and cartoonist 1
Bennett | Alan | b. 1934 | British playwright |screenwriter, actor, and author 1
Bennett | Thomas | 1665-1706 | London bookseller 1
Benson Arthur Christopher | 1862-1925 | Writer 1
Benson family 1
Benson | Edward White | 1829-1896 | Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Benson | Margaret | 1865-1916 | Egyptologist and religious philosopher 1
Benson | Robert Hugh | 1871-1914 | Roman Catholic writer and apologist 1
Bentley | Edmund Clerihew | 1875-1956 | Writer 1
Berlin | Sir | Isaiah | 1909-1997 | Knight | historian and philosopher 1
Betjeman | Penelope | 1910-1986 | writer 1
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1
Bide | Peter | Reverend | 1912-2003 | priest 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Birrell | Francis | 1889-1935 | writer 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | Author 1
Bles | (David) Geoffrey | 1886-1957 | publisher 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | antiquary and editor 1
Bond | (Thomas) Michael | 1926-2017 | author 1
Bone | Lady | Gertrude Helena | 1876-1962 | née Dodd | writer 1
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Language
English 357
French 17
Latin 15
German 9
Italian 6
Spanish; Castilian 3
Chinese 2
Danish 2
Dutch; Flemish 2
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 2
Norwegian 2
Polish 2
Russian 2
Afrikaans 1
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
Catalan; Valencian 1
Cornish 1
Czech 1
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
Estonian 1