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Archive of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers

Archive of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Extents: 1.87 Linear metres (17 boxes)
Dates: 1882-1950
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Archive of Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, and his family

The archive of Sydney Olivier, first Baron Olivier, (1859-1943), civil servant, politician and author, and his family, particularly his wife Margaret (c.1862-1953).
Extents: 3.3 Linear metres (22 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1870s-1951
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Archive of the Benson Family

Papers of Arthur Christopher Benson, writer (1862-1925), Edward Frederic Benson, writer (1867-1940), Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (1829-1896), Robert Hugh Benson, Roman Catholic Writer and Apologist (1871-1914), Margaret Benson, Egyptologist and religious philosopher (1865-1916).
Extents: 33.99 Linear metres (309 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 18th-20th century
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Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families

Papers of Annabella, Lady Byron (1792-1860), including papers of her parents, Sir Ralph and Judith Milbanke (later Noel), papers of her daughter, Ada Byron (later Lady Lovelace), and her grand-children, Ralph King (2nd Earl of Lovelace) and Anne Blunt.
Extents: 50.6 Linear metres (460 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1669-1930
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Archive of the Tilling Society (E.F. Benson and the Benson Family)

Papers of the Tilling Society (1982-2006), a group set up to celebrate the life and works of the author Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940).
Extents: 4.0 Linear metres (24 physical shelfmarks; 5 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: c.1800-2009
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Archive of Vivien Greene

Archive of Vivien Greene
Extents: 6.0 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: 1810-2003
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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

Auction catalogue for the sale of Warren Lewis’s personal effects

Auction catalogue for the sale of Warren Lewis’s personal effects, Buckell & Ballard, Banbury, Tuesday 30 Oct 1973.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 1-11
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 30 Oct 1973
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
Single Item

Autograph manuscript of Thomas Woolner, 'My beautiful lady', 1861, used by the printer

Autograph manuscript of Thomas Woolner, 'My beautiful lady', 1861, used by the printer.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 58
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates: 1863
Single Item

Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden

Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fol. 27
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1949
Single Item

Barbara Anne Pertzel, 'Frederic Madden and Havelok the Dane An original moment in the history of editing Middle English verse romance', Ph.D thesis, University of Melborne

Barbara Anne Pertzel, 'Frederic Madden and Havelok the Dane An original moment in the history of editing Middle English verse romance', Ph.D thesis, University of Melborne
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3220
Extents: 331 Leaves
Dates: 1997
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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
Single Item

Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby

An unbound proof copy of Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8239
Extents: 412 Leaves
Dates: [c.2013]
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Biographical notes by John Aubrey

Biographical notes by John Aubrey.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7903, fols. 22-23
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1689
Single Item

The Book of Dust bag

The Book of Dust bag
Shelfmark: JL 1002
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2017
Single Item

Bound autograph manuscript of Gertrude Bone, Children's Children (1908), with illustrations by Muirhead Bone

Bound autograph manuscript of Gertrude Bone, Children's Children, with illustrations by Muirhead Bone, [1907].
Shelfmark: MS. 22129
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1907]
Single Item

Cassiodorus, De anima, translated into English by G.E. Bevan, with the collaboration of A.B. Turner and H. Palmer, from the French version of Stephane de Rouville

Cassiodorus, De anima, translated into English by G.E. Bevan, with the collaboration of A.B. Turner and H. Palmer, from the French version of Stephane de Rouville.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. c. 92
Extents: 35 Leaves
Dates: 1977
Single Item

Catalogue of an unidentified library, mainly of books published 1800-50 on English literature and European history

Catalogue of an unidentified library, mainly of books published 1800-50 on English literature and European history
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 110
Extents: 139 Leaves
Dates: 1800-1810
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Christmas card from Priscilla Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien to Pauline Baynes

Christmas card from Priscilla Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien to Pauline Baynes, c.1971-1972
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fols. 151-152
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c.1971-1972

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Indexed subjects
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
Photography 4
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