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20th century 251
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19th century 103
Humanities 87
Literature 44
Poetry 44
21st century 43
English literature -- 19th century 43
18th century 37
Letters 30
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17th century 28
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Authors -- 20th century 19
Correspondence 19
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Poets 19
Children's literature -- 20th century 17
Novelists -- 20th century 17
English literature -- 18th century 14
Authors 13
English poetry -- 21st century 12
Novelists -- 19th century 12
Religion 12
English language 11
Art 10
Authors, English 10
Authors, English -- 20th century 10
English literature -- 21st century 8
English poetry -- Women authors 8
Lectures and lecturing 8
University of Oxford 8
English literature -- 17th century 7
English poetry -- 19th century 7
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
Women authors, English -- 20th century 7
16th century 6
Commonplace books 6
History 6
Letters -- 20th century 6
Manuscripts 6
Photographs 6
Poets -- 20th century 6
Authors -- 19th century 5
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 5
Diaries 5
Journalism 5
Poets, English -- Correspondence 5
Sermons 5
Theater -- England 5
University of Oxford -- Students 5
Women 5
Diaries -- 20th century 4
Drama 4
Ireland 4
Literary criticism 4
Oxford (England) 4
Photography 4
Playwriting -- Drama 4
Poetry -- 20th century 4
Art, British -- 20th century 3
Artists 3
Authors, English -- 19th century 3
Authors, English -- Correspondence 3
Books and reading 3
Calligraphy 3
Children's stories, English 3
Christianity -- 20th century 3
English Fiction -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 16th century 3
Fantasy fiction 3
Illustration of books 3
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Letters -- 19th century 3
Music 3
Poets, English 3
Politics and Government 3
Portrait photography 3
Religious literature, English 3
Science fiction 3
Theater 3
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 3
War poetry 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
x - 15th century 3
Academics 2
Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 2
Art, British -- 21st century -- Exhibitions 2
Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 2
Authors, English - 21st century 2
Biography 2
Christianity 2
Church Architecture | England 2
Devon (England) 2
Dissertations, Academic 2
Drama -- 19th century 2
Drawing 2
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 2
Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 45
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 7
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 7
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 7
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 5
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 5
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
University of Oxford 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 4
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 4
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 3
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 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
University of Oxford | Students 3
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 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
Hughes | Shirley | 1927-2022 | freelance author and illustrator 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
Tolkien | Priscilla Mary Reuel | 1929-2022 | daughter of J.R.R. Tolkien 2
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
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
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
Archer | Jeffrey Howard | b. 1940 | Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare | writer and politician 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
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 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 | author and playwright 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
Bernières | Louis de | b.1954 | novelist 1
Betjeman | Penelope | 1910-1986 | writer 1
Bide | Peter | Reverend | 1912-2003 | priest 1

Typescript, with holograph amendments, of a lecture by Seamus Heaney, 'Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fols. 49-65
Typescript, with holograph amendments, of a lecture by Seamus Heaney, ‘Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf’.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: 23 Jan 1998

Unpublished child's historical novel, The Lost Kingdom, by C.M. Carter

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17192
Unpublished child's historical novel entitled The Lost Kingdom by C.M. Carter, c.1922.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: c.1922

Untitled holograph manuscript by C.S. Lewis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. d. 826
Untitled holograph manuscript by Clive Staples Lewis, writer and scholar, beginning 'I have been asked to write on Christian re-union'
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: n.d. [c.1942-1944]

Verse letter by John Donne, 1611-1612, published, with a facsimile, by Dame Helen Gardner, John Donne's holograph of 'A letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche' (London, 1972)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 197
Verse letter by John Donne, 1611-12, published, with a facsimile, by Dame Helen Gardner, John Donne's holograph of 'A letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche' (London, 1972).
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1611-1612, 1972

Verses written by Jane Austen

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 92, fols. 45-46
Verses written by Jane Austen.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 15 Jul 1817

Volume compiled by John Mitford relating to William Beckford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1459
Volume compiled by John Mitford relating to William Beckford
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates: 1843-1844

Volume containing various documents, 17th century

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 310
Volume containing various documents, 17th century.
Extents: 239 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Volume of poems by Edgar Miller

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 149
Volume of poems by Edgar Miller, presented to John Masefield by the poet, 1949.
Extents: 66 pages
Dates: 1949

Volume of verses by H.C. Beeching, entitled 'A handful of Old Man’s Beard'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 174
Volume of verses by H.C. Beeching, entitled 'A handful of Old Man’s Beard' presented to 'A.M.', 1919.
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: 1919

Walter de la Mare's corrected copy of The Lord Fish

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24090
Walter de la Mare's own corrected copy of The Lord Fish [1933].
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres
Dates: [1933]

W.H. Auden, 49 early poems on loose sheets in his own hand

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 68
W.H. Auden, 49 early poems on loose sheets in his own hand.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: 1938, 1939-1956, 1966

W.H. Auden's typescript introduction to The Pied Piper and other fairy tales of Joseph Jacobs (1962); and corrected page proofs for his Afterwards to George MacDonald's The Golden Key (1967)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 1-16
W.H. Auden's typescript introduction to The Pied Piper and other fairy tales of Joseph Jacobs (1962); and corrected page proofs for his Afterwards to George MacDonald's The Golden Key (1967).
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: 1962-1967

William Collins, 'Ode to a Friend on his Return, etc.'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. e. 87
Autograph copy of William Collins, 'Ode to a Friend on his Return, etc.', with a later copy by Dr Alexander Carlyle
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: [1749?], 1788

William Graily Hewitt's letters to L. Haberley, Mrs. G.M. Durnford and Miss Agatha Walker

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 756
William Graily Hewitt's letters to L. Haberley, Mrs. G.M. Durnford and Miss Agatha Walker.
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

'Wintringham' notebook of W.H. Auden

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 204
'Wintringham' notebook of W.H. Auden
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: 1923-c.1924

Working notebook of Louis de Bernières for Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24257
Working notebook of Louis de Bernières for Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994), c.1993.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1993

Works of J.S. Knowles

 Collection
Works of J.S. Knowles
Extents: 0.99 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: 19th century

Xerographic copy of typescript verses, 'Mr. John Aubrey’s Brief Lives, now newly arranged and versified by R[ichard] G[ilbertson]'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 109
Xerographic copy of typescript verses, 'Mr. John Aubrey’s Brief Lives, now newly arranged and versified by R[ichard] G[ilbertson]', 1986.
Extents: 29 Leaves
Dates: 1986

Xerox copies of early poems by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. b. 57
Xerox copies of early poems by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell.
Extents: 95 Leaves
Dates: c. 1911, n.d.

Xerox copy of Edward Thomas: 'A Castle of Cloud'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Facs. c. 42, fols. 40-45
Xerox copy of Edward Thomas: 'A Castle of Cloud'.
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates: 1906-1908