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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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Christopher Smart, Rejoice in the Lamb

Christopher Smart, Rejoice in the Lamb.
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 13
Extents: 32 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
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Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn

Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn, curate of Adwick-le-Street, near Doncaster, Yorks.
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. th. d. 15
Extents: 159 Leaves
Dates: 1532-1565
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Collection of photographic portraits by Mariana Cook

15 silver gelatin photographic prints by Mariana R. Cook. 6 works depicting tools, and 9 portraits of notable figures.
Extents: 0.7 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1987-2021
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Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others

Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 57
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: 17th century
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Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind')

Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind').
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 158
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
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Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse

Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse
Shelfmark: MS. 23614
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c. 1822-1852
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A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc.

A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc., written about A.D. 1820-1830.
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 284
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: written about A.D. 1820-1830
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Commonplace book of Florence Mary Tolkien

Commonplace book of Florence Mary Tolkien.
Shelfmark: MS. 20930
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1877-1888
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Commonplace book of Thomas Chapman

Commonplace book of Thomas Chapman
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 2409
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: 1762-1770
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Contemporary copy of a treatise Judicature in parliament

Contemporary copy of a treatise Judicature in parliament, c.1625.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 223
Extents: 146 pages
Dates: c.1625
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Copies of three letters from Andrew Marvell

Copies of three letters from Andrew Marvell.
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 119, fols. 127-140
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1670-1674
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Copy, in several hands, of The provok'd husband: or A journey to London, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber

Copy, in several hands, of The provok'd husband: or A journey to London, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 353
Extents: 166 Leaves
Dates: 18th century
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A copy of 'A Direction for the English Traviller' (Lond. 1636)

A copy of 'A Direction for the English Traviller' (Lond. 1636)
Shelfmark: Gen. Top. 8°. 628
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1636
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A copy of Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare's Works (6 vols., Lond. 1725)

A copy of Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare's Works (6 vols., Lond. 1725)
Extents: 0.66 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates: 1725
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Copy of Dudley North, fourth Baron North, prose and poetry

Copy of Dudley North, fourth Baron North, prose and poetry.
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 167
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates: 17th century copy
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Copy of John Clare's The Village minstrel, and Other Poems (1821) with autograph manuscript 'Sonnet to T. Inskip, Shefford'

Copy of John Clare's The Village minstrel, and Other Poems (1821) with autograph manuscript 'Sonnet to T. Inskip, Shefford' dated 16 Jul 1847 inscribed on front endleaf.
Shelfmark: MS. 24097
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres
Dates: 1821-1847
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Copy of revised version of Edward Upward, 'Journey to the Border'

Copy of revised version of Edward Upward, 'Journey to the Border'.
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 128
Extents: 149 Leaves
Dates: 1969-1990
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Corrected typescript, used by the printer, of Landscape with Dead Dons by Robert Robinson

Corrected typescript, used by the printer, of Landscape with Dead Dons by Robert Robinson, writer and broadcaster.
Shelfmark: Dep. d. 493
Extents: 363 Leaves
Dates: 1955

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20th century 240
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Children's literature 14
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Artists 3
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Authors, English -- Correspondence 3
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Children's stories, English 3
English literature -- 16th century 3
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Novelists -- 19th century 3
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 2
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 43
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
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
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 6
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 5
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 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
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Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 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
University of Oxford | Prizes 3
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 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
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
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 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
University of Oxford 2
University of Oxford | Students 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
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
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 | 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
Bide | Peter | Reverend | 1912-2003 | priest 1
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Language
English 378
French 18
Latin 18
German 10
Italian 6
Spanish; Castilian 5
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 3
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 2
Chinese 2
Danish 2
Dutch; Flemish 2
English, Middle (1100-1500) 2
Irish 2
Norwegian 2
Polish 2
Russian 2
Welsh 2
Afrikaans 1
Catalan; Valencian 1
Celtic languages 1