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A farce, 'Blue devils', by George Colman the younger

A farce, 'Blue devils', by George Colman the younger
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 583
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: 1798-1808
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Forged ‘17th-century’ verse

Forged ‘17th-century’ verse
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 882, fol. 4
Extents: 1 box
Dates: n.d.
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Four albums compiled by Brian Aldiss

Four volumes of photograph album scrapbooks compiled by Brian Aldiss, containing original artwork for the covers of many of his books, with extensive authorial comments inserted throughout.
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 shelfmarks)
Dates: n.d.
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Four-line fragment from an autograph letter by William Godwin

Four-line fragment from an autograph letter by William Godwin, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Shelley adds. c. 13, fol. 12
Extents: 1 box
Dates: n.d.
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Fragment of verse beginning 'As fragrant rose in pleasant spring'

Fragment of verse beginning 'As fragrant rose in pleasant spring'.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fol. 68
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [c. 17th cent.]
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Gollancz publisher's file for To The Land of Fair Delight

Gollancz publisher's file for To The Land of Fair Delight, 1959-1996.
Shelfmark: MS. 21345
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1959-1996
Collection

Gough Collection

Richard Gough Collection
Extents: 96.03 Linear metres (873 boxes)
Dates: 12th-19th century
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Guard-book containing a parchment bifolium, including a satirical poem in seven seven-lined stanzas

Guard-book containing a parchment bifolium, including a satirical poem in seven seven-lined stanzas.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. b. 4, fols. 1-2
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 15th-16th century
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A guard-book, containing Robert Bridges, A song of my heart

A guard-book, containing Robert Bridges, A song of my heart.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. a. 3, fol. 1
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
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Guardbook containing Charles Lamb, Dream-children (holograph)

Guardbook containing Charles Lamb, Dream-children (holograph) Photograph.
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. b. 7
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
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Guardbook containing Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill, 'Song for Hugo'

Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill, 'Song for Hugo'.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 67, fols. 3-4
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1979
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Guardbook containing three poems by Elizabeth Jennings, with three drawings

Guardbook containing (fols. 5-11) three poems by Elizabeth Jennings [c. 1965], with three drawings, 1963.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 67
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1963- c.1965
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Historical collections of John Lewis, 1728

Historical collections of John Lewis, 1728.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 313
Extents: 541 pages
Dates: 1728
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Holograph manuscript of William Congreve, ‘ffalse though you have been to me & Love’

Holograph manuscript of William Congreve, ‘ffalse though you have been to me & Love’
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 205
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: c.1710-1729
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Illuminated copy of John Huntley Skrine's 'Margaret of Anjou'

Illuminated copy of John Huntley Skrine's 'Margaret of Anjou'.
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. e. 53
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1870
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Interview of Philip Larkin with Miriam Gross, with correspondence

Typescript interview of Philip Larkin with Miriam Gross for The Observer, with manuscript corrections by Larkin, and associated correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 16084
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1979
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J. G. Rideout, 'Byron's reading in English literature', typescript B. Litt. thesis, submitted unsuccessfully, Oxford

J. G. Rideout, 'Byron's reading in English literature', typescript B. Litt. thesis, submitted unsuccessfully, Oxford
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 809
Extents: 204 Leaves
Dates: 1939
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Jane Austen autograph manuscript: 'The Watsons'

Jane Austen (1775-1817) autograph manuscript of 'The Watsons', c.1804-1807.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3764
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1804-1807
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Jane Austen autograph manuscript: 'Volume the First'

'Volume the First', holograph fair copies, completed 3 Jun 1793, of early works by Jane Austen, with a few corrections.A pencil note inside the front cover reads 'For my brother Charles', and an explanatory note by C.E.A. [Casandra Austen] is pasted below it.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: Completed 3 Jun 1793
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The John Ryder Archive

Papers and correspondence of John Ryder (1917–2001), book designer, art director, and typographer.
Extents: 156.22 Linear metres (440 boxes)
Dates: Majority of material found within [1548]-2001; [1890]-2001

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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
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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
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Authors, English -- 20th century 4
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History 4
Ireland 4
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 4
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Artists 3
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Children's stories, English 3
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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
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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
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Journalists -- 20th century 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