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27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1819
Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Collection
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates:
1912-1976
Album of manuscript verse
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c.1844-1848
Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates:
1838-1861, n.d.
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
2022
An Annotated Copy of Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia poetica
Collection
An Annotated Copy of Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia poetica
Extents: 10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates:
19th century
Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler
Collection
Correspondence and papers of the poet and writer Anne Ridler (1912-2001) and her husband Vivian Ridler (1913-2009), printer to the Oxford University Press and founder of Perpetua Press.
Extents: 5.596 Linear metres (81 boxes)
Dates:
1836-2011, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2011
Archive of Audrey Beecham
Collection
Papers of Audrey Beecham (1915-1989), poet and academic, with a small number of boxes concerning the wider Beecham family.
Extents: 6.70 Linear metres (100 boxes)
Dates:
1845-1988, n.d.
Archive of Candida Lycett Green (1942-2014), author and conservationist
Collection
Archive of Candida Lycett Green (1942-2014), author and conservationist
Extents: 8.9 Linear metres (131 boxes)
Dates:
1879-2016 and n.d. [c.1898-2015]
Archive of E.R. Dodds
Collection
Papers of Eric Robert Dodds, 1901-1979, n.d.
Extents: 8.5 Linear metres (49 boxes)
Dates:
1901-1979, n.d.
Archive of Felix Dennis
Collection
Literary archive of Felix Dennis (1947-2014), magazine publisher and poet.
Extents: 16.5 Linear metres (137 physical shelfmarks; 36 digital shelfmarks)
Dates:
1996-2014
Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice
Collection
Papers of the poet and playwright Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), with papers of Hedli MacNeice, née Anderson (1907-1990)
Extents: 10.17 Linear metres (76 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1917-1989; n.d.
Archive of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer
Collection
Correspondence and papers of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer
Extents: 8.22 Linear meters (117 containers)
Dates:
1799-2021
Archive of Jenny Joseph
Collection
Correspondence and literary papers of the poet and writer Jenny Joseph, author of the poem 'Warning', 1945-2017.
Extents: 20.0 Linear metres (133 physical shelfmarks, 84 digital shelfmarks)
Dates:
1945-2017
Archive of John Everett Butt
Collection
Correspondence and notes of John Everett Butt, 1932-64.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1932-64
Archive of John Masefield
Collection
The archive of the poet, novelist and playwright John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
Extents: 7.188 Linear metres (135 boxes)
Dates:
1901-1968
Archive of Mick Imlah
Collection
Archive of the poet and literary critic Michael Ogilvie ('Mick') Imlah (1956-2009).
Extents: 4.5 Linear metres (28 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1944-2009
Ashmole Manuscripts
Collection
Among Ashmole's papers are:
Papers of Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611)
Medical and astrological papers of Dr Richard Napier (1559-1634), Theodoricus Gravius and John Dee (1527-1608)
Collections - chiefly astrological - of John Booker (1603-1667) and William Lilly (1602-1681)
Ashmole's collection is also strong in heraldry and local...
Extents: 714 shelfmarks
Dates:
11th-17th century
Autograph manuscript of a Valentine’s Day prize poem by Gillian Rathbone, ‘A Shared Experience’
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 18-19
Autograph manuscript of a Valentine’s Day prize poem by Gillian Rathbone, ‘A Shared Experience’
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
2010