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20th century 467
Letters 325
Humanities 213
Letters -- 20th century 142
19th century 134
18th century 52
Literature 43
17th century 29
English literature 22
Poets 20
Letters -- 19th century 16
Poetry 16
History 13
Politics and Government 13
16th century 11
Music 11
Novelists -- 19th century 10
Politicians 9
Authors 8
English literature -- 20th century 8
Art 7
Artists 7
Correspondence 7
Great Britain -- Politics and Government -- 20th century 7
Philosophy 7
21st century 6
Antiquarians 6
Autographs 6
Manuscripts 6
Scholars 6
Authors -- 20th century 5
Diaries 5
Historians 5
Journalism 5
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 4
English poetry -- 20th century 4
Journalists 4
Lectures and lecturing 4
Letters -- Collections 4
Oxford (England) 4
Photographs 4
Religion 4
Theology 4
Academic writing 3
Calligraphers 3
Calligraphy 3
Church of England -- Clergy 3
Essays 3
France 3
Great Britain -- Politics and government 3
India 3
Newspapers 3
Nobility -- Great Britain 3
Novelists -- 20th century 3
Politics 3
Royal family 3
Russia 3
United States of America 3
University of Oxford 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
World War, 1939-1945 3
Academics 2
Actors 2
Archaeology 2
Authors, English -- 20th century 2
Autobiography 2
Bibliography 2
Children's literature -- 20th century 2
Colonial administrators 2
Composers -- Correspondence 2
Composers, English 2
Drawing 2
French literature 2
Great Britain 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- South Africa -- Administration 2
Great Britain -- Politics and Government -- 19th century 2
Ireland 2
Law 2
Literature -- 20th century 2
Music -- 20th century 2
Philosophers 2
Poems 2
Poets laureate 2
Political activists 2
Politics and government 2
Science fiction 2
Social sciences 2
Soldiers -- Correspondence 2
Tanzania -- History -- 20th century 2
Accounts 1
Africa -- Description and travel 1
Africa -- History, military 1
Africa, East -- History -- 20th century 1
Africa, West 1
Agriculture -- Tanzania 1
Anthropology 1
Antiquities 1
Architects 1
Argentina -- Description and travel 1
Art, British -- 20th century 1
Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 24
Bryce | James | 1838-1922 | 1st Viscount Bryce | British diplomat and politician 22
Asquith | Margaret Emma Alice | 1864-1945 | née Tennant | Countess of Oxford and Asquith | political hostess and diarist 8
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 8
Asquith | Herbert Henry | 1852-1928 | 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith | statesman 7
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 6
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6
Attlee | Clement Richard | 1883-1967 | 1st Earl Attlee | politician and prime minister 4
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 4
Pusey | Edward Bouverie | 1800-1882 | Canon of Christ Church Oxford 4
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 4
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3
Fairbank | Alfred John | 1895-1982 | calligrapher 3
Gibson | Strickland | 1877-1958 | Librarian and Bibliographer 3
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 3
Madan | Falconer | 1851-1935 | Bodley's Librarian, palaeographer and bibliographer 3
Milner | Alfred | 1854-1925 | Viscount Milner | statesman 3
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 3
Skinner | Martyn | 1906-1993 | Poet 3
Starkie | Enid Mary | 1897-1970 | French scholar 3
University of Oxford 3
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 3
Wordsworth | Christopher | fl. 1910 3
Acland | Sir | Thomas Dyke | 1809-1898 | 11th Baronet | Politician and educational reformer 2
Asquith | Anthony | 1902-1968 | film director and aesthete 2
Asquith | Raymond | 1878-1916 | scholar and army officer 2
Asquith | family 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 2
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 2
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 2
Cobden | Richard | 1804-1865 | Manufacturer and politician 2
Collard | A. O. | fl. 1910-1946 2
Collingwood | Robin George | 1889-1943 | philosopher and historian 2
Disraeli | Benjamin | 1804-1881 | Earl of Beaconsfield | statesman 2
Dodds | Annie Edwards | 1886/7–1973 | née Powell | lecturer in English at Reading University 2
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 2
Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet 2
Froude | James Anthony | 1818-1894 | historian 2
Furnivall | Frederick James | 1825-1910 | scholar, editor and oarsman 2
Gardner | Dame | Helen Louise | 1908-1986 | literary scholar 2
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 2
Haarmann | Erika | fl 1932-1937 2
Jowett | Benjamin | 1817-1893 | Master of Balliol College, Oxford 2
Lawrence | Arnold Walter | 1900-1991 | academic 2
Lennard | C. E. | Barrett- | fl 1864-1930 2
Moore | Latham | Leslie- | 1894-1980 | soldier and 'Sultan of M'Simbati' 2
Murray | [George] Gilbert Aimé | 1866–1957 | classical scholar and internationalist 2
Nevinson | Henry Wood | 1856-1941 | Essayist Philanthropist Journalist 2
Nichols | Robert | 1893-1944 | Writer, poet and playwright 2
Novikoff | Olga | 1848-1925 | Russian journalist 2
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 2
Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 2
Russell | John | 1792-1878 | 1st Earl Russell | statesman 2
Somervell| Baron | Donald Bradley| 24 Aug 1889–18 Nov 1960 | Somervell of Harrow, Life Peer, politician and judge 2
Spender | Michael | fl 1932-1937 2
Taylor | Sir | Henry | 1800-1886 | Knight Author 2
Thompson | Edward John | 1886-1946 | Writer 2
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 2
Unwin | Sheila | 1920-2009 | née Mills | WRNS officer and author 2
Villiers | George William Frederick | 1800-1870 | 4th Earl of Clarendon | statesman 2
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 2
Watts | George Frederic | 1817-1904 | Painter and sculptor 2
Waugh | Evelyn Arthur St John | 1903-1966 | novelist 2
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 2
Wilberforce | Samuel | 1805-1873 | Bishop of Oxford and Winchester 2
Wood | Anthony | 1632-1695 | Antiquary 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
Acland | Arthur H. D. | 1847-1926 | 13th Baronet | Politician and educational reformer 1
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 1
Albert | 1819-1861 | Prince Consort of Queen Victoria 1
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 1
Algarotti | Francesco | 1712-1764 | Poet and scholar 1
Allan | Julian Phelps | 1892-1996 | formerly Eva Dorothy Allan | sculptor 1
Allen | Hope Emily | 1883-1960 | medieval scholar 1
Anderson | Ava | 1896-1974 | née Bodley | wife of Viscount Waverley 1
Anderson | John | 1882-1958 | 1st Viscount Waverley | civil servant 1
Anderson | family 1
Argov | Shlomo | 1929-2003 | Israeli diplomat 1
Armytage | Robert North | Green- | fl 1918-1956 | lawyer and book collector 1
Armytage | Walter Harry Green | 1915–1998 | educationist and historian 1
Ashby | Arthur Wilfred | 1886-1953 | agricultural economist 1
Attlee | Thomas Simons | 1880-1960 | pacifist 1
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 1
Ayer | Sir | Alfred Jules | 1910-1989 | Knight | philosopher 1
Bailey | Hilary | 1936-2017 | writer, critic and editor 1
Baily | Francis | 1774-1844 | Astronomer 1
Baldwin | James Mark | 1861-1934 | philosopher 1
Bantock | Granville Ransome | 1868-1946 | composer 1
Barber | Lisa | fomerly Jefferson | medievalist 1
Barnes | Cecil H. R | fl.1920 | officer serving with the British Military Mission in South Russia 1
Barnett | Annie | d 1941 | nee Beeching, wife of Percy Arthur Barnett 1
Barnett | Percy Arthur | 1858-1941 | Chief Inspector of Training of Teachers 1

6 letters from Alfred Fairbank to Desmond Flower

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 575
6 letters from Alfred Fairbank to Desmond Flower.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1932, 1936

19 letters to Albert Frederick Pollard

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 462, fols. 210-237
19 letters to Albert Frederick Pollard.
Extents: 28 Leaves
Dates: 1916-1947

82 letters from Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, to Patricia Beck, with 1 letter to Douglas Jay

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 571
82 letters from Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, to Patricia Beck, with 1 letter to Douglas Jay
Extents: 156 Leaves
Dates: 1957-1967

135 letters and notes of Walter de la Mare to John Freeman and to his wife Gertrude

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. d. 462
135 letters and notes of Walter de la Mare to John Freeman and to his wife Gertrude.
Extents: 181 Leaves
Dates: 1906-1952

Additional letters of condolence to Herbert Henry Asquith on the death of his eldest son, Raymond Asquith (1878-1916), and additional papers of Anthony Asquith

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 14910
Additional letters of condolence to Herbert Henry Asquith on the death of his eldest son, Raymond Asquith (1878-1916), and additional papers of Anthony Asquith.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1776, 1916-1945

Additional papers of Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley and miscellaneous papers of John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley (1896-1974) and miscellaneous correspondence and papers of her husband, John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley (1882-1958), civil servant, statesman.
Extents: 2.6 Linear metres (26 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1907-1974

Additional papers of Bruce Chatwin

 Collection
Additional papers of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989), writer
Extents: 5.16 Linear metres (36 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1957-1989; [c. 1895-c. 2017]. Bulk c. 1957-c. 1989

Additional papers of Sheila Unwin relating to Tanzania

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 5, fols. 113-121
Additional papers of Sheila Unwin relating to Tanzania, 1957-1967.
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: 1957-1967

Album of autographs compiled by R.T. Wragg, interleaved with several letters and a newspaper cutting

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 46
Album of autographs compiled by R.T. Wragg, interleaved with several letters and a newspaper cutting
Extents: 312 Leaves
Dates: 1851-1914

Album of letters and papers, concerning George Butterworth, collected by his father after his death in 1916

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 453
Album of letters and papers, concerning George Butterworth, collected by his father after his death in 1916
Extents: 583 Leaves
Dates: 1896, 1913-1922

Album of the Margoliouth family

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 669
Album of the Margoliouth family
Extents: 239 Leaves
Dates: c. 1907-1958

Anthony Kirk-Greene's weekly letters from Nigeria

 Collection
Anthony Kirk-Greene's weekly letters to his parents from Nigeria, 1950-1966.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1950-1966

Archive of Donald Bradley Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6565, fols. 1-325
Archive of Donald Bradley Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow.
Extents: 325 Leaves
Dates: 1934-1954

Archive of Donald Bradley Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6565, fols. 326-351
Archive of Donald Bradley Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: 1936-1937

Archive of Hilary Bailey

 Collection
Archive of Hilary Bailey, (1936-2017) writer and editor.
Extents: 11.85 Linear metres (79 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1963-2009, n.d.

Archive of James Cawthorn

 Collection
James Cawthorn (1929-2008) was an illustrator, critic and author.
Extents: 2.96 Linear metres (55 boxes)
Dates: 1912-2021, n.d.

Archive of James Deemin

 Collection
Archive of James Deemin relating to his work for John Holt & Company (Liverpool) Ltd.
Extents: 0.4 linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1883-1915

Archive of Michael Sayers

 Collection
Archive of Michael Sayers (1911-2010), writer
Extents: 12.45 Linear metres (88 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1878, c. 1922-2015

Archive of the Macirone Family

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Macirone Family, principally George Macirone (1788-1858), his wife Mary Ann Macirone (1791-1869) nee Perriman, and their three children, Clara Macirone (1821-1914), Emily Macirone (1821-1888) and George Augustus Macirone (1834-1910) with born-digital transcriptions of their letters and diaries by Patricia Neate.
Extents: 1.54 Linear metres (14 physical shelfmarks; 1 digital shelfmark)
Dates: 1584-2016

Archive of Winifred Gill

 Collection
Papers of Winifred Gill, artist, writer and social reformer
Extents: 11.08 Linear metres (73 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1st century and 1880s-2008