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University of Oxford 4
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 2
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 2
Aesop | c.620–564 BC | fabulist and storyteller 1
Bachet | Claude-Gaspard | 1581-1638 | Sieur de Mériziac | mathematician and littérateur 1
Ballard | George | 1705-1755 | Antiquary 1
Barea | Ilsa | 1902-1973 | nee Pollak | Austrian writer and translator 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Bennet | Sir | John | 1552/3-1627 | judge 1
Blish | James Benjamin | 1921-1975 | writer 1
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 1
Bywater | Ingram | 1840-1914 | Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford 1
Canonici | Matteo Luigi | 1727-1805 | Jesuit 1
Chandler | Raymond | 1888-1959 | writer 1
Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1
Charlett | Arthur | 1655-1722 | Master of University College Oxford 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Cherry | Francis | ? 1665-1713 | Nonjuror, Antiquary, and Collector of MSS. and Coins 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Cockburn | Sarah Caudwell | 1939-2000 | pseudonym Sarah Caudwell | barrister and novelist 1
Cournand | André Frédéric | 1895-1988 | physician and physiologist 1
Crespigny | Caroline Champion de | née Bathurst | 1796-1861 | poet 1
Crynes | Nathaniel | 1686-1745 | Fellow of St John's College, Oxford 1
D'Orville | Jacques Philippe | 1696-1751 | Classical Scholar 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 1
Dougall | Lily | 1858-1923 | novelist and religious author 1
Doyle | Sir | Arthur Conan | 1859-1930 | Knight, author, physician and criminologist 1
Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 | Queen of England and Ireland 1
England and Wales | Exchequer 1
England and Wales | Royal Navy 1
Estienne | Henri | 1528-1598 | Printer and classical scholar 1
Eton College 1
Fairfax | Thomas | 1612-1671 | 3rd Baron Fairfax | politician, general, and Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War 1
Fenelon | Francois de Salignac de la Mothe | 1651-1715 | Archbishop of Cambrai 1
Fenwick family 1
Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister 1
Fosbroke | Thomas Dudley | 1770-1842 | Antiquary 1
Foster | (Myles) Birket | 1825–1899 | painter and illustrator 1
French Protestant Church 1
Gaignieres | Francois Roger De | 1642-1715 | French genealogist, antiquary and collector 1
Gardner | Stanley | 1921-1996 | headmaster and writer 1
Gautier | Théophile | 1811-1872 | French writer 1
Gentili | Alberico | 1552-1608 | Italian jurist 1
Gentilis | Scipio | 1563-1616 | Professor of Law at Altdorf 1
Glendinning | Victoria | b 1937 | author and journalist 1
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 1
Greene | Graham Carleton | 1936-2016 | publisher 1
Greene | Sir | Hugh Carleton | 1910-1987 | Knight | journalist and broadcaster 1
Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville 1
Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 1
Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely 1
Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror 1
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 1
Henri IV | 1553-1610 | King of France and Navarre 1
Hodgkin | John | 1857-1930 | Bibliophile 1
Holman | William | d 1730 | Essex Antiquary Congregational Minister 1
Holmes | Arthur | fl.1918 | poet 1
Inglis | Esther | 1571-1624 | calligrapher and minaturist 1
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 1
L'Estrange | Hamon | 1605-1660 | theologian and historian 1
Landon | Letitia Elizabeth | 1802-1838 | poet and writer | pseudonym "L.E.L." 1
Lewis | John | c 1700-1799 | Minister of Margate 1
Livius | Titus | ? 59 BC-AD 17 | Roman historian 1
Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher 1
MacNeice | Antoinette Millicent Hedley ('Hedli') | 1907-1990 | nee Anderson | singer and actress 1
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 1
Mandeville | Sir | John | d 1372 | travel writer 1
Marsais | César Chesneau | du | 1676-1756 | lawyer, philosopher and writer 1
Martin | Louis Aimé | 1786-1847 | 1
Masefield | (Isabel) Judith | 1904-1988 | book illustrator 1
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 1
Medwin | Thomas | 1788-1869 | biographer of P.B. Shelley 1
Millot | Pierre | fl. 1646 | translator 1
Molé | Mathieu | 1584-1656 | 1
Montagu | Montagu | 1787-1863 | Captain RN, Author, and Autograph Collector 1
Murray | George Gilbert Aime | 1866-1957 | classical scholar and internationalist 1
Murray | Mary Henrietta | d 1956 | Lady 1
Nedam | James | fl 1532-1543 | Royal Surveyor of Works 1
Neve | John Le | 1679-1741 | Antiquary 1
Ogazón | Arturo Barea | 1897-1957 | Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writer 1
Ovidius Naso | Publius | 43 BC-AD 17 | Roman poet 1
Pasley | Sir | John Malcolm Sabine | 1926-2004 | 5th baronet | German scholar and literary critic 1
Passe | Crispijn | van de | b. 1564 | drawer 1
Pepys | Samuel | 1633-1703 | MP, Diarist, Public Servant, Antiquary 1
Phillipps family | baronets | Middle Hill 1
Phillipps | Sir Thomas | 1792-1872 | Baronet | Antiquary, and Collector of MSS and Books 1
Pigott | Harriet | 1775-1846 | Traveller and Writer 1
Pluvinel | Anthoine | de | 1552-1620 | first of the French riding masters and influencer of modern dressage 1
Price | Daniel | fl 1685-1706 | Dean of St Asaph 1
Raleigh | Alice | fl. 20th century | Sir Walter Raleigh's sister 1
Rawlins | Thomas | 1620-1670 | Medallist and Playwright 1
Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 1
Richardson | Joanna | 1925-2008 | scholar 1

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.

An alchemical discourse on the Philosopher's Stone and kindred subjects

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Fr. d. 3
An alchemical discourse on the Philosopher's Stone and kindred subjects
Extents: 106 pages
Dates: Written A.D. 1675 by J. C

'Ane apologie for Herrodott. Written orriginallie in French by [Henri Estienne] and translated into English' ['by a person of qualitie'-crossed out]

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. e. 54
'Ane apologie for Herrodott. Written orriginallie in French by [Henri Estienne] and translated into English' ['by a person of qualitie'-crossed out]
Extents: 256 pages
Dates: Early 17th 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 Arturo and Ilsa Barea

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Arturo and Ilsa Barea.
Extents: 8.0 Linear metres (56 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1900-2018, bulk c. 1930-1970

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 Enid Starkie

 Collection
Archive of Enid Starkie, literary critic, author and fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Extents: 6.55 Linear metres (95 boxes)
Dates: 1879-1985, n.d.

Archive of Ethel Sidgwick

 Collection
Archive of Ethel Sidgwick
Extents: 1.28 Linear metres (16 boxes)
Dates: 1876-1960

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 Gilbert Murray

 Collection
Archive of Gilbert Murray (1866-1957).
Extents: 61.82 Linear metres (562 boxes)
Dates: 1837-1960

Archive of Joanna Richardson

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Joanna Richardson, 1928-2008, biographer, translator and French literary critic.
Extents: 1.54 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates: 1925-2007, n.d.

Archive of Joanna Trollope

 Collection
Archive of Joanna Trollope (1943-2025), writer, including literary and personal papers, [1908]-2019.
Extents: 5.26 Linear metres (109 boxes)
Dates: [1908]-2019; Majority of material found within 1952-2019

Archive of John Hodgkin

 Collection
Archive of John Hodgkin
Extents: 1.59 Linear metres (27 boxes)
Dates: 18th-20th century

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 Lily Dougall

 Collection
Papers of Lily Dougall (1858-1923), novelist and religious author, 1869-1926.
Extents: 6.86 Linear metres (18 boxes)
Dates: 1869-1926

Archive of Raymond Chandler

 Collection
Papers of Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), writer, 1880-2005
Extents: 7.05 Linear metres (132 boxes)
Dates: 1880-2005, n.d.

Archive of the Greene Family

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Graham Carleton Greene (1936-2016) publisher and his mother, Helga Greene (née Guinness) (1916-1985) literary agent.
Extents: 4.7 Linear metres (70 boxes)
Dates: [c.1890]-2004

Archive of Victoria Glendinning

 Collection
Archive of Victoria Glendinning
Extents: 7.05 linear metres (113 boxes)
Dates: c.1865-2023; Majority of material found within 1958-2023, n.d.

Archive of William Beckford

 Collection
Papers of William Beckford (1760-1844), author
Extents: 17.6 Linear metres (176 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1515-19th cent., n.d.

Ballard Collection

 Collection
George Ballard's manuscript collection.
Extents: 8.36 Linear metres (76 boxes)
Dates: 16th-18th century