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The Abinger Papers
Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates:
1780-1937
Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
23 March 1714-1720
Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Collection
Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates:
1935-1964
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 the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families
Collection
Papers of Annabella, Lady Byron (1792-1860), including papers of her parents, Sir Ralph and Judith Milbanke (later Noel), papers of her daughter, Ada Byron (later Lady Lovelace), and her grand-children, Ralph King (2nd Earl of Lovelace) and Anne Blunt.
Extents: 50.6 Linear metres (460 Shelfmarks)
Dates:
1669-1930
Collection, copied c.1735, of satires, occasional verse and prose
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. f. 12
Collection, copied c.1735, of satires, occasional verse and prose.
Extents: 168 pages
Dates:
c.1735
Collection of classical and contemporary Latin verse
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. e. 96
Collection of classical and contemporary Latin verse, 18th century.
Extents: 174 pages
Dates:
18th century
Collection of English and Latin verse, riddles and epitaphs in the hand of William Parry
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 183
Collection of English and Latin verse, riddles and epitaphs in the hand of William Parry
Extents: 83 Leaves
Dates:
Begun 1741
Collection of fables, epigrams, satires and topical verse entitled 'Lusus seniles or trifles to kill time'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 47
Collection of fables, epigrams, satires and topical verse entitled 'Lusus seniles or trifles to kill time'
Extents: 180 Leaves
Dates:
Mid-18th century
Collection of religious and didactic verse and prose, mainly copied from printed works
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 47
Collection of religious and didactic verse and prose, mainly copied from printed works, 18th century.
Extents: 151 pages
Dates:
18th century
Collection of Welsh Poems
Collection
Collection of Welsh Poems
Extents: 0.20 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates:
17th-18th century
Commonplace book containing contemporary Spanish prose and verse and classical Latin extracts
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Spanish e. 9
The commonplace book comprises four discernible sections. The commonplacing sections are in two sections, either side of Psalle et Sile. Poems by Miguel Ladrón and Fulvio Testi are incorporated into Eva y Ave, beginning on fols. 31r and 49v respectively. This description follows the original foliation as it appears in the manuscript. The foliation underwent changes at the hand of the author himself, and shows evidence that he reordered...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
Early 18th cent.
Copy of The college: a satire (London, 1797)
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. London d. 3
Copy of The college: a satire (London, 1797) with (fols. 1-25) a draft of the poem, an attack on the Royal College of Physicians, Nov. 1796.
Extents: 73 Leaves
Dates:
1796-1797
Corrected copy by George Stubbes of his work 'The laurel and the olive'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 19
Corrected copy by George Stubbes of his work 'The laurel and the olive'
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates:
1710
Exercises and poems by Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th centuries
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 35
Exercises and poems by Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th centuries
Extents: 65 Leaves
Dates:
Written in several hands, chiefly of the first half of the 18th century
Fair copy of a prose romance 'Harold or the castle of Morford' by Robert Southey
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 114
Fair copy of a prose romance 'Harold or the castle of Morford' by Robert Southey
Extents: 203 Leaves
Dates:
n.d.
'Fair Virtue the Mistresse of Philarete, written by George Wither'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 7
'Fair Virtue the Mistresse of Philarete, written by George Wither'
Extents: 91 Leaves
Dates:
Written in A.D. 1708
A few pieces of English verse
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 10
A few pieces of English verse
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates:
Written in the 18th and 19th century
'... Geistliche Nachlese des an denen Sonn-Fest- und Apostel-Tagen...'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 56
'... Geistliche Nachlese des an denen Sonn-Fest- und Apostel-Tagen...'
Extents: 188 pages
Dates:
Written in A.D. 1715 at Leipzig
Guard-book of documents, letters and literary manuscripts
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 79
Guard-book of documents, letters and literary manuscripts, 16th-20th century
Extents: 172 Leaves
Dates:
16th-20th century