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27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5
27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1819
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41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother
41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother, probably about 1925, in a notebook.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 153
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates:
c. 1925
Collection
The Abinger Papers
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
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Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan
Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 106-116
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates:
1963
Single Item
Additional correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and family
Letters of the engineer, inventor and educationist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) and his daughter, the writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), 1763-1849.
Shelfmark: MS. 6408
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1763-1849
Single Item
Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.
Collection
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates:
1912-1976
Single Item
Album of manuscript verse
Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c.1844-1848
Single Item
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
2022
Single Item
Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond
Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond, c.1968.
Shelfmark: MS. 22073
Extents: 1 box (2 folders)
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1968-1997; c.1968
Single Item
'Apte and fit similes taken out of learned mens sermons in Oxford 1590: begin the xxiith of Aprill', possibly by Robert Cawdray
'Apte and fit similes taken out of learned mens sermons in Oxford 1590: begin the xxiith of Aprill', possibly by Robert Cawdray
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3400
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates:
1590
Collection
Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler
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
Collection
Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock
Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock
Extents: 4.03 Linear metres (71 boxes)
Dates:
19th-20th century
Collection
Archive of Bruce Montgomery 'Edmund Crispin'
Archive of Bruce Montgomery, (1921-1978), detective novelist writing under the pseudonym of Edmund Crispin, and composer in his own name.
Extents: 28.5 Linear metres (187 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1921-78
Collection
Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon
The archive of the poet and novelist C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] (1904-1972) and his wife, the actress Jill Balcon (1925-2009).
Extents: 9.3 Linear metres (66 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1928-2009; 1778-2009
Collection
Archive of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin
Papers of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989), writer.
Extents: 18.92 Linear metres (175 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1963-1989
Collection
Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Extents: 1.70 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates:
1882-1969
Collection
Archive of Edith Teresa Noel-Hill (née Hulton), Lady Berwick
The Archive of Edith Teresa Noel-Hill (née Hulton), Lady Berwick.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
c.1937
Collection
Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Extents: 2.11 Linear metres (29 boxes)
Dates:
1890-1955
Collection
Archive of E.K. Chambers
Archive of E.K. Chambers, 1930
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates:
1930
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- 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
- Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 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
- Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 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 ∧ less
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