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Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose, chiefly in English, some of which are printed in Dryden's Miscellany Poems

Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose, chiefly in English, some of which are printed in Dryden's Miscellany Poems, written in the first half of the 18th century.
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 105
Extents: 108 Leaves
Dates: written in the first half of the 18th century
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'The most remarkable ... politico-economical history of A, B, and C. Birmingham, 1833'

'The most remarkable ... politico-economical history of A, B, and C. Birmingham, 1833'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 78
Extents: 212 pages
Dates: Written in 1833 at Birmingham
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'The Motor': juvenile miniature motoring magazines

'The Motor', a juvenile miniature motoring magazine
Shelfmark: MS. 19654
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1921-1927
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'The Mouse-Trap', by E. Holdsworth and Samuel Cobb, 2nd ed., and 'The Chase', by William Somerville, 3rd ed.

'The Mouse-Trap', by E. Holdsworth and Samuel Cobb, 2nd ed., and 'The Chase', by William Somerville, 3rd ed.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 154
Extents: 136 pages
Dates: 1720-1750
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M.T.H. Sadleir Manuscript

M.T.H. Sadleir Manuscript, c. 1927
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: c. [1927?]
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Natasha Spender papers

Correspondence and papers of Natasha Spender, concert pianist, academic, writer, and wife of the British poet Stephen Spender.
Extents: 27.0 Linear metres (180 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c. 1800-2011, n.d.
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Nevill Coghill's prose translation of Beowulf

Nevill Coghill's prose translation of Beowulf
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1076
Extents: 110 Leaves
Dates: 18 Nov 1924
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Newdigate Prize Poems, University of Oxford

Printouts of Newdigate Prize Poems, University of Oxford, 2009-2021.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 5-23
Extents: 19 Leaves
Dates: 2009-2021
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Nine letters from Maria Edgeworth to Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert and Madame François Delessert

Nine letters from Maria Edgeworth to Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773-1847) and Madame François Delessert (1796-1877).
Shelfmark: MS. 11493
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1818-1845
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Note from Alan Bennett to David Vaisey

Note from Alan Bennett to David Vaisey, 1991.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2720, fol. 108
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1991
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Notebook containing a miscellany of verses copied by Joseph Wills

Notebook containing a miscellany of verses copied by Joseph Wills.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 184
Extents: 144 pages
Dates: 1761-1769
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Notebook containing copies of poems and essays in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps

Notebook containing copies of poems and essays in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 1636
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: c.1806-1815
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Notebook containing verses recited at Reading School

Notebook containing verses recited at Reading School
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 1527
Extents: 41 Leaves
Dates: 1797-1806
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Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns

Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns and (fols. 19-42) 'A very pretty story to tell children when they are about five or six years of age'
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 198
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1733-52
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Notebook of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers

Notebook of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, containing fair copies of poems by him, 1885-1919, with later amendments, 1940-1948.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 257
Extents: 112 Leaves
Dates: 1885-1919, 1940-1948
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Notes by Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, on arms and marks of ownership in early printed books and manuscripts

Notes by Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, on arms and marks of ownership in early printed books and manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 579
Extents: 66 Leaves
Dates: 19th century
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O'Donnell lectures in Celtic Studies, University of Oxford

O'Donnell lectures in Celtic Studies, University of Oxford, 1995-2025.
Shelfmark: MS. 23799
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1995-2025
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Old English and other linguistic papers of Humphrey Wanley

Old English and other linguistic papers of Humphrey Wanley
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. bibl. c. 3
Extents: 198 pages
Dates: Written in the first quarter of the 18th century by H. Wanley
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Order of service for requiem mass for Priscilla Tolkien

Order of service of the requiem mass for Priscilla Tolkien.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8419, fols. 1-6
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates: 5 Apr 2022
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Page proofs of William Watson, 'The Dream of Man'

Page proofs of William Watson, 'The Dream of Man'.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 256
Extents: 39 Leaves
Dates: 1892

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20th century 249
English literature 245
English literature -- 20th century 130
19th century 103
Humanities 83
Literature 44
English literature -- 19th century 43
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21st century 41
18th century 37
Letters 30
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Authors -- 20th century 19
Correspondence 19
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English poetry -- 21st century 11
Art 10
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English language 10
Authors, English 9
English poetry -- Women authors 8
Lectures and lecturing 8
English literature -- 17th century 7
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
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Diaries -- 20th century 4
Drama 4
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Literary criticism 4
Oxford (England) 4
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Authors, English -- Correspondence 3
Books and reading 3
Children's stories, English 3
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 45
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 7
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 7
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 7
University of Oxford | Prizes 7
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 5
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 4
Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 4
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Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 4
University of Oxford 4
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 3
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 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
University of Oxford | Students 3
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 2
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 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
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
Hughes | Shirley | 1927-2022 | freelance author and illustrator 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
Tolkien | Priscilla Mary Reuel | 1929-2022 | daughter of J.R.R. Tolkien 2
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
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
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
Archer | Jeffrey Howard | b. 1940 | Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare | writer and politician 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
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 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
Bernières | Louis de | b.1954 | novelist 1
Betjeman | Penelope | 1910-1986 | writer 1
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Language
English 391
French 18
Latin 18
German 10
Italian 6
Spanish; Castilian 5
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 3
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 2
Chinese 2
Danish 2
Dutch; Flemish 2
English, Middle (1100-1500) 2
Irish 2
Norwegian 2
Polish 2
Russian 2
Welsh 2
Afrikaans 1
Catalan; Valencian 1
Celtic languages 1