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Literature 699
20th century 551
19th century 349
English literature 246
18th century 221
17th century 192
Poetry 142
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 121
Letters 110
21st century 67
Religion 67
16th century 64
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English literature -- 19th century 43
English poetry 41
History 40
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Poems 37
Literature -- Translations 36
Children's literature -- 20th century 33
Antiquarians 31
Authors 31
Literature -- 20th century 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
Church 26
Correspondence 26
Classical literature 23
Religious literature, English 23
Manuscripts 22
Novelists -- 19th century 22
Novelists -- 20th century 19
x - 15th century 19
Books 18
Playwriting -- Drama 18
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Oxford (England) 17
Sermons 17
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English poetry -- 21st century 16
Letters -- 20th century 16
English literature -- 18th century 15
Essays 15
Royal family 15
Authors, English -- 20th century 14
Art 13
Authors, English 13
Commonplace books 13
Ireland 13
University of Oxford 13
Biography 12
English language 12
Music 12
English poetry -- Women authors 11
Latin literature 11
Law 11
Lectures and lecturing 11
London (England) 11
Politics and Government 10
x - 14th century 10
Greek literature 9
Literary criticism 9
Northamptonshire (England) 9
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
Political satire 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
Antiquities 8
Authors, classical 8
Drama 8
English literature -- 21st century 8
Journalism 8
Oxfordshire (England) 8
Photographs 8
Poetry -- 20th century 8
Publishers and publishing 8
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 8
University of Oxford -- Students 8
x - 13th century 8
Academic writing 7
Accounts 7
Authors -- 19th century 7
English poetry -- 19th century 7
Poets -- 20th century 7
War poetry 7
x - 12th century 7
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 6
Bible 6
Bodleian Library 6
Church of England -- Clergy 6
England 6
English literature -- 17th century 6
French literature 6
Norfolk (England) 6
Poets, English -- Correspondence 6
Prayers 6
World War, 1914-1918 6
Artists 5
Basque literature 5
Bibliography 5
Catholic Church 5
Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14
University of Oxford 14
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 9
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 6
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 6
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 4
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4
Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 4
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4
Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 3
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 3
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3
Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 3
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 3
Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 3
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 3
Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 3
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 3
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 3
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 3
University of Oxford | Students 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 3
Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 3
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 2
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2
Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2
Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 2
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2
Burton | Edward | 1794-1836 | Professor of Divinity 2
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 2
Codrington | Robert | 1601/2-1665 | Translator and writer 2
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 2
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 2
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2
Davids | Roy | 1942-2017 | book dealer, collector, writer 2
Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2

Miscellaneous papers by or connected with John Swinton

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. V. 2. infra 2. 22*
Miscellaneous papers by or connected with John Swinton
Extents: 64 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 18th century chiefly by J. Swinton

Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. Robert Shippen

 Collection
Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. Robert Shippen
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: Chiefly written in about 1680-1740

Miscellaneous papers of general and political interest, mainly English verse, mid-18th cent., copied by various hands on separate sheets

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 48
Miscellaneous papers of general and political interest, mainly English verse, mid-18th cent., copied by various hands on separate sheets
Extents: 147 Leaves
Dates: Mid 18th century

Miscellaneous papers of or owned by dr. H. W. Acland

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 37
Miscellaneous papers of or owned by dr. H. W. Acland
Extents: 83 Leaves
Dates: Written in about A.D. 1870-1893

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

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 105
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.
Extents: 108 Leaves
Dates: written in the first half of the 18th century

Miscellaneous 'Scraps' in English

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 4
Miscellaneous 'Scraps' in English
Extents: 64 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 16th-19th century

Miscellanies

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 36
Miscellanies
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1515-1713

Modern calligraphy and illuminations by the West family at ‘the Vane scriptorium, Northwood, Middlesex

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 728
Modern calligraphy and illuminations by the West family at ‘the Vane scriptorium’, Northwood, Middlesex
Extents: 5 items
Dates: 1913-1931

Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos, book I, by Henry Elsynge

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 101
Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos, book I, by Henry Elsynge, mid-17th century.
Extents: 148 pages
Dates: mid-17th century

Montagu Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts collected by Captain Montagu, 15th-19th century.
Extents: 3.52 Linear metres (62 boxes)
Dates: 15th-19th century

Montgomery family papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Robert Montgomery (headmaster), his son Neil Montgomery (psychiatrist), Neil's wife Margaret (school teacher), and their children Lesley Le Claire (librarian of Worcester College, Oxford), and Hugh Montgomery (physicist).
Extents: 2.55 Linear metres (17 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1859-2013

'The most remarkable ... politico-economical history of A, B, and C. Birmingham, 1833'

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

'The Motor': juvenile miniature motoring magazines

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 19654
'The Motor', a juvenile miniature motoring magazine
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1921-1927

'The Mouse-Trap', by E. Holdsworth and Samuel Cobb, 2nd ed., and 'The Chase', by William Somerville, 3rd ed.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 154
'The Mouse-Trap', by E. Holdsworth and Samuel Cobb, 2nd ed., and 'The Chase', by William Somerville, 3rd ed.
Extents: 136 pages
Dates: 1720-1750

Mr. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps's collections relating to Edmond Malone

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Malone 42
Mr. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps's collections relating to Edmond Malone
Extents: 85 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1789-1887

'MS. Scraps', chiefly about English antiquities

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. c. 23
'MS. Scraps', chiefly about English antiquities
Extents: 120 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 15th-18th century

'MS. Scraps', relating to London

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. London c. 4
'MS. Scraps', relating to London
Extents: 28 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 15th-18th century

M.T.H. Sadleir Manuscript

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

'A Narrative of some Transactions in the Chapter of Salisbury...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts e. 2
'A Narrative of some Transactions in the Chapter of Salisbury...'
Extents: 122 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1790 by W. Bowles

Natasha Spender papers

 Collection
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.