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Literature 699
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Humanities 121
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21st century 67
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Classical literature 23
Religious literature, English 23
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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
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Antiquities 8
Authors, classical 8
Drama 8
English literature -- 21st century 8
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Oxfordshire (England) 8
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Poetry -- 20th century 8
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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
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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

Seventeen letters from the rev. Gilbert White of Selborne to archdeacon Ralph Churton

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 9
Seventeen letters from the rev. Gilbert White of Selborne to archdeacon Ralph Churton
Extents: 63 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1779-1793 by G. White

Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)

 Collection
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
Extents: 82 shelfmarks and 37 objects
Dates: 1577-1992 (predominantly 18th-20th cent.)

A short account of ancient history

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 95
A short account of ancient history
Extents: 390 pages
Dates: Written in A.D. 1744 by T. Delafield

Short amatory poems, ballads, songs, etc., partly Scotch

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 8
Short amatory poems, ballads, songs, etc., partly Scotch
Extents: 66 Leaves
Dates: Written about the middle of the 18th century in several hands

Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 26
Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates: c. 1837-1909

Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 16
Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: May 1881, 1916

Silhouettes cut in blue-grey paper by James Allen

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 696
Silhouettes cut in blue-grey paper by James Allen
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: 1879

Sir Balthazar Gerbier's 'Relation ... for the cleering of som particullers which have by some been misunderstood during the raignes of King James and King Charles'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 184
Sir Balthazar Gerbier's 'Relation ... for the cleering of som particullers which have by some been misunderstood during the raignes of King James and King Charles', in 1648
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: 1648

Six letters from John le Carré to Mrs Chris Boot

 Single Item
Six letters from John le Carré to Mrs Chris Boot, 1992-2019.
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: 1992-2019

Six letters from John Masefield to Barbara Evans née Hay-Cooper

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 17-27
Six letters from John Masefield to Barbara Evans née Hay-Cooper, c.1930-1958.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: c.1930-1958

Slip-index of manuscripts of Latin classical authors, compiled by Roger Mynors

 Collection
Slip-index of manuscripts of Latin classical authors, compiled by Roger Mynors
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: late 20th cent.

Slips of paper, mounted in a volume

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Norfolk c. 1
Slips of paper, mounted in a volume
Extents: 227 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first quarter of the 18th century by P. Le Neve

Small account books

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Northants f. 6
Small account books
Extents: 94 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1752-1812

A small group of letters addressed to Clara Deneke

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fols. 78-89
A small group of letters addressed to Clara Deneke (1847-1933), 1888-1902, n.d.
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: 1888-1902, n.d.

Some letters of members of the Library Association of the United Kingdom

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 7
Some letters of members of the Library Association of the United Kingdom
Extents: 36 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1878

Some notes about, and copies of, Oxford and Oxfordshire jeux d'esprit

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 116
Some notes about, and copies of, Oxford and Oxfordshire jeux d'esprit
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1892-1895, chiefly by E. Marshall

Some notes about Hertford college, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 25
Some notes about Hertford college, Oxford
Extents: 65 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1780-1790 by B. Hodgson

Some Oxford college brewing accounts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon e. 14
Some Oxford college brewing accounts
Extents: 129 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1681-1684

Some speculations (incomplete) on ancient methods of measuring time

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 13
Some speculations (incomplete) on ancient methods of measuring time
Extents: 32 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1795

Somerset 'Miscellanies'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Somerset b. 1
Somerset 'Miscellanies'
Extents: 33 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1624-1864