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Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli

Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 342
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: c. 1910
Collection

Additional papers of Bruce Chatwin

Additional papers of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989), writer
Extents: 5.16 Linear metres (36 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1957-1989; [c. 1895-c. 2017]. Bulk c. 1957-c. 1989
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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 Charles Langbridge Morgan and Hilda Vaughan

Correspondence and papers of the novelists Charles Langbridge Morgan and Hilda Vaughan
Extents: 22.21 Linear metres (321 boxes)
Dates: 1800-2015
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Archive of Joanna Trollope

Archive of Joanna Trollope (born 1943), writer, including literary and personal papers, [1908]-2019.
Extents: 5.26 Linear metres (109 boxes)
Dates: [1908]-2019; Majority of material found within 1952-2019
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Archive of John le Carré (David Cornwell)

Archive of author John le Carré (David Cornwell)
Extents: 86.02 Linear metres (1237 boxes)
Dates: 1918-2023
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Archive of John Masefield

The archive of the poet, novelist and playwright John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
Extents: 7.188 Linear metres (135 boxes)
Dates: 1901-1968
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Archive of Joyce Cary

Archive of Joyce Cary, (1888-1957), Author.
Extents: 38.4 Linear metres (384 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1888-1965
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Archive of Lily Dougall

Papers of Lily Dougall (1858-1923), novelist and religious author, 1869-1926.
Extents: 6.86 Linear metres (18 boxes)
Dates: 1869-1926
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Autograph letter from John le Carré to 'Doris'

Autograph letter from John le Carré to 'Doris', 27 Mar 2020.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fol. 78
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: 27 Mar 2020
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Beddoes and Edgeworth family papers

Papers relating to the Beddoes and Edgeworth family.
Extents: 3.21 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: late 17th century-1942
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Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall

Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall, 1973-2015.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: 1973-2015
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A common-place book of incidents and thoughts

A common-place book of incidents and thoughts, written about A.D. 1857-1858 by C. Reade.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 8
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: written about A.D. 1857-1858 by C. Reade
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Evan Jones Archive

Papers of the writer Evan Jones.
Extents: 8.5 Linear metres (43 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1949-2011, n.d.
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Exercise book containing a fair copy, by an amanuensis, of Maria Edgeworth's 'The braceletts'

Exercise book containing a fair copy, by an amanuensis, of Maria Edgeworth's 'The braceletts'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 647
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: c. 1795
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Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph

Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph, c.1986.
Shelfmark: MS. 21785
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1986
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Guard-book of letters

Guard-book of letters
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. e. 120
Extents: 183 Leaves
Dates: 19th-20th century
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Guard-book of letters

Guard-book of letters
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. e. 132
Extents: 258 Leaves
Dates: 18th-20th century
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Guard-book of letters

Guard-book of letters
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. e. 1
Extents: 242 Leaves
Dates: 17th-20th century
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Guard-book of letters, mainly from writers and musicians

Guard-book of letters, mainly from writers and musicians, 19th-20th century.
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 30
Extents: 114 Leaves
Dates: 19th-20th century.

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20th century 43
Novelists 35
Novelists -- 20th century 24
19th century 19
Literature 18
English literature 17
Letters 13
English literature -- 20th century 12
Humanities 11
21st century 8
Literature -- 20th century 8
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Authors, English -- 20th century 2
Historical fiction, English 2
Journalists 2
Letters -- 20th century 2
Music 2
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Indexed names
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 4
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 3
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 3
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 2
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 2
Hardy | Thomas | 1840–1928 | novelist and poet 2
Jenkins | Margaret Elizabeth Heald | 1905-2010 | novelist and biographer 2
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 2
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 2
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 2
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 1
Austen | Cassandra Elizabeth | 1773–1845 | sister of Jane Austen 1
Barham | Richard Harris | 1788-1845 | Author 1
Beddoes | Anna Maria | 1773-1824 | nee Edgeworth | Mother of Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Bright | William | 1824-1901 | Ecclesiastical Historian 1
Broughton | Rhoda | 1840-1920 | Novelist 1
Buttcock | Marjorie | fl. 1935-1975 1
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Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 1
Chatwin | Charles Bruce | 1940-1989 | Writer 1
Cobden | Richard | 1804-1865 | Manufacturer and politician 1
Cockburn | Sarah Caudwell | 1939-2000 | pseudonym Sarah Caudwell | barrister and novelist 1
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 1
Conrad | Joseph | 1857-1924 | novelist 1
Conran | Dame | Shirley Ida | 1932-2024 | writer 1
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer | pseudonym John le Carré 1
Courthope | William John | 1842-1917 | Poet and literary scholar 1
Cross | Mary Ann | 1819-1880 | nee Evans | novelist and poet known as George Eliot 1
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 1
Dougall | Lily | 1858-1923 | novelist and religious author 1
Drinkwater | Albert Edwin Drinkwater | 1852–1923 | schoolmaster and actor 1
Drinkwater | John | 1882–1937 | poet and playwright 1
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and children's writer 1
Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet 1
Falkner | John Meade | 1858-1932 | Author and Antiquary 1
Forster | Edward Morgan | 1879–1970 | novelist and essayist 1
Gardner | Dame | Helen Louise | 1908-1986 | literary scholar 1
Gibson | Strickland | 1877-1958 | Librarian and Bibliographer 1
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 1
Harvey | Henry Stanley | 1911-1995 1
Hewlett | J. T. J | fl. 1800-1847 1
Hook | Theodore | 1788-1841 | Novelist 1
Jones | Evan | 1927-2023 | poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter 1
Jowett | Benjamin | 1817-1893 | Master of Balliol College, Oxford 1
Masefield | (Isabel) Judith | 1904-1988 | book illustrator 1
Mitchell | Gladys Maude Winifred | 1901–1983 | novelist 1
Montgomery | Robert Bruce | 1921-1978 | Composer and writer as Edmund Crispin 1
Morgan | Charles Langbridge | 1855-1940 | Sir | civil engineer 1
Morgan | Charles Langbridge | 1894-1958 | novelist and journalist 1
Morgan | Charles Langbridge | 1894–1958 | novelist and journalist 1
Morgan | Hilda Campbell | 1892-1985 | née Vaughan | novelist 1
Morgan | Roger Hugh Vaughan Charles | 1926-2018 | librarian 1
Nevinson | Henry Wood | 1856-1941 | Essayist Philanthropist Journalist 1
Newman | Jon Ormond | b.1932 | Senior Judge, US Court of Appeals 1
Novikoff | Olga | 1848-1925 | Russian journalist 1
Oxford University Dramatic Society 1
Ramee | Louise | de la | 1839-1908 | novelist 1
Reade | Charles | 1814-1884 | novelist and dramatist 1
Reid | Forrest | 1875-1947 | Irish novelist and literary scholar 1
Rowling | Joanne | b.1965 | writer 1
Rowse | Alfred Leslie | 1903-1997 | author and historian 1
Sadleir | Michael Thomas Harvey | 1888-1957 | Author and Publisher 1
Stewart | John Innes Mackintosh | 1906-1994 | novelist and academic 1
Straus | Ralph | 1882-1950 | Novelist 1
Temple | Henry John | 1784-1865 | 3rd Viscount Palmerston | statesman 1
Trollope | Anthony | 1815-1882 | novelist 1
Trollope | Joanna | b 1943 | writer 1
Tyrwhitt | Richard St. John | 1827-1895 | Writer on art 1
University of Oxford 1
Vaughan | Elizabeth | c.1887-1978 1
Vaughan | James | 1818-1884 | Surgeon-Major for the East India Company and sheriff 1
Walpole | Sir | Hugh Seymour | 1884-1941 | Knight | Novelist and Man of Letters 1
Walton | Hilary Crampton | 1916-2004 | née Pym | sister of Barbara Pym 1
Wellesley | Arthur | 1769-1852 | 1st Duke of Wellington | Field Marshal, statesman 1
Wordsworth | Christopher | 1807-1885 | Bishop in the Anglican Church 1
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Language
French 7
German 6
Italian 6
Dutch; Flemish 5
Spanish; Castilian 5
Norwegian 4
Russian 4
Chinese 3
Polish 3
Swedish 3
Finnish 2
Japanese 2
Latin 2
Portuguese 2
Welsh 2
Afrikaans 1
Arabic 1
Catalan; Valencian 1
Czech 1
Danish 1