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Hymns, English -- Texts 1
Inklings (Group of writers) 1
Interior design 1
Interior design -- London 1
Letters 1
Literature -- 18th century 1
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800 1
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Quaker women 1
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Indexed names
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 5
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 4
Jones | Monica Margaret Beal | 1922-2001 | lecturer in English 4
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 3
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St. Paul's and poet 2
Marvell Press | publisher 2
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 2
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 2
Queen's University Belfast 2
University of Hull 2
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 1
Amherst | Elizabeth | c.1716-1779 | poet and amateur naturalist 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Boswell | James | 1778-1822 | Lawyer and Editor 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bruce | Constance Marian S | d 2001 | poet 1
Buckley | William Edward | ? 1817-1892 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 1
Campbell | Thomas | 1777-1844 | Poet 1
Candler | Sarah | 1790-1816 | poet 1
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 1
Casey | George Edward Comerford | 1846-1912 | clergyman, teacher and writer 1
Chapman | Thomas | fl 1766 | author 1
Coleridge | Sara | 1802–1852 | writer and literary editor 1
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 1
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 1
Crespigny | Caroline Champion de | née Bathurst | 1796-1861 | poet 1
Drury | George Thorn | 1860-1931 | Barrister and Literary Scholar 1
Egerton | Judy | 1928-2012 | art historian 1
Evans | Barbara Dorothy Fordyce | née Hay-Cooper | 1909-1995 | medical journalist and writer 1
Faber and Faber | publisher 1
Filler | Martin Myles | b.1948 | American architecture critic and writer 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Gardner | Helen Louise | 1908-1986 | literary scholar 1
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 1
Grierson | Sir | Herbert John Clifford | 1866-1960 | Knight | Professor of English literature at Edinburgh University 1
Grierson | Sir | Herbert John Clifford | 1866-1960 | knight | Professor of English literature at Edinburgh University 1
Haslewood | Joseph | 1769-1833 | Antiquary 1
Herrick | Robert | 1591-1674 | poet 1
Jonson | Benjamin | c. 1573-1637 | poet 1
King | Ada Augusta | 1815-1852 | mathematician | wife of 1st Earl Lovelace 1
King | William | 1805-1893 | 1st Earl of Lovelace 1
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 1
Lewis | Cecil Day | 1904-1972 | poet 1
Madden | Sir | Frederic | 1801-1873 | Knight | Antiquary, and Palaeographer 1
Mann | Francis | le | d. c.1851 | physician, surgeon and apothecary 1
Mare | Richard Herbert Ingpen de la | 1901-1986 | publisher 1
Mason | William | 1724-1797 | poet 1
Medwin | Thomas | 1788-1869 | biographer of P.B. Shelley 1
Milbanke | Ralph Gordon Noel King | 2nd Earl of Lovelace | 1839-1906 1
Milbanke-Noel | Judith | 1751-1822 | nee Noel, afterwards Milbanke | wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke-Noel 1
Milbanke-Noel | Sir | Ralph | 1747-1825 | | 6th Baronet | MP for Durham 1
Montagu | Montagu | 1787-1863 | Captain RN, Author, and Autograph Collector 1
Moore | Thomas Sturge | 1870-1944 | writer and wood engraver 1
Nichols | John Bowyer | 1779-1863 | printer and antiquary 1
Plunkett | Edward John Moreton Drax | 1878-1957 | 18th Baron of Dunsany | writer 1
Polwhele Richard | 1760-1838 | Anglican clergyman, topographer, theologian 1
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 1
Randolph | Thomas | 1605-1635 | poet 1
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 1
Ridler | Vivian Hughes | 1913-2009 | printer, typographer and scholar 1
Ritson | Joseph | 1752-1803 | Literary Critic 1
Rogers | Samuel | 1763-1855 | poet 1
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 1
Shirley | James | 1596-1666 | poet 1
Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 1
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 1
Southwell | Robert | c 1561-1595 | Jesuit and poet 1
Sparrow | John Hanbury Angus | 1906-1992 | Warden of All Souls College, Oxford 1
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 1
Spoure | Edmund | fl. 1695 | Poet 1
Stukeley | William | 1687-1765 | antiquary and natural philosopher 1
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 1
Tate Gallery 1
Taylor | John | 1578-1653 | called the Water Poet | poet 1
Taylor | Thomas Rawson | 1807-1835 | minister, hymnodist and poet 1
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 1
Thomas | Philip Edward | 1878-1917 | poet and writer 1
Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 1
Thwaite | Anthony | b. 1930 | poet and writer 1
Tillotson | Geoffrey | 1905-1969 | Professor of English Literature London University 1
Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 1
University of Leicester 1
University of Oxford 1
Wallace | (Richard Horatio) Edgar | 1875-1932 | novelist, playwright and journalist 1
Waller | Edmund | 1606-1687 | poet 1
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 1
Wilson | Jeremy Michael | 1944-2017 | biographer and editor 1
Wither | George | 1588-1667 | Poet and pamphleteer 1
Wordsworth | Dorothy | 1771–1855 | writer 1
Wordsworth | William | 1770–1850 | poet 1

Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.

Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.

An Annotated Copy of Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia poetica

 Collection
An Annotated Copy of Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia poetica
Extents: 10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 19th century

Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

 Collection
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

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

 Collection
Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1964

Archive of George Thorn-Drury

 Collection
Archive of George Thorn-Drury
Extents: 1.19 Linear metres (19 boxes)
Dates: 19th-20th cent.

Archive of Sir Herbert Grierson relating to John Donne

 Collection
Archive of Sir Herbert Grierson relating to John Donne.
Extents: 0.27 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1906-50

Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families

 Collection
Papers of Annabella, Lady Byron (1792-1860), including papers of her parents, Sir Ralph and Judith Milbanke (later Noel), papers of her daughter, Ada Byron (later Lady Lovelace), and her grand-children, Ralph King (2nd Earl of Lovelace) and Anne Blunt.
Extents: 50.6 Linear metres (460 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1669-1930

Autograph works of John Taylor the Water-Poet

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 209
Autograph works of John Taylor the Water-Poet, written in 1643-1645.
Extents: 33 Leaves
Dates: written in 1643-1645 by J. Taylor

A collection of jokes, riddles and verse entitled 'The Young Men and Maids Merry Companion' by Thomas Chapman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7018
A collection of jokes, riddles and verse entitled 'The Young Men and Maids Merry Companion' by Thomas Chapman.
Extents: 182 Leaves
Dates: 1766

Collection of poems, including political satires, topical verse, epigrams and groups of poems

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 50
Collection of poems, including political satires, topical verse, epigrams and groups of poems
Extents: 135 Leaves
Dates: c. 17th century

Collection of recusant verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. b. 5
Collection of recusant verse
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates: Compiled 1651-1657

Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 57
Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others.
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Contemporary copy of poem by Thomas Campbell, 'The friars of Dijon'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Montagu d. 34
Contemporary copy of poem by Thomas Campbell, 'The friars of Dijon', with pen-and-ink illustrations.
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: 1822

Correspondence of Philip Larkin and Judy Egerton

 Collection
Letters and cards exchanged between the poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) and the art historian Judy Egerton (1928-2012) during the course of their thirty-year friendship.
Extents: 2.25 Linear metres (14 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1954-1985

Early manuscript volume of Lord Byron's poetry, made by or for Dr Francis le Mann

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17560
Early manuscript volume of Lord Byron's poetry, made by or for Dr Francis le Mann, c.1810-1816.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: c.1810-1816

Eight letters and two postcards from Edmund Blunden to Billy Maddock

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Miscellaneous 3, fols. 1-11
Eight letters and two postcards from Edmund Blunden to Billy Maddock, 1931-1964.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 1931-1964

Greeting cards sent by Monica Jones to Philip Larkin

 Collection
Greeting cards sent by Monica Jones to Philip Larkin, 1950s-1984.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1950s-1984

Guard-book of verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 187
Guard-book of verse, 19th-20th centuries.
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: 19th-20th centuries

Letter from Edmund Blunden to Jack Isaacs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fol. 86
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Jack Issacs, c.1920s.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: c.1920s