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27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1819
The Abinger Papers
Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates:
1780-1937
Album connected with the Byron family
Single Item
Album connected with the Byron family, 19th century.
Extents: 162 Leaves
Dates:
19th century
Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. d. 33
Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings, 19th century.
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates:
19th century
Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 181
Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates:
1827-1836
Album of manuscript verse
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c.1844-1848
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 As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished.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.
Album of Mary Barker
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 36
Album of Mary Barker
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates:
Compiled c. 1813-1841
Album of verse and letters by Austin Dobson, 1885-1920, collected by and mainly addressed to J. W. Martyn
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 186
Album of verse and letters by Austin Dobson, 1885-1920, collected by and mainly addressed to J. W. Martyn.
Extents: 144 Leaves
Dates:
1885-1920
Albums of the Edgeworth and Fox families
Collection
Three albums, consisting of a commonplace book of Frances Anne Edgeworth, an embroidery pattern book, and an album of sketches and watercolours, with drawings by Mary Anne Fox.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (4 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
19th century
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 A.H. Clough
Collection
Archive of A.H. Clough
Extents: 1.85 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates:
1829-1900
Archive of Audrey Beecham
Collection
Papers of Audrey Beecham (1915-1989), poet and academic, with a small number of boxes concerning the wider Beecham family.
Extents: 6.70 Linear metres (100 boxes)
Dates:
1845-1988, n.d.
Archive of Bertram Dobell
Collection
Correspondence, diaries and literary papers of Bertram Dobell.
Extents: 8.11 Linear metres (162 boxes)
Dates:
c. 1820-1914
Archive of Enid Starkie
Collection
Archive of Enid Starkie, literary critic, author and fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Extents: 6.55 Linear metres (95 boxes)
Dates:
1879-1985, n.d.
Archive of George Crabbe
Collection
Archive of George Crabbe
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates:
1799-1914
Archive of George Thorn-Drury
Collection
Archive of George Thorn-Drury
Extents: 1.19 Linear metres (19 boxes)
Dates:
19th-20th cent.
Archive of James Thomson
Collection
Archive of James Thomson, 1852-1900
Extents: 2.26 Linear metres (44 boxes)
Dates:
1852-1900
Archive of John Masefield
Collection
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
Archive of 'Michael Field'
Collection
Archive of 'Michael Field'
Extents: 10.53 Linear metres (207 boxes)
Dates:
1832-1970