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27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5

27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1819
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The Abinger Papers

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
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Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 23 March 1714-1720
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Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings

Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings, 19th century.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. d. 33
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: 19th century
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Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches

Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 181
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates: 1827-1836
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Album of manuscript verse

Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1844-1848
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Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

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.
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.
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Album of Mary Barker

Album of Mary Barker
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 36
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates: Compiled c. 1813-1841
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Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium'

Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium', completed
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2571/1-3
Extents: 402 Leaves
Dates: 1991
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'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'

'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 154
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1608
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Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon

The archive of the poet and novelist C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] (1904-1972) and his wife, the actress Jill Balcon (1925-2009).
Extents: 9.3 Linear metres (66 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1928-2009; 1778-2009
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Archive of Enid Starkie

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.
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Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice

Papers of the poet and playwright Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), with papers of Hedli MacNeice, née Anderson (1907-1990)
Extents: 10.17 Linear metres (76 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1917-1989; n.d.
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Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

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

Correspondence and literary papers of the poet and writer Jenny Joseph, author of the poem 'Warning', 1945-2017.
Extents: 20.0 Linear metres (133 physical shelfmarks, 84 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1945-2017
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Archive of John Everett Butt

Correspondence and notes of John Everett Butt, 1932-64.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-64
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Archive of Michael Sayers

Archive of Michael Sayers (1911-2010), writer
Extents: 12.45 Linear metres (88 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1878, c. 1922-2015
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Archive of Mick Imlah

Archive of the poet and literary critic Michael Ogilvie ('Mick') Imlah (1956-2009).
Extents: 4.5 Linear metres (28 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1944-2009
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Archive of Robert Seymour Bridges

Archive of Robert Seymour Bridges, Poet Laureate, 1865-1969.
Extents: 13.2 Linear metres (137 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1865-1969
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Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker

Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker
Extents: 1.67 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates: 1807-1965

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Literature 154
Poetry 145
20th century 101
19th century 81
Poets 54
18th century 45
17th century 41
English literature 39
English poetry 31
English poetry -- 20th century 25
Letters 19
English literature -- 20th century 16
Humanities 15
16th century 13
21st century 13
Correspondence 11
Literature -- 20th century 10
Latin poetry 9
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Literature -- Translations 8
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War poetry 7
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English literature -- 19th century 6
Literary criticism 6
Oxford (England) 6
Political satire 6
English language 5
English poetry -- 19th century 5
English poetry -- 21st century 5
French literature 5
Greek literature 5
Manuscripts 5
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 5
Religion 5
Classical literature 4
Commonplace books 4
English poetry -- Women authors 4
Music 4
Playwriting -- Drama 4
Poetry, Greek 4
Religious poetry 4
Scholars 4
Sermons 4
Antiquarians 3
Authors, Classical 3
Bible 3
Cricket 3
Diaries 3
English literature -- 18th century 3
English poetry -- 17th century 3
Essays 3
France 3
Latin prose literature 3
Law 3
Lectures and lecturing 3
Letters -- 20th century 3
London (England) 3
Poetry, English 3
Poetry, Italian 3
Religious literature, English 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
Authors -- 20th century 2
Autographs 2
Bible -- O.T. -- Psalms 2
Children's literature 2
Cornwall (England) 2
Drama 2
Drama -- 20th century 2
English literature -- 17th century 2
English poetry -- 18th century 2
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Great Britain -- History 2
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 2
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Ireland 2
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Indexed names
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 7
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 6
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 3
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3
Williams | Charles | 1886-1945 | author 3
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 2
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 2
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 2
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2
Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian poet 2
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | Vicar of Morwenstow, Poet, and Antiquary 2
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Sassoon | Siegfried | 1886-1967 | poet 2
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Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 2
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 2
Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 2
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | writer and poet 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 2
Abbott | Claude Colleer |17 April 1889–17 Sept. 1971 | Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Durham, 1932–54, Emeritus Professor, 1954 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Adimari | Lodovico | 1644-1708 | poet 1
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 1
Aldrich | Henry | fl 1685-1710 | sub-dean and dean of Christ Church 1
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 1
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 1
Anderton | James | 1557-1613 | Religious controversialist also known as John Brereley 1
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 1
Armiger | Miles Christian | fl. 20th century 1
Ashbaugh | Dennis | 1946- | Artist 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Augurellus | Johannes Aurelius | d. 1524 1
Augustine | d 604 | Saint, first Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Baker | Mary | fl. 1813-1841 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Banks | J. C. | fl. 1810-1822 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Begos | Kevin | Publisher 1
Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 1
Benlowes | Edward | 1602-1676 | poet 1
Bennett | Arnold | 1867-1931 | Writer 1
Betham | William | 1749-1839 | Antiquary and clergyman 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | antiquary and editor 1
Bowra | Sir | Maurice | 1898-1971 | Knight | scholar 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Bridger | R. Lowther | fl. 1905-1918 1
Bridges | Edward Ettingdene | 1892-1969 | civil servant 1
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 1
Brooke | Rupert Chawner | 1887-1915 | Poet 1
Bruce | John | 1802-1869 | Antiquary 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Buxton | John | 1912-1989 | Scholar, university teacher, poet, and ornithologist 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
Casey | George Edward Comerford | 1846-1912 | clergyman, teacher and writer 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 1
Clayton | Roderick Edward | fl 1990 1
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 1
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
Cook | Mariana R. | b.1955 | Photographer 1
Cooper | J.G. | fl 1745-1762 1
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 1
Cozens | Emily | fl 1880 1
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 1
Crespigny | Caroline de | 1798-1861 | poet 1
Dale | Peter | b. 1938 | poet and translator 1
Daman | Charles | 1813-1895 | clergyman 1
Davids | Roy | 1942-2017 | book dealer, collector, writer 1
Davis | Sir | Rupert Charles | Hart- | 1907–1999 | publisher and writer 1
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 1
Desaguliers | John Theophilus | 1683-1744 | natural philosopher and engineer 1
Dixon | G. | fl. 1809 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Dodsley | Robert | 1703-1764 | Poet, dramatist and bookseller 1
Drinkwater | John | 1882-1937 | Poet and playwright 1
Dryden | John | 1631-1700 | poet, playwright, and critic 1
Dyer | George | 1755-1841 | Poet 1
Edgley | J. A. C | fl. 1889 1
Edwardes | Edward Joshua | fl 1900-1916 | translator 1
Edwards | Henry | fl 1885-1888 | Rector of Banningham, Norfolk 1
Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet 1
Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 | Queen of England and Ireland 1
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Language
English 209
Latin 36
French 13
German 9
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 9
Greek, Modern (1453-) 6
Italian 6
Spanish; Castilian 3
Welsh 3
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 2
Cornish 2
Dutch; Flemish 2
Irish 2
Portuguese 2
Arabic 1
Catalan; Valencian 1
Danish 1
Hebrew 1
Russian 1