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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
Collection

Additional D'Orville Manuscripts

D'Orville's manuscripts, 18th century.
Extents: 1.54 Linear metres (14 boxes)
Dates: 18th century
Collection

Additional Papers of Edmond Malone

Additional Papers of Edmond Malone, including private papers and literary pieces.
Extents: 5 shelfmarks
Dates: 1690-1817
Collection

Additional papers of Henry Wentworth Acland and his daughter Sarah Angelina Acland

Commonplace book of H.W. Acland and visitors' book of S.A. Acland.
Extents: 0.11 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1852-1886
Collection

Archive of A.B. Poynton

Archive of Arthur Blackburne Poynton (1867-1944).
Extents: 0.16 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 20th century
Collection

Archive of A.C. Clark

Archive of Albert Curtis Clark (1859-1937).
Extents: 0.71 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 18th-20th cent.
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Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

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
Collection

Archive of Barbara Mary Crampton Pym

Papers of Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (1913-80), novelist.
Extents: 11 Linear metres (178 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1913-1980
Collection

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
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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
Collection

Archive of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin

Papers of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989), writer.
Extents: 18.92 Linear metres (175 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1963-1989
Collection

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Extents: 1.70 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates: 1882-1969
Collection

Archive of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and his descendants

Papers of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London, with papers of his descendants, 1388-1797.
Extents: 7.45 Linear metres (23 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1388-1797
Collection

Archive of E.K. Chambers

Archive of E.K. Chambers, 1930
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1930
Collection

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.
Collection

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.
Collection

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

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

Archive of Gilbert Murray (1866-1957).
Extents: 61.82 Linear metres (562 boxes)
Dates: 1837-1960
Collection

Archive of Gillian and John Sutro

Papers of Gillian and John Sutro, 20th cent.
Extents: 22.77 Linear metres (207 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1893-1999, n.d.
Collection

Archive of Herbert Davis

Archive of Herbert Davis
Extents: 1.21 Linear metres (11 boxes)
Dates: 1933-67

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Literature 256
20th century 252
19th century 141
18th century 87
17th century 84
English literature 81
English literature -- 20th century 58
Poetry 58
Letters 52
Humanities 33
16th century 32
21st century 27
English poetry -- 20th century 24
English Literature 22
Literature -- 20th century 21
English poetry 20
Poets 19
Religion 19
Children's literature 18
Classical literature 18
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History 18
Correspondence 16
English literature -- 19th century 16
Oxford (England) 16
Poems 16
Authors 13
Antiquarians 12
Novelists -- 20th century 12
Letters -- 20th century 10
Authors -- 20th century 9
Church 9
Literature -- Translations 9
Sermons 9
x - 15th century 9
English literature -- 18th century 8
Manuscripts 8
Novelists 8
Religious literature, English 8
14th century 7
Diaries 7
Greek literature 7
Latin literature 7
Literary criticism 7
Theology 7
13th century 6
Authors, English -- 20th century 6
Books 6
Music 6
University of Oxford 6
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 6
Women authors, English -- 20th century 6
Bodleian Library 5
Classical literature -- Study and teaching 5
English literature -- 17th century 5
English poetry -- 21st century 5
English poetry -- Women authors 5
Essays 5
Journalism 5
Law 5
Lectures and lecturing 5
Oxfordshire (England) 5
Poetry -- 20th century 5
War poetry 5
Women 5
x - 12th century 5
Academic writing 4
Antiquities 4
Art 4
Authors, Classical 4
Authors, English 4
Biography 4
Church of England -- Clergy 4
French literature 4
Photographs 4
Photography 4
Playwriting -- Drama 4
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 4
Publishers and publishing 4
Royal family 4
Scholars 4
Spanish literature 4
Theater -- England 4
Universities and colleges -- England -- Oxford 4
University of Oxford -- Students 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
x - 11th century 4
Accounts 3
Africa 3
Africa -- Description and travel 3
Africa -- History -- 20th century 3
Agriculture -- Kenya 3
Authors -- 19th century 3
Authors, English -- 19th century 3
Children's stories, English 3
Church records and registers 3
Classicists 3
Cricket 3
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 3
English language 3
Fantasy fiction 3
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 18
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 11
University of Oxford 9
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 8
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 7
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 6
Williams | Charles | 1886-1945 | author 6
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 5
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 5
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 4
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 4
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 4
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 4
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 4
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 3
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 3
∨ more
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 3
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 3
Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar 3
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 3
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 3
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 3
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 3
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 2
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 2
Bodleian Library 2
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 2
Chilmead | Edmund | 1610-1654 | scholar and musician 2
D'Orville | Jacques Philippe | 1696-1751 | Classical Scholar 2
Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 2
Drakestein | Hendrik | van Reede tot | 1636-1691 | Colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company 2
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 2
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 2
Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 2
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 2
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 2
Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician 2
Hurst | Herbert | 1834-? 1914 | Oxford Antiquary 2
Johnson | Jane | 1706-1759 | of Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire 2
Kennedy | Ludovic Henry Coverley | b 1919 | Writer and Broadcaster 2
Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 2
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 2
Moore | Edward | 1835-1916 | Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 2
Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 2
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 2
Oxford University Writers' Club. 2
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Price | John | 1735-1813 | librarian 2
Pullman | Philip | b 1946 | writer 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Roe | Thomas | 1581-1644 | Sir | Knight and Diplomat 2
Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian 2
Spender | Natasha | 1919-2010 | née Litvin | concert pianist 2
Stallworthy | Jon (Howie) | 1935-2014 | poet and literary critic 2
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | writer and poet 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Warton | Thomas | 1728-1790 | Poet, antiquary and literary Scholar 2
Abbo of Fleury | ? 945-1004 | French monk 1
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 1
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 1
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | writer and politician 1
Aikin | Lucy | 1781-1864 | historian 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
Algarotti | Francesco | 1712-1764 | Poet and scholar 1
Allen | Percy Stafford | 1869-1933 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford 1
Alleyne | John | c. 1731-1792 | Fellow of University College, Oxford 1
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 1
Ashmole | Elias | 1617-1692 | Antiquary and Astrologer 1
Atkins | Edwin | Martin- | fl. 1852 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Austen | Cassandra Elizabeth | 1773–1845 | sister of Jane Austen 1
Baker | Sir | Richard | 1568-1645 | Knight | religious writer and historian 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Ballard | George | 1705-1755 | Antiquary 1
Balzac | Jean-Louis Guez de | 1597?-1654 1
Banmer | Sir | Thomas | d. 1746 1
Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 1
Bast | Friedrich Jakob | 1771-1811 | Greek Scholar 1
Bayley | John Oliver | 1925-2015 | literary critic and novelist 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
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Language
English 439
Latin 74
French 30
German 20
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 17
Italian 17
Greek, Modern (1453-) 10
Spanish; Castilian 10
Dutch; Flemish 7
Welsh 5
Arabic 4
Chinese 4
Danish 3
Polish 3
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 2
Catalan; Valencian 2
Czech 2
Irish 2
Hebrew 2
Japanese 2