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English literature -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:

Auction catalogue for the sale of Warren Lewis’s personal effects

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 1-11
Auction catalogue for the sale of Warren Lewis’s personal effects, Buckell & Ballard, Banbury, Tuesday 30 Oct 1973.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 30 Oct 1973

Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fol. 27
Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1949

Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8239
An unbound proof copy of Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby
Extents: 412 Leaves
Dates: [c.2013]

Bound autograph manuscript of Gertrude Bone, Children's Children (1908), with illustrations by Muirhead Bone

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22129
Bound autograph manuscript of Gertrude Bone, Children's Children, with illustrations by Muirhead Bone, [1907].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1907]

Christmas card from Priscilla Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien to Pauline Baynes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fols. 151-152
Christmas card from Priscilla Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien to Pauline Baynes, c.1971-1972
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c.1971-1972

Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind')

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 158
Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind').
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Corrections made by Harriet Shaw Weaver to a copy of James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1917)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Arch. AA e. 97
Corrections made by Harriet Shaw Weaver to a copy of James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1917)
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1952

Correspondence between Charles Williams and Phyllis Jones

 Collection
Correspondence between Charles Williams and Phyllis Jones, with poems and lecture notes by Charles Williams.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1926-1936 and 1983

Correspondence between C.S. Lewis, Joy Davidman, Douglas Gresham, and David Gresham

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 41-50
Correspondence between C.S. Lewis, Joy Davidman, Douglas Gresham, and David Gresham.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates: [1959]-1963, n.d.

Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien, the Registry University of Oxford and King Edward VI School, Birmingham, relating to Tolkien’s tenure as school governor

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 104-109
Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien, the Registry University of Oxford and King Edward VI School, Birmingham, relating to Tolkien’s tenure as school governor
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates: 1937-1940

Correspondence of Sarah Cawkwell and Jenny Joseph

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17253
Correspondence of the artist Sarah Cawkwell and the poet Jenny Joseph, 1994-2017.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1994-2017

Cyclostyled typescript of Adam’s Island, a play by Nevill Coghill

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8259
Cyclostyled typescript of Nevill Coghill's Adam's Island, A Play, signed and dated by the author, with covering letter
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates: 1937

Draft of Max Beerbohm’s account of his first meetings with H.B. Irving, together with two cartoons

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. b. 2173
A draft of Max Beerbohm’s account of his first meetings with H.B. Irving, elder son of Sir Henry Irving, together with two colotype prints of Beerbohm cartoons depicting H.B. Irving.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1920s

Edward F. Benson and his Connection with Rye and the Church of St. Mary the Virgin by Mary Anderson Cooper

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fols. 54-55
Edward F. Benson and his Connection with Rye and the Church of St. Mary the Virgin by Mary Anderson Cooper
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c. 2015

Evan Jones Archive

 Collection
Papers of the writer Evan Jones.
Extents: 8.5 Linear metres (43 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1949-2011, n.d.

Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21785
Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph, c.1986.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1986

Four albums compiled by Brian Aldiss

 Collection
Four volumes of photograph album scrapbooks compiled by Brian Aldiss, containing original artwork for the covers of many of his books, with extensive authorial comments inserted throughout.
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 shelfmarks)
Dates: n.d.

Gollancz publisher's file for To The Land of Fair Delight

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21345
Gollancz publisher's file for To The Land of Fair Delight, 1959-1996.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1959-1996

Interview of Philip Larkin with Miriam Gross, with correspondence

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 16084
Typescript interview of Philip Larkin with Miriam Gross for The Observer, with manuscript corrections by Larkin, and associated correspondence.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1979

Letter from a child, ‘Marcel’, Leavsden Green school, to C.S. Lewis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fols. 80-82
Letter from a pupil, 'Marcel', of Leavsden Green school sent in 2008 to C.S. Lewis.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 2008