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English literature -- 18th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Additional correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and family

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6408
Letters of the engineer, inventor and educationist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) and his daughter, the writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), 1763-1849.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1763-1849

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

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

Archive of John Everett Butt

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

Archive of Lady Marilyn Butler

 Collection
Archive of Lady Marilyn Butler
Extents: 9.76 Linear metres (144 boxes)
Dates: 1770-2015

Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century

 Collection
Correspondence and literary papers of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), with papers of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Michael Pakenham Edgeworth and other members of the Edgeworth family, mainly 1778-1886.
Extents: 12.65 Linear metres (115 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1768-1849, 17th-19th century

Archive of William Beckford

 Collection
Papers of William Beckford (1760-1844), author
Extents: 17.6 Linear metres (176 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1515-19th cent., n.d.

Commonplace book of Thomas Chapman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 2409
Commonplace book of Thomas Chapman
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: 1762-1770

Copy, in several hands, of The provok'd husband: or A journey to London, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 353
Copy, in several hands, of The provok'd husband: or A journey to London, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber
Extents: 166 Leaves
Dates: 18th century

Letters from Maria Edgeworth to Peter Holland and letters from Sir Henry Holland to Maria Edgeworth, Lucy Aikin and Peter Holland

 Collection
Letters from the writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) to the physician Peter Holland (1766-1855); and letters from his son, the physician Sir Henry Holland (1788-1873) to Maria, Peter and the historian Lucy Aikin (1781-1864).
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1799-1853; 1799-20th century

Manuscript 'school piece' by Thomas Hartley at Mr Earle's Academy, Deptford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22056
Manuscript 'school piece' by Thomas Hartley at Mr Earle's Academy, Deptford, 1754.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 18 Dec 1754

Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 198
Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns and (fols. 19-42) 'A very pretty story to tell children when they are about five or six years of age'
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1733-52

Papers of Joseph Addison from the Tickell family collection

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. c. 293/1-4
Papers of Joseph Addison from the Tickell family collection
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1714-1715

Reading journal of Henrietta Nevill, kept in Bath, Tunbridge Wells and London.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12395
Reading journal of Henrietta Nevill
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: c. 1802-c. 1804

Speech delivered by Ali Smith at the opening of the Bodleian Library's Which Jane Austen? exhibition

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fol. 29
Speech delivered by Ali Smith at the opening of the Bodleian Library's Which Jane Austen? exhibition.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: Jun 2017

William Collins, 'Ode to a Friend on his Return, etc.'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. e. 87
Autograph copy of William Collins, 'Ode to a Friend on his Return, etc.', with a later copy by Dr Alexander Carlyle
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: [1749?], 1788