The Biblical Manuscripts reflect the working life of a university. Students were required to lecture on one of the books of the Bible and there are a large number of glossed books of the Bible as well as many one-volume University Bibles. Amongst the 14th and 15th century manuscripts are many by contemporary Oxford scholars.

This collection includes some of the most important medieval English literature in the world. Chaucer is particularly prominent, with four texts of The Canterbury Tales (Sloane 1685, 1686; Add. MSS. 5140, 35286), The Legende of Good Women (Add. MS. 12044), and Troilus and Cresseid (Add. MS. 12044). William Langland's The Vision Concerning Piers the Plowman also appears in several texts (Add. MSS. 10574, 34779, 35157, and 35287), together with John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Add. MS 12043) and John Mandeville's Fanciful Travels (Add. MS. 33758). There is also a rich cache of religious and devotional material. The papers and letters of the Pastons, a well-to-do Norfolk family, written between c.1420 and 1504, reflect not only the way of life during the turbulent reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III but also the development of English idiomatic language in the late Middle Ages. In addition to its literary appeal, this material provides rich insights into contemporary attitudes to love, family, religion, death and society. For all these reasons, this collection is of fundamental importance to medieval literary studies.

This collection represents the full range of medieval literary endeavor and includes poetry and prose, along with saints' lives, homilies and scriptural paraphrases. All volumes included have been reproduced in their entirety and major period authors are well represented. Four texts of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are included, as are the works of William Langland, John Gower, Richard Rolle of Hampole and the later Chaucerians including Thomas Occleve and John Lydgate. Includes a printed guide.

The Cotton Manuscripts are one of the great historical treasures of Britain. Amassed by Sir Robert Cotton, the documents were acquired because of their historical, antiquarian and political significance. This collection is comprised of approximately 300 volumes and includes manuscripts that are primary sources for British history and English literature from the middle of the 12th century to the end of the 15th century. The collection includes manuscripts known to every medieval scholar, along with texts of chronicles and works by authors such as Eadmer and John Wycliffe. There are also many individual letters, collections of correspondence, and important collections of material for the study of the history of medieval London. Title listing available.

The revival of classical learning during the Renaissance prompted European scholars and educators to write treatises on the ancient arts of persuasion and eloquence. Now modern students of rhetoric, linguistics, etymology, speech, and the history of languages can take advantage of these materials through this collection of works published between 1500 and 1900. Of the 117 works reproduced, approximately two-thirds are British rhetorics written in English or Latin, while the remaining one-third representing the continental rhetorical tradition are written in Latin, French, or Italian. Scholars in linguistics will discover rich resources in such early grammar books and studies of language.

The English Renaissance makes available the British Library Collection of literary manuscripts for the main periods of the 16th and 17th centuries. The early Tudor Period includes examples of works by John Skelton (c.1460-1529), in Add. MSS 5465 and 28504, a unique manuscript of the York Mystery Plays (Add. MS.35290), and the Devonshire Manuscript of 122 poems attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt. The Elizabethan Period features the Lee Manuscript of 66 poems by Sir Philip Sidney, 15 volumes of works by Sir Walter Raleigh, six containing contemporary manuscript copies of works by Shakespeare, and the Warwick Manuscripts (Add. MSS. 54566-71) of Fulke Greville. Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama are represented by manuscripts of Marlowe's Tragedy of Dido (Add. MS. 34063), Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca Queene of Britaine and George Gascoigne's Jocasta of 1566, among many others. From the Jacobean Period, the four major texts of John Donne's verse, and the verse of Ben Jonson collected in 18 volumes are outstanding. Thomas Carew, Abraham Cowley, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir John Suckling are all featured strongly. Drama is well represented by such pieces as The Second Mayden's Tragedye in the Lansdowne Collection and by Philip Massinger's autograph manuscript of Believe as You List (Egerton 2820). The Royal manuscripts, being the monarch's own literary collections, form a rare body of formal complimentary verses. Of special interest are the verses composed for Elizabeth I on her many progresses. Court masques feature in most of these collections, with Ben Jonson's Masque of Queens c.1604-5 (Royal MS. 17Bxxxi) being just one example.

This series includes manuscripts from the English Renaissance from 1500-1700, and focuses on literary forms, including verse, drama, creative prose, letters, sermons, and commonplace books. This collection is divided into two parts:
Part 1: MSS from the "Double Letter" Series
Part 2: MSS from the Additional Series, Including the Sir Geoffrey Keynes Collection

Among the authors and works represented are Francis Bacon, a copy of a letter of advice to Queen Elizabeth and his original letters; sermons and poetry by John Donne; a proof of Milton's Lycidas; Sir Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia and a copy of Sir Walter Raleigh's last speech. Other authors such as Sir Kenelm Digby, Sir John Harington, William Dunbar, Richard Maitland and, Francis Beaumont are well represented.

Contains 466 broadsides, satires, and other ephemera illustrative of English history and social life collected by John Patrick Crichton Stuart, third marquess of Bute (1847-1900). Filmed in chronological order, the material reveals many political and social aspects of 17th century life and includes pieces not recorded elsewhere. The 98-page Bute Broadsides in Houghton Library, Harvard University: Reel Guide to the Microfilm Collection is included.

Literature ranging from salacious to sanctimonious, from dialogue to sermon, deals primarily with morals and deportment of both men and women. An interesting approach to changing social mores in England at that time reflecting the contemporary literary style.

A reproduction of an index to illustrations of Shakespeare's plays, compiled and edited by William Benfield Pressey. The citations are to books and journals. The index is composed of 17,000 handwritten 3x5 index cards. For each entry there is an abbreviation of the title of the play, the act and scene illustrated, a citation for the source and any caption lines that appear under the illustration. The index is in English, but the sources indexed may be in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and occasionally Portuguese, Polish or Swedish.

This collection, which is based throughout on first hand manuscript and printed materials, deals with Shakespeare's life, his theatre, and the background to his writing. It includes complete texts of important early editions of Shakespeare's writings; the two poems he dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, and which he probably proof-read himself; the first (bad) quarto of Hamlet, the second quarto, and the 1623 folio text, and others.

The collection includes every important play published in the English language in England from the year 1500 through 1880 and in the United States from 1714 through 1830, together with manuscripts never before published. Also included are: the Larpent Collection of manuscript plays (1737-1800) from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Museum; translations of foreign plays from Aristophanes and Plautus to Moliere and Racine.

The plays have been arranged in the following divisions: Elizabethan, Shakespearean, Jacobean, 1516-1641; Restoration drama, 1642-1700; Early 18th century, 1701-1750; Late 18th century, 1751-1800, and the Larpent collection of Manuscript plays, 1737-1800; and the Larpent collection of American plays, 1714-1830. In addition to plays written in England and America this collection includes English translations of foreign plays including works by Aristophanes and Plautus.

Of unique importance as the longest continuous record of a printer and publisher to be found anywhere, these archives reflect the wide influence exerted by Cambridge University Press revealing details of its close relationship with the University and its development as a major academic publisher.

The revival of classical learning during the Renaissance prompted European scholars and educators to write treatises on the ancient arts of persuasion and eloquence. Of the 117 works reproduced, approximately two-thirds are British rhetorics written in English or Latin, while the remaining one-third representing the continental rhetorical tradition are written in Latin, French, or Italian. Scholars in linguistics will discover rich resources in such early grammar books and studies of language as Lord Monboddo's Of the Origin and Progress of Language (1792), Anselm Bayly's An Introduction to Languages (1758), and John Brightland's A Grammar of the English Tongue (1712).

This second series of material from the British Library covers all aspects of 18th century literary activity, including biography, travel writing, poetry, drama and the novel. Notable poetic manuscripts include autograph drafts by Alexander Pope (whose translation of Homer's Iliad with inscriptions by Gilbert White is also included), Thomas Chatterton, William Cowper, and Robbie Burns. There is also a presentation copy of Matthew Prior's burlesque ballad Henry and Emma, or the Nut-Brown Maid. William Blake's Notebook, 'The Rosetti Manuscript,' comprises early drafts of the Songs of Experience, The Everlasting Gospel, The Vision of the Last Judgement and The Public Address (Add. MS. 49460), and is filmed in its entirety along with manuscripts of The Four Zoas and The Phoenix. Dramatic manuscripts offered include many conventional comedies from the Royal Manuscripts collection, a tragedy by Samuel Johnson (Irene) and one by Horace Walpole. Thomas Chatterton's unperformed burletta The Revenge (Add. MS. 12050) and Mrs. Inchbald's Such Things Are (Add. MS. 27276) are just two examples of the formal and predominantly comic mode of English theater in the age of enlightenment. Two of the greatest writers of the 18th century--Lawrence Sterne and Fanny Burney--are well represented in the collection. Five manuscript volumes of Burney's papers include her juvenilia and verse and one unprinted draft of her novel Camilla (Egerton 3696), while Sterne's journals to Eliza Draper appear in Add. MS. 34527.

Contains 466 broadsides, satires, and other ephemera illustrative of English history and social life collected by John Patrick Crichton Stuart, third marquess of Bute (1847-1900). Filmed in chronological order, the material reveals many political and social aspects of 17th century life and includes pieces not recorded elsewhere. The 98-page Bute Broadsides in Houghton Library, Harvard University: Reel Guide to the Microfilm Collection is included.

Literature ranging from salacious to sanctimonious, from dialogue to sermon, deals primarily with morals and deportment of both men and women. An interesting approach to changing social mores in England at that time reflecting the contemporary literary style.

This collection brings together every notable item printed in any language in Great Britain and its colonies, and in English anywhere in the world. It is one of the largest single micropublishing ventures ever, and captures the essence of the Enlightenment in England. The collection is based on the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable compilation of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,000 universities, private and public libraries worldwide. The criteria for inclusion in ESTC require that a particular work has been printed in any language in Great Britain or its territories, or in English anywhere in the world, between 1701 and 1800. This microform collection covers a broad variety of materials, including books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons, and printed ephemera. Engraved materials (such as maps or woodblock prints) and newspapers are not included. Nearly 30 major authors are represented, including Henry Fielding, Edmund Burke, Alexander Pope, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Swift and more. In addition to its value for scholars in literature, the collection also offers important primary source materials for researchers in education, economics, science, religion and politics. The collection is offered on a standing order basis, on a unit-by-unit basis, and in special subject-specific breakout collections. Cumulative Guides and title listings are provided.

This collection is recognized as a unique assemblage of 18th- and 19th-century theater playbills. In this material, scholars find the cornerstone for the study of theater history. These playbills often were published daily to promote events to audiences. In most cases, changes in the cast and performance times were recorded only in the printed playbill, so the documents remain the authentic source of historical information. As the playbill evolved, it included greater performance detail, such as cast, playwright, scenic effects and financial details, giving researchers the opportunity to trace the careers of playwrights, actors and other stage personnel. Included are more than 58,000 playbills of 15 major British theatres: Adelphi Theatre, Astley's Theatre, Surrey Theatre, Globe Theatre, Grecian Theatre, Royal Colbourg Theatre, Olympic Theatre, St. James Theatre, Strand Theatre, Princess's Theatre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, English Opera House Theatre, and the Theatres Royal (in Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and Haymarket).

The collection includes every important play published in the English language in England from the year 1500 through 1880 and in the United States from 1714 through 1830, together with manuscripts never before published. Also included are: the Larpent Collection of manuscript plays (1737-1800) from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Museum; translations of foreign plays from Aristophanes and Plautus to Moliére and Racine.

The plays have been arranged in the following divisions: Elizabethan, Shakespearean, Jacobean, 1516-1641; Restoration drama, 1642-1700; Early 18th century, 1701-1750; Late 18th century, 1751-1800, and the Larpent collection of Manuscript plays, 1737-1800; and the Larpent collection of American plays, 1714-1830. In addition to plays written in England and America this collection includes English translations of foreign plays including works by Aristophanes and Plautus.

Since 1785 The Times (London) has been regarded as the principal paper of record and the most authoritative medium for political, court, legal, business and social news. During that time it has recorded the most significant events on world history and has been read by the world's leaders, influencing then in the formation of their views and opinions.

The general public also turns consistently to The Times (London) for its in-depth, award-winning news coverage, editorial opinion, parliamentary reporting and comment and its legal reporting. The "Letters to the Editor" have provided a forum for public debate for many years, and its obituaries are generally regarded as reference works in their own right.

As one of the most consulted news and reference sources in libraries worldwide, The Times (London) enables researchers to examine world events and opinion of a specific event or time periods. In addition, this invaluable multi-disiplinary resource enables cultural historians to examine contemporary life over more than 215 years.

Approximately 5,000 letters sent to and from authors (1,174 correspondents are represented) were filmed from the 14-volume collection now in the possession of the Bodleian Library. William Upcott's work as a bookseller and later as a librarian enabled him to collect a large number of letters relating to the book trade. In addition to letters from eminent authors and autographs, this collection includes such items as proposals for works, receipts, portraits, and memoranda. Among the notable authors represented are Walpole, Coleridge, Maria Edgeworth, and Oliver Goldsmith.

Of unique importance as the longest continuous record of a printer and publisher to be found anywhere, these archives reflect the wide influence exerted by Cambridge University Press revealing details of its close relationship with the University and its development as a major academic publisher.

Associated with John Lane during the 1890s, the period The Yellow Book was founded, Elkin Matthews continued as a publisher into the twentieth century gaining a reputation for taking on authors who were eventually to become famous. These archives provide an illuminating record of the publication of minority literature, with prominent correspondents including Yeats, Joyce and Pound.

One of the foremost publishers of Victorian novels, George Routledge produced cheap editions of good novels in such series as "The Railway Library" as well as fine illustrated books and sets of the works of writers such as Scott, Marryat, Fielding and Smollett. The archives are of two kinds: a complete run of the firm's contracts and related correspondence, and a set of "publication" books for the period 1853 to 1896.

The strength of these records lies in the clear and detailed way they show busy, successful firms in the heyday of large series and cheap reprint publishing. The archives of these four companies form a coherent group covering many different areas of Victorian publishing from Kegan Paul's scientific commitment and Trench's theological bias to Trübner's oriental interests and Henry S. King's literary concerns.

Richard Bentley & Son became extremely well known for their Standard Novel series together with two very successful periodicals. Among their authors were Dickens, Bulwer-Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli and Mrs Henry Wood. The archive brings together the collections at the British Library, the University of Illinois and the University of California, Los Angeles making one of the largest and most comprehensive sets of British publishing documents ever to be made widely available.

William Swan Sonnenschein's company made a substantial contribution to the social and political thought of the nineteenth century, publishing the first English edition of Freud and the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital edited by Engels. The archives include valuable correspondence with Engels and with Eleanor Marx.

Though a fire in 1940 destroyed most of the Longman correspondence, extensive records have nevertheless survived providing a detailed chronicle of the firm's publishing activities. The archives are divided into bound volumes including the well known Notes on Books 1855-1917, and loose documents - including files of letters from eminent authors such as Matthew Arnold, Winston Churchill and Walter Scott.

Coleridge and Literary Society, 1790-1834 covers all 81 Coleridge manuscripts in the British Library in Additional Manuscripts, Ashley Manuscripts and Egerton Manuscripts. This is the largest and most significant collection of Coleridge material held anywhere. The project includes the Gutch memorandum book (Add Ms 27901), the Ottery collection (Add Ms 47496-47558), 'Liber Aureus', from Christ's Hospital (Ashley Ms 3506), letters to Fox and Wilberforce (Add Ms 35344), and philosophical lectures (Egerton Ms 3057).

Poetic manuscripts covered include 'My Lesbia, let us love' and other works (Add Ms 27902), 'Dura Navis' and other works (Add Ms 34425) 'Lewti or the Circassian's love chant' and other works (Add Ms 35343), verses to Mary Morgan and Charlotte Brent (Add Ms 50824), and the famous Kubla Khan manuscript (Add Ms 50847).

Didactic material includes fragments of lectures on Shakespeare, Poetry and Drama (Egerton Ms 2800) and philosophical and religious issues (Egerton Ms 2801, 2825, 2826, 3057). There is correspondence with Daniel Stuart, Thomas Poole, Fox and Wilberforce, as well as with members of his family.

Also included are some annotated published works: Robert Southey's Joan of Arc (Add Ms 28096), August Wilhelm Rehberg's Uber Das Verhdltniss der Metaphysik zu der Religion (Add Ms 43826), and his own Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character... (Add Ms 34047).

The collection includes every play published in the English language from the year 1801 through 1900 and in the United States from 1831 through 1900 in printed and manuscript form, whether it be a historical drama, melodrama, comic opera, an unperformed poetic play, pantomime, extravaganza, satiric comedy or burletta. It covers manuscripts, prompt books, acting editions, and published plays. It also includes 19th century translations of foreign plays (from the ancient Greece to Ibsen).

In the English collection, prolific authors such as Dion Boucicault, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W.S. Gilbert, Henry Arthur Jones, John Maddison Morton, Tom Taylor are represented not only by their handful of best known plays, but by the great bulk of their published work. All major poets like Browning, Byron. Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Swinburne are represented by their usually less than distinguished attempts at playwriting.

During the 17th through 19th centuries, periodicals in Britain served the same functions that television serves today: information, education, entertainment, and advertising. This major collection of 233 titles provides incomparable detail about British life and culture during these centuries. Moreover, almost all the important writers of the period--Defoe, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Johnson, Mill, Hunt, Lamb, Tennyson, Eliot--can be found in these pages either as contributors or on the mastheads as editors. While predominantly literary in nature, these periodicals also encompass a wide variety of subject matter for research in many sub-disciplines of English literature and history.

The 19th Century: Because periodical publication burgeoned after 1800, English Literary Periodicals of necessity narrows its focus and provides predominantly literary selections to represent the 19th century. This portion of the collection includes: Monthly Repository (1806-38), which championed Robert Browning; Cambridge University Magazine (1839-43), a promoter of the Romantic poets; Englishman's Magazine (1831), which printed Hallam's important essay on Tennyson; and Ainsworth's Magazine (1842-54) and Macmillan's Magazine (1859-1907), both of which were popular periodicals of serialized fiction and published such authors as Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Richard Monckton Milnes, and Bret Harte. In addition, researchers will find journals devoted strictly to poetry, such as the Poetical Register (1801-11), and to theater, such as Theatrical Journal (1839-71).

Many of the great literary figures of this period were published by Macmillan including Tennyson, Hardy, Shaw, Kipling and Yeats making the firm's archives a rich primary source for the study of nineteenth and early twentieth century literary history and bibliography. The records contain 65 volumes of fully indexed readers' reports as well as extensive correspondence with authors, printers and other publishers.
Part I: Readers' Reports 1867-1924
Part II: Publishing Records 1860-1921

This project makes available a wide range of original manuscript material that will be of great interest to anyone studying Nineteenth Century English Literature. The type of material covered includes: Autograph literary manuscripts; Writers "quarries" and notebooks; Manuscript autobiographies and biographical sources; Correspondence, especially unpublished in-letters; and Records relating journalism, publishing and printing.

This first part makes available the British Library's key holdings relating to: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Robert Browning (1812-1889), George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans, later Lewes, then Cross] (1819-1880), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), and Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). In addition, there are literary manuscripts by Wilkie Collins (two short stories: "Mr Wray's Cashbox" and "Basil: A Story of Modern Life"); Benjamin Disraeli (Speech on the death of Wellington); and George Henry Lewes (Aristotle). There are also six autograph poems by James Sheridan Knowles.

By far the largest section (31 manuscripts in all) is that devoted to George Eliot. The complete manuscript versions of seven of her major novels (as sent to the printers, with numerous corrections) are featured here, as well as two volumes of manuscript poetry, the manuscript of Impressions of Theophrastus Such, the notebook for Romola, a quarry, and four volumes of correspondence.

The second largest section comprises 22 manuscripts by Thackeray. These include 11 volumes of diaries, 1832-63; unpublished accompts and miscellanea; 3 volumes of sketches; a host of material relating to Denis Duval; the autograph manuscript of his play The Wolves and the Lamb (together with an annotated acting version); and fragments of The Newcomes.

The final three authors are represented by a single manuscript work: Anthony Trollope by his manuscript Autobiography; Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Sonnets from the Portuguese; and Robert Browning by The Ring and the Book.

Part 1: Theatre periodicals published from 1800 to 1897 housed in the British Library, Bloomsberg. Part 2: Periodicals published from 1880 housed in the British Library Newspaper Library, Colendale. Part 3: From the Theatre Museum, London and the Bodleian, Oxford. There is a list of contents at the beginning of each reel.

This collection is recognized as a unique assemblage of 18th- and 19th-century theater playbills. In this material, scholars find the cornerstone for the study of theater history. These playbills often were published daily to promote events to audiences. In most cases, changes in the cast and performance times were recorded only in the printed playbill, so the documents remain the authentic source of historical information. As the playbill evolved, it included greater performance detail, such as cast, playwright, scenic effects and financial details, giving researchers the opportunity to trace the careers of playwrights, actors and other stage personnel. Included are more than 58,000 playbills of 15 major British theatres: Adelphi Theatre, Astley's Theatre, Surrey Theatre, Globe Theatre, Grecian Theatre, Royal Colbourg Theatre, Olympic Theatre, St. James Theatre, Strand Theatre, Princess's Theatre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, English Opera House Theatre, and the Theatres Royal (in Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and Haymarket).

The collection includes every important play published in the English language in England from the year 1500 through 1880 and in the United States from 1714 through 1830, together with manuscripts never before published. Also included are: the Larpent Collection of manuscript plays (1737-1800) from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Museum; translations of foreign plays from Aristophanes and Plautus to Moliere and Racine.

The plays have been arranged in the following divisions: Elizabethan, Shakespearean, Jacobean, 1516-1641; Restoration drama, 1642-1700; Early 18th century, 1701-1750; Late 18th century, 1751-1800, and the Larpent collection of Manuscript plays, 1737-1800; and the Larpent collection of American plays, 1714-1830. In addition to plays written in England and America this collection includes English translations of foreign plays including works by Aristophanes and Plautus.

Since 1785 The Times (London) has been regarded as the principal paper of record and the most authoritative medium for political, court, legal, business and social news. During that time it has recorded the most significant events on world history and has been read by the world's leaders, influencing then in the formation of their views and opinions.

The general public also turns consistently to The Times (London) for its in-depth, award-winning news coverage, editorial opinion, parliamentary reporting and comment and its legal reporting. The "Letters to the Editor" have provided a forum for public debate for many years, and its obituaries are generally regarded as reference works in their own right.

As one of the most consulted news and reference sources in libraries worldwide, The Times (London) enables researchers to examine world events and opinion of a specific event or time periods. In addition, this invaluable multi-disiplinary resource enables cultural historians to examine contemporary life over more than 215 years.

Approximately 5,000 letters sent to and from authors (1,174 correspondents are represented) were filmed from the 14-volume collection now in the possession of the Bodleian Library. William Upcott's work as a bookseller and later as a librarian enabled him to collect a large number of letters relating to the book trade. In addition to letters from eminent authors and autographs, this collection includes such items as proposals for works, receipts, portraits, and memoranda. Among the notable authors represented are Walpole, Coleridge, Maria Edgeworth, and Oliver Goldsmith.

This collection contains reproductions of some of the manuscripts of Charles Dickens held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Reel 1 contains Bleak House and Dombey and Son; Reel 2 contains Little Dorrit, Hard Times, and The Chimes; and Reel 3 contains David Copperfield.

This collection reproduces the personal letters of Charles Dickens that are housed at the Dickens House. They are divided into nine sections according to either the recipient of the letter or the person who donated the letters in a segment to the Dickens House. The sections are: Letters to Thomas Beard, Letters to Frank Beard, Letters presented by Count de Suzanet (a well known collector of Dickens articles), Letters to Bradbury and Evans, Letters presented by Mrs. W. Dexter, Miscellaneous letters, Letters to Mrs. Gaskell, Letters to Georgina Hogarth and Letters in Sir Henry Irving's Copy of Forester's "Life of Dickens".

A comprehensive collection of the original manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of novels, dramatizations, short stories, essays, poems and personal papers of the Dorset novelist and poet. It includes The Woodlanders, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Trumpet Major and Jude the Obscure. The collection also has copies of both manuscript and typescript biographical works about Thomas Hardy.

Includes letters, manuscripts, books belonging to Keats and containing notes, markings and manuscripts, and manuscripts of other authors.

Associated with John Lane during the 1890s, the period The Yellow Book was founded, Elkin Matthews continued as a publisher into the twentieth century gaining a reputation for taking on authors who were eventually to become famous. These archives provide an illuminating record of the publication of minority literature, with prominent correspondents including Yeats, Joyce and Pound.

Though only 24 when he founded his publishing house, Grant Richards had George Bernard Shaw as an author within one year and Chesterton, Masefield, A.E. Housman and Arnold Bennett within four. The firm's archives are particularly valuable for their completeness. They include both incoming and outgoing correspondence, accounts, agreements with authors and clippings of reviews.

The strength of these records lies in the clear and detailed way they show busy, successful firms in the heyday of large series and cheap reprint publishing. The archives of these four companies form a coherent group covering many different areas of Victorian publishing from Kegan Paul's scientific commitment and Trench's theological bias to Trübner's oriental interests and Henry S. King's literary concerns.

William Swan Sonnenschein's company made a substantial contribution to the social and political thought of the nineteenth century, publishing the first English edition of Freud and the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital edited by Engels. The archives include valuable correspondence with Engels and with Eleanor Marx.

Though a fire in 1940 destroyed most of the Longman correspondence, extensive records have nevertheless survived providing a detailed chronicle of the firm's publishing activities. The archives are divided into bound volumes including the well known Notes on Books 1855-1917, and loose documents - including files of letters from eminent authors such as Matthew Arnold, Winston Churchill and Walter Scott.

Many of the great literary figures of this period were published by Macmillan including Tennyson, Hardy, Shaw, Kipling and Yeats making the firm's archives a rich primary source for the study of nineteenth and early twentieth century literary history and bibliography. The records contain 65 volumes of fully indexed readers' reports as well as extensive correspondence with authors, printers and other publishers.
Part I: Readers' Reports 1867-1924
Part II: Publishing Records 1860-1921

The Sunday Times is a newspaper of firsts: the first to publish in sections, the first to introduce a free color magazine, and the first to introduce reader-focused investigative journalism. The paper is the largest Sunday newspaper package published in London, where in-depth reports from all over the world are brought together. It contains particularly strong coverage of international crises and regional conflict in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Since 1785 The Times (London) has been regarded as the principal paper of record and the most authoritative medium for political, court, legal, business and social news. During that time it has recorded the most significant events on world history and has been read by the world's leaders, influencing then in the formation of their views and opinions.

The general public also turns consistently to The Times (London) for its in-depth, award-winning news coverage, editorial opinion, parliamentary reporting and comment and its legal reporting. The "Letters to the Editor" have provided a forum for public debate for many years, and its obituaries are generally regarded as reference works in their own right.

As one of the most consulted news and reference sources in libraries worldwide, The Times (London) enables researchers to examine world events and opinion of a specific event or time periods. In addition, this invaluable multi-disiplinary resource enables cultural historians to examine contemporary life over more than 215 years.

This collection encompasses all published issues of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), from its first issue in 1902. This collection also includes Literature, the predecessor of TLS, published from 1897-1902. Regular features of this world-renowned journal include extensive reviews of predominantly English works, comprehensive articles and the now-revered TLS Letters Page, an important forum for scholarly and critical debate. Among the list of TLS contributors are Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Sir James Frazer, G.M. Trevelyan, Herbert Read and many other notables of the literary world.

This collection is Series III of the Manuscripts of the Irish Literary Renaissance. J.M. Synge was one of the principal figures of the Irish theatre and the Irish literary renaissance. This portion of the collection represents the largest archive of Synge material in the world. Included are manuscript and typescript drafts of all of Synge's published and unpublished work, along with other personal documents and records. A copy of The Synge Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin: A Catalogue Prepared on the Occasion of the Synge Centenary Exhibition, 1971 accompanies this part of the collection.

As a novelist, feminist, critic, pacifist, diarist and a key firgure of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf played an important role in the history of women. The collection includes some of her works exactly as written, complete with doodles in the margins and complete pages crossed out. The documents offer researches new insights into the autobiographical references in her novels, and understanding of her commentaries on women's rights, pacifism, gender and other controversial topics.

The Berg collection is renowned as the largest gathering of Woolf writings in the world. The collection includes: 27 manuscript diaries; her earliest diaries (1897-1919) and writer's diaries (1915-1941); letters to Vita Sackville-West, Violet Dickinson and her sister Vanessa Bell; Woolf's reading notebooks with critical notes while reviewing the works of other authors, and literary manuscript notes for some of her most significant novels including The Voyage Out, Jacob's Room, To The Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years and Between the Acts, as well as her essays, articles and reviews. The collection is divided into four main sections: diaries, manuscripts, notebooks and correspondence.

This collection of 17 manuscript reading notebooks contains essential biographical details and provides insights into Woolf's reading habits and criticism. Substantial manuscript notes on her controversial feminist polemic Three Guineas are included along with the biography of Roger Fry. In addition there are eleven unpublished, complete stories, dating from 1909 to 1930, and six unfinished draft stories and sketches. Manuscripts from the papers of Leonard Woolf at the University of Sussex and from the Mrs. Dalloway manuscripts from the British Library are part of the collection as well. Includes complete title listing.

W.A. Henderson was an aspiring journalist closely associated with the Irish literary revival. As a secretary of the National Literary Society of Dublin for over 15 years, he was in contact with all of the central figures, events and trends of the Irish theatre. Included are his collections of press cuttings, photographs, and other literary documents. The Playboy and What He Did records in minute detail the notorious riots at the Abbey Theatre's opening night of Synge's Playboy of the Western World. A wide range of papers chronicling the Abbey's history in the early years of the century includes 1904-07: The Irish National Theatre Movement. In addition, all of the volumes in this collection contain manuscript notes by Henderson and most have Henderson's own manuscript index.