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Alfred Edward Housman: Academic Notes and Papers
Notes on classical literature.
Alwyn Faber Scholfield: Papers
Includes correspondence with Montague Rhodes James, notes on classical literature and translations, correspondence and material relating to the University Library.
Aristotle: De Caelo
Copy of De Caelo, commentary, written in three hands, 168 folios: (fo. 2) 'Hypomnema synoptikon kai Zetema eis ten peri Ouranou Pragmateian'; (fo. 90) 'Hypomnemata kai Zetemata eis to tou Aristotelous peri Geneseos kai Phthoras'. There is a change of hand on fos 52r and 52v. At fo. 1v: 'Kai tode pros tois allois demetriou ioannou tou ex ioanninon'.
Arthur Arberry: Correspondence and papers
Arthur Bernard Cook: Notebooks and Theocritus Material
Early notebooks, notes for Cook's lectures, and material relating to Theocritus.
Arthur Schnitzler papers
The collection contains sketches, first drafts and variants of the most important of Schnitzler's literary manuscripts and part of his correspondence (mainly that which Schnitzler personally filed in folders). Correspondents include Hermann Bahr, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Otto Brahm, Georg Brandes, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt, Felix Salten, Gustav Schwarzkopf and Jakob Wassermann.
Associated Papers of Sir Alan Lascelles
Letters from Sir Alan Lascelles to Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, chiefly on the Literary Society, of which Lascelles was President and Hart-Davis Secretary, and on books edited by Hart-Davis.
Book of Devotions
A book of devotions, 123 folios.
British Naval Intelligence Papers, mainly of Donald McLachlan and Patrick Beesly.
The collection includes: McLachlan's papers for "Room 39"; Beesly's papers for "Very Special Intelligence" and for "Very Special Admiral"; and papers of Commander Lloyd Hirst, an intelligence officer.
Collections on Jonathan Swift
Correspondence of E.G. Browne and Sir E.D. Ross
Demetrius Moschus: Translation of Philostratus' 'Imagines'
Translation into Italian, 160 folios: (fo. 1) note of gift by the donor; (fo. 2v) autograph dedication to Isabella d'Este Marchesa di Mantua by Mario Equicola; (fo. 3) text. Attached to fo. 1 is a note on the manuscript by Walter Sneyd. Sneyd's bookplate appears inside the front cover, with a note in the hand of Charles Fairfax Murray, 'Lot 615 in the sale of Dec. 16-19 1903'.
Edmonds: 'Fragments of Attic Comedy' manuscript by John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958), classicist, poet and dramatist
Rough copy and Fair copy of Edmonds' 3 volume publication, The Fragments of Attic Comedy (pub. 1957). This material was returned to Edmonds by the publishers, Brill of Leiden, probably between 1958-9. There is one post-mark on a piece of packaging from 1958, and the parcels of manuscript were packed with leaves of The Times Literary Supplement, dated Friday April 10, 1959.
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Edward Dent: Letters to him
Edward Henry Blakeney and family: Correspondence and Papers
Ernest James Worman: Handlist to the Taylor-Schechter Collection
List of manuscripts in the Taylor-Schechter Collection. For each item there is the title with a summary description, size, material, language, and date (when ascertainable).
Eugene O'Curry: Leabhar na Huidri
A facsimile transcript (including coloured initials) of the Leabhar na Huidri made by Eugene O'Curry, 152 folios. The transcript was probably made for Dr J. H. Todd, whose bookplate is inside the front cover and who has made occasional marginal notes in pencil. Notes by the transcriber are on on slips attached to fos 127 and 139. Many leaves are left blank to indicate gaps in the archetype.
Forster: The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster
Frank Swinnerton: Letters to Morchard Bishop
Giacomo Leopardi: Letters
Recipients are: Cancellieri (5), Capurro, Monsignor Zacchia, G. Melchiorri (8), A.F. Stella (5), Monaldo Leopardi (4), Paolina, Count Muzzarelli (2), Professor Giovanni Rosini (6), Count Valdrighi and Feliciano Niccolini. On fo. 36 is a sheet of notes in Leopardi's hand, headed Crestomatia I. On fos 51-52 are two autograph letters of Paolina Leopardi.
Giorgio Baffo: Poesia fisico-naturale
Written in the hand of P. C. Montchaussé, 212 folios.
Henry Austin Driver and family: Letters and Papers
Hermann Kant: correspondence received in response to 'Ein offener Brief an die Junge Welt'
Correspondence received by Hermann Kant in response to his article 'Ein offener Brief an die Junge Welt' ('Junge Welt', Nr. 237, Berlin, Monday 9 October 1989, pp. 10-11). With a copy of the newspaper including the article, photocopies of printed texts, and a letter from Hans-Dieter Weyrich to Stefan Heym.