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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 Lise Meitner
This small collection comprises material relating to Professor Lise Meitner, namely correspondence by her and concerning her.
Belgion Associated
Blennerhassett Papers
Burnside: the papers of William Burnside
The collection primarily consists of offprints of Burnside's articles and lectures. There is also a small amount of original manuscript material and articles collected by him.
Churchill Pamphlets
Comprising a collection of pamphlets featuring speeches, articles or other text by Sir Winston Churchill.
Count von Daun: Imperial Military Manual
Ordonnance pour la formation des bataillons et l'exercice avec les plans de la formation d'un bataillon en ordre de bataille ou parade, ainsy que les differentes conversions. It is signed at the foot of the title page 'Chique fecit en 1766', and at the end of some sections 'L'original est signé Le Comte de Daun'. The manual contains 25 coloured diagrams showing military formations. It is in French, with subheadings, notes and commands in German. There is an index. 389pp.
Crawford: Papers of Michael Hewson Crawford (1939-), ancient historian and numismatist, regarding 'Imagines Italicae' Papers: Italic inscriptions, numismatics and epigraphy of the ancient Mediterranean
Dictionary of East African biography
A wide range of material compiled in preparation for the D.E.A.B. A few letters and other items are in French, German and Italian.
Dorothea Oschinsky: Doctoral Thesis and Papers
Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871–1937): Correspondence and Papers
'Extra Ordinari Courant': German MS edition of satirical Dutch newspaper
German translation of the satirical Dutch newspaper Extraordinare Courant, 1684 (8pp.), including an account of Bacharach wine, a political puppet play, and the invention of a camera obscura in Oxford.
German architectural sketchbook
Sketchbook of an unidentified German architect, containing around 130 sketches of neo-classical buildings in Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow) and Germany (including Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, and Husum and Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein). There are sketches of houses, churches, monuments, and details, with some designs by the architect himself. The sketches are in pencil, with some heightened in ink. Nos. 1-114 are listed and described in German in an index at the back of the volume.
German Business Accounts used as Book Bindings
26 sheets of miscellaneous pages from German business accounts and other documents, c.1600-60, cut to uniform size and used in book bindings. There are also 5 parchment scraps from a possibly 15th century service book, some with traces of an illuminated initial, removed from book bindings by Jack Lunzer, 1982.
German moral and religious treatises
Seven German moral and religious treatises, incomplete, in a variety of hands. [1]-[6] were apparently once bound together.
German organ choral book
Harmonisations of 160 chorales, with melodies heavily ornamented. Includes index. With contemporary bookplate of Ioh. Iac. Salomon, and modern bookplate of Alfred Cortot.
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.
Hughes: the papers of Olwyn Marguerite Hughes
The papers consist of material collected by Olwyn Hughes, mainly during the period she acted as literary agent for her brother Ted Hughes. Papers include copies of early appearances of many of Ted Hughes's and Sylvia Plath's poems and essays in literary magazines and newspapers and many newspaper cuttings relating to the work and lives of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and their children. The collection contains no original manuscript material by Ted Hughes or Sylvia Plath.
Igor Stravinsky: Copies of settings of poems of K. Bal'mont
Copyist's MSS of songs, for voice and piano, used by engraver for first edition published by Russicher Musikverlag, Berlin, 1912. With plate numbers R.M.V. 130, 131 marked in pencil at bottom of first page of each song. Words in Russian, German (translated by Berthold Feiwel) and French (translated by M.D. Calvocoressit).
J. H. Prynne Papers
The collection principally consists of Prynne's literary papers and correspondence, together with documents relating to his career as an academic.
Jardine Matheson Archive
King: the papers of Bryan Earle King
The collection consists of King's notebooks, notes, publications and family correspondence. There is also a small collection of photographs featuring King and material concerning his death.
Leonard Wilson Forster: Correspondence and Papers
Manuscript vocal score of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'
Don Juan: eine heroisch Romische Oper in 2 Acten von Weiland W.A. Mozart; im volständigan Klavier-Auszug mit deutschen und italienischen Texte. Copied by Giuseppe Teodoro Rippka from a printed edition [Wien. Im Verlage der K.K. priv. chemischen Druckerey am Graben. No.612, [1812], publ. no.1400].
Newscuttings on the Uganda disturbances
Cuttings from various publications on the 1892 disturbances, some in French and German with typescript translations. There is a note at the front by H.B. Thomas, October 1968: 'Formerly in Secretariat Library, Entebbe, Uganda, used by Margery Pelham when writing "Lugard, the years of adventure"'.