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A Description of Scotland and other papers
'The description of Scotland and the King's entertainment there', 8 folios. It begins: 'First for the country I must confesse...', and ends: '...a tower as Edenborough in Lowsir Scotland'. The papers include: (fo. 2) [Thomas Scott], 'Vox Populi', 1620; (fo. 8v) verses, 'Ther's proclamation sent, Great Brittaine round about'.
Abraham Hartwell: Basilis Epistemon
Adair Welcker: 'Book of Generation' and other poems
A volume of 35 folios: (fo. 1) prefatory matter; (fo. 3) The Book of Generation; (fo. 6) To the Guest; (fo. 9) Kalleidon; (fo. 11) There is no Death; (fo. 15) The Convict's Complaint; (fo. 17) Alone-alone; (fo. 18) Bonds; (fo. 23) Astoria; (fo. 24) Visions of Night; (fo. 29) To the Woman; (fo. 32v) note. Printed extracts are attached to fos 2v and 33.
Album of sermons and verses
Alexander Campbell Yorke: Fowlmere Papers
Histroical notes on the parish of Fowlmere.
Alf Rosfelt: 'Imagery in Siegfried Sassoon's poetry', with related correspondence
Alfred 1st Lord Tennyson: The Princess
Alfred Edward Housman: Academic Notes and Papers
Notes on classical literature.
Alfred Edward Housman: Letters
Letters from A.E. Housman, including some to Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1928-1930, mainly concerning editions of Housman's poetry, with other letters and Housman-related material dating from 1906 to 1978. Items 1-11 (excluding 10A) are bound into a volume marked 'Letters from A.E.H.' on the spine and inscribed inside as belonging to Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Items 10A and 12-19 have been loosely inserted into the volume.
Alfred Edward Housman: Letters to Sir Sydney Castle Roberts (1887-1966) publisher, literary scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1948-1958
Anne Stevenson and Angela Leighton: correspondence and related papers
Letters, cards, e-mail print-outs, poems, prose articles, miscellaneous printed and photocopied texts, and photographs, recording the friendship between the poets Anne Stevenson and Angela Leighton.
Anne Stevenson: letters and cards to Lee Harwood
Three postcards, five greetings cards and a letter from Stevenson to Harwood. With word-processed and typed copies of three poems ('Who's joking with the photographer?', 'The inn' and 'The miracle of Camp 60') and a broadcast talk ('Overhearing T. S. Eliot') by Stevenson. Four of the greetings cards contain printed poems by Stevenson ('Carol of the birds', 'The unaccommodated', 'It looks so simple from a distance...' and 'Christmas comfort and the green man').
Anthony Dopping: Notebook
Arthur Joseph Munby: Susan, a poem of Degrees
Manuscript as prepared for the printer, 78 folios.
Bernard Barton: Letters and Related Papers
Letters from Barton, mainly to Elizabeth Cowell, daughter of the Revd John Charlesworth, and wife of the scholar Edward Byles Cowell. There is an accompanying newspaper obituary of Barton.
Bola Brankovic: Two works
Typescripts of a novel and a play.
Cambridge Poetry Society and the Association of Cambridge Poetry Societies: Records
Cambridge student's commonplace book
Written in four hands after 1624, 71 folios: (fos 1-66) various ballads, verses, poems and epitaphs, some of which have been printed; (fo. 66v) 'London 1868'. Attached to a flyleaf at the end are 19th century notes by F.W. Cosens on the contents. The bookplate of F.W. Cosens also appears inside the front cover.
Christopher Hassall: Letters to George Benson and related papers
Correspondence written by Christopher Hassall to his friend George Benson, together with related items including a diary volume with entries by Hassall, literary texts by Hassall, notes by Benson, letters between other correspondents, and printed items.
Collection of Poems
Collection of songs, poems and epitaphs compiled by a Norfolk clergymen
Collection of Verse
Verses copied from the St James' evening post, the Grub Street journal, and other publications, including items by William Walsh, Sir C.H. Williams, T. Tickell, Stevenson, Bavius, David Garrick, C. Pitt, and Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 32 folios. On fo. i is a woodcut entitled 'The patient husband&scolding Wife', with verses below. On fos 27v and 28r is a list of contents.
Collections on Jonathan Swift
Commonplace Book of Religious Poetry
Commonplace collection containing religious poetry, copies of letters, cuttings, etc., including material relating to Byron and Napoleon, written in several hands, 269 folios. There is an index of contents on pp. iv-xi.
Correspondence of Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, and related items
Correspondence between Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, together with poems, verse dialogues, newspaper cuttings, photographs and related items. The letters date between 1953 and 1967. They are from Sassoon, and addressed from Heytesbury, unless otherwise stated. A few were addressed jointly to Dennis and Diana Silk. There are three letters from Dennis Silk to Sassoon, and letters from a few other correspondents are included as enclosures.
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- Cowell, Edward Byles, 1826-1903 (orientalist) 5
- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967 (poet and author) 5
- University of Cambridge 5
- Keynes, Sir Geoffrey Langdon, 1887-1982 (Knight, surgeon and bibliophile) 4
- Blake, William, 1757-1827 (engraver, artist, and poet) 3
- Donne, John, 1572-1631 (poet and Church of England clergyman) 3
- Housman, Alfred Edward, 1859-1936 (poet) 3
- Blakeney, Edward Henry, 1869-1955 (classical scholar and poet) 2
- Byron, George Gordon, 1788-1824 (6th Baron Byron, poet) 2
- Chaloner, David, 1944-2010 (poet and designer) 2
- Clare, John, 1793-1864 (poet, farm labourer and naturalist) 2
- Many Press 2
- Silk, Dennis Raoul Whitehall, 1931-2019 (schoolmaster and cricketer) 2
- Stevenson, Anne, 1933-2020 (poet) 2
- Welch, John Hope, 1942- (poet, publisher and teacher) 2
- Alberoni, Giulio, 1664-1752 (Cardinal) 1
- Armitage, David Richard, 1965- (historian) 1
- Association of Cambridge Poetry Societies 1
- Bacon, Mary Anne, fl 1842 (musician) 1
- Baffo, Giorgio, 1694-1768 (poet) 1
- Barker, Thomas, 1693-1774 (rector) 1
- Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849 (poet) 1
- Bayley, Peter, 1778-1823 (poet) 1
- Beattie, James, 1735-1803 (poet) 1
- Benson, George Frederick Percy, 1911-1983 (actor) 1
- Benson, Robert Hugh, 1871-1914 (Roman Catholic priest and writer) 1
- Benson, Stella, 1892-1933 (writer) 1
- Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823 (poet) 1
- Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (poet) 1
- Blythe, Ronald, b. 1922 (Poet and Writer) 1
- Bowring, Sir John, 1792-1872 (Knight, diplomat and politician) 1
- Brankovic, Bola D., b. 1959 (author, poet and playwright) 1
- Bunting, William Maclardie, 1805-1866 (Wesleyan minister) 1
- Cambridge Poetry Society 1
- Camões, José António, 1777-1827 (poet) 1
- Cavaliero, Glen Tilburn, 1927-2019 (poet, critic and university teacher) 1
- Clark, John Willis, 1833-1910 (Cambridge University registrary) 1
- Colvil, Samuel, fl.1687-1707 (poet) 1
- Copland, Robert, fl 1508-1547 1
- Cornford, Francis Crofts, 1886-1960 (poet) 1
- Cotton, John Daniel, fl 1748 1
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800 (poet) 1
- Crabbe, George, 1754-1832 (poet and Church of England clergyman) 1
- Dent, Edward Joseph, 1876-1957 (Professor of Music) 1
- Dopping, Anthony, 1643-1697 (Church of Ireland bishop of Meath) 1
- Driver, Henry Austin, 1790-1862 (stationer and poet) 1
- Enright, Dennis Joseph, 1920-2002 (poet and author) 1
- Fane, Mildmay, 1602-1666 (2nd Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer) 1
- Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797 (literary scholar and college head) 1
- Farrar, John, 1802-1884 (Wesleyan Methodist minister and biblical scholar) 1
- Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719 (astronomer) 1
- Friend, Ian, b. 1951 (artist) 1
- Galt, John, 1779-1839 (novelist) 1
- Goodland, John Harold, 1919-1978 (poet and environmental campaigner) 1
- Goodridge, John, b. 1953 (academic and editor) 1
- Gunn, Thomson William, 1929-2004 (poet and critic) 1
- Hannah, John, 1792-1867 (Wesleyan Methodist minister) 1
- Hartwell, Abraham, ? 1541-1585 (Latin poet and translator) 1
- Harwood, Travers Rafe Lee, 1939-2015 (poet) 1
- Hassall, Christopher Vernon, 1912-1963 (writer and librettist) 1
- Hewitt, William Graily, 1864-1952 (calligrapher and illuminator) 1
- Hey family 1
- Hey, John, 1734-1815 (divine) 1
- Hey, Richard, 1745-1835 (author and lawyer) 1
- Hughes, Peter, b 1956 (poet) 1
- Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (social reformer and children's writer) 1
- Irwin, Margaret Emma Faith, 1889-1967 (writer) 1
- Jabra, Gabriel Jabra Ibrahim, 1940- 1
- James, Martha, fl 1800 1
- John Clare Society 1
- Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944 (calligrapher and designer) 1
- Keynes, Geoffrey Langdon, Sir, 1887 - 1982 (Knight, surgeon and bibliophile) 1
- King, Henry, 1592-1669 (poet and Bishop of Chichester) 1
- Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 (Canon of Westminster and author) 1
- Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, 1865-1936 (author) 1
- Knight, Samuel, 1677-1746 (Church of England clergyman and antiquary) 1
- Lach-Szyrma, Krystyn, 1790-1866 (philosopher) 1
- Leighton, Angela, b. 1954 (poet and academic) 1
- Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837 (poet) 1
- Ludford, John, fl 1739 1
- Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes, 1821-1911 (barrister) 1
- Mackay, George, fl 1814 1
- Maxwell, James, fl 1902 (poet) 1
- Milch, Werner J., 1903-1950 (Germanist and literary historian) 1
- Moore, George Edward, 1873-1958 (philosopher) 1
- Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 (poet) 1
- Morrell, Lady Ottoline Violet Anne, 1873-1938 (née Cavendish-Bentinck, hostess and literary patron) 1
- Morris, William, 1834-1896 (poet, artist and socialist) 1
- Moule, Handley Carr Glyn, 1841-1920 (Bishop) 1
- Munby, Arthur Joseph, 1828-1910 (poet and civil servant) 1
- Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919 (artist and art connoisseur) 1
- Napoleon, I, 1769-1821 (Emperor of the French) 1
- O'Grady, Standish Hayes, 1832-1915 (antiquarian) 1
- Paoli, Pasquale Di, 1725-1807 (Corsican patriot) 1
- Patrick, John, ? 1632-1695 (Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist) 1
- Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707 (Bishop of Ely) 1
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 (poet) 1
- Potter, Robert, 1721-1804 (Poet and Politician) 1
- Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 1802-1839 (poet and politician) 1
- Prynne, Jeremy Halvard, 1936 (poet) 1 ∧ less
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