A manuscript collection of poems mainly by John Donne and William Strode. On the flyleaf are the signatures of Edward Hyde (1607-1659) and Robert Walker. The volume has the bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Many of the pages are unused.

Two leaves in Latin and two volumes in English

Literary papers and correspondence of the poet John James. Includes texts of poetry and prose by James; files relating to particular subjects; correspondence; and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1960s onwards, although there is some juvenilia dating from the 1940s.

Typescript copies (two top copies, one carbon copy) of three poems by John Riley: 'A Conversation', 'Two Photographs' and 'A Picture: an Historical Perspective'. With a photocopy of a photograph of Pamela Collins, and a note by Rosemary Chorley regarding Pamela Collins and John Riley, written on a printout of Riley's Wikipedia entry.

'A Martinhada' (fo. 1), an epic poem in two cantos, dedicated to R.P.M. Fr. Martinho de Barros, and 'O Capitulo dos Franciscanos' (fo. 21), 26 folios.

Two volumes of Spanish poetry and other works, with tables of contents at the beginning of each.

‘La boutique doree des amateurs de la poesie, contenue en LXXIV exemples de la vie humaine avec beaucoup de sentences morales faites par quartrains, aussi plusieurs distiques si bien chrestiens que mouraux, par T. I., Haarlem, anno 1650’. The first piece ‘de la vie humaine’ is entitled ‘Comparaison du grand et du petit monde’, and begins ‘Si nous considerons ceste machine ronde ...’.

A politico-religious poem, beginning 'Lorsque Phebus par voyes non obscures ...'.

1. A leaf of eight lines, with an accompanying transcription. The leaf is signed 'Joannes Donne: ibidem Decanus. Sept. 27. 1623', and relates to John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.

2. A leaf from the Album Amicorum of Michael Corvinus. There is writing on the reverse in another hand, signed 'Johannes Donne 5 Octobr. 1633'. This relates to a different John Donne, possibly the Dean of Sion College. There are three accompanying pieces of related correspondence, 1939 and 1953.

Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library. Together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.

Nine letters, written from Edinburgh, Warsaw and Devonport (and possibly elsewhere), some concerning the publication of Polish poetry. One letter is accompanied by a ballad by Lach-Szyrma, in English, titled 'A Child at his Mother's Tomb'.

Includes offprints of articles on John Clare by Mark Stoney.

The vellum binding is taken from a treatise of c. 1200, in which occurs the rubricated heading 'De cognatione spirituali'.

This collection comprises personal papers found among the papers of R. E. Macpherson, associated with him through his Bursarial office. They include sketches by Duncan Grant, personal papers of John Tresidder Sheppard, and notes by John Maynard Keynes.

A collection of riddles, verses, etc., compiled by Martha James from various sources, 180 folios. Pages 296-353 and 356-360 are blank.

A collection of verses and translations by Mary Anne Bacon, with Reboul, boulanger de Lyons: 'Elegie a une Mere' (fo. 6v). Most of the verses are initialled and dated.

A copy of Psyche, or the legend of love, 193 numbered pages, made by M. Heath from a copy sent to Dr Vaughan by the author. There is a frontispiece and three full-page illustrations, the latter probably by James Heath.

Translation into Latin by William Wake of Mildmay Fane's poem 'My Happy Life, to a Friend', 7 folios: (fo. iv) F.J.H. Jenkinson, biographical note on W. Wake; (fo. ii) list of the contents, written in the 19th century, of a volume ('Vol 3') once in the possession of F.J.H. Jenkinson, from which the present manuscript was taken; (fo. 1v) title-page; (fo. 2) text. Inside front cover is the bookplate of the Earl of Westmorland, 1856.

(1) ‘The earle of Leicester his common wealth’, by Robert Parsons; (2) ‘A short veiw of K. Henry the third his raigne, written by Sir Robt. Cotton 1624’; (3) ‘Bosworth feild: by J. B.’, a poem by Sir John Beaumont, bart., published 1629; (4) ‘A speach or argument made in the commons house of parliament at a generall committye of the whole house concerninge the new impositions uppon marchandize lately imposed wthout assent of p’iamt, and the right and lawfullness thereof. Ano 8 J. R.’