Includes three poems. Early nineteenth-century hand (paper watermarked 1813), apparently not autograph. The poems are 'To Glen Luce', 'To Mrs Isted on her return from Ireland in 1807', and 'A Farewell to Leamington, 1833'. Bookplate of Samuel Sandars inside front cover.

The collection includes drafts and versions of poetry and prose by Hilton; notebooks, including juvenilia; papers relating to his time as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge; general literary corrrespondence; and printed material.

Drafts of essays, translations of poetry, lectures and letters to Trend. Most of the material dates from the last decade of Trend's life.

Poems transcribed in two 18th century hands, 16 folios. The works are 'Poverty', 'A pastoral essay', 'Locus apud inferos Virginibus vetulis secretos', 'Templum Hymenaei' and 'Fancy bright and winged Maid'. Outside the front cover: 'Dr Grainger', in an 18th century hand, possibly referring to James Grainger.

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.

(1) 'A conference held in the castell of Ste Angelo by the pope, the emperor and the king of Spaine', beginning (the pope being the speaker) 'Welcome dear sonne unto our courte of Rome'. The work was edited, with prefatory matter of his own, by John Taylor the water poet in 1631, under the title 'The suddaine turne of fortune's wheele'; (2) 'David's sins, 1 Sam. xxi', a poem, beginning 'In Juda and Jerusalem ...'.

'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'.

(1)-(2): Two letters from de la Mare, autograph and typescript signed, 30 December 1935 and 7 September 1942. (3)-(7): Five letters from Sassoon, autograph, 11 June 1938, 29 June 1954, 21 June 1955, 30 June 1956 and 18 July 1956.

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.