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Major Accessions to Repositories 1996 relating to Literature |
National, Special and University
- Peter D Strachan, editor of the Buchan Observer: papers 20th cent (AUL MS 3454)
- Helen Beaton, writer: MS of At the Back O'Bennachie 1915 (AUL MS 3477)
- Walter Keir: papers and corresp from Hugh MacDiarmaid (CM Grieve) 1920-84 (AUL MS 3489)
- Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-97), historian: working papers
- Herbert David Ziman (1902-83), journalist: papers
- James Stem (1904-93), writer and translator: literary MSS and corresp
- Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-80), theatre critic: letters to Julian Holland
- Lord Byron: papers rel to his divorce 1816
- Giles Lytton Strachey, critic and biographer: letters to Henry Lamb 1910-15
- Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), poet: letters, poems, and papers, mostly addressed to Gordon Bottomley, with some letters to Laurence Binyon
- Lamb family of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire. papers incl those of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, his wife Lady Caroline Lamb,and his sister Lady Palmerston c1751-1869
- Eric Arthur Blair (1903-50), writer as George Orwell: letters to him and other misc papers
- Samuel Pepys (1633-1703): printed edition of his diary, interleaved with MSS by himself and his friends and contemporaries, incl John Evelyn
- Julian Gustave Symons (1912-94), poet, critic and writer of detective stories: literary papers and related material.
- Ernest Andre Gellner, philosopher: corresp and papers c1950-95 (GELLNER)
- Robert Mellors, gay writer: research papers rel to biography of Charlotte Bach c1970-90 (HALL-CARPENTER ARCHIVES)
- James Bate, clergyman and theological writer: treatise in the form of a letter to George Bryant 'Heaven impossible to be open to all men' 1748 (Add 9363)
- William Hugh Plommer (1922-83), classicist: corresp and papers (Add 9367)
- Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, poet and prose writer: letters to him c1909-67 (Add 9375)
- Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955), novelist and dramatist: novels, writings and corresp with his biographer (Add 9388)
- Daphne du Maurier, novelist: letters to Régis Bouis 1957-68 (Add 9395)
- Arthur Foote, poet: papers rel to 1959-92 (AccM/334)
- Basil Bunting, poet: letters to Denis Goacher 1964-80 (Bbpa 1995/96:2)
- George Carr, poet: MS poems (Misc. 1995/96:12)
- William Charles Franklyn Plomer, author: letters to Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood 1952-69 (Misc. 1995/96:16)
- George Mackay Brown, author (addnl): MSS c1980-95 (E96.58)
- Walter John de la Mare, author and poet: letters to Joan Hassall and Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood 1947-53 (E96.1, 9)
- Robert Nye, author (addnl): MSS c1990-95 (E96.59)
- Fred Urquhart, novelist and journalist: letters to R Greacen 1990-95 (E96.6)
- Harriet Martineau (1802-76), writer: corresp and papers (7/HRM - uncatalogued)
- Edwin George Morgan, writer and professor of English (addnl): corresp and papers 1983-93 (MS Morgan)
- Tom Leonard, biographer: corresp and papers rel to his biography of James Thomson (MS Gen)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, poet: corresp and papers 1967-81 (MS Gen)
- Eddie Boyd: scripts and other writings
- Osborne Henry Mavor (1888-1951), playwright as James Bridie: papers and corresp rel to his work with Citizens' Theatre
- AE Markham, poet and writer: literary MSS and other papers c1970-90
- Florence Margaret Smith, poet as Stevie Smith: corresp with L Horvat c1950-60
- George Daniel (1789-1864), author and book collector: papers (ULL MS 972)
- Alban Tabor Austin Dobson (1885-1962), civil servant: papers for biography of his father Austin 19th-20th cent (ULL MS 810/VIII)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist and politician: letters to Richard Peake 1777-1807
- Maurice ("Spike") Hennessy, writer and genealogist: papers c1935-90
- Chapman, literary magazine, Edinburgh (addnl): papers 1985-88 (Acc 11319)
- George Norman Douglas, author and traveller: corresp and papers by and rel to him 1917-71 (Acc 11365)
- Gairm, Gaelic magazine, Glasgow, and Gairm Publications (addnl): editorial corresp and papers 1972-96 (Acc 11391)
- Osborne Henry Mavor, playwright as James Bridie: corresp and papers 1904-88 (Acc 11309-10)
- Aonghas MacNeacail, author and poet (addnl): corresp and papers c1970-95 (Acc 11334)
- Robert Jones Derfel (1824-1905), writer and radical: corresp and papers (NLW MSS 23440-62)
- Glyn Jones (1905-95), poet. short-story writer and novelist (addnl): corresp, literary, family and personal papers (NLW MSS unnumbered)
- Gwyn Jones (b1907), scholar, novelist and short-story writer (addnl): corresp and literary papers
- William Ronald Rhys Jones (1915-87), editor and poet as Keidrych Rhys (addnl): corresp, literary and personal papers (NLW MSS 23416-29)
- Lady Amy Parry-Williams (1910-88): papers incl corresp, travel journals and literary papers of Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (1887-1975), poet, essayist and scholar
- John Collins of Devizes and Broughton: commonplace book and verses c1750-1800
- Dorothy Edwards (1903-34), writer: literary papers and corresp
- John Courtenay Trewin (1908-90), theatre critic: papers
- Guy Edward Wheeler, writer: papers rel to schooldays in India c1920-30 (MSS 11c99w)
- Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski (b1922), professor of linguistics: papers mostly rel to Somali and Oromo languages and literature
- William Morris, poet, artist and socialist: personal and family corresp and papers c1868-1938 (MS 984)
- Isobel Westcott, former English lecturer: research notes 1925-76 (1996/23)
- Seán O'Faolain, writer: MSS of his short story Marmalade (MSS 10868/1-3)
- Barbara Hemphill (d1858), writer: literary MSS (MSS 10869-72)
- Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1905-70), author, professor of Irish: papers (MSS 10878-80)
- Edith Anna Œnone Somerville, writer: notebook 1893 (MS 10883)
- Violet Florence Martin, writer as Martin Ross: misc literary MSS and papers 1907-22 (MSS 10884-86)
- Graham Greene, novelist: letters to Des Lally 1977-78 (MS 10891)
- Michael Francis O'Donovan, writer and journalist as Frank O'Connor : The Lost Legion with author's MS additions 1936 (MS 10899)
- Henry Chichester Hart, botanist, academic, explorer, ornithologist, etymologist and Shakespearean scholar: papers 1876-1908 (MSS 10901-22)
- Desmond Hawkins (b1908), novelist, critic and broadcaster: letters to him 1938-73 (MS 10926)
- Vivien Mercier (1919-89), literary historian and diplomat: corresp and papers (MS 10934)
- Joseph Ronsley, professor of English and author: corresp with Denis Johnston and Cyril Cusack rel to their lectures given at McGill University 1972-84 (MS 10941/1/1-138)
- Kathleen O'Brien, playwright and author as Kate O'Brien: lecture notes 1973 (MS 10941/3)
- Edward Millington Stephens, nephew and biographer of John Millington Synge: account of JM Synge's life and work c1939-50 (MS 10873-77)
- Derek Hudson, writer: corresp and papers rel to his biography of Arthur Rackham c1867-1973 (MSL 1996/4)
- Arthur Hugh Clough, poet: memorandum of conversations with Florence Nightingale 1859 (MS 7204)
Local Repositories in England
- Birmingham Shakespeare Reading Society: letters to William Hillman, secretary c1870-90 (MS 1955)
- David Hart, poet and arts administrator (addnl): papers c1960-70 (MS 1892 addl)
- William Cowper, poet: corresp and papers by and rel to him 1749-1866 (AR 80/96)
- Thornas Sharp, writer: poems and biography of Thornas Wright c1960 (D/X 1 1 32/14)
- Matthew Richley, poet and naturalist: personal and family papers 1801-1904 (D/X 1131/1-15)
- Virginia Surtees, author (addnl): personal and family papers 20th cent (D/X 772, 1022)
- Papers of trustees and executors of William Morris c1896-1928 (DD/926)
- Malcolm Castle, auctioneer and author: papers 1914 (MC 657)
- The Otherwise Club, Barn Theatre, Shere: plays written by Vernon Gardner, and Vernon Gardener and Neville Masterman nd (5341)
Local Repositories in Scotland
- Brian Whittingham, poet: poems (891746)
- Alison Louise Kennedy, author: working papers for books So I Am Glad and Original Bliss 1995-96 (891747)
Local Repositories in the Isle of Man
- Sir Thomas Hall Caine (1853-1931), author and politician: papers
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