(Also see: Literary manuscripts in the University of London Library, 1975)
This guide is not intended to be exhaustive. It complements the Archives Catalogue, which includes a subject search facility and the English Subject Gateway.
Authors:
- James Baxter letter, 1960
- Arnold Bennett manuscripts including The Risks of Life, 1913
- Austin Dobson papers,1869-1966
- Roy Fuller letters to Douglas Foskett,1971
- James Hanley letter, 1933
- Phoebe Hesketh correspondence, c1960-c1990
- Rose Macaulay letters to Eric Gillett, c1932-1939
- John Masefield, MS951, MS1200
- Susan Miles poems, correspondence,1920s-1980s
- Thomas Sturge Moore papers, MS978, MS1159
- Herbert Palmer papers, c1891-c1961
- Terry Pratchett drafts, c1983-c2004, and correspondence with Henye Meyer, 1994-2007
- Paul Tabori papers, 1927-1973
- Sir Rabindranath Tagore drafts, 1921-1958
- Opal Whiteley papers, c1900-c1978
Literary correspondence and manuscripts:
- Sterling Library manuscript collection includes works by Byron, H. E. Bates, John Ruskin, William Langland, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arnold Bennett, Siegfried Sassoon, and Compton MacKenzie.
Archives relating to literary scholarship:
- Katharine Longley [Charles Dickens]
- Michael Slater [Charles Dickens]
- Katharine Eggar [Shakespeare]
- Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence [Bacon/Shakespeare]
- Sylvia Legge [Thomas Sturge Moore]
- Ridgill Trout [Shakespeare]
- Constance Pott [Bacon/Shakespeare]
- Mary Lago – Amiya Chakravarty letters [Tagore]
- Hans van Marle Collection [Joseph Conrad]
- Ternan family papers [Charles Dickens]
Publishers’ archives: