Papers of Professor Gilbert Waterhouse, 1911-1968, comprising:
Personal correspondence and papers including personal and academic correspondence, 1911-1939; papers on GW's time as Assistant Lecturer in English, University of Lepzig, 1911-1914, including copies of letters from Karl Breul to GW, 1910-1913, and GW's letters from Leipzig, 1911-1914; papers on holidays in France and Germany, 1920-1930; papers on vist to Munich, 1930; papers on move from Dublin to Belfast, 1933; papers on exchange visit to the USA, 1950-1951.
Research notes and papers, including miscellaneous articles, 1912-1937; correspondence and papers on The Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Seventeenth Century, 1913-1950; correspondence and papers on translation of Franz Grillparzer: Weh' dem der lügt, 1917-1964; notes and papers for articles on St Patrick's Purgatory, 1923-1926; correspondence and papers on GW's translation of Clara Viebig: The Sleeping Army, 1927-1929; correspondence and papers on publication of A Short History of German Literature, 1928-1968; correspondence and papers on GW's translation of General von Seeckt Thoughts of a Soldier, 1930; correspondence and papers on GW's articles and lectures on Goethe, 1927-1935; notes and papers on Anglo-German relations, particularly National Socialism, 1933-1943; notes on the mineralogist, Sir Charles Giesecke (1761-1833), 1936-c 1970; Newspaper cuttings from British, German and French newspapers, mainly on Germany and National Socialism, 1929-1937.

Professional papers of Herbert Hans Karl Thoma, 1913-1975, comprising:
Teaching papers including Thoma's lecture notes on on Old High and Middle German Language, Literature, and Palaeography [1950s], Thoma's notes on lectures by Prof Carl von Krauss, University of Münich, 1913-1915; King's College London, Department of German, examination questions on Germanic language and literature, with annotations by Thoma on marking schemes, candidates names and marks [1950s]; correspondence and papers on supervision of postgraduate student W F Tullasiewicz, with copy of his thesis on the Kaiserchronik
Unpublished research papers, 1961-1965 and undated, including the cataloguing project commissioned by the Bavarian State Library on the manuscripts in the monastic library at Ottobeuren; glosses to Hartmann von Aue's Eric and Iwein; biblical glosses and studies on German word endings,
Published research papers, 1951-1975, including: the work on early German manuscripts in London (principally the British Museum) which was the supplement to Robert Priebsch's great work; entries for Merker-Stammler's Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte; medieval manuscripts of the Carmina Burana and the Nibelungenlied in the British Museum; early German manuscripts in the Vatican Library and the libraries of Munich. with an article on John of Neumarkt and Heinrich Frauenlob in Festschrift for Professor Frederick Norman (retired 1965) .
Correspondence, 1950-1975; correspondents include letters and postcards from Professors Bernhard Bischoff, Arthur Hatto, Carl von Kraus and Paul Salmon
Personal notes and press cuttings on A E Housman, 1937-1943

Research papers and correspondence of Professor William Rose, 1903-1961, comprising:
School, Undergraduate and Postraduate notes, including exercise books from King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, 1910-1911, undergraduate notes from Birmingham University, 1912-1915, and postgraduate notes from University College London, and King's College London, 1920-1922;

Papers on Rose's service on World War One and World War Two, including accounts and photographs of service with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, the Machine Gun Corps and the RAF, 1915-1920, and official documents obtained in his capacity as an intelligence officer (1942-46), includes information digests for Germany and Austria on the Nazi War Trials, documents on post-war rehabilitation in Germany (particularly in education) and the German psyche;

Papers relating to Rose's academic career, including lecture notes, examination papers, papers on the KCL German Society, and teaching methodology in universities; research notes on literary history, genres and movements, Psychoanalysis, Socio-historical and political influences, Jewishness and individual literary figures including Goethe, Schiller, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke; correspondence and papers on other academic acivities including reviewing and editing, speeches and broadcasts, and papers on Anglo-German organisations including the English Goethe Society and the PEN-Club;

Collection of approximately 900 newscuttings and other ephemera, 1903-1961, arranged by theme and then chronologically, includes articles, publishers' catalogues and blurbs, obituaries, and book reviews, from a variety of sources but mainly newspapers and newssheets. Some of the items concerning German literary and other eminent figures have portraits. The content reflects Rose's wide range of interests, not all of them literary. Subjects include: art and architecture; 'Arbeiterdichtung'; bibliography; European culture; folklore; history; literary history, theory and criticism; the German military and General Staff; German poetry and prose; Goethe and Schiller; medieval themes; National Socialism and its influence; performing arts; the two world wars;

General Correspondence, 1908-1958: correspondents include Max Hermann-Niesse, 1936-1938; Peter Huchel, 1956-1958; Leopold Jessner, 1934-1936 (with letters from Frank Wedekind to Jessner, 1908-1913); Alfred Kerr, 1945-1948; Else Lasker-Schüler, 1931-1939; Thomas Mann, 1934; Robert Neumann, 1934-1946; Kurt Pinthus, 1929-1937; Olga Schnitzler [wife of Arthur Schnitzler], 1938, and Stefan Zweig, 1934-1939;

Miscellaneous papers including a collection of unwritten postcards, an essay on Birmingham and Soho, and an unidentified fragment of a play about Napoleon.

The material in Dorothy Reich's personal papers covers the years from 1892 to 1981, although the majority relates to the 1950s and 1960s. Her papers include a great deal of material created by Professor Edna Purdie, her teacher and colleague. This is partly due to the fact that on Purdie's death in 1968, Reich took over the editing of 'A History of German Literature' by J.G. Robertson who had also been a Professor of German at Bedford College. Reich's papers therefore include a great deal of material relating to the 3rd and 4th editions of the book edited by Purdie. However, the papers also include material created by Purdie which is unrelated to the publication of the book. The material relating to the revisions of 'A History of German Literature' includes Edna Purdie's correspondence with W.I. Lucas, Professor of German at the University of Southampton, who contributed towards the revisions of the book, and Dr Mary Bearne who assisted Purdie with the section on the Early New High German period. There are also letters from the book's publishers, Blackwood and Sons, about the date of publication for the third edition and correspondence in German between Purdie and the German publishers, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, regarding a translation of the book into German. There is an extensive collection of handwritten notes and typed manuscripts relating to the revision of the book, including annotated copies of previously published editions. There is also material relating to Henry Handel Richardson, which would have also come into Dorothy Reich's possession through Edna Purdie. Henry Handel Richardson was the wife of J.G. Robertson and was a friend of Purdie's. Her real name was Ethel Florence Lindsey Richardson and she was an Australian author. 'Myself When Young' was her autobiography which she was in the process of writing when she died in 1946. The book was finished by her secretary Olga Roncoroni, with the help of Edna Purdie, and published in 1948. The other material relating to Handel Richardson concerns the publication of a book edited by Purdie and Roncoroni entitled 'Henry Handel Richardson; some personal impressions'. The collection includes material relating to Purdie's career at Bedford College, including papers and correspondence relating to both her teaching and research activities, as well as social aspects of her time at the College, such as her membership of the Wine Association. There are also a number of copies of lectures and publications on the subject of German Literature, which are presumed to have been collected by Purdie. There is a small collection of papers that appears to have been created by J.G. Robertson between 1900 and 1930. These include lectures he gave as well as manuscripts and notes for 'A History of the Romantic Movement', and notes relating to some of his other research topics.

Typescript drafts of an unpublished life of Schiller to 1794 by George B Reese, c 1967.

Files of correspondence, 1907-1968, notably from Elsie Butler; Henry Handel Richardson; Professor Lizzie Susan Stebbing, Professor of Philosophy, Bedford College; Mary Bosquanet; Mona MacDonald; Margaret E Atkinson; Professor James Gibson, Emeritus Professor of Logic and Philosophy, University College of North Wales; Dame Lillian Margery Penson, Professor of Modern History, Bedford College; Elizabeth Mary Middleton; Margaret Deanesly, Professor of History at (successively) Royal Holloway College and Bedford College; Phyllis Hartnoll; George Bing [rel to Prof Gertrud, Director of Warburg Institute?]; Professor Herbert Norman Howells, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of London; Dr Thomas Cecil Hunt, Consulting Physician at St Mary's Hospital Paddington; Hannah Margaret Mary Closs; JE Dobson; and Elizabeth Kydd. This section also contains correspondence relating to the Reichel Concert Trust, 1949-1966, Purdie's retirement, 1962, the decision to admit men to Bedford College, 1963-1964, and the death of Professor Dame Lillian Margery Penson, 1963-1967. Diaries, 1930-1953 and address book, 1962; testimonials, 1907-1933; newspaper cutting, 1914-1967; photographs of Purdie, her family and friends, [1890-1968]; papers relating to Purdie's memorial service, 1968; miscellaneous publications, 1939-1964, including a copy of German life and letters, vol XVI, 1963, a special edition presented to Purdie.

Records, 1961-2000, relating to the original and new series of the periodical Modern Poetry in Translation and associated projects. The material pertains to languages including Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Yiddish. Publications comprise issues 1-44 of the magazine, 1965-1982, covering poetry from a wide range of sources including countries in Europe, the Middle East, Central and South America, Asia and Russia; MPT Year Book (1983); MPT programme for Poetry International 71 (1971); Poetry World (1986); and an Anthology of Twentieth Century Russian Poetry (1974), edited by Max Hayward and Daniel Weissbort. There are also files of translated poems, undated, from sources including various countries in Europe, Central and South America, and Asia. The bulk of the records comprises correspondence, covering all aspects of MPT's organisation including discussion with publishers, printers and distributors; decisions on the content of future issues and work by guest editors; correspondence with translators on specific projects and the general theory of translation; and many letters from translators offering their services, demonstrating the wave of enthusiasm of which MPT was part. The first series of correspondence, covering 1961 to 1984, relates to issues 1-6 (1965-1969, when MPT was published by Cape Golliard) and includes files on particular countries and related translators; organisations including the Arts Council and Gulbenkian Foundation; individuals including Ted Hughes and his involvement with MPT; distribution in Britain and America. The second series, 1966-1984, relates to the independent production of the magazine from 1969 and also to the Year Book (1983), and comprises some files on particular countries and their translators but also more general files covering aspects of production and admininstration over particular periods. The third series, 1964-1984, relates to translation projects in which Daniel Weissbort, editor of MPT, was engaged outside MPT. Subsequent deposits relate largely to the revival of MPT from 1992 and include papers on MPT, 1978-2000, among them translations, correspondence, reviews, biographical information and ephemera; papers relating to Poetry World after its launch in 1986; files relating to new series issues of MPT, comprising correspondence and translations; printed material including issues 1 and 2 of the new series, 1992; and working papers of Professor Norma Rinsler, 1993-1994 and undated, relating to the MPT new series and the Second International Poets Festival in Jerusalem, 1993, and including typescript poems and information on poets.

Papers of William Kleesman Matthews on East European linguistics and literature, 1911-1958, comprising:
papers on Baltic languages, c 1926-1947, including drafts of an anthology of translated Baltic poetry and a Latvian calendar of Saints; notebooks on Bulgarian linguistics, 1921, 1947-1951, including notebooks on the grammar and phonetics of Bulgarian and Old Bulgarian; papers on Estonian literature, 1939-1950, comprising drafts of an anthology of Estonian poetry which Matthews began before the Second World War; papers on German lingusitics, 1943-1944; papers on Polynesian linguistics and the Marathi language in particular, 1945-1946; papers on Russian linguistics and literature, 1911-1958, including mss and proofs of published works, notes and translated poems some intended for publication, articles, minutes of meetings of the Kings College London Russian Society, Russian appointment diary and typescript by Emmanuil Kazakevich; notebooks on Slav languages, 1935-1958; notebooks on Ukranian linguistics, 1946-1954; general papers on the study of literature and linguistics, 1930-1958, including bibliographies, articles and notes on linguistics and literature, translated poetry and correspondence; typescripts and manuscripts of Matthews' (mainly) unpublished poetry, c 1935-1958

Papers of Rudolf Majut, 1944-1962, comprising:
Annotated typescripts of works by Rudolf Majut, including broadcast Majut made for Austrian Radio in 1953, and of his controversial poem about the child victims of the Nazi death camps, 'Das Lied von den Schuhen' (enthusiastically praised by Thomas Mann); typescripts of poetry and prose by his brother Hans Majut (1892-1937), who suffered persecution under the Nazi regime for being of Jewish descent, despite being a protestant Christian like his brother.
Correspondence, 1918-1966: correspondents include Jethro Bithell (1878-1962), head of the Department of German at Birkbeck College London; Rudolf Liechtenhan, Rt Rev George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Fritz Bergemann, Alfred Bergmann, Theodor Bohner; Gustav Ehrismann, Bernt von Heiseler, Max Hermann, Thomas Mann, Rudolf Odebrecht, Wolfgang Stammler, Karl Viëtor and Günther Weydt.

Papers of James Blair Leishman, 1927-1962, comprising:
Correspondence mostly from Paul Obermüller (50 items) and Ernst Zinn (7 items) concerning his Leishman's translations of the works of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1955-1961;
holiday postcards (12 items) written by Leishman and his wife from Switzerland and Austria to their children at boarding school, 1956-1957;
Personal Diaries, 1927, 1930.

Papers of the Institute of Germanic Studies (IGS), 1951-1995, including
Papers, 1951-1961 on repair of war damage and the conversion of 29 Russell Square for the IGS, including plans, correspondence with Surveyors, schedule of work, application for award under National Building Programme, tenders, and contact with the builders;
Papers on production of a "Union List" of periodicals dealing with Germanic languages and literatures in the University Library and libraries of the Colleges and Institutes of the University of London, 1956;
Minutes, correspondence and papers on the Medieval Studies Group project to compile a bibliography and commentary of Wolfram von Eschenbach, 1961-1963;
Papers on Exhibitions at IGS, 1961-1893
Papers on commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Goethe, 1982;
Papers on publication of Germanistik in Festschriften von den Sufängen (1877) bis 1973 IGS Friends Newsletter, 1987-1995;
Visitors Book, 1956-1983.

Correspondence and papers on the history and development of German Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1909-1995, including:
Modern Language Association: Papers on Oxford Meeting, 1909;
University of London: Minutes and marks books of UL Internal Board of Examiners in German, 1932-1970; Agendas, minutes and correspondence of UL Board of Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1963-1979; Examination papers for finals in German, 1943-1952;
Conference of University Teachers of German: Correspondence and papers on the administration of CUTG, 1963-1979; Bulletins 1981-1991, 1994; Minutes of meetings 1981-1986; Lists of teachers of German in British and Irish Universities, 1980-87; Correspondence and papers of sub-committee convened by Hugh D Sacher on History of German Studies in the UK and Ireland, 1965-1967, including replies from the Universities of Aberdeen, UCNW, Bangor, Birmingham, Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Reading, St Andrews, Sheffield, Glasgow, King's College London, University College London, Liverpool, Birkbeck College London, Royal Holloway College London, Queen Mary College London, Keele; transcripts of tape recordings of personal accounts on history of German Studies, subjects include Professor Frederick Norman, Oliver Edwards, F H Sandbach (on his father F E Sandbach, Professor of German, University of Birmingham) and L W Forster;
Correspondence of Professor L A Willoughby on the history of German Studies, 1946-1961;
Correspondence of Professor John Flood on the history of German Studies, 1957-1994.

Correspondence and papers of Sylvia Clare Harris, 1953-1980, comprising:
Correspondence with academics and academic libaries on texts of the Historia trium regum, with microfilms and photocopies, 1953-1980; correspondence on Max Behland and his work, 1962-1963; correspondence with Marion Lee Miller on consultation of his thesis, 1977; correspondence on article on Johannes von Hildesheim for Verfasserlexicon, 1978-1979; handwritten transcripts of manuscripts of the Historia trium regum; notes and papers on the Historia trium regum, including copy of Harris's thesis, 1954-1974; photocopies and other reproductions of Historia trium regum manuscripts; miscellaneous papers including copy of A study of the language of medieval German homiletics London PhD thesis by Lawrence M Rice, 1973; notes on German literature 1400-1700.

Correspondence and papers of Friedrich Gundolf, 1902-1931, comprising:
Poems: manuscripts and typescripts of c 1100 poems by Gundolf, 1899-1931
Manuscripts: manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished books, lectures, and articles by Gundolf including lecture notes for Deutsche Literatur in der Reformationszeit, [c 1930], Deutsche Bildung von Luther bis Lessing, Deutsche Geistesgeschichte von Luther bis Nietzsche, Barok, a survey of German literature from Opitz to Lessing, 1923-1930; Klopstock; Frhromantik, and Deutsche Literatur im neunzehnten Jahrhundert; draft of biographical study of Johannes von Müller; unpublished short drafts on Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and others;
Letters from Gundolf: typed copies of letters by Gundolf, collected after his death by Elisabeth Gundolf, correspondents include Magda Bezner, Ernst Robert Curtius, Herbert Cysarz, Franz Dornsieff, Tilly Edinger, Eduard Fraenkel, Marie-Louise Gothein, Maria Geiger, Sir Herbert Grierson, Romano Guardini, Lucy and Wolfgang Heyer, Paul Hensel, Karl Jaspers, Gräfin Leonie Keyserling (Baronin Ungern-Sternberg), Julius Landmann, Sabine Lepsius, Friedrich von der Leyen, Georg Misch, Mabel MacInnes, Harry Maync, Emil Praetorius, Julius Petersen, Max Pulver, Herbert Steiner, Karl Vosler, Alfred Weber and Marianne and Max Weber;
Letters to Gundolf, mainly 1920-1931, c 930 correspondents including Erich Aron, Ernst Bertram, Bruno Arverardi, Ernst Robert Curtius, Franz Deibel, Tilly Edinger, Heinrich Friedemann, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Ernst Gundolf, Jacob Geis, Maris Luise Gothein, Lucy Heyer, Gustav Richard Heyer,Heinz Hartmann, Wolfgang Heyer, Helene Hermann, Kurt Hildebrand, Else Jaffé, Fine von Kahler, Erich Kahler, Walter Kempner, Gräfin Leonie Keyserling (Baronin Ungern-Sternberg), Raymond Klibansky, Marianne Kassner, Ludwig Klages, C A Klein, Else Kuhner, Edith Landmann, Sabine Lepsius, Josef Liegle, Melchior Lechter, Ernst Morwitz, Thankmar von Münchhausen, Hans Oettinger, Emil Praetorius, Arthur Salz, Lothar Treuge, Berthold Vallentin, Karl and Hanna Wolfskehl, Walter Wenghöfer, Friedrich Wolters, Christianne Zimmer (Hofmannsthal);
Biographical papers including material on Gundolf's work as Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Heidelberg, a list of his lectures and seminars, obituary notices and speeches, recollections of Gundolf by Marie-Louise Gothein, Anna Hinterreiter and Robert Oboussier, poems and humorous verses by or concerning Gundolf, and esays by Ernst Gundolf;
Varia: bibliographical material including copies of Gundolf's contributions to newspapers and learned periodicals, incomplete collection of offprints sent to Gundolf;
Elisabeth Gundolf: papers on Elisabeth Gundolf including letters of sympathy on the death of FG, 1931; translations of Rilke and Hölderlin (with J B Leishman), three chapters from Gundolf's Shakespeare: Wesen und Werk, translated by EG;
Press Cuttings; mainly reviews of Gundolf's publications, comments, obituaries and criticism, c 1902-1931;
Miscellaneous: Small collection of photographs of Gundolf, family and friends; galley proofs; Vistors Book; paintings and drawings by Ernst Gundolf;
Stefan George: copies of early correspondence between George and Gundolf, press cuttings on George, c 1902-1933;
Karl Wolfskehl: copies of correspondence with Karl and Hana Wolfskehl, occasional poems by Wolfskehl, copies of four letters from Karl and Hana Wolfskehl to Stefan George.

Papers of Hugo Frederick Garten (formerly Hugo Friedrich Königsgarten) (HFG), including correspondence with the expressionist playwright Georg Kaiser (GK) and his wife Margareta from the 1920s to 1940s; typescripts of work by GK; periodicals, programmes and photographs relating to productions of GK's plays; correspondence from the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann (GH) and members of his family to HFG; newspaper cuttings on GH and his plays written on centenary of his birth in 1962; photographs of GH and letters from GH to the German Studies scholar Hermann Georg Fiedler; and letters from Stefan Zweig, Fritz von Unruh, Jakob Wassermann and his wife, Martha Wassermann-Karlweis, Robert Neumann, Friedrich Gundolf, and Alfred Weber to HFG. Also includes five metal plate prints of letters by and portraits of Gerhart Hauptmann.

Correspondence and papers of Leonard William Forster, comprising
correspondence and articles by and about Joseph Breitbach, 1956-1986; correspondence with and about Wilhelm Lehmann, 1950-1975; correspondence about Frederick 'Bimbo' Norman, 1969-1973; correspondence with J R R Tolkein, 1960-1961; research notes and correspondence on publication of German Poetry, 1944-1948; correspondence on publication of the Penguin Book of German Verse, 1955-1957, including correspondence with academics on development of the anthology and notes on the poems, correspondence with publishers and editors, and letters of congratulation on publication; correspondence on publication of The History of German Literature (Pengiun Books), 1955-1961; correspondence with Henri Béhar (Association pour l'étude du Mouvement Dada), Antoine Fischer (Saisons d'Alsace) and Aimée Bleikasten on the poetry of Hans Arp, 1966-1972; correspondence and papers on Paul Celan and Immanuel Weissglass, 1969-1984; correspondence and papers on Erich Fried and the Darmstädter Akademia, 1987; correspondence and papers on Günter Grass, 1969-982; correspondence on Oskar Kokoschka, 1961-1988; correspondence with Hans and Ilse von Savigny, 1948-1972.

Archives of the English Goethe Gociety (EGS), 1886-1993, comprising:
Business records including annual statements of accounts, 1930-1931, 1945, 1950-1953, 1966, 1981; receipts, invoices, bank statements, and details of the Society's investments, 1929-1931;
Membership records including lists of Members and Council, 1886-1966, 1993?; proposal forms and related correspondence, 1936-1938; correspondence relating to resignations, 1932-1936;
Council minutes and papers, 1962-1972, 1992;
Annual Reports of EGS, 1886-1913 [incomplete]; the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar, 1922-1923 and the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1911-1917;
General correspondence on EGS business, 1926-1930 [Where correspondence is of direct relevance to a set of documents it has been placed with those documents rather than in this class];
Correspondence and papers on EGS activities, including records of ordinary meetings, 1897-1993; records relating special events and anniversaries, 1899-1982, including 150th anniversary of the birth of Goethe, 1899; the dedication of the Goethe Memorial on Frankfurt-am-Main, 1904, the Goethe Centenary, 1932; EGS 50th anniversary, 1936; the Goethe Bicentenary celebrations, 1949; the 150th anniversary of the death of Schiller, 1955; and the 150th anniversary of the death of Goethe, 1982;
Correspondence and papers relating th EGS Prizes, the English Goethe Society (later the Willoughby) Prize 1977-1995 and the Thmas Mann Prize, 1988-1992;
Miscellaneous papers including book reviews, newscuttings, personal memorabilia of Goethe such as a lock of his hair, and two original contemporary signed and dated silhouettes of Goethe and Charlotte von Stein, printed and published items.

Notes by John Dixon on medical matters and on things of personal interest to him such as astrology and photography spanning his entire career, 1848-1903. MS.5191 comprises more formal material, namely certificates and indentures.

Papers of August Closs and his family, comprising:
August Closs: Personal Papers
Correspondence with Hannah and Elizabeth Closs (later Closs-Traugott);
Diaries, 1915-1928;

General Correspondence: correspondents include Stefan Andres, 1960-1972; Anthony Blunt, 1976; Albert Einstein, 1930; T S Eliot, 1953; E M Forster, 1955; Sigmund Freud, 1930; John Galsworthy, 1928-1932; Bernt von Heiseler, 1953-1965; Arno and Anita Holz, 1922-1932; F R Leavis, 1948-1953; Thomas Mann, 1929; Christoph Meckl, 1962; J R R Tolkien, 1955;
Correspondence with UK/US based academics: correspondents include F W Bateson, 1956; Jethro Bithell, 1951-1957; Lord David Cecil, 1955; W E Collinson, 1944-1968; David Duckworth, 1972-1989; H G Fiedler, 1936-1944; Stanley Goodman, 1941-1942; G P Gooch, 1946-1963; Brian Keith-Smith, 1966-1982; Sir John Kingman, 1985-1988; Victor Lange, 1951-1973; Eudo C Mason, 1951-1963; Estelle Morgan, 1953-1987; Irene Morris, 1955-1957; Roy Pascal, 1948-1978; Ronald Peacock, 1945-1959; F P Pickering, 1937-1958; Siegbert and Helga Prawer, 1952-1987; Edna Purdie, 1953-1964; Hans S Reiss, 1964-1989; Hermann Salinger, 1963-1966; Paul and Vivian Salmon; David Scrase, 1964-1989; Ernst Stahl, 1963-1969; Ellisabeth and F J Stopp, 1946-1973; John Joseph Stoudt, 1945-1963; H M Waidson, 1960-1978; L A Willoughby, 1952-1977; Roy A Wisbey, 1980-1988; W E Yuill, 1967-1978; E H Zeydel, 1942-1961;
Correspondence with German/Austrian/Swiss based academics: correspondents include Ernst Alker, 1952-1972; Felix Braun, 1942-1948; Hans Egon Holthusen, 1950-1961; Heinz Kindermann, 1949-1974; Frans Koch, 1946-1957; Manfred Lurker, 1968-1972; Horst Oppel, 1946-1985; Arthur Pfeiffer, 1953-1957; Hans Pyritz, 1933-1956; Kurt Schäfer, 1982-1986;
Correspondence with other European based academics: correspondents include Jan Aler, 1946-1959 and Erik Lunding, 1953-1969;
Correspondence with individual academics, Hans Bähr, Roger Loomis, Eirwen and Idris Parry, Friedrich Heinz and the Humboldt Gesellschaft;
War diaries of Max Closs;
Correspondence with L P Hartley, 1955-1972, and letters between Closs and publishers on the publication of the correspondence;
Corrspondence, photos and papers on Theodor Däubler, 1930-1947 and undated;
Correspondence and articles relating to Herman Pongs, 1946-1978;
Notes, articles and reviews by Closs on German literature, 1915-1990;
Papers relating to Bristol University, including correspondence and papers on award of Honorary D.Litt, 1987;
Correspondence and papers on the Bristol/Hannover Link 1947-1987, particularly 40th anniversary celebrations, 1987;
Correspondence with publishers on royalty payments, 1949-1983;

Robert Preibsch papers, 1899-1934, including correspondence, notes on German literature and palaeography, correspondence about the Priebsch/Closs Collection;

Hannah Closs papers 1934-1952, including correspondence, reviews and articles, writings on art, reviews of her work, obituaries and tributes;

Elizabth Closs-Traugott papers, 1951-1988, including correspondence, notes for lectures, articles and reviews, and press cuttings;

Acquired Papers:
Medieval manuscripts: Das Leiden Christi, mss booklet describing a vision by a nun of the Passion of Christ [15th century], Pseudo-Clemens Romanus, early 9th century west German fragment; Heinrich Seuse: Buch der ewigen Weisheit six loose fragments [14th century], Predigten, by German wandering preacher, in Latin, c 1450; wooden cover with pressed calf leather, bearing arms of Pope Paul III Farinesi;
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century material: Hexenprozesse three folio booklets - original records of witchcraft trials of Catharina Stroblin, 1617; Appolonia Nueberin, 1623, bill to cover costs of difficulties caused by and rewards offered for executed magical persons during the years 1617, 1628, 1629 by Hans Schölern; title deed to land and farm sold by Nette, servant of Graf Dietrich von Plesse to a nunnery, Low German, 1516;
Autograph letters and mss including poems Bittschrift by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, [undated], and Friedrich von Bodenstadt [undated]; letters from Wilhelm von Humboldt [c 1799], Theodor Storm, 1867, Friedrich and Caroline de la Motte Fourque, 1814, 1927, Eduard Devrient, 1839, August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben, 1864, Friedrich Schlegrl, [undated], Ludolf Wienbarg, 1839, Christina G Rosetti, 1865, James Martineau - letter to J S Mill on the University of London, 1841, Stefan Zweig, 1909, Henriette Hendel-Schütz, 1807, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, 1856.

Professional papers of Eliza (Elsie) Marian Butler, 1919-1959, comprising:
Teaching papers, including student handouts with examples of German poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries and lecture notes on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetry and Rainer Maria Rilke; Rilke and Orpheus; Rilke and Orpheism; Rilke and Russia; Germany and Greece; Goethe on his times; Legend and literature in Faustian rituals
Research notes and papers including: Napoleon and the Poets (unfinished manuscript of a book dealing with Napoleon's influence on European poetry); papers relating to EMB's biography Rainer Maria Rilke, (Cambridge, 1941);
Correspondence, 1937-1951, mainly relating to EMB's books, Myth of the Magus and Ritual Magic: correspondents include Bertrand Russell, 1948; Lord David Cecil, 1950; Professor Günther Müller, University of Bonn, 1948-1951; Edward Sackville-West, 1948; C.S. Lewis, 1940; Michael Burt, 1947-1948; William Keith Chambers Guthrie, 1948; Thomas Mann, 1948; Leonid Pasternak (artist), 1937; Gertrude Ouckama Knoop (wife of Gerhard and friend of Rilke); Ronald Peacock (Professor of German at Manchester University); Michael Polanyi (Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Chemistry, Manchester University), 1948; Professor Gerard van Rijnberk, 1948; John Tresidder Sheppard, 1948; Hermann Sinsheimer (author and theatre critic), 1948; Professor Leonard Ashley Willoughby, 1948; Nancy Wunderly-Volkart (friend of Rainer Maria Rilke), 1940.

Correspondence and papers of Professor Karl Hermann Breul, 1885-1918, comprising:
General correspondence with academic friends and colleagues, students, benefactors, and publishers, correspondents include Hermann Hager, 1886-1893; Robert Priebsch, 1896-1913; Arthur Napier, 1888; Patrick Cahill, 1906-1907; W I McGowan 1902-1907; F C Nicholson, 1902-1913; Thomas Rea, 1904-1911; E L Milner-Barry, 1907-1911; Marshall Montgomery, 1910-1914; Walter Rippmann, 1906-1914; F E Sandbach, 1903-1911; Max Freund, 1909-1914; Charles Harold Herford, 1903-1913; Arvid Johansson, 1905-1913; J Kirkpatrick, 1906-1912; A C Benson 1904-1914; Oscar Browning, 1884-1907; Francis Darwin, 1899-1918; Sir James Frazer, 1912-1914; John Gibb, 1904-1906; A E Housman, 1911; Henry Jackson, 1890-1910; R C Jebb, 1894-1904; C S Kenny, 1907-1914; J B Mullinger, 1913-1914; J P Postgate 1892-1910; E S Roberts 1889-1913; W W Skeat, 1890-1907; Sir Adolphus William Ward, 1905-1912; Eugen Frisch, 1903; Wilhelm Viëtor, 1893-1903; Carl Dunker, 1908; Henry and Agnes Tiarks, 1909-1911; W T Stead, 1906; Theodor Lorens, 1905-1910, and Edward Bell, 1904-1913;
Correspondence on address for Professor C A Buchheim, 1897-1898;
Correspondence on 25th anniversary of the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos at Cambridge, 1909;
Correspondence with the English Goethe Society, 1897-1910;
Correspondence with the Modern Language Association, 1897-1910, but mainly relating to meeting in Cambridge, 1910;

Personal Papers comprise:
Letters of congratulation on award of Prussian Order of the Red Eagle (4th Class), 1909;
Testimonials for posts of Professorship at Prague University, 1888, Examiner in the University of London, 1892, Professorship at Bedford College London, 1896, Professorship at University College London, 1897, Professorship in London University, 1902, and post of Examiner in German, Glasgow University, 1903;
Correspondence and papers on appointment as Schröder Professor of German at Cambridge, 1909-1910, including letters of congratulation and press cuttings;
Photograph of Karl Breul, 1885.

Correspondence and papers of Jethro and Alice Bithell, 1919-1962, comprising:
Correspondence and papers of Jethro Bithell:
Three note books [in Dutch];
Correspondence, 1935-1962: correspondents include August and Hannah Closs, Rudolf Majut, William Rose, L W Forster, Walter Cohen, Alexander Gillies, L A Willoughby and R Pick;
Papers on the poems of Max Hermann-Neisse (1886-1941), 1919-1942;
Papers on the works of Ernst Bertram, 1928-1952;

Correspondence and papers of Alice Emily Bithell (née Eastlake):
Personal papers including school and university certificates, 1908-1937 and correspondence with Rudolf and Käthe Majut, 1949-1962.

Correspondence and papers of Mary Beare, c 1936-1983, comprising:
Teaching papers, including University of Cambridge Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos examination papers [c 1936-1947]; lecture and seminar notes on Hans Sachs; Reformation drama; Grillparzer, Sebastian Brant, Gryphius and 17th century drama, Luther, drama and satire in the 16th century, propaganda in the age of the Reformation, lyric poetry;
Research notes and papers including notes for and typescript and illustrations of The German Popular Play [c 1938]; article Glimpses of Hamburg between War and Peace, 1946; notes on Hans Sachs, with texts of his plays and poems and typescript and proofs of The Later Dialogues of Hans Sachs; notes on Luther, Grisar, the Faust-Volksbucher, Lessing, Dutch 17th century poetry and Janssen;
Personal papers including copy of curriculum vitae and miscellaneous correspondence.

Papers, 1921-1959, of Roy Clive Abraham, comprising personal manuscript notebooks of grammar and vocabulary notes on the various African, Middle Eastern and European languages studied by him.