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Papers of Aldous Leonard Huxley, 1918 , comprise a letter his brother, Julian Sorell Huxley, discussing books and society and literary figures.

Manuscript comprising four items, 1751-1753, all copies of editions printed at Skalholte in 1688:
(1) 'Landnámabók. Sagann Landnama'. 63 pages, including a preface and index, and ornamented title-page, initials, chapter headings and end pieces;
(2) 'Kristni Saga' (Christendom's saga). 21 pages, including an index and preface, and ornamented title-page and initials;
(3) Thorgilborn Ari, 'Schedae Ara Prestz frode Um Island'. 19 pages, including an index, and ornamented title-page and initials;
(4) Arrgimus Jonsson, 'Gronlandia edus Graenldz saga'. 37 pages, including ornamented title-page, initials and headings, and one illustration.
Lettered on a label on the spine: Islandske sagann.

Correspondence and papers found in books belonging to Paul Ignotus, 1957-1977

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.

Records, 1920-1963, of the Christian Literature Bureau for Africa and its succession by the ICCLA (International Committee on Christian Literature for Africa, part of the International Missionary Council), comprising early papers, 1920-1929, including correspondence; minutes, 1929-1958; records of the American Section, 1924-1959; accounts and related papers, 1928-1958; finance papers, 1948-1959; policy papers, 1929-1959, including its winding-up; papers relating to personnel, 1947-1956; papers relating to Secretarial travel by Margaret Wrong and C de Mestral in Africa, Europe and north America, 1933-1959; photographs of West Africa, 1933, and Southern Africa [1936]; papers of Margaret Wrong (Secretary), 1935-1947, including notes for addresses, reviews, articles on subjects including colonial development, personal photographs, letters, and papers, 1949-1965, relating to her death (c1949) and memorial fund; reports, surveys, etc, 1923-1957; papers relating to Books for Africa series and to Listen, 1931-1963; papers relating to the publication Daystar, 1948-1957; lists of books received, especially vernacular, 1930-1957; African language publications, 1930-1951; papers relating to Christian literature for Muslims, 1932-1959; papers relating to school service book, 1938-1953; manuscripts received, 1933-1957; papers relating to hymns publication, 1957-1963; papers relating to literacy [1935]-1959; papers on territorial series, 1927-1959; complete set of Books for Africa series, 1931-1963; complete set of Listen, 1932-1957; series (some incomplete) of published works: Little Books for Africa, African Home Library (comprising texts on the Bible and Christian faith, biography, allegories and stories, family, health and land, government and industry, countries and customs, science and education), and the French edition Bibliotheque de la Famille Africaine, and African Features; specimen periodicals published in Africa, 1950s; card index to titles for Books for Africa books reviewed and card index to titles and authors in the ICCLA library.

The collection contains the papers of Harold Jenkins,1909-2000, comprising of papers relating to his work as a literary scholar and university teacher, specialising in Shakespeare. It also contains some personal papers relating to his career, and his wife Gladys Jenkins.

It comprises Hamlet Lecture Notes, 1965-1989; Other Shakespeare Lecture Notes, 1941-1988; Other Subject Lecture Notes, c.1945-1986; Hamlet Research Notes, Mid-Late 20th Century; Other Shakespeare Research Notes, c.1948-1990s; Benlowes Research Notes, c.1936-1963; Other Subject Research Notes, Mid-Late 20th Century; Papers relating to the Arden Hamlet, c.1970s-1986; Other Publications, 1948-1992; Career Papers, c.1930-1994; and papers relating to Gladys Jenkins, 1940-1950s.

Letters and cards from Henry Arthur Jones, his daughter Doris Arthur Jones (Doris Thorne), and W B Kempling, to M H Spielmann, 1918-1939.

22 letters and 10 cards from Henry Arthur Jones to James Stanley Little, 1922-1929. With a letter from Jones's daughter [Doris A Jones] to Little, written after her father's death.

All letters autograph, with signatures.

Papers of Snaebjörn Jónsson, 20th century, comprising press cuttings, letters and photographs.

Correspondence and bills of Norman Brooke Jopson, from Werner Söderström Oy, Helsinki and Tallinna Eesti Kirjandud-Ühisus, Tallinn, about the purchase of Finnish and Estonian books respectively, 1935.

The collection consists of published and unpublished works including lectures, essays, poems and reviews by Ker; notes for works and lectures covering the whole of Ker's career; correspondence collected by Chambers; and miscellaneous material including Chambers' notes and writings on Ker, Ker's personal and administrative papers, obituaries of Ker, and other papers.

Mainly comprising letters sent to Charles Lahr by various writers.

Letter from Laurie Lee of 614 Russell Square House, London to Roger [Senhouse], [c 1944]. Thanking him for a copy of The Rescue.

Manuscript notebook entitled 'Table Book of Germanic Philology', [1912].

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 Libris UK including correspondence concerning editorial issues and associated reviews of published works. Written in English and German. Contains the following files:

Box 1

File 1: Ashton, Rosemary, THE GERMAN IDEA

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, April 1993-January 1994.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work August 1980-June 1995.

File 2: Bosley, Keith, EVE BLOSSOM HAS WHEELS - GERMAN LOVE POETRY

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, May 1995-March 1997.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1997.

File 3: Brecht, Bertolt, WAR PRIMER

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, March 1996-October 1997.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1997-2003.

Box 2

File 4: Bridgham, Fred, THE FRIENDLY GERMAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, February 1990-September 1995.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1995-1998.

File 5: Bridgwater, Patrick, POET OF EXPRESSIONIST BERLIN - THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORG HEYM

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-1994.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1991-1994.

File 6: Brophy, Brigid, MOZART THE DRAMATIST

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-1989.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1988-2006.

Box 3

File 7: Dove, Richard, HE WAS A GERMAN - A BIOGRAPHY OF ERNST TOLLER

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1987-1990.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1988-1995.

File 8: Dove, Richard, JOURNEY OF NO RETURN - FIVE GERMAN SPEAKING LITERARY EXILES IN BRITAIN, 1933-1945

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1997-2000.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2000-2001.

File 9: Fallada, Hans, THE DRINKER

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1988-1989.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1989-2005.

Box 4

File 10: Fallada, Hans, LITTLE MAN -WHAT NOW?

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1990-1996.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1987-2009.

File 11: Fontane, Theodor, BEYOND THE TWEED - A TOUR OF SCOTLAND IN 1858

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1998.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1997-2005.

File 12: [Franz, Fuhmann, SELECTED STORIES] not published

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2005.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005.

Box 5

File 13: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, ROMAN ELEGIES and THE DIARY

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-1996.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1986-1998.

File 14: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, SELECTED POETRY

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1990-1999.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1990-1999.

File 15: Haffner, Sebastian, GERMANY: JEKYLL & HYDE

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2004-2005.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005.

Box 6

File 16: Heym, Georg, POEMS

One file in three parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1985-2005.

Part 2a and 2b. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2000-2005.

Box 7

File 17: Heym, Georg, THE THIEF AND OTHER STORIES

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1990-1994.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1994-2000.

File 18: Hebel, Johann Peter, THE TREASURE CHEST

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1989-1995.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1994-2010.

Box 8

File 19: [Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, AN IMPOSSIBLE MAN] not published

One file.

Correspondence concerning editorial issues concerning unpublished book, 2004-2013.

File 20: Kastner, Erich, FABIAN - THE STORY OF A MORALIST

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-2004.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1988-2005.

File 21: Gansel, Mireille and Kunze, Reiner, 'IN TIME OF NEED' - A CONVERSATION ABOUT POETRY, RESISTANCE AND EXILE

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2005-2006.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005-2009.

Box 9

File 22: Lafitte, Francois, THE INTERNMENT OF ALIENS

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1987-1988.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1987-2003.

File 23: Lukacs, Georg, GERMAN REALISTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1988-1992.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1989-1996.

Box 10

File 24: Grenville, Anthony and Malet, Marian, CHANGING COUNTRIES - THE EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT OF GERMAN-SPEAKING EXILES FROM HITLER IN BRITAIN FROM 1933 TO TODAY

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1999-2010.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2004-2009.

File 25: Munsterer, Hanns Otto, THE YOUNG BRECHT

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-1994.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1992-1998.

File 26: Morike, Eduard, MOZART'S JOURNEY TO PRAGUE and SELECTED POEMS

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1994-1996.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1997-2005.

Box 11

File 27: Reves, Nigel, HEINRICH HEINE: POETRY AND POLITICS

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1993-1994.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1994-1996.

File 28: Schiller, Friedrich, WILLIAM TELL, A PLAY

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2001-2005.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005.

File 29: Trakl, Georg, POEMS & PROSE

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1996-2008.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2000-2005.

Box 12

File 30: Williams, Jenny, MORE LIVES THAN ONE - A BIOGRAPHY OF HANS FALLADA

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1996-2008.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1998-2009.

File 31: Wizisla, Erdmut, WALTER BENJAMIN AND BERTOLT BRECHT - THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP

One file in two parts.

Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2003-2009.

Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005-2009.

The collection mainly comprises correspondence, manuscript poems by George MacDonald, photographs, material relating to the membership of the George MacDonald Society and the publication of its journal, North wind, papers relating to plays performed by MacDonald and his family, and offprints of articles and ephemera including lecture timetables, 1845-1997, mainly compiled by Mrs Freda Levson; notably including original correspondence addressed to MacDonald and copies of letters from family members and friends such as his wife, Louisa Powell MacDonald, and John Ruskin, principally on MacDonald's health problems, Octavia Hill, Ruskin's relationship with Rose La Touche, MacDonald's preaching technique and on aspects of theology including the doctrine of providence, 1845-1932; correspondence between members of the Troup family, friends of the MacDonalds, including Charles Edward Troup and Frank Troup, with photographs and extracts from the Troups' published works, 1883-1995; correspondence with William Raeper, author of a biography entitled George MacDonald (Tring, 1987), compiled during its research, including with Lion Publishing, with surviving family members, and with libraries, notably the British Library and Yale University Library, 1984-1987; correspondence with Freda Levson and Richard MacDonald, descendants of George MacDonald, 1970-1982; photographs of MacDonald and family, his various residences and of visits by the George MacDonald Society to Bordighera, Italy, [1860-1986]; manuscript poems by MacDonald, 1876-1887; material relating to the staging of Pilgrim's progress and other drama by MacDonald, 1877-1977; copies of contributions to the journal of the George MacDonald Society, North wind, with proofs of the journal and supporting documentation, 1976-1996; press cuttings and reviews of publications and lecture tours by MacDonald, and of modern editions of his work, 1871-1997; timetables of lectures delivered by MacDonald, copies of library holdings of manuscript material on MacDonald, 1869-1985.

Letter from George MacDonald of 39 Melville Street, Edinburgh to Mr [Robert] Balgarnie, 21 Jun 1885. Thanking him for an invitation, which he hopes to accept. 'I suppose the month of August would do for Scarborough - but so far we are not even sure that we shall not be in Bordighera before the end of that month. We are getting very good gatherings here.'

Autograph, with signature.

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 Matthew Manning, [1974-1990], comprising automatic drawings; drafts including of The Link, The Strangers; correspondence of Peter Bander; magazine articles about Manning and psychic phenomena.

Papers and correspondence of John Masefield, 1910-1967. SL V 92-7 are letters and SL V 98 are book tokens inscribed by Masefield. SL V 99 are proofs for Sea Life in Nelson's Time (1971).

Papers of John Masefield comprising brief handwritten passages, which appear to stand on their own rather than being extracts from longer works and are most unlikely unpublished. One is entitled 'The Ong of Highworth Ridden' and a note by the other descibes it as 'Lines for Mosquito Day, and in the Memory of Sir Reginald Ross, a patient observer of little things'. They are accompanied by letters from Geoffrey Handley-Taylor concerning depositing Masefield material at the University of London Library (now Senate House Library).

Papers of Moses Mendelssohn, 1761-1785, comprise draft typescript transcriptions of Moses Mendelssohn's letters to Friedrich Nicholai, 1761-1785, along with a draft forweard by Richard Wolff and draft editorial notes.

Letter from George Meredith of Box Hill, Dorking, [Surrey] to 'Sir Reynard' [Edward Clodd], 28 May 1902. 'If you like to have the dedication [of Walter Copeland Jerrold's book on Meredith] you have only to bow your head ... But there should be no mention of you as the subject's friend, for that would overpower the appreciation ...'

Autograph, with signature.

Bibliography, compiled by Baron Alexander Felixovich Meyendorff of English books on Russia, covering a variety of wide subject areas such as literature, history, politics, economics and religion, c 1921-1933

Articles by Prince Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky, entitled "Jane Ellen Harrison (died 15 April 1928)" and "Tolstoy Centenary Edition", 1929

Typescripts entitled "The Yugoslav History" and "A history of Yugoslav Letters", written by Paul Mitrovich at Sarajevo, 1965, and a letter from Mitrovich's daughter Milica Kirk Mitrovic to Hugh Seton Watson, which she sent him with the typescripts.

Collection of Frida Mond relating to German literature including poems and letters, 1794-1831, by and concerning Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and a manuscript page (undated) of Wilhelm Tell by Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller; portraits, busts and reliefs of Goethe and Schiller, some of which (including some photographs) are copies of original material held elsewhere; other relics and memorabilia relating to them, some postdating their deaths; and relics comprising jewellery, clothing, hair, possessions and portraits of Lotte Buff (Charlotte Buff, 1753-1828, friend of Goethe 1772).

Letter from Henry Morley of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight to Messrs Ernest Elliot and Arthur D W Cartin, 31 Dec 1890. Declining to prepare an edition of Shakespeare for publication in the Carisbrooke Library, since he has already done one for Cassell's National Library.

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of Iris Murdoch, 1960s-1990s, comprising informal letters to her friend Barbara Dorf spanning a thirty-year friendship. The collection also contains letters from John Bayley to Dorf, written presumably when Murdoch was too ill to do so herself or following her death, thanking Dorf for being a special friend to Iris; a letter from Dorf to Dr Rowe at Kingston University discussing the Iris Murdoch collection and providing biographical information concerning Murdoch. The collection also includes a photocopy of an oil painting of Iris Murdoch by Barbara Dorf.

Papers of Margaret Mynatt and Yvonne Kapp, 1952-1987, comprising:
Articles, mainly by or about Bertolt Brecht, 1952-1982, with associated correspondence; Margaret Mynatt's correspondence with Walter Benjamin [photocopies]; Yvonne Kapp's correspondence with Helene Brecht-Weigel and the Bertolt Brecht Archiv, Berlin; correspondence of Mynatt and Kapp with Phyllis Rosner, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Ilse Warnber [sister of Elisabeth Hauptmann]
Papers of Yvonne Kapp, including minutes and papers of the Czech Refugee Trust Fund, [1938-1940]; correspondence, 1939-141, including letters written under the pseudonym Yvonne Cloud; hand-written copies of poems on the Communist Party; refugee papers selected by Dr Charmian Brinson, 1997; 3 volumes of press cuttings on the 'Internment Crisis', July-Sep 1940; obituaries of Kapp from The Independent, The Times and The Guardian, 1999
Papers of Margaret Mynatt including correspondence with Emmy Koenen; obituary of Wilhelm Koenen, 1963; correspondence and papers on the death of Elisabeth Hauptmann, 1973; photographs of Elisabeth Hauptmann; typescript Betrieffe eine irrefuhrende Darstellung, by Elisabeth Hauptmann [undated]; papers relating to Mynatt's father, John Charles Mynatt (Giovanni Minotti), 1903-1966; photographs of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel; theatre and concert programmes from the Berliner Ensemble, 1955-1967, and for productions of Brecht's works in London, 1963-1989.

Translations by E D Goy of several works by Pedrag Palavestra and a critique of one of them, 1977-1980.

Papers of Rita Pargeter, 1929-1935, comprising study notes and papers relating to education at King's College, University of London. Loose notes, 1931-1933 on subjects including Chaucer, Shakespeare and poetry, prose and drama 1579-1700. Notebooks enclosing study notes on subjects including Old English, Middle English, Gothic grammar and translation, Modern English and Beowolf. Registration instructions for students; English, Ancient Greek and Latin examination papers, 1929-1931; Order of Service for the King's College London centenary, 21 Dec 1931; National Union of Students year book, 1933-1934; programmes for the King's College London Conversazione, 3 Jun 1932 and 2 Jun 1933; programme for the King's College London athletics day, 29 Apr 1933 where Pargeter competed for the women's high jump; minutes and agenda for the King's College London Union Society, 8 May 1933-12 Mar 1934; King's College London theatre programmes and song sheet; prospectus, invitations and Order of Proceedings for the laying of the foundation stone for the new University of London buildings in Bloomsbury (including Senate House), 26 Jun 1933; King's College London, Faculty of Arts degree results, 1934 with press cutting from The Times of the results, including Pargeter's award of a First Class Honours, 20 Jul 1934; papers relating to the awarding of the 'Early English Text Society prize' to Pargeter, 31 Jul 1934; University of London Principal's report, 1934-1935; Pargeter's Literary Society membership cards; information sheets sent to graduates by the University of London, 1934; papers on Pargeter's graduation ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, 8 May 1935; King's College London tie and blazer pocket embroidered 'K.C.L.Bn.C'.

Photocopies of manuscripts of Jozsef Pesti's political poems from 1956, in Hungarian with English translations, together with an extract from the catalogue of the Manuscript Department of the Széchenyi Library relating to the manuscripts.

Papers of Douglas Ellory Pett, 1942-2005, including essay by Pett entitled 'The Christian as Citizen' (Winner of the Warden's Essay Prize), [1947]; essay by Pett entitled 'The Cavalier Poets - Carew, Suckling and Lovelace' (Winner of the Plumptre Prize for English Literature), [1947]; black and white photographs including of staff and students of King's College London English School, 1942-1943; staff and students of King's College London Faculty of Theology, 1946-1947 and 1947-1948; staff and students of King's College London Faculty of Theology at St. Boniface College, Warminster in Michaelmas term, 1948; staff and students of King's College London Faculty of Theology at St Boniface College, Warminster, 1949; King's College London discus medals, awarded to Pett, 1946, 1947 and programme from the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Douglas Ellory Pett, including biography of Pett and tributes from Sir Ian Gainsford and Dr Rob Senior.

Manuscript notes (attributed to F P Pickering, [1962]) on Johannes Rathofer, Der Heliand: theologischer Sinn als tektonische Form (Koln, 1962).

Literary papers of Adolf Placzek and Ernst Philip, 1966-2000, comprising:
Adolf Placzek: typescripts of eight plays, seven short prose works by Adolf Placzek, 1968-1994; typescripts of poems by Adolf Placzek, 1940-1982, some in memory of Jan Struther (d 1954).
Ernst Philipp: typescripts of literary works, 1966-1994;
Miscellaneous papers including obituary of Placzek from The Independent, Apr 2000; correspondence between M C Ives and the Institute of Germanic Studies relating to the Placzek/Philipp papers; typescript of article by Ives Cousins in exile: an anthology [undated].

Translations from Russian literature by S W Pring including translations of short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; translation of the composer Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov's memoirs; correspondence relating to the possible publication in book form of Pring's translation of correspondence between Rimsky-Korsakov and Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev.

The catalogued Pamphlet Collection comprises over 12,000 titles dating from approximately 1830 to the present. The Pamphlet Collection consists of printed material less than 60 pages in length and includes government policies, reports, annual reports and campaigning material, primary law, including Bills and Acts. The subject material of the collection reflects and enriches the wide range of topics held elsewhere in the Women's Library.The topics covered include: English fiction, children's stories, poetry, women's organisations, feminism, role of women in society - UK and abroad, nursing, sex discrimination law, divorce law, employment, occupations, careers, equal opportunities, labour law, pension law, social security, taxation, housing, health, pregnancy, abortion, birth control, domestic violence, mothers, one-parent families, children, family life, housekeeping, religion, ordination, arts, costume, suffrage. Organisations include Equal Opportunities Commission, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, National Union of Suffragettes, National Society for Women's Suffrage, US Women's Bureau, American National Red Cross, Union of Jewish Women, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, National Federation of Women's Institutes, Fawcett Society, National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child, British Federation of University Women, Association of University Women Teachers, Divorce Law Reform Union. Most of the material is in English, but there are also pamphlets in other languages, such as Italian, German and French.The pamphlets are arranged in two sections - one for standard sized pamphlets and one for oversized pamphlets.

The 'UDC Pamphlet Collection' [Universal Dewey Decimal Classification]: In addition to the main Pamphlet Collection is the 'UDC Pamphlet Collection.' The UDC collection was the first pamphlet collection created by the Library and consists of approximately 10,000 pamphlets dating from mid nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries, covering all subjects. As the collection was gradually acquired during the Library's first 20 years of life, it was arranged by subject, using the Universal Decimal Classification system. The pamphlets were primarily deposited by organisations and individuals, although some purchases were made. There is a finding aid kept with the collection but the collection was never catalogued and therefore remained a hidden resource within the Library for more than 80 years. Unsurprisingly other libraries did not collect most of these pamphlets. In 2007 as part of a cataloguing funding bid preliminary sampling of the collection against Copac (the merged online catalogues of 24 university research libraries in the UK, plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland) found that over 60% of the UDC pamphlets were not listed in these major research collections. This is a very significant level of unique printed material.Cataloguing of the UDC collection started in 2007 and as the pamphlets are catatogued, they are transferred to the main pamphlet collection described above. As at 2009 the collection was partially catalogued and The Library was seeking additional funds to complete the project.

Over 3,000 periodical titles are held dating from 1745, some in single issues, but many in complete or representative runs. The Periodicals Collection brings together academic, popular and campaigning women's journals in one location and gives a unique insight into periodicals published about, for and by women. Titles range from commercially-produced popular magazines (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan), to academic quarterlies (Gender and History, Feminist Review), organisational journals (One Parent Families, National Association of Women Pharmacists), special interest publications (Executive Black Woman), and older titles such as the English Woman's Journal. Many of these titles are not held in other research collections. The non-commercial nature of many of these periodicals with limited self-published print runs, resulted in periodicals that were issued irregularly, on poor quality paper and often only selectively deposited with the main copyright libraries.

COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED

The Library's collection of commercially published magazines, a key resource for research into social history and popular culture, begins with the Ladies' Almanack of the 1740s and documents women's fashion and domestic concerns from runs of the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, The Queen, Ladies' Magazine, Ladies Monthly Magazine and Lady, Gentlewoman, in the 19th century; Home Chat, Woman's Weekly, Woman, Woman's Own, Honey,, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire in the 20th century; Grazia, Glamour and Easy Living of more recent years. Also included are some magazines aimed at girls and young women such as The Girls' Own Paper, Petticoat, Just 17 and Jackie.

FEMINIST AND CAMPAIGNING

At the heart of the Periodical Collection are the women's campaigning journals and feminist periodicals. The collection of feminist periodicals at The Women's Library is unrivalled in its extent and breadth. It begins with the English Woman's Journal of the mid-19th century, and continues with titles such as The Young Women and includes complete runs of titles such as The Women's Penny Paper, the Woman's Herald, Victoria Magazine, the Woman's Signal, the Woman's Leader, Englishwoman's Review, Englishwoman, Freewoman, Time and Tide, Woman's Gazette, and Shafts all of which were key to the development of feminist theory and progressive ideas.

SUFFRAGE

The Library's extensive collection of suffrage periodicals is central to the study of women's rights in the 20th century, titles including Votes for Women, Common Cause, Woman's Dreadnought, The Vote, the Women's Suffrage Journal, Women's Franchise, the Suffragette Newssheet, the Independent Suffragette, Britannia, and the Suffragette as well as titles such as the Anti-Suffrage Review.

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

The collection of journals documenting 'second-wave' feminism in the UK includes complete runs of titles such as Spare Rib and Trouble and Strife and near complete runs of other liberation titles such as Red Rag, Shrew, WIRES, Outwrite and the London Women's Liberation Newsletter. Regional involvement was an integral part of the movement and this is charted through a number of regional titles including Brighton and Hove Women's Liberation Group, Edinburgh Women's Liberation newsletter, Leeds Women's Liberation newsletter, Leicester Women's Liberation newsletter, Manchester Women's Liberation newsletter and Norwich Women's Centre newsletter.

CONTEMPORARY FEMINISTS

The periodical holdings continue to document the development of contemporary feminism, sometimes referred to as 'third wave', with titles including Verve and Subtext. Additional contemporary feminist publications can be found within our 'zine' collection (dating from 2002).

WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS

Periodicals created by women's organisations, networks and campaigns. These can include weekly or monthly newsletters and magazines aimed at members, quarterly and annual journals aimed at members and a wider academic audience, and annual reports aimed at a wider audience. Given the short life of many campaigning organisations, their newsletters and bulletins often provide the main record of their activities. Few of these publications are held elsewhere, and they are only selectively deposited with national collections, organisations include: the Fawcett Society, National Council of Women, The National Federation of Women's Institutes (Home and Country), Townswomen's Guilds (The Townswoman), UK Federation of Business and Professional Women, Girls' Friendly Society, Executive Black Woman, Catholic Citizen and National Association of Women Pharmacists document women's efforts to come together to improve the quality of their lives.

SPECIALIST INTEREST

Whilst retaining the collecting focus of women's lives in the UK, there are a number of subject specialist interest areas including:

• The Arts - titles such as Feminist Arts News, Heresies: a feminist publication on art and politics, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, Vogue and Women's Art Magazine.

• Domestic Violence - titles such as Rights of Women Bulletin, Violence Against Women: an international interdisciplinary journal and Women at War: preventing gun violence, WAVAV - Women Against Violence Against Women.

• Education - titles such as Gender and Education, The Woman Teacher, Gen: an anti-Sexist Education Journal, British Federation of University Women, and The Parents' Review.

• Employment - titles such as Work and Leisure, Women's Union Journal, Labour Woman, Women's Trade Union Review, Equality Now: magazine of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Executive Woman, the Woman Worker, The Woman Engineer: journal of the Woman's Engineering Society and Double shift: working women's newsletter.

• Family and the home - titles such as Women's Weekly, Woman's Own, Family Planning Today and New Home economics.

• Feminist Theory - titles such as Feminist Studies, Feminist Economics, Feminist Theory, and the International Journal of Feminist Studies.

• Health - titles such as Women and Health, Top Sante, London Black Women's Health Action project newsletter and Mental Health.

• Law - titles such as ALRA newsletter: Campaigning for a Woman's Right to Choose on Abortion, Family Law, Individualist: monthly journal of personal rights, Lesbian Employment Rights, and Rights of Women Bulletin, National Abortion Campaign.

• Literature - titles such as Mslexia, Silver Moon Quarterly and Writing Women.

• Media - titles such as Feminist Media Studies, The Woman Journalist and Women's Media Action Bulletin.

• Medicine - titles such as Women in Medicine: newsletter of the Medical Women's Federation and National Association of Women Pharmacists newsletter.

• Motherhood - titles such as Home and Family: journal of the Mother's Union, Journal of Marriage and Family, Maternity Alliance, Gingerbread, One Parent Families, World Congress of Mothers News and Information.

• Sexuality - titles such as Sappho, Sex Roles: a journal of research, Journal of the history of sexuality, Chroma, Diva, Arena Three and Dykelife.

• Women and peace - titles such as Woman today, Greenham Newsletter, Peace and Freedom News: journal of the British Section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sellafield Women's Peace Camp Newsletter, Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Newsletter and WoMenwith Hill: Women's Peace Camp Newsletter.

• Politics - titles such as Equal Opportunities International, Gender and Society and the NAWO e-bulletin (National Alliance of Women's Organisations).

• Prostitution - titles such as The Shield: to promote the repeal of Contagious Diseases Act, Network: news from the English Collective of Prostitutes and WHISPER: Women hurt in systems of prostitution engaged in revolt.

• Ethnicity - titles such as Pride, Race Today and Manushi.

• Religion - titles such as Church Militant, Jewish Women's Review, Catholic Citizen, Newsheet/Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Solidarity Network, and Movement for the Ordination of Women.

• Science and Technology are The Woman Engineer, Science for People, Women Chemists Newsletter and Forum: Journal of the Association for Women in Science and Engineering.

• Sport - titles such as Poise: the Health and beauty magazine, Ladies' Alpine Club, The Dyke: Lesbian Walkers' Magazine, Women in Sport: the Voice of Women's Sport and Outdoor Women.

Photographs, with captions from an unidentified Soviet exhibition on Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The photographs depict Pushkin's literary entourage and title pages of Pushkin's works, illustrations of productions and sketches for productions of Pushkin's works and commorations of the centenary of Pushkin's death (1937) in schools and factories.

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

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.

Notebooks, [1922-1991]; manuscripts including "Emancipated Women", "Heart-Shaped Ladies"; Library Association papers, 1959-1972; correspondence with Philip Larkin, 1965; diary, 1966-1970.

Dissertation by Ekaterina Borisovna Rogachevskaia presented to the Mirovoi Literary Institute, Moscow, 1993 entitled "Molitvoslovnoe tvorchestvo Kirilla Turovskogo (problemy tekstologii i poetiki" [Prayer studies of Kirilla Turovskogo: problems of textual criticism and poetics]

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.

5 letters and cards from George Edward Bateman Saintsbury of 1 Royal Crescent, Bath to Miss Brenda E Spender, 1929-1932.

All items are autograph, with signatures.

Correspondence, [1940-1989], about his texts, mainly in regard to the work of William Wordsworth and John Bunyan, including one photocopy of a letter from Professor Clive Staples Lewis about Bunyan, 1963; proofs, offprints and typescript texts, reflecting Sharrock's own literary work (including poems), and literary criticism including Spiritual autobiography in the pilgrim's progress, Keats and the young lovers, preface for Classic English short stories 1989; copy of a booklet by Sharrock The chemist and the poet: Sir Humphry Davy and the preface to lyrical ballads (Reprinted from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol 17, no 1, May 1962).

Unpublished play entitled "Syn Aleksandra", written by Dmitrii Shliapentokh, probably in the 1980s or early 1990s.

Typescripts of lectures given by Archibald Riddell Sinclair on Janos Arany and William Shakespeare, and on Robert Burns and Sandor Petöfi. The latter lecture was given on Burns Night, 1962-1963