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Links to and images of (mostly literary) manuscripts. For pictures of writers and other images associated with them and their works, see Images (Novels) and Images (Poetry) Some of these images may take a minute or so to download. Sources: Where the source is the British Library this is clear from the red tab on the bottom right-hand corner of the manuscript facsimile, I have therefore not inserted a separate acknowledgement for these manuscripts.
List of Manuscripts (mostly by writers) Auden, Broadside Ballads, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Fanny Burney, Byron, Canterbury Tales, Coleridge, Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, T.S. Eliot, Emblem Books, Gutenberg Bible, Thomas Hardy, Herbert, Joyce, Keats, Kipling, Machiavelli, Marvell, Old English Manuscripts, Runic Inscriptions, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Wordsworth
W H Auden Autograph Manuscript of "Musee des Beaux Arts". (Source: www.loc.gov/exhibits/ british/images/vc209.jpg)
Click here for the Bodleian's on-line catalogue (with some facsimiles) of 16th -20thcentury Broadside Ballaed Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
Autograph fair copy of the opening page, and of another page, of 'Jane Eyre', written out by Charlotte Bronte between 16 and 19 March 1847
Autograph fair copy, with revisions, of two poems of Emily Bronte. 'Lord of Elbe, on Elbe Hill', signed and dated 19 August 1837. 'To a Wreath of snow, by A. G. Almeda', signed and dated December 1837
Autograph copy of the opening page of 'The Gondal Poems', dated 6 March 1837
Sonnets from the Portuguese. Autograph manuscript, with corrections, of Sonnet XLIII [How do I love thee?].1846. Autograph copy, with corrections, of Sonnet XLIV. [Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers]. Wimpole Street, September 1846
Pages 1-3 of a letter from EBB (Source: Citation Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Autograph fair copy of the opening page of Browning's poem 'The Ring and the Book', as sent to the printers for the first edition published by Smith, Elder and Co., in four volumes between 21 November 1868 and 27 February 1869. The epic poem, woven around a late-seventeenth century account of murder, was inspired by a collection of documents Browning discovered in a 'square old yellow book' bought from a market stall in Florence. 1868. (Source: British Library)
Details of this image are written at the bottom of the image. (Source: www.jimandellen.org/
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George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
3 pages of a letter from Byron (Citation Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Click here for digitalised facsimile of the first (1476) and second (1483) editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (from the British Library) : Canterbury Tales
Autograph fair copy, with corrections and revisions, of 'Kubla Khan', first page, lines 1-37. circa 1797-1804
Autograph fair copy of 'Kubla Khan', second page, lines 38-54, followed by a note in which Coleridge states that the poem was composed in an opium-induced reverie
Autograph draft, with revisions, of ' The Destiny of Nations', 1796 (Source: British Library)
Pages2- 4 of a Coleridge MS (Citation Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Letter from Conrad to Jack London (Source: www.huntington.org)
Pages from Victory with annotations in Conrad's hand (Source: www.huntington.org)
(Click here for an interesting short article about the preservation of Dickens's manuscripts http://www.vam.ac.uk/nal/publications/dickens/)
Oliver Twist. Preface to the present edition. MS. Dickens, 1850.
Autograph fair copy of the opening of chapter 1 of 'Middlemarch'. The manuscript was sent by Mary Ann Evans to the printer. 1871
Letter from George Eliot (Source: Citation Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Page from The Wastland Typescript with alterations (Source: www.english.ucsb.edu/)
Click here for the Penn State University On-Line Emblem Books Site. These Emblem Books are mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries: English Emblem Book Project
Click here for digitalised facsimiles of the British Library's two copies of the (1455) Gutenberg Bible
Opening page of the autograph manuscript of Tess of the D' Urbervilles. 1891
"Easter Wings" from The Temple (here, apparently, called "The Church"), 1633. (Source: www.luminarium.org/ sevenlit/herbert/ewings.jpg)
Page from the manuscript of Ulysses (facsimile) (Source: Ulysses.html)
Proof of a page of Ulysses with author's alterations. (Source: Ulysses.html)
Page 9 of Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' Notebook VI.B.15 (Source: www.antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com/ GJS/joyce1.jpg)
Autograph first page of Hyperion
(Source: englishhistory.net/
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Letter to Haydon (Source: englishhistory.net/.../ images/keatstohaydon1.jpg)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Autograph fair copy of page from the Jungle Book (Source: www.loc.gov/exhibits/ british/images/vc203a.jpg)
Typed Letter Signed, "Rudyard Kipling", one page, oblong, octavo, dated November 16, 1908, on imprinted "Bateman's Burwash, Sussex" stationary, his legendary estate. (Source: www.ehistorybuff.com/ sk/kipling_tls.jpg) 
Nicolo Machiavelli
Prefazione ai Discorsi (Preface to the Discourses), 1518-1519
Letter (both sides) from Andrew Marvell to Edward Thompson (Citation Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado).
Back of letter from Marvell to Thompson, with address.
(details attached to image) (Source: www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/.../ 1000/imac0972.jpg)
(manuscript details attached to image. Source: www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/.../ 500/imac0969.jpg)
Runic Inscriptions
(Source: www.barnaland.is/ barn/20267)
Seigfreid Sassoon Autograph manuscript, 77 pages, 1906. (Source: www.columbia.edu/.../ images/200/323.jpg)
Anthem to Dead Youth (Source: www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/.../ mss/oefl/FascN/f247r.jpg)
Autograph fair copy of Mary Shelley's poem 'Ah! he is gone - and I alone', which explores the themes of loss and hope through the use of night and day imagery
Autograph draft of the first page of Shelley's political poem 'The Mask of Anarchy', provoked by the indignation at the 'Manchester Massacre' of August 1819; with small sketch. Autumn 1819
Autograph letter, with sketch of a pyramid of correspondence, from Lord Tennyson to W. C. Bennet. Faringford, Isle of Wight, 22 October 1864
Draft Page from Leaves of Grass (Source: Library of Congress Manuscript Division)
Autograph copy, with signature, of the sonnet 'Thoughts of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland'. 1807.
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