File consists of "A Note on Captain John Williams of the Chilean Navy" by an unknown author. The information was written up for Bertram R. Davis on the bequest of H.W.F. Usher, around the time of the Chilean war ship named for John Williams coming to Bristol under command of Commander Boris Kopaitic.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to All American Cables.

File consists of a an excerpt from the original 1789 edition of William Barrett's "History & Antiquities of the City of Bristol." This excerpt relates to Chatterton, and includes inserted plates, some of which may be extraneous. Barrett was known to have believed Chatterton's Rowley story and to have published the information as fact, before the scandal broke.

File consists of one item of correspondence from William Batheitwell.

File consists of three items of correspondence from Whitfield Bell Jr.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Rhoda Bennett.

File consists of four items of correspondence from G.E. Bentley, Jr.

Collection consists of materials created and accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on the history of Bristol and the romantics. Includes correspondence between 164 correspondents, 45 manuscript groups, research notes, photographs, clippings, articles, offprints, excerpts, and other ephemera. Also included is a file of correspondence from Bertram donated by Kenneth Curry and a file of correspondence relating to portraits of Southey donated by Dr. Warren U. Ober.

Series consists of research files created and accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on his various areas of interest. Includes files on Coleridge, Wordsworth, Chatterton, Southey, Lamb, and others, as well as personal research files.

The collection centres on Robert Southey and Bristol and gives an overview of the social, political, and literary upheaval which gave birth to the Romantic movement and shaped the rest of the nineteenth century. The collection also contains material on Spain, Portugal and Brazil, Russia and Napoleon, France and the Revolution, as well as numerous works on travel in the British Isles and elsewhere. Also present is a selection of twentieth-century works which elucidate Bertram Davis' interests, friendships, and scholarly connections.

Almost all of Robert Southey's published works are represented, and almost all of these are in the first edition. Several works were formerly owned by Robert Southey.

The University of Waterloo has published a catalogue of the collection: Catalogue of the Bertram R. Davis "Robert Southey" Collection compiled by Jane Britton (PR4467 .U55x 1990).

File consists of Bertram R. Davis' review of "Coleridge" by Walter Jackson Bate from an unknown journal.

File consists of a bibliography of works about Southey by an unknown author.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Edmund Blunden.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Boots Cash Chemists.

File consists of fifty items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Nellie A. Boult.

File consists of forty three items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Nellie A. Boult.

Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles (who became Mrs. Robert Southey). March 1, 1828. Says he would be glad to send her his "plain statements, of all the circumstances of the case of the poor woman whom I was able to deliver from her horrible doom." Deals with other matters also.

Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. May 16, [1829?]. Forwards letter addressed to her but delivered to him by mistake. Compliments her as creative artist of letters. Refers warmly to Southey. Long, detailed letter.

Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. July 13, 1831. Informal, friendly letter discussing their name, speaking of his unfurnished house, their going with Mrs. Bowles to some destination.

Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. June 30, 1831. Long letter beginning with reference to a book he has completed, one that should reach her soon. He speaks of their common friend Southey and his activities in literature and in the press.

Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. June 1, 1832. Apparently encloses poetry (ms.? or book?) Mentions someone to whom he alludes in the preface. Comments on "disgusting and stupid bards of the pantry and wash-house." Unpublished?

Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. June 5, 1832. Refers to the crisis facing the nation. Begs her to assure her friend of Bowles's esteem and respect. Bowles hopes that nothing he's said will offend her friend.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Keith Brace of The Birmingham Post.

File consists of three items of correspondence from Heather Bremer [?].

File consists of the section "Brief Articles and Notes" from volume XXIX, no. 4 of Philological Quarterly. This section contains a short article by Raymond D. Havens titled "A Theft in the Annual Register" pages 416-417. A presentation copy, the inscription on the recto reads "Bertram Davis in his eager intellect in literature may find something of interest here, but hardly on pg. 416-417. R.D. Havens."

File consists of one item of correspondence from The British Council.

File consists of two items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Bertrand Bronson.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Daphne DuMaurier, Lady Browning.

File consists of four items of correspondence from Alexander M. Buchan.

File consists of twenty eight items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Adolfo de Oliveira Cabral as well as an obituary for Cabral.

File consists of fifteen items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Maria de Gloria Ramos de Oliveria Cabral.

File consists of one item of correspondence from John Calme.

File consists of forty three of items of correspondence from Geoffrey Carnall.

File consists of Geoffrey Carnall's article "Southey and Wordsworth's 'The Idiot Boy'."

File consists of two of items of correspondence from Revd. Canon R.F. Cartwright.

File consists of three items of correspondence from Artur Simoes Cascas.

File consists of a typed transcription of the Chattertonian Manuscript, possibly by George Catcott. The manuscript is comprised of works by Chatterton, a history of the Rowley affair, letters from Chatterton to Catcott, with notes by Catcott throughout. This typed copy has been bound together with an index and table of contents. In the front of the book is laid in a signature of Thomas Chatterton and its accompanying auction notice, as well as a letter regarding the authenticity of the signature. Also included is a print showing George Catcott.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to the Charles Lamb Society Bulletin.

File consists of thirteen editions of the Charles Lamb Society Bulletin: October 1970, July 1970, October 1969, April 1968, March 1964, October 1971, January 1972, January 1971, April 1970, October 1969, January 1971, July 1971.

File consists of one copy of Thomas Chatterton's play "Aella" along with a program from when the play was performed at Colston's School for the 200th anniversary of Chatterton's death. Chatterton attended Colston's School and wrote Aella immediately after leaving. This production was the first time it was performed, and was transcribed by Basil Cottle. File also includes ten photographs of the play being performed.

File consists of one hundred twenty eight clippings on the life and works of Thomas Chatterton.

File consists of forty clippings on the life and works of Thomas Chatterton, including a nine-teen part serial from the Western Daily Press Saturday Supplement.

File consists of a copy of Thomas Chatterton's "Knightes Templaries Chyrche" which he alleged to have been written by Thomas Rowley.

File consists of Chatterton's poem "Lines on Redcliffe Church." The poem is torn from a book (possibly John Britton's "An Historical and Architectural Essay Relating to Redcliffe Church, Bristol. Also, an Essay on the Life and Character of Thomas Chatterton") and mounted on a heavy stock paper.

File consists of research information and ephemera created or accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on Thomas Chatterton. Includes articles and photocopies, two photographs of Chatterton House (which has since been torn down), a programme for the dedication of Chatterton House, a report on the Chatterton memorial and proposition for a new one, a copy of "A New Catalogue of Chatterton MS Material", Chatterton: A Monologue, notes by Davis, a chronology of Rowley, a poem attributed to Rowley, and information on a potential Chatterton portrait by Gainsborough.

File consists of one manuscript titled "Chattertonian ms." The manuscript itself is a transcribed typed copy of the original, which was compiled and written by George Catcott. Catcott was the first person to be approached by Chatterton regarding the Thomas Rowley poems. The manuscript includes passages from works by Thomas Chatterton, letters to and from Catcott and Chatterton, as well as notes by Catcott on Chatterton and the Thomas Rowley affair. Inlaid in the front of the book is a signature of Thomas Chatterton's as well as a letter addressing the authenticity of the signature. Also included is a print of George Catcott. The bookplate reads "Conrad P. Fry oneth me is me jure tenet, and this booke confesse to be quieunque me invenit."

File consists of two items of correspondence from A.D. Gordon Cheyne.

File consists of four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and the clerk of Christ's Hospital.

File consists of fifty seven items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Kathleen Coburn.

File consists of twenty one clippings on the life and works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

File consists of research materials created and accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Includes copies of letters from Coleridge and his daughter Sara, notes by Davis, copies of Coleridge poems, and a letter from Davis to an unknown correspondent on Coleridge.

Clipping of poem "The Kiss and the Blush" from Morning Post (?) May 12, 1803. ("My gentle, Grace, I did but seek"). Initialed "S.T.C." in Coleridge's autograph.

Untitled note in Coleridge's hand. Original envelope states "Autograph of Coleridge with Southey's attestation." (Nothing in Southey's hand) 2 pages on one sheet. "Now placed in vol. II of S.T. Coleridges Poet & Dramatic Works - page 86. Side by side with the poem it gives in ms. E. Dowden July 30, 1883." Dowden was a distinguished early scholar in the Romantic movement.

Clipping of poem "The Lethargist and Mad (man?)" from Morning Post (?) 1799-1800? no. 9679. ("In Good King Olem's Reign, I've read"). Initialed "S.T.C." in Coleridge's autograph.

File consists of two items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Ivor Collis.

Series consists of approximately 5,900 items of correspondence between 165 correspondents. Includes correspondence to and from Bertram R. Davis, correspondence to and from unknown correspondents, and correspondence between others. Also includes two files of correspondence on a specific topic. One file is on portraits of Southey and the other is on the Portugues author Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz.
Correspondents include:

• All American Cables
• Baldwyn, L.
• Bathietwell, William
• Beddoe, Dorothy
• Bell, Whitefield Jr.
• Bennett, Rhoda
• Bentley, G.E. Jr.
• Bernard Quariten Ltd.
• Blunden, Edmund
• Boots Cash Chemists
• Boult, Nellie A.
• Boyce, R.R.
• Brace, Keith
• Bremer, Heather
• Bremner, Robert
• British Council, The
• British Museum, The
• Bronson, Bertrand
• Browning, Daphne DuMaurier
• Buchan, Alexander M.
• Cabral, Adolfo De Oliveira
• Cabral, Maria de Gloria Ramos de Oliveira
• Calme, John
• Carnall, Geoffrey
• Cartwright, Revd. Canon R.F.
• Cascas, Artur Simoes
• Charles Lamb Society Bulletin
• Cheyne, A.D. Gordon
• Christ’s Hosptial
• Coburn, Kathleen
• Collis, Ivan
• Crook, Arthur
• Crowsley, Ernest G.
• Curry, Kenneth
• Darbshire, Helen
• Davis, Annabel
• Davis, Doris
• Davis, Watson
• de Eca de Queiroz, Antonio
• de Eca de Quieroz de Castro, Maria
• De Sousa-Lead, J.
• do Ceu Costa, Maria
• Early, Benjamin W.
• Early, Margaret Sue
• Edward, P. Welson
• Espstein, Jason
• Faliscue-Brickdale, Matthew
• Filler, Louis
• Fisher, Dorothy
• Fitzgerald, Maurice
• Flack, Ellis
• Flack, G. Ellis
• Fox, Levi
• Gandy, Norman
• Gardner, WH.
• Garlick, Kenneth
• Gayford, J.C.
• Gibbs, Donald T.
• Goodland, Alice
• Green-Armytage, R.N.
• Griggs, Earl Leslie
• Haller, William
• Harris, Roy
• Haugh, W.S.
• Havens, Raymond D.
• Heaton, P.
• Highman, Norman
• His Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador
• Hoover, Ben
• Hope, Warren T.
• Hough, Henry B.
• Howe, H.W.
• Hynes, Mary
• Kaderley, Nat Lewis
• Kaderly, Nat Lewis
• Kaufman, Paul
• Keens, R. Lyall
• Kew, S.F.
• Kopaitic, Boris (Commander)
• Kuhn, A.J.
• Kurahashi, J.
• Lamoine, Georges
• Laverick, D.M.
• Lee, Chi-Pui
• Lindsay, Philip C.
• Looker, Samuel J.
• Lowes, John Livingston
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive
• Manogue, Ralph Anthony
• Mansfield, John
• Mason, A.S.
• Massey-Stewart, John
• McElderry, Bruce Robert
• Merritt, Theodore E.
• Metford, J.C.J.
• Meyerstein, E.H.W.
• Middendorf, John H.
• Middleton, Arthur Pierce
• Miller, C.A.
• Mooman, Mary
• Moore, R.W.
• Morgan, P.F.
• Morley, E.J.
• Morris, Christopher
• Munday, Katherine
• Mure, G.R.G.
• New House Museum
• Nowell, Charles
• Nunes de Silva, Henrique
• Ober, Warrun U.
• Ormond, R.L.
• Osborne, Edgar
• Peck, Walter Edwin
• Penney, Clara L.
• Pinney, Hester
• Pinto, Abranches
• Pleasance, Antony C.
• Polhemus, George W.
• Prabhakar, T.
• Pugsley, N.S.E.
• Purchase, J.L.
• Raepe, Elizabeth
• Ramos, Charles
• Rawnsley, E.F.
• Rawnsley, H.D.
• Reeves, Florence S.
• Rich, Norman
• Rodgers, Betsy
• Ross, Archibald
• Ross, James
• Russell, P.E.
• Shaffer, Elinor
• Shaver, Chester L.
• Simmons, Jack
• Smith, Elsie
• Smith, H.G.
• Sproule, Hugh
• Sypher, Gale
• Sypher, Lucy
• Sypher, Wylie
• Taylor, Donald
• Taylor, L. Acland
• Taylor, Rachel
• Thompson, J.E.
• Thone, Frank
• Times Literary Supplement, The
• Times, The
• Times, The
• Turnbull, J.M.
• University of Toronto Quarterly
• Usher, H.W.F.
• Wakefield, [?]
• Waller, Robert
• Wallis, F.S.
• Wasserman, Earl R.
• Watson, Rowland
• Wells, Charles
• West, S. George
• Whalley, George
• Whiting, F.
• Wilkinson, Norman B.
• Williams, M.G.
• Williams, Rev. H. Fulford
• Wilson, R.A.
• Woof, Robert

File consists of sixteen items of correspondence from others to others. Includes letters to Bertram's wife Doris and daughter Annabel as well as letters to and from colleagues, researchers and friends.
Correspondents include:

• Bernard Quariten Ltd.
• British Museum
• Carnall, Geoffrey
• Davis, Annabel
• Davis, Doris
• Faliscue-Brickdale, Matthew
• Fisher, Dorothy
• Gibbs, Donald T.
• Griggs, Earl Leslie
• Haugh, W.S.
• Havens, Raymond D.
• Heaton, P.
• Hough, Henry B.
• Kaderly, Nat Lewis
• Kaufman, Paul
• Kopaitic, Boris
• Lamoine, Georges
• Laverick, D.M.
• Penney, Clara L.
• Purchase, J.L.
• Rawnsley, H.D.
• Sypher, Gale
• Sypher, Lucy
• Wakefield, [?]

File consists of seventy seven items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and others regarding Portuguese author Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz and his time living and working in Bristol. Also includes a copy of a period letter, and a note with a tribute to Eca de Queiroz. File was separated by Davis.
Correspondents include:

• Beddoe, Dorothy (Max Reinholdt Ltd.)
• Boyce, R.R.
• Bremner, Robert
• Cabral, Adolfo de Oliveira
• Cascas, Artur Simoes
• Castro, Maria de Eca de Queiroz
• do Ceu Costa, Maria
• de Eca de Queiroz, Antonio
• His Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador
• Massey-Stewart, John
• Metford, J.C.J.
• Nunes de Silva, Henrique
• Pinto, Abranches
• Times, The
• Times Literary Supplement

File consists of thirty two items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and others regarding portraits of Southey and contemporaries. Also includes a clipping on portraits of Sara Coleridge and Edith May Southey as well as photocopy of "Breun's Manuscript Catalogue of Engraved Portraits." A glass jar of shells collected by Southey's daughter Edith May (later Warter) and presented to Bertram R. Davis by Edith's granddaughter Mrs. F.F. Boult is also included. File and shells were donated separately by Dr. Warren U. Ober in 2012.
Correspondents include:

• Baldwyn, L (Folio Fine Art Ltd.)
• British Museum, The (Prints and Portraits)
• Curry, Kenneth
• Fox, Levi (The Shakespeare Birthplace and Trust)
• Gandy, Norman (Keswick Museum)
• Garlick, Kenneth
• Kuhn, A.J.
• New House Museum, Curator
• Ormond, R.L. (National Portrait Gallery)
• Simmons, Jack
• Warter, Henry de Grey

File consists of copies of Joseph Cottle's letters, along with notes on the letters and an introduction to them.

File consists of nineteen items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Ernest G. Crowsley.

File consists of thirty eight items of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to Kenneth Curry. Items were donated separately by Curry and as such are not included in File 74. Many items feature fire damage and in some cases words are illegible.

File consists of sixty five items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Kenneth Curry.

File consists of twenty nine items of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to Kenneth Curry. Also includes pamphlets and offprints sent to Curry by Davis, and three photographs. Items were donated separately by Curry and as such are not included in File 74. Many items feature fire damage and in some cases words are illegible.

File consists of eighty four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Kenneth Curry.

File consists of an excerpt from Kenneth Curry's "New Letters of Robert Southey" on Edward Southey, younger brother of Robert Southey.

File consists of Kenneth Curry's essay "Portugal", detailing a trip he took to the country.

File consists of a listing of Southey references used by Kenneth Curry in his chapter on Southey in the forthcoming Modern Languages Society book on the romantics.

File consists of Kenneth Curry's article "T.S. Coleridge."

File consists of an article by Kenneth Curry titled "The Contributors to the Annual Anthology", along with a listing of contributors.

File consists of six items of correspondence from Helen Darbshire.

File consists of a transcription of a lecture by Bertram R. Davis titled "Some Literary Associations of Bristol" given at the British Council Centre as part of a course on English Language and Literature arranged by the British Council on August 6th, 1953. Also includes two additional copies of the portion of the talk regarding Robert Southey.

File consists of a transcription of a lecture given by Bertram R Davis on Thomas Chatterton for the opening of Chatterton House on October 20, 1958. The transcript shows edits and changed by Davis. Also includes a portion of a revised transcript. Chatterton house has since been torn down and the commemorative plaque from the occasion has been moved to the office building now on the lot.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Davis Watson of Social Science Magazine.

File consists of three items of correspondence from J. de Sousa-Lead.

File consists of eight items of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to Maria d'Eca de Queiroz de Castro. Note that correspondence between the two can also be found in File .

File consists of two items of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to Maria do Ceu Costa.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Edward P. Weslon.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Jason Epstein of Doubleday and Company.

File consists of four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Louis Filler.

File consists of thirty nine items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald and one from wife Isla Fitzgerald regarding her husband's death.

File consists of forty items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of forty four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of forty items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of forty three items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of forty nine items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of thirty one items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of three items of correspondence from G. Ellis Flack, librarian at The University, Notingham.

File consists of one item of correspondence from W.H. Gardner.

File consists of one item of correspondence from J.C. Gayford on behalf of The British Council.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to Alice Goodland.

File consists of eleven items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and R.N. Green-Armytage.

File consists of thirty nine items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Earl Leslie Griggs.

File consists of thirty five items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Earl Leslie Griggs.

File consists of a an excerpt from "Places of the Mind" by Geoffrey Grigson.

File consists of Mrs. C.S. (Anna Maria) Hall's article "Pilgrimages to English Shrines: The Birthplace of Thomas Chatterton" from The Art-Journal. The pages of this article have been torn from the journal. The article was also reproduced in a book of collected Pilgrimages to English Shrines in 1850.

File consists of ten items of correspondence from William Haller.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Roy Harris.

File consists of four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and W.S. Hough, Librarian, Bristol Public Libraries.