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File consists of C.E. Wright's "Manuscripts & Papers of Robert Southey."

Clipping of poem "Inscription for a Seat by a Road Side, Half Way up a Steep Hill, Facing the South" Morning Post (?) no. 10, 021 (Oct. 21, 1800?) ("thou, who in youthful vigour rich, and light") initialed W.W. in Wordsworth's autograph. Possibly actually T.S. Coleridge's poem.

File consists of research information and ephemera created or accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on William Wordsworth. Includes a brochure advertising Alfoxton Park as a rental home, a holiday homes guide that features Alfoxton Park, a programme for the 1971 Rydal Mount Summer School, a diary of events for the 1950 Wordsworth Centenary Celebration, a brochure on the Dove Cottage Trust centenary celebration, lists of centenary lectures, a portrait of Wordsworth scholar William Knight, pages taken from Notes and Queries that discuss Wordsworth, an auction notice for works of Wordsworth, and an article titled "Men and Women of Today" by John Galsworthy which mentions Dove Cottage.

File consists of copies of five items of correspondence from William Wordsworth to others, including Miss Taylor, John Taylor, Thomas Hervey and Robert Southey. Letters have ms. notations by Davis.

File consists of thirty clipping on the life and works of William Wordsworth.

File consists of a hand written copy of an account of the books lent out of the history room at William Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount.

File consists of sixteen items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Robert Woof.

File consists of one item of correspondence from R.A. Wilson of The British Museum.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Rev. H. Fulford Williams.

File consists of one item of correspondence from M.G. Williams.

File consists of four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Norman B. Wilkinson or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

File consists of four items of correspondence from F.A. Whiting.

File consists of five items of correspondence from George Whalley.

File consists of Sidney George West's "Robert Southy, The Rev. Herbert Hill and the Bishop of Beja."

File consists of six items of correspondence from S. George West.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Charles Wells.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Rowland Watson.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Earl R. Wasserman of The John Hopkins University.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Henry de Grey Warter.

Autograph transcription "copied from Cowper's sleeping room June 1833, Weston." Edith Mary Warter was Robert Southey's daughter.

File consists of one item of correspondence from F.S. Wallis of The City Museum.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Robert Waller of the British Broadcasting Company.

Series is comprised of visual materials accumulated by Bertram Davis. Includes a print of James Sharple's pastel portrait of Robert Southey.

File consists of seven items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and H.W.F. Usher.

Autograph glossary of dialect terms (Scottish?; Lake District?) one sheet (2 pages) in an unknown hand.

File consists of nineteen items of correspondence where the correspondent can not be identified, due to a lack of name, or to illegible handwriting. Includes correspondence both to and from Bertram R. Davis.

File consists of an article by an unknown author titled "Two Notes on Coleridge."

File consists of four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and J.M. Turnbull.

File consists of three items of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to The Times.

File consists of Bertram R. Davis' working files for his research on the story of the Three Bears. Includes notes, correspondence, six clippings, articles, and ephemera.
Correspondents include:

• Crook, Arthur
• Curry, Kenneth
• Davis, Bertram R.
• Early, Benjamin W.
• Early, Margaret Sue
• Flack, Ellis
• Kaderley, Nat Lewis
• Merritt, Theodore E.
• Mure, G.R.G.
• Ober, Warren U.
• Osborne, Edgar
• Rawnsley, E.F.
• Times Literary Supplement, The
• Times, The
• University of Toronto Quarterly

File consists of thirteen items of correspondence from Frank Thone.

File consists of an excerpt from a program giving information on Randall Thompson's "The Testament of Freedom."

File consists of one item of correspondence from J.E. Thompson of Keswick School House, Cumberland.

File consists of a copy of The Wordsworth Circle Journal from Autumn 1974. This issue is a catalogue of the Wordsworth Collection in Victoria University Library, Toronto.

File consists of excerpts of diary entries from The Publications of the Surtees Society's "The Diaries and Correspondence of James Losh."

File consists of a catalogue of the Collection of Eliana in the Edmonton Public Library and University Hall as published by The Charles Lamb Society.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Rachel Taylor.

File consists of one item of correspondence from L. Acland Taylor of City & Council of Bristol Municipal Public Libraries.

File consists of Donald S. Taylor's essay "The Authenticity of Chatterton's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse."

File consists of thirty seven items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Donald Taylor.

File consists of thirty seven items of correspondence from Wylie Sypher.

File consists of forty seven items of correspondence from Wylie Sypher as well as one joke poem written by Wylie Sypher about E.H.W. Meyerstein.

File consists of thirty nine items of correspondence from Wylie Sypher.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Hugh Sproule.

Autograph letter to "my dear H.T." February 23, 1837. Reports that the weather at Keswick "is as bad here as it was in London, but not so ugly, tho as ugly as it can be in such a country."

Autograph letter. October 22, 1836. Apologetically offers help to poor scholar who has applied to him for assistance. In doing his edition of Cowper he will need someone to indicate the lines of the original Homer included in each page of Cowper's translation. He will recommend that that publisher hire him.

Autograph letter. March 22, 1836. Hopes that the recipient obtains "the object of your petition." No Englishman had before him completed the expedition from Peru over the Andes and down the greatest river in South America. All merchants who trade with that part of the world have gained valuable information from his journal of the expedition.

Autograph letter to the Rev. John Horseman. December 21, 1835. "Renewing the acquaintance of his correspondent and giving him an account of himself and his family, referring to the tragic state (insanity) of his wife" (Southey at his best as a letter-writer).
Published in Kenneth Curry's New Letters, v. 2 p. 433.

Autograph letter to Dr. Henry Herbert Southey. December 21, 1833. Southey's son-in-law has been given the living of "Patching cum Terring" in Sussex.

Autograph letter (to Edward Quillinan who became William Wordsworth's son-in-law). November 14, 1829. Apologizes for not saying farewell at Rydal Mount. Was under the impression he was remaining until the next evening. Provides annotation for "Your very pleasing poem upon the resurrection of Barber's tree."

Autograph letter to "My dear H.T." June 4, 1829. Encloses a ballad for Allan C (unningham).

Autograph letter to Rev. Dr. Bell. February 27, 1828. Urges recipient not to worry about the matter that has been bothering him for so long. Now that he has established the discovery for his own, he should let the matter rest. Suggests meeting him in Cheltenham. Refers to Southey's daughter and son.

File consists of one illustrated short-story titled "Mary, the Maid of the Inn; An Affecting Narrative: Detailing, her Unfortunate and Ill-Requited Attachment; Her Singular Courage, and the Miraculous Manner in Which She Becomes an Instrument in the Discovery of a Murder, and Brining One of the Perpetrators to Condign Punishment. Describing, Also, the Wandering of the Unfortunate Mary, who Becomes a Wretched Maniac. From the Celebrated Poem, by Robert Southey, Which is Also Added Hereto." The book formerly belonged to Doris Davis.

Autograph sheet (2 pages). Outlines, memoranda, and lists of letters relating to Southey's work on Cowper.

Autograph notes published in Southey's Common-Place book, Second Series. Ed. John Wood Warter, London, Longmans, 1849. (Titles and a few footnotes supplied in pencil by Warter). Notes are listed below and keyed to the pages in which they appear in the Common-Place book. The first number is the page; the second gives the note's place on the page; a partial note at the top of a page is counted as no. 1.

• 403-2,5
• 404-2,3,4
• 405-2,3
• 406-2,3,4,5
• 407-2
• 516-6
• 517-1,2,3
• 518-2
• 519-1,2
• 521-4
• 635-3,4,5,6,7,8
• 636-5,6
• 637-4,5,6,7
• 638-2,3,4,5,6
• 639-2,5,6
• 640-2,3,4,8
• 641-3,4,6
• 642-2,4,5
• 643-1,3
• 644-2,5,6,7
• 645-1,2,4
• 646-2,3,4,5,6,7
• 647-1,7,8
• 648-2,6
• 650-4
• 651-2,3,5,6
• 652-3,6,
• 653-2,4,5,6,
• 654-2,3,5
• 655-3,4,6,7
• 656-2,6,7
• 657-2,5,6
• 658-1,2,3,5
• 659-2
• 660-2
• 661-3,4,5
• 662-4
• 663-4,6
• 664-2,3,5
• 665-3
• 666-2,5,9
• 667-2,3,4,5,7
• 668-1,2,3 and "the Old Tradesman's oath at Lucca"

Autograph pages from one of Southey's notebooks. Includes lists of Mexican, Greek, Oriental, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish names for possible use in his poetry. Includes ideas for subjects for poems. One or two of the names may have a genuine connection with the poetry of Coleridge. One leaf in Spanish, headed "Papel publico em Madrid..." Nine leaves. Also included is the original auction advertisement for the group.

Autograph sheets containing quotations, lists of words, references, etc. 18 small leaves.

Autograph booklet of quotations from various authors (9 x 10 cm). About twenty leaves originally; a few have been removed in part or completely.

Autograph sheets containing original memoranda, verse compositions (unpublished?), ideas for composition, and notes. 12 slips of paper.

Autograph sentence on the back of a frank of John Rickman, Clerk of the House of Commons. "If anything can be more detestable...it is the manner in which there have been attempts to gloss over actions which public opinion..." The small paper fragment has been set into a larger sheet of paper showing an explanation of the item.

Autograph prescription for treating "erisypelas measles and scarlet fever".

Autograph sentence beginning "indeed the adventurers arrived in fortunate time..."

Autograph passage dated April 2, 1805. Written in the form of a note in a common-place book, but it reads as if it is a letter from a gentleman to a lady.

Autograph list of Southey's contributions to the Quarterly Review. 100-plus items, 2 sheets.

Autograph list of names and London addresses.

"Document, signed, appointing his brother, Henry Herbert Southey, his lawful attorney, to receive any sum of money due to him as Poet Laureate." Also includes original auction advertisement for the item.

Autograph letter addressed to Treuttel and Wurtz (probably Treutel and Wurtz, publishers). August 11, 1827. Acknowledges receipt of Bank of England post-bill for £100.

Autograph letter. May 13, 1826. Mentions that a set of books directed by Southey in care of the recipient of the letter should have arrived.

Autograph letter to Charles Danvers. May 24, 1824. "Will leave tomorrow (Tuesday) at four p.m. and hopes to arrive at Danvers's door (in Bristol?) before three o'clock Wednesday."

Autograph letter to the Rev. Dr. Bell. April 23, 1816. Acknowledges receipt of weather-glass, damaged in shipment. Hartley Coleridge has fellowship at Oriel. Has had visitor: a professor of chemistry from Columbia College, New York.

Autograph letter to Thomas Southey (Robert's brother and an officer in the Royal Navy.) March 14-15, 1809. Discusses progress on poem "Curse of Kehama." Reports that the Quarterly Review has been published, mentions his and Walter Scott's contributions, editorial deletions, his payment. Discusses development in the war, "Thalaba" has been finished. His Brazil reviewed by Sharon Turner, to be reviewed by Bedford and, possibly, S.T. Coleridge.
Published in Kenneth Curry's New Letters v.1 p. 502.

File consists of research information and ephemera created or accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on Robert Southey. Includes photocopies of articles and letters, a list of works of Robert Southey, copies of Southey poems, biographical information on Southey, notes on Southey, notes on the Quarterly Review, a catalogue of a Southey exhibit at Great Hall, an account of Southey's funeral, and programmes for memoriam sermons preached in honour of Southey by Canon Maurice Fitzgerald.

File consists of copies of Robert Southey's letters, as well as one from Caroline Southey, Davis' notes on the letters, a list of letters published, a list of omissions from published letters, and a list of ms. letters of Robert Southey and Hannah More at Bristol Public Libraries.

Continuation of file 233a.

File consists of a ts. transcription of Robert Southey's diary from his trip through mainland Europe, including France, Italy and Switzerland. Ts. has ms. corrections and additions. Continued in 233b.

Autograph invitation from "Mr. & Mrs. Southey & Mrs. Coleridge" to "Mr. & the Misses Philips, Royal-Oak."

Autograph note to "Mr. Ullock." June 24, 1842. Asking for details concerning a wheel chair for sale. She needs the chair for Mr. Southey. (Southey died in 1843).

File consists of fourteen items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and H.G. Smith.

File consists of three items of correspondence from Elsie Smith.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Jack Simmons.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Chester L. Shaver.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Elinor Shaffer.

File consists of two items of correspondence from P.E. Russell.

File consists of R.S. Woof's review of "Wordsworth and Colerdge-Lyrical Ballads", edited by W.J.B. Owen.

File consists of R.S. Woof's review of "New Letters of Robert Southey", edited by Kenneth Curry.

File consists of three items of correspondence from James Ross of City and Council of Bristol Public Libraries.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Archibald Ross.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Betsy Rodgers.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Norman Rich of The Western Daily Press & Bristol Mirror.

File consists of a review of John Colmer's "Coleridge Critic of Society" by an unknown author and from an unknown journal.

File consists of nine items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Florence S. Reeves of The Charles Lame Society.

File consists of Raymond D. Havens', reviews of "The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Poems Written in Youth, Poems Referring to the Period of Childhood", ed. by E. de Selincourt, and "Wordsworth and the Seventeenth Century", by J. Crofts, and "The White Doe of Rylstone", ed. by Alice P. Comparetti, and "Some Letters of the Wordsworth Family", ed. by Leslie Nathan Broughton, and "The Wordsworth Collection", compiled by Leslie Nathan Broughton, and "The One Wordsworth", by Mary E. Burton, and "Wordsworth's Pocket Notebook", ed. by George Harris Healey.

File consists of Raymond D. Havens' review of both Ernest de Selincourt's "The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middles Years" and Ernest de Selincourt's "Coleridege's Dejection: an Ode" in "Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association" collected by Helen Darbshire. A presentation copy, the recto inscription reads "There's a new Southey item in Review of English Studies for April 1938 R.D.H."

File consists of Raymond D. Havens' reviews of Ernest de Silencourt's "The Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth", William L. Sperry's "Wordsworth's Anticlimax", and O.J. Campbell and P. Mueschke's "Wordsworth's Aesthetic Development, 1795-1802" in "Essay and Studies in English and Comparative Literature." A presentation copy, the recto inscription reads "B.R. Davis and Mrs. Davis and Paul with happy memories. R.D. Havens."

File consists of Raymond D. Havens' review of C.M. Bowra's "The Romantic Imagination."

File consists of Raymond D. Havens' review of David Nichol Smith's "The Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse."

File consists of Raymond D. Havens' review of Ernest de Selincourt's "The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Later Years."

File consists of Raymond D. Havens' review of Jack Simmons "Robert Southey."

File consists of nine items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Charles Ramos.

File consists of three items of correspondence from Elizabeth Raepe of The Council House, Bristol.