J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), British writer, poet, philologist and academic: corresp c1920-1929 (MS 2244)
Jeni Enid B. Hamlyn, (1901-1997), secretary: letters, diaries, passports and photographs 1925-1997 (MS 2243)
John Braine, (1922-1986), English novelist: mss draft 1959 (BC MS 20c Braine)
Leslie Samuel Purches, (1898-1955), Church of England vicar: photographs, typescript mss, newspaper cutting and book rel to a mission in Selbourne, Hampshire 1931-1955 (MS 2422)
Samuel Harrison, (1899-1966), British conscientious objector, Councillor: corresp, military record and mss and typescript verse 1913-1966 (LIDDLE/WW1/CO/103)
Tony Harrison, (b 1937), British poet, translator and playwright: notebooks of unpublished work, corresp, photographs, objects, books and ephemera 1950-2003 (BC MS 20c Harrison)
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