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

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.

File consists of articles, offprints, excerpts from books and other items accumulated by Bertram R. Davis in the course of his research and study on Bristol and the romantics. Some offprints are presentation copies and feature inscriptions to Davis. A number of Davis' correspondents are represented through the articles in this series.

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 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."

Series is comprised of a collection of manuscripts held in trust, given to the archive by Doris Davis, widow of Bertram R. Davis. The items include letters, poetry, an indenture and other miscellaneous notes by romantic poets and their relatives including Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.