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 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.

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.

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 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 one offprint of Raymond D. Havens' article "Changing Tastes in the Eighteenth Century." A presentation copy, the recto is inscribed "Cordially yours, Raymond D. Havens."

File consists of one offprint of Raymond D. Havens' article "A Project of Wordsworth's."

File consists of one offprint of Raymond D. Havens' article "Julian and Maddalo." A presentation copy, the recto is inscribed "Bertram Davis from R.D.H."

File consists of one offprint of Raymond D. Havens' article "Rosalind and Helen."

File consists of the April 1964 edition of American Notes & Queries which includes Paul Kaufman's article "A Revolutionary Edition of the Aeropagitica."

File consists of one offprint of Paul Kaufman's "Chatterton's Brother-Poet, William Roberts." A presentation copy, the recto is inscribed "For Bertram with warm and grateful regards. P.K."

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.

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."

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."

File consists of one offprint of Paul Kaufman's article "Community Lending Libraries in Eighteenth-Century Ireland and Wales." A presentation copy, the recto is inscribed "For Bertram with kindest regards Paul Kaufman."

File consists of Lee Ash's review of Paul Kaufman's Borrowings From the Bristol Library, 1773-1784: A Unique Record of Reading Vogues.

File consists of one offprint of Lester Asheim's review of Paul Kaufman's "Borrowings from the Bristol Library, 1773-1784; A Unique Record of Reading Vogues."

File consists of one offprint of B.R. McElderry Jr.'s "Walton's Lives and Gillman's Life of Coleridge."

File consists of one copy of E.H.W. Meyerstein's poem "A Vision." Verso indicates that 100 copies were published by J.G. Melluish & Son, Bath.

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 a copy of the March 29, 1970 edition of Observer magazine from The Observer newspaper. This issue includes an article on Wordsworth.

File consists of a an excerpt from "The Life of Robert Owen", by Robert Owen.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

File consists of research information and ephemera created or accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on Charles Lamb and the Charles Lamb Society. Includes a list of meetings etc. for the Charles Lamb Society, a chronology of Charles Lamb's life, six clippings, a photocopy of an article on Lamb, the winter programme of the Charles Lamb Society for 1948-1949, and the Charles Lamb Society Birthday Celebration programmes for 1967 and 1968.

File consists of miscellaneous personal research material created or accumulated by Bertram R. Davis. Includes correspondence from Rev. R.F. Cartwright and Margaret Hine, copies, articles, forty one clippings, one unidentified photograph, and other ephemera.

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.

Continuation of file 233a.

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.

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 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 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 thirty clipping on the life and works of William Wordsworth.

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.

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

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 one print of a pastel drawing of Robert Southey, by Edward Everard. The original pastel was done by James Sharples. The print was framed and the mat reads "Robert Southey by Edward Everard after pastel by James Sharples Bristol Art Union Extra Prize, 1907." Also includes the original frame and portion of a clipping that was found with it.

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."

"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 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. 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 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 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.

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

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

Autograph list of names and London addresses.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

File consists of one item of correspondence from William Batheitwell.

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

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?

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 one item of correspondence from Rhoda Bennett.

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

File consists of one item of correspondence from Edmund Blunden.