File consists of one item of correspondence from S.F. Kew of Bristol Literary Dinners.

File consists of fifty nine items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Paul Kaufman.

File consists of one item of correspondence from R. Lyall Keens of The Bristol Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping.

File consists of four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Commander Boris Kopaitic.

File consists of one item of correspondence from J. Kurahashi.

File consists of thirty nine items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Georges Lamoine.

File consists of two items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and A.J. Kuhn.

File consists of twelve items of correspondence from Chi-Pui Lee.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Philip C. Lindsay.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Samuel J. Looker.

File consists of fifteen items of correspondence from John Livingston Lowes including one item from his wife Mary Lowes.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Thomas Ollive Mabbott.

File consists of three items of correspondence from A.S. Mason.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to Ralph Anthony Manogue.

File consists of one item of correspondence from John Mansfield.

File consists of twenty eight items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and E.H.W. Meyerstein.

File consists of one item of correspondence from John H. Middendorf of the Johnsonian News Letter.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Bruce Robert McElderry and copies of McElderry's obituary.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Arthur Pierre Middleton of Colonial Williamsburg.

File consists of eight items of correspondence from C.A. Miller.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Mary Mooman.

File consists of one item of correspondence from R.W. Moore of The Grammar School, Bristol.

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

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 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 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 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 essay "Portugal", detailing a trip he took to the country.

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

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

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

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 "Rosalind and Helen."

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 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."

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

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 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.

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

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

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 Jack Simmons "Robert Southey."

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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 William Perry. "Mr. Davis's friends hope he will stand" "Can you think of any votes that we might ask for?"

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. 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.

Corrected proofs for article "To the Rev. C. Cuthbert Southey" (Robert Southey's son) for Fraser's Magazine, Dec. 1, 1850. Says of Southey "never in the course of my existence have I known a man so excellent on so many points." Two full sentences inserted in proof, in Landor's handwriting.

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.

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.

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

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