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

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 sixty five items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Kenneth Curry.

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

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 one item of correspondence from Edmund Blunden.

File consists of three items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and N.S.E. Pugsley.

File consists of thirty five items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Earl Leslie Griggs.

File consists of four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and W.S. Hough, Librarian, Bristol Public Libraries.

File consists of forty three of items of correspondence from Geoffrey Carnall.

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

File consists of two items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Bertrand Bronson.

File consists of forty nine items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

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 four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Louis Filler.

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

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 eight items of correspondence from C.A. Miller.

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 one item of correspondence from Davis Watson of Social Science Magazine.

File consists of fifty eight items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Raymond D. Havens.

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

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

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

File consists of twenty eight items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Adolfo de Oliveira Cabral as well as an obituary for Cabral.

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

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 three items of correspondence from G. Ellis Flack, librarian at The University, Notingham.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Rhoda Bennett.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Christopher, Morris.

File consists of four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and the clerk of Christ's Hospital.

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

File consists of one item of correspondence from Charles Nowell, Chief Librarian of Manchester Public Libraries.

File consists of eleven items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and R.N. Green-Armytage.

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 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 item of correspondence from Rachel Taylor.

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

File consists of forty items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of nineteen items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Ernest G. Crowsley.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Jack Simmons.

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 thirty nine items of correspondence from Wylie Sypher.

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

File consists of three items of correspondence from J. de Sousa-Lead.

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 twenty five items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and H.W. Howe of Keswick School and a page of recommendations of Davis' for Howe's work on Southey.

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

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

File consists of thirty eight items of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to Kenneth Curry. Items were donated separately by Curry and as such are not included in File 74. Many items feature fire damage and in some cases words are illegible.

File consists of thirty two items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and others regarding portraits of Southey and contemporaries. Also includes a clipping on portraits of Sara Coleridge and Edith May Southey as well as photocopy of "Breun's Manuscript Catalogue of Engraved Portraits." A glass jar of shells collected by Southey's daughter Edith May (later Warter) and presented to Bertram R. Davis by Edith's granddaughter Mrs. F.F. Boult is also included. File and shells were donated separately by Dr. Warren U. Ober in 2012.
Correspondents include:

• Baldwyn, L (Folio Fine Art Ltd.)
• British Museum, The (Prints and Portraits)
• Curry, Kenneth
• Fox, Levi (The Shakespeare Birthplace and Trust)
• Gandy, Norman (Keswick Museum)
• Garlick, Kenneth
• Kuhn, A.J.
• New House Museum, Curator
• Ormond, R.L. (National Portrait Gallery)
• Simmons, Jack
• Warter, Henry de Grey

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 eighty four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Kenneth Curry.

File consists of thirty nine items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Earl Leslie Griggs.

File consists of forty three items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Nellie A. Boult.

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

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

File consists of forty four items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of fifteen items of correspondence from Hester Pinney.

File consists of thirteen items of correspondence from Frank Thone.

File consists of one item of correspondence from E.J. Morley.

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

File consists of sixty items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Raymond D. Havens.

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 one item of correspondence from Walter Edwin Peck.

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

File consists of forty items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Edward P. Weslon.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Charles Wells.

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

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 item of correspondence from Philip C. Lindsay.

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

File consists of sixteen items of correspondence from others to others. Includes letters to Bertram's wife Doris and daughter Annabel as well as letters to and from colleagues, researchers and friends.
Correspondents include:

• Bernard Quariten Ltd.
• British Museum
• Carnall, Geoffrey
• Davis, Annabel
• Davis, Doris
• Faliscue-Brickdale, Matthew
• Fisher, Dorothy
• Gibbs, Donald T.
• Griggs, Earl Leslie
• Haugh, W.S.
• Havens, Raymond D.
• Heaton, P.
• Hough, Henry B.
• Kaderly, Nat Lewis
• Kaufman, Paul
• Kopaitic, Boris
• Lamoine, Georges
• Laverick, D.M.
• Penney, Clara L.
• Purchase, J.L.
• Rawnsley, H.D.
• Sypher, Gale
• Sypher, Lucy
• Wakefield, [?]

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 ten items of correspondence from William Haller.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Boots Cash Chemists.

File consists of forty three items of correspondence from Maurice H. Fitzgerald.

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

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

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 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 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.

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 one item of correspondence from William Batheitwell.

File consists of a bibliography of works about Southey by an unknown author.

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