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Correspondence and manuscripts. Correspondents include Leonard Cutts, John Gawsworth, Robert Herring, David Higham, John Lehmann, and Denys Kilham Roberts. The letters in general deal with the publication of his poems. The manuscripts are mainly corrected typescripts.

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings, mostly about Chatterton. These letters were sent to Robert N. Green-Armytage, the noted British book-collector before World War II and during the 1950s.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials of Lord Alfred Douglas. There are 6 autograph letters and 4 manuscripts sent to R. N. Green-Armytage by Lord Alfred Douglas about his poetry and the Oscar Wilde circle and 8 autograph letters from Douglas to T.W.H. Crosland. Also included are 3 related clippings and a photograph of Douglas with his co-editors of the "Winchester College Pentagram" in 1888.

Correspondence by and relating to Housman and to his brother, Laurence Housman. Nearly all of the letters were written to Cyril Clemens, who was working on a proposed biography of A.E. Housman. The collection includes six letters from A.E. Housman and an important group of 94 letters from Laurence Housman, which contain comments on his brother's life and activities, religious beliefs, reading, and manuscripts. There are 45 letters from relatives and persons closely related to A.E. Housman, among them his sisters, Clemence Housman and Katharine E. Symons, his publisher, Grant Richards, and his associates at Oxford University, James T. Nance and Alfred W. Pollard. Also included in the collection are twelve manuscripts, the most noteworthy of which are two signed poems by Laurence Housman and a 4-line verse in Lord Dunsany's holograph entitled "A. E. Housman.".

Autographed and typed letters from Riding to newspaper and magazine editors, primarily concerning published material by and about her. Throughout the collection there are references to Robert Graves. There is also a group of letters to Anthony Dickins, English poet and editor of the LONDON MAGAZINE.

Letters of Thomas Hood. Eight of the nine letters in the collection are addressed to J.O. Ward and treat chiefly matters of Hood's health and a governmental pension. None of these is dated. The remaining letter, written from abroad in 1837 to a Doctor Elliot of London, is a lengthy account of Hood's health, travels, literary activities, and experiences of living in Germany and Belgium. The items are pasted on or hinged to versos of leaves in one volume, being faced by typed transcriptions.

A group of poetry manuscripts written during the 1960's. Also, a manuscript notebook containing at least 55 pieces including articles, talks, and book reviews, mostly with titles. These are carefully corrected first drafts and include a long essay on Graves' "White Goddess" an introduction to Edgell Rickword, and essays on J.R. Ackerley, Ruth Pitter "My Kind of Poetry", "Auden at Sixty", George Orwell, A.E. Housman, and F.R. Leavis.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellany relating to the presentation of poems at a Shakespeare's Birthday Concert on 23 April 1972, by a number of British poets including W.H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Robert Graves, and Stephen Spender. The collection consists primarily of correspondence with the poets involved; several manuscripts of poems both presented at and eliminated from the program; some business correspondence of the Globe Playhouse Trust and Calder and Boyars, Ltd., Publishers; and Hampton's notes.

Correspondence, manuscripts, art works, and printed materials by and about the English Poet Laureate John Masefield. Included are about 72 letters written by Masefield to his wife, Constance, from February through May 1917 when he was with the British Army in northern France. There are also letters from Masefield to Suzanne and Nicholas Fay, Jean Downs, Michael and Mollie Hardwick, Thomas F. E. Kelly, Mrs. Robert Masefield, Lord Noel-Buxton, Ruth Robinson, Dorothy S. Rodwell, and others. In addition, there are autograph manuscripts of poems, manuscript notebooks with drafts of poems, related art work, and printed materials including several items relating to the poets's death. Also included are 90 letters and cards from Masefield to the ballerina Brangwen reflecting their close friendship