Oxford LibGuides: Manuscripts: Archives and Modern: Literature Finding Aids

Finding aids for (inter)national literary collections

Location Register of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, 2 vols.
by D. Sutton (London, 1995)
Location Register of Twentieth-Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, 2 vols.
(British Library, 1988). Available online (link above)
Index of English Literary Manuscripts
by P. Beale et al., (London & New York, 1980-92).
Finding English Verse, 1650-1800 First-Line Indexes and Searchable Electronic Texts [PDF, 326kb]
This is a guide to currently available catalogues of English verse: An article by James Woolley, Bibliographical Society of America, 7 January 2013
The Aslib directory of literary and historical collections in the UK
by Keith W. Reynard (London, 1993).
Union First Line Index of Poetry, 13th-19th century
Enables cross-institutional literary research by providing a database of the first lines of manuscript verse held by the contributing institutions, including the Bodleian Library