English Manuscripts
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Dubliners
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Persuasion
A Christmas Carol
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Exiles
Sir Philip Sidney and the circulation of manuscripts, 1558-1640
Calendar of the papers of Benjamin Franklin in the library of the University of Pennsylvania
Orlando
Poems
Proserpine & Midas
Pearl
Great Expectations
The rose and the ring
The private diary of Dr. John Dee, and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / Red-Headed League)
Unpublished personal name indexes in record offices and libraries
Troilus and Criseyde
A defence of poetry, by P.B. Shelley
The royal tour, 1901
Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library
Sanditon
Poems
Finnegans Wake
The Waves
The Williams manuscript of George Herbert's poems
Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the civil war, the commonwealth, and restoration
Milton a poem, and the final illuminated works
Poems
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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