Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library: Literary manuscripts and printed books

Items listed on this page are normally on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.

You can find out more about selected items online. You can also check out opening times and get an overview of what the gallery contains.

Monday 12 May 2008: Josephine Hart's Poetry Hour more...

• Beowulf Cotton Nero A XV more...
• Lydgate: Siege of Thebes and Troy Book. Mid 15th century Royal 18 D II
• Lydgate: Lives of the Saints, c. 1370 - 1441 Yates Thompson 47 ff. 64v - 65
• Philip Sidney: Arcadia Add. MS 38892 ff. 69v - 70
• Shirburn Ballads Add. MS 82923 ff. 187v - 188
• English Romances and Ballads Add. MS 27897 ff. 46v - 47
• Commonplace Book of John Milton Add. MS 36354 ff. 92v - 93
• Dryden: The Fall of Angels Add. MS 37158 ff. 11v - 12
• Samuel Johnson: Tour of North Wales, 1774 Add. MS 12070 ff. 10v - 11
• Jane Austen: Third volume of her notebook Add. MS 65381(ff. 16v - 17)
• Jane Austen's writing desk Loan 118
• Letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra Add. MS 70625
• Wordsworth: Poem of Childhood (1842) Ashley 2265
• Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, 1847 Add. MS 43476 (ff. 258v - 259) (pictured above) more...
• Lewis Carroll: Diary Add. MS 54343 (ff. 14v - 15)
• Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbevilles Add. MS 38182 folio 1
• Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol Add. MS 81634
• Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim, c. 1899 Ashley A 456 folio 8 (single folio)
• Rupert Brooke: Letter to C Nesbitt (1914) Add. MS 83315 folio 172 (single folio)
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway Add. MS 51044 ff. 4v - 5 more...
• Louis MacNeice: Iceland Add. MS 53816 ff. 118 - 120
• Sylvia Plath: Insomniac Add. MS 52617 ff. 77v - 78
• Peter Nichols: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Add. MS 78955 (f. 1)
• Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus Deposit 10370 (first page)