Items listed on this page are normally on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.
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• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Cotton Nero A X ff. 94v - 95
• Philip Sidney, Arcadia Add. MS 38892 ff. 69v - 70
• Shirburn Ballads Add. MS 82932 ff. 187v - 188
• English Romances and Ballads Add. MS 27879 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
• Wordsworth - Poem of Childhood (1842) Ashley 2265
• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847 Add. MS 43476 (ff. 258v - 259)
• Lewis Carroll, Diary Add. MS 54343 (ff. 14v - 15)
• Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles 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)
• Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway Add. MS 51044 ff. 4v - 5
• First page of "The Homecoming". Typed, with annotations Pinter Archive
• "The Sorrows of the Deer". Ted Hughes Deposit 10259
• Angela Carter, "Nights at the Circus" Deposit 10370 (first page)
• Beowulf manuscript. Early 11th century Cotton Vitellius A XV
• Seamus Heaney's manuscript version for his translation of Beowulf Add. MS 78917 folios 2 & 7
• The Vision of Piers Plowman. 14th Century Cotton Vespasian B XVI ff. 62v - 63
• Isaac Rosenberg - letter to Laurence Binyon and poem 'In the Trenches' 1916. Loan 103/77
• First page of "The Homecoming". Typed, with annotations. First performed 1965 Pinter Archive