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Archival and Manuscript Materials

For related Internet sites, see Chadwyck-Healey's Literature Online with MLA, the Voice of the Shuttle or Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net.

Selected Library of Congress Subject Headings (Search JHU Catalog)

• Authors, English 20th century Archives
• Authors, English 18th century Correspondence Manuscripts
• English literature 18th century Manuscripts
• English literature--Manuscripts
• Manuscripts, English

Selected Hopkins Resources

The following are finding aids and indexes to collections of manuscript and archival material at Hopkins and around the world:

Hopkins Materials:

Johns Hopkins Manuscripts
Hopkins University Archives

Other Databases Available through MSEL:

Selected Microfilm Titles:

Manuscripts on Microfilm • Libraries Service Center LC 4.2: M58	A checklist of the holdings in the Manuscript Division, compiled by Richard B. Bickel
National Inventory of Documentary Sources • Eisenhower AV COMP FILE 733	Index divided into four catagories: NIDS UK, NIDS US Part 1 (Federal records), NIDS US Part 2 (Library of Congress Manuscript Division), and NIDS US Parts 3 and 4 (State archives; State, academic and research libraries; Historical Societies).
Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War • Libraries Service Center Film no. A .R39	Plantation records include journals, crop books, account books, medical records, slave lists relating to ante-bellum southern plantations from the American Revolution through the Civil War, business operations, family affairs, social and cultural life, and relations between slaves and masters. Family members kept personal diaries and corresponded extensively with friend and relatives both near and far.

Selected Internet Resources

Bodleian Library: Visual resources
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals. Of especial interest to us are the sections on Celtic manuscripts, which includes precious items from Bodleian Library, Corpus Christi College and Jesus College, and Other medieval manuscripts with images of manuscripts from six libraries within the University of Oxford.

Digital Scriptorium
A searchable database of manuscript images made available through the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia Uuniversity.

Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
The Royal Commission was set up by Royal Warrant in 1869 to report on collections of papers of value for the study of British history. In 1959 a new warrant enlarged these terms to include all British historical records, outside the Public Records and gave it responsibilities to advise on their preservation and storage. The Commission has published 239 volumes of reports. It holds a further 42,500 unpublished reports in the National Register of Archives, which are available for public consultation. It also maintains the Manorial Documents Register on behalf of the Master of the Rolls, and ARCHON, the gateway for archivists in the UK.

U .S. National Archives and Records Administration

NARA is the U.S. Government agency that not only preserves documents and materials related to the United States but also makes sure people can access the information. NARA provides multiple databases and access points to provide researchers with manuscript and archival information crucial to American and international history.