Manuscripts of European travel writing from the later medieval period with a focus on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia
Digitized archive of a 19th-century publisher, featuring manuscripts by Lord Byron, Darwin’s Origin of Species, letters from Jane Austen, travel writing by Isabella Bird, drafts by David Livingston, and more.
Working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.