Archives and Archival Resources

Strengths in American Literature, German Literature, English and Continental literature.

Contains manuscripts, letters, various personal documents and photographs, as well as a unique collection of recordings of authors who lived and worked in different countries and in Israel. [Site in Hebrew]

Contains over fifty discrete archives and manuscript accumulations of poets and novelists; poetry in English from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, North and South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and the Caribbean; writing which acknowledges ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Focus is on 20th- and 21st-century literatures in English.

Consists of digitized manuscripts and letters belonging to nine writers born or based in Northern Ireland. The material ranges from 19th century manuscripts by Samuel Ferguson through to the late poems of John Hewitt in the 1980s.

Materials including handwritten drafts, proofs, letters, diaries and emails of pre-eminent novelists, poets, publishers and literary societies whose work has enriched contemporary British culture.

Archives of literature of all four linguistic regions of Switzerland: French, German, Italian and Romansh, with particular emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries. The holdings consist mainly of notes, drafts, work manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, press clippings, specialised works, books, audio and video documents, photographs, art work, drawings as well as personal objects.