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Institutions and catalogue coverage
What is catalogued online, what can be read online, and what we still need to check.
This catalogue is incomplete. Coverage varies by institution, and a missing result does not mean that no relevant material survives. These are selected findings checked on 12 November 2026, not a full digitisation audit.
A catalogue describes a document. A digital copy shows it. A transcription lets you read and search its words. Availability of one does not establish availability of the others.
| Institution | Online catalogue | Digital content | Outstanding issues and questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Leeds Checked source ↗ | The observed correspondence hierarchy has 1,273 entries, all cross-checked by title, reference and URL. Ten initial file descriptions were checked individually; further source-qualified refinements include reader responses and the Williams letter. Files may contain several letters. Historical NRA correspondent-group entries have been cross-checked against27 existing files, with group counts and conflicting ranges kept distinct from current file extents/dates. | Selected manuscript sequences and correspondence images are available. Four correspondence canvases show two Alden pages and two Leighton pages; these now link to their existing file descriptions. The Williams letter has an institution-credited publisher reproduction. These are not complete correspondence scans. Three one-letter manifests now have visually checked selected faces (Abingdon, Addison and Constance Wilde). The four-canvas series presentation identifies Alden and Leighton only; it does not digitise the entire correspondence series. | Most correspondent files still need full descriptions and digital assessment. Confirm the Williams shelfmark and addressee, source-specific reuse conditions, and the attribution of any externally reproduced material. Reconcile historical Jones/Burnand ranges and identify the 2025 Annual Return Dracula letter without assuming it is the Williams item. Clarify the Addison catalogue’s Hamlet reference versus Much Ado on the photographed face. |
| Emory University Checked source ↗ | All 107 outstanding named candidates have an inclusion decision:38 modern collector files,50 printed candidates and19 existing hierarchy-only correspondence files. Fifty-nine specifically relevant files have been added from exact saved navigation titles and links;29 contextual candidates remain audit-only. Previously supported276file descriptions retain their stronger evidence. This is not a complete institutional inventory. | Two Lady of the Shroud manifests contain 202 and 206 canvases. No new file images were verified in this batch. The 59new files and19 previously downgraded correspondence entries remain Digital access not yet checked; indexed titles do not establish manuscript contents or an individual container. | Confirm containers, contents, dates, forms and digital availability for 78 hierarchy-only files; preserve photocopy/moderncollector/digitalcarrier distinctions. Resolve unusual Caine and other source dates, born-digital consultation and copy permissions. |
| The Rosenbach Checked source ↗ | Selected current Rosy descriptions supplement the 2024 collection guide. A 2025 institutional account identifies the Mesmer manuscript, EMs 1351/13, acquired after that guide. Distinct physical copies and published reference works remain separate. | Selected photographs verified for one Mesmer page, a 1933 Irish Dracula opening and a 1901 Dracula cover. A complete freely accessible sequence of the Dracula notes remains unverified. Published facsimiles and restricted reading copies are distinct from free scans. | Confirm Mesmer extent and full digital access; clarify conflicting imprints and inscription dates already logged. Check current letter access and image reproduction terms without treating photo credits as permission. |
| Trinity College Dublin Checked source ↗ | The complete 94-page Stoker Family Papers list has been reviewed: 554 descriptive blocks comprise 446 selected entries represented here, 107 contextual entries retained in the local audit, and one unresolved printed reference. Coverage includes family, professional, literary and photographic records, with copies and later scholarship labelled. Nine further Stoker-related references are identified in the Knott index; three are index-only entries with contents and recipients unestablished. The complete current Stoker keyword result set (724 format groups) has also been audited; its five manuscript groups were already represented. This named-query review does not prove exhaustive holdings. | The MS 6168 and MS 11603 presentations contain 300 and 34 canvases. Readable first-page detail samples are now verified for both, alongside selected earlier institutional photographs. This does not certify every page, full-sequence completeness or a complete transcription. Whole-page larger downloads and the ordinary viewer remain unassessed. | Resolve anomalous references, uncertain photo identities and inconsistent dates/recipients against originals. Confirm copies, larger image access and reuse terms. The Deane promptscript claim remains a lead without a verified first-party shelfmark; unsuccessful searches do not prove absence. Wider Trinity holdings remain incomplete. |
| Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Checked source ↗ | Selected institutional features and eight further exact RL2 references are supported by full Henry Irving Foundation scholarly descriptions, distinguished from current holder metadata. The cottage and Irving photographs are distinct despite a shared PC 83.6 prefix. | Selected institution-hosted images are verified. New Foundation-described letters have not been assessed for holder-hosted scans; summaries are not complete transcriptions. Eight further holder-hosted images have been checked for Whitman’s 1889 gift acknowledgement, a fingerprint letter/article group and Walsh’s 1903 Japanese theatre materials. These are selected views, not complete archival files. | Confirm native item references, consultation, enclosures and original/copy status of RL2/42/77. Establish the cottage photograph’s full identifier and resolve outstanding speech/scroll questions. Confirm exact references, the fingerprint correspondent’s name/date and complete Walsh letter sequence. |
| British Library Checked source ↗ | Selected Society of Authors, Royal Literary Fund, original correspondence and explicitly identified photocopy holdings. Three correspondence subgroups are displayed as files rather than unsupported formal series. Two letter dates have qualified scholarly refinements. | Selected Royal Literary Fund pages and the theatrical Dracula first-page reproduction are verified. Additional photocopies are physical surrogates, not online scans or proof of current original custody. | Confirm original letter dates, folios, full-file digital coverage and surrogate provenance. Resolve the Foundation Add MS 87728 conflict against the current Tynan record. Retain uncertainty in the Bernard-Beere dating and do not conflate manuscript folios with later administrative dates. |
| National Library of Ireland Checked source ↗ | Selected printed and manuscript descriptions are supplemented by a registered Stoker-family arms confirmation, GO MS 111A page 3, and a William Thornley Stoker letter to Hugh Lane, MS 8,716/1/12. These are family documents, not Bram autographs. | The Gibbet Hill newspaper supplement is digitised. The arms catalogue reports a digital copy, but its viewer was not checked. Other new manuscript descriptions are metadata-only; native access limitations are stated. | Check the arms viewer and withdrawn-original/microfilm access. Resolve the Lowry and Coffey correspondence leads, copy-specific printed dates and remote-copy options; a failed search is not evidence of absence. |
| Syracuse University Checked source ↗ | The Whitman Archive item metadata identifies Syracuse as holder of Stoker’s 1872 letter. Broader Stoker-related holdings have not been inventoried. | The linked edition has manuscript images and an editorial transcription of the 1872 letter. This is item-specific evidence. | Confirm the repository’s own shelfmark and catalogue link; investigate other Stoker material; record permissions and distinguish physical holder from digital publisher. The checked published Whitman guide omits Stoker from its incoming-correspondent list although the scholarly digital edition explicitly assigns the 1872 letter to Syracuse. Confirm its precise current locator; do not remove the custody attribution on that omission alone. |
| Library of Congress Checked source ↗ | Selected Feinberg/Whitman, Moulton and Ticknor descriptions, the 1938 Mason Opera House Dracula poster, and a copyright-card group reported by the Law Library in 2013. Individual Stoker letter/card identifiers remain unresolved where noted. | Whitman letter images and a poster image are verified. No Moulton, Ticknor or copyright-card images were established. The historical card-catalogue account is not a current legal conclusion. | Establish Moulton dates, count and folder; reconcile Ticknor older container information with the 2025 revision. Confirm current custody and access for the cards and deposited book through the appropriate Library division. |
| University of Virginia Checked source ↗ | Whitman Archive metadata identifies Whitman’s reply in MSS 3829, Clifton Waller Barrett Library. Wider coverage has not been assessed. A University-published Twain exhibition also identifies a pocket Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar presentation copy for Bram; exact call number and date remain unestablished. | The checked page supplies a transcription derived from a published edition. No autograph facsimile was linked on that page. The linked Pudd’nhead section illustrates another version; no image of the Stoker presentation copy has been independently verified. | Confirm the precise item-level reference, manuscript-image availability and wider Stoker links. Keep the editorial transcription distinct from images of an original. |
| Marsh’s Library Checked source ↗ | All 25 numbered entries in the institutional Stoker reading exhibition are represented: three access/register documents and 22 contextual reading-volume entries. This is the exhibition’s scope, not a complete archive inventory. Six reading-volume shelfmarks are explicit; other display numbers are not treated as shelfmarks. Recommendation dated2July1866, visitors’ entry4July1866 and selected readers’ entries6–7July1866 checked against original hosted images. | Original JPEG for each primary document returned200and visually inspected. Only selected note/register images verified; not complete visitor/readers’ registers. | Request archival shelfmarks and remaining Stoker register entries only after processing; image reproduction rights require item-specific confirmation. |
| The London Library Checked source ↗ | Selected membership ledgers and a historically attributed group of marked research books. The old discovery pages and report links have moved or disappeared; a current institutional archive guide supplies an appointment route, not a replacement inventory of the books. | Selected ledger images remain represented. No copy-specific digital inventory of the attributed 26 books has been established. A secondary title list is retained only as a research lead. | Ask the archivist for a current list of the held editions, shelfmarks, evidence for annotations, available scans and replacement discovery links. Confirm reading-room and image-reuse conditions; do not treat ledger-wide dates as dates read from an unlabelled entry column. |
| Folger Shakespeare Library Checked source ↗ | Selected Stoker correspondence and the preliminary Meredith material are supplemented by the Irving memoir manuscript N.a.66, daily accounts captioned W.a.83–84, and American tour receipts Y.d.21–22. Holding references derive from full Folger institutional essays and catalogues; caption discrepancies remain explicit. | Selected Folger photographs were downloaded and inspected. They do not establish complete manuscripts or account books online. One letter in Y.c.6202 is illustrated; the other three remain unverified as digitised. | Reconcile account caption dates with photographed entries, and confirm the memoir manuscript’s internal locator. Check preliminary identifications, inserted letters, ownership annotations, copying and reproduction terms. |
| Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin Checked source ↗ | The complete official Dannay and Oscar Wilde Art finding aids add a Stoker note to Burr (16 June 1909; MS-1057, 2.2) and Wilde’s portrait of Florence Balcombe (1876; AR-00296, 65.326). These deepen the existing selected correspondence coverage; they do not represent a complete institutional inventory. The bound Lincoln lecture volume prepared for Stoker is identified through the institutional digital catalogue and historical account; mixed manuscript/printed components form one composite object. Lincoln volume physical reference now confirmed: MS-04500, Bound Volume 5 (bv5). Pennell, Lane and Drake index leads now have verified filing contexts: Joseph Pennell incoming S folder (5.1), Lane incoming business Stil–Ston (46.6), and Drake collected autograph letters (13.5). Exact Stoker item dates/counts remain unconfirmed. | Digital finding aids checked. No original image or online transcription verified for these additions. The Florence portrait’s accompanying mat is reported unlocated. All eleven manifest-listed volume images retrieved and visually checked: covers, letters, print, notes and ticket. Physical-object completeness remains unconfirmed. | Identify Burr; confirm digital copy or transcription availability for the note; confirm the portrait mat’s current status and image/reproduction arrangements. Existing Pennell, Drake and John Lane index leads remain unresolved. Lincoln shelfmark and listed images are now verified; reconcile assembly dates and confirm full physical-to-digital coverage. The microfilm-guide Wilde-to-Florence lead remains unresolved against the current EAD. |
| Yale University collections Checked source ↗ | Beinecke holds selected Osborn, Stevenson, Barrie, Salsbury and General Collection material. Newly described correspondence includes Stoker notes to Howard, Hickcox and an unidentified Williams, plus a Barrie file. Yale Center for British Art separately holds Hockley Lyceum programmes. | Complete official finding aids were checked, including the 1,122-page manuscript miscellany guide. Original images and complete transcriptions for these additions were not verified. | Confirm exact dates and counts in the Barrie and Salsbury files, uncertain Williams dating, original versus reference-copy access, and the book recommended by Norman Douglas. Request Hockley programme images from Yale Center for British Art, not Beinecke. |
| Museum of Literature Ireland Checked source ↗ | The complete named collection catalogue (11 June 2025) has been checked for Stoker titles. Fifteen selected entries are represented: one autograph letter and fourteen separately numbered printed entries. A secondary booklet remains audit-only; numbering gaps do not prove missing objects. | The current linked PDF is unchanged from the earlier checked version. No document or printed-book scans have been verified. The catalogue invites readers to ask staff about consultation; specific availability and reproduction require confirmation. | Confirm letter date and unexplained asterisks, custody/ownership and digital options. Obtain copy-specific imprint and condition details for the books and use the current appointment-request procedure. Clarify whetherM01585/M01734describe distinct copies and their current lender/donor status. |
| Dublin City Library and Archive Checked source ↗ | All 198 identifier-bearing descriptive entries in the official 23-page Leslie Shepard list have been reviewed. The catalogue represents 118 selected entries covering Stoker works and editions, biography and scholarship, Dracula adaptations/history, theatre and selected contextual sources. Eighty further broader vampire/Gothic or unrelated entries remain outside this public selection. | The PDF is a bibliographic list, not scans of its publications. No additional book scans verified in this pass. ISBN-only entries identify editions; individual physical copies and some imprint-only continuations need confirmation. | The institutional overview mentions 235 books/pamphlets, while the checked list contains 198 descriptive entries: different counting units. Clarify whether copies, volumes or later additions explain the figures. Confirm source anomalies, incomplete names/identifiers, copy identities and current access/reproduction options. No claim that 37 items are missing. |
| The National Archives, Kew Checked source ↗ | The Dracula theatrical copyright form is identified by the institutional story, with native Discovery container COPY 1/1108 independently checked. Four further theatre-context registrations concern Lyceum views, an Irving portrait photograph and shipboard Irving/Terry groups; these are not Stoker-authored documents. | The illustrated story supplies the Dracula registration form and a close-up. No further scans verified. The two shipboard registrations explicitly have no photographs annexed; they must not be presented as surviving photograph holdings. | Confirm full contents, physical access and reproduction options for the selected registrations. Clarify photograph survival and vessel spelling where needed. No additional Bram- or Florence-specific entry was established by this scoped keyword pass; this is not an exhaustive archive inventory. |
| University of Reading Special Collections Checked source ↗ | Official Discovery detail records confirm the 1903 Bram Stoker correspondence entry, MS 1640/328/213, as well as selected later publishing, royalty, production and agreement files. Bell, Routledge and Longman archives now represented selectively. | No digital copies linked in checked detail records. The 1903 entry has no letter text or content summary; later publishing files are distinct from Stoker-authored documents. | Confirm exact Stoker contents and digital-copy options in the publisher files. The Whitefriars Club archive, MS 2864, is a documented collection-level lead; identify his speech/signature entries and fragile-volume access before adding individual records. |
| Lilly Library, Indiana University Checked source ↗ | Official finding aids confirm Tennysoniana, a separate 1899 Stoker–Waite autograph letter, a Stoker file in the Appleton-Century publisher archive, and two Welles Dracula audio-carrier listings. Riley mss.V, LMC1888, names Stoker among correspondents in the full published guide. Individual dates, count and filing location remain unestablished. | No item-specific public scan, full transcription or playable audio verified for these entries. Collection-wide digitisation does not establish that a Stoker item is online. | Confirm Tennysoniana bound call number; obtain Stoker-file inventory and remote-copy options; distinguish broadcast dates from dates of audio carriers. Locate Stoker material in Riley’s chronological correspondence and distinguish originals from the guide’s separate reference-copy series. |
Our immediate priority is to identify institutions and catalogue references. Further image checking, transcription and digitisation work will follow separately.