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Step 4: Search catalogs devoted to a national literature, geographical area, or subject.
Schoenberg, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (F305) Index of English Literary Manuscripts (M1365) Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts (M1540) Crum, First-Line Index of English Poetry, 1500–1800 (M1590) Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (M1645) Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries (M1810) Ricci, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (M1815) Boffey, New Index of Middle English Verse (M1940) Index of Middle English Prose (M1945) Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (M2227) Location Register of 20th-Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (M2765) Hayes, Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation (N2940) American Literary Manuscripts (Q3230) American Manuscripts, 1763–1815 (Q3235) Guide to Manuscripts Relating to America in Great Britain and Ireland (Q3240)