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Total number of records: 75

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Brotherton Collection75
English Literature75
Leeds Poetry6

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters75
english poetry32
english literature25
english fiction15
english drama8
diaries5
postcards3
autobiography3
poets, english3
natural history2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips2
Berry, Francis2
Dorothy Una Clough2
Knight, W F Jackson2
Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)2
Masefield, John (1878-1967)2
Dorothy Una Phillips2
Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)2
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)2
William Francis Jackson Knight2

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From 17003
From 180030
From 190042

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Up to 199958
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James A. Manson, correspondence

Manson, James Alexander

c.1873-1920

Consists almost entirely of letters received by Manson

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George Augustus Sala, correspondence

Sala, George Augustus (1828-1895)

c.1830-1913

Consists almost entirely of letters received by Sala. Some letters are undated.

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Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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James Dalton, correspondence

Dalton, James

c.1795-1824

Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...

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George Eliot, autograph letters to her by celebrities of her time, relating to literary and personal matters

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

c.1875-1919

The correspondents include Anthony Trollope, Harriet B. Stowe, Frederic Harrison, Lord Justice Bowen, Benjamin Jowett, David Kauffman, Sir James Paget, G. J. Holyoake, Douglas Jerrold, Elizabeth Stuar...

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Ebenezer Elliott, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

c.1818-1929

Comprises: (1) 2 bound quarto volumes on Elliott: one by E.R. Seary, 1929, containing a 98 ff. typescript carbon biography entitled 'Reinvestigation into the sources of the biographical material of Eb...

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Bram Stoker correspondence and manuscripts

Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)

1866-1997

Comprises: (1) Correspondence dated between 1866 and 1911; (2) Autograph literary manuscripts by Bram Stoker: (i) Lecture 'Personal impressions of America', delivered at the London Institute (and else...

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Alfred Lord Tennyson and family, correspondence and literary works

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (1809-1892)

1827-1906

Comprises: (1) 'Poems, by two brothers', 1st edition, London, 1827, actually poems by the three brothers, Frederick, Charles, and Alfred Tennyson; (2) 'A collection of autograph letters from Alfred, L...

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Leigh Hunt, correspondence and related material

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)

1851-1952

Correspondence: (1) 18 autograph letters from Leigh Hunt to George Bird, 24 June 1851-31 October 1852, concerning medical matters; (2) 1 typewritten letter from Dr Cedric Keith Simpson to Dr E. Clayto...

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William Wordsworth, correspondence between Thomas Hutchinson, William Hale White, and others concerning Wordsworth

Hutchinson, Thomas (1910-)

1895-1907

Correspondents include: Thomas Hutchinson, William Hale White, T. Norton Longman, William Angus Knight, M. J. Campbell, Sir Frederick Orridge Macmillan, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, C. J. Longman, J. E. ...

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Walter Savage Landor, literary fragments and letters

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

c.1800-1928

Comprises: (1) 3 autograph letters, 1 to Cornelia Crosse, 2 to unnamed correspondents; (2) Folder numbered '3', a note on spelling reform; (3) Folder numbered '4', a slip with notes on 'Troilus and Cr...

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Marshall Family, correspondence with various literary personalities

Marshall Family

c.1852-1881

Members of the Marshall Family named in the correspondence include the following:-(1) Julia O'Brien; (2) Edward O'Brien; (3) Nellie O'Brien; (4) Mary Marshall; (5) James Marshall, 1802-1873; (6) Aubre...

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