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Total number of records: 250

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Archives196
Books and printed items54

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English Literature250
Brotherton Collection208
Leeds Poetry22
Herbert Read Collection1

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letters75
english poetry73
english literature36
english fiction20
english drama18
diaries7
poetry4
poets, english4
postcards3
autobiography3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)6
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)3
Dorothy Una Phillips3
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Dorothy Una Clough3
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)3
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips3
Haffenden, John2
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)2

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From 17004
From 180069
From 1900137
From 20002

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Up to 189924
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Up to latest45
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Abercrombie (1)
1928-1969
Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Bennett (1)
1991
Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...
Archive Collection:
MS 1309
c.1900-1980
Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...
Archive Collection:
MS 1611
1959-1986
Comprises: (1) ca. 125 letters concerning a Chaucer edition, mostly from Richard J. Beck to F.W. Bateson, February 1964 - June 1978; (2) Notes and draft text relating to general aspects of proposed Ch...
Archive Collection:
MS 1720
1950-1990
This collection comprises papers and audio recordings relating to the Poetry Room, formerly part of the School of English at the University of Leeds. It incorporates correspondence and other papers re...
Archive Collection:
MS 1753
1927-2002
Literary archive of Humphrey Moore and associated materials on twentieth-century poetry, assembled by John Bridgen.
Archive Collection:
MS 1759
c.1919-1971
Grace Stuart was the author of four books on psychology and three children’s books. She was born Agnes Grace Croll in Sheffield in 1898, and was the older of two daughters. Educated at state schools...
Archive Print Collection:
BC 1890's
1890s
Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...
Archive Print Collection:
BC 19c
Archive Print Collection:
BC 19c Clodd
Works by Edward Clodd (1840-1930), including anthropology, mythology, evolution and religion. Clodd, a banker by profession, had a far-ranging influence through his wide circle of intellectual friends...
Archive Print Collection:
BC 19c Elliott
Archive Print Collection:
BC 19c Gaskell