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Total number of records: 104079
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Top 10: Collection group
Collection group | Count |
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Brotherton Collection | 104079 |
English Literature | 18882 |
Herbert Read Collection | 17239 |
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 7171 |
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 5289 |
Leeds Poetry | 4282 |
Incunabula | 1353 |
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 1257 |
Rudolf Laban Collections | 1060 |
Medieval Manuscripts | 642 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
People and organisations | Count |
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Anonymous | 2650 |
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 1378 |
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 1114 |
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016) | 946 |
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997) | 752 |
Wodehouse, Sir Philip | 631 |
Sala, George Augustus | 505 |
Great Britain | 447 |
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum | 442 |
Great Britain. Parliament | 402 |
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George Crabbe correspondence and papers
1726-1816
Additional items listed Sep 2017: 'Letter and Watercolour' [BC MS 19c Crabbe/6].
Leeds University Library Handlist of 'Bronteana'
19th - 20th century
A collection of pamphlets and offprints on Brontë subjects.
Bronte (Brotherton Collection)
First and other early editions of works by the Brontë sisters, their father Patrick and their brother Branwell, together with critical and biographical studies of them, mostly dating from the 1930s a...
Juliette Drouet Letters to Victor Hugo
1833-1903
Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo. 440 letters, partially covering the years 1833 - 1851. Also included are two letters (1903 - 1906) relating to the collection whilst in the care of John El...
George Borrow, literary manuscripts with related material
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)
c.1840-1913
Brotherton Collection items: Autograph manuscripts of two folktales, one beginning "Sigurd son of Volsun", the other entitled "The pisgey and midwife"; autograph manuscripts of four poems, "Grasach Ab...
'Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm' manuscript volume
Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)
08 Oct 1894
Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller. This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...
Arnold Family Archive
Arnold Family
1810-1894
Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...