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Total number of records: 1946
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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016) | 38 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 28 |
| Drinkwater, John (1882-1937) | 28 |
| Poetry Book Society | 27 |
| Dryden, John (1631-1700) | 20 |
| Dryden, John | 16 |
| Holland, John (1794-1872) | 15 |
| Silkin, Jon (1930-1997) | 15 |
| Astbury, Anthony | 14 |
| Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962) | 13 |
Count of Earliest date
Robert Browning, holograph poems
Browning, Robert (1782-1866)
c.1820-1866
Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...
Mortimer Collins, poems
Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
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...
Charles Larcom Graves, They all hate Joe
Graves, Charles L (1856-1944)
c. 1900
A poem on the pro-Boers' antipathy to Joseph Chamberlain during the South African War, 1899-1902 ('With apologies to the author of 'They all love Jack"').
Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne
c.1810-1835
Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.
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...
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. ...
Barry Pain, autograph manuscript poem entitled 'I am seventeen and have written three books'
Pain, Barry (1864-1928)
c. 1900
Florence Peacock, original holograph manuscripts of poems
Peacock, Florence
c.1895-1896
Comprises the following poems:-(1) 'The charm of the rue'; (2) 'Living though the date be old'; (3) 'A stony way'; (4) 'Though your sins be as scarlet...', Isaiah 1.18; (5) 'A northern sailor'; (6) 'T...
Rosamund Marriott Watson, autograph manuscript poem 'A ruined altar'
Watson, Rosamund Marriott (1863-1911)
c. 1900
Split in half horizontally and somewhat damaged; with text written only on the two rectos
Sir Andrew Agnew, two satirical poems and a hymn
Agnew, Andrew
c.1830-1840?
Comprises: (1) 2 satirical poems, the first entitled 'To Saint Andrew Agnew' and signed by 'Ewe', the second entitled 'The "Monstre" Saint' and signed by 'Beta'; (2) A hymn, 'by Saint Andrew Agnew!' a...
Thomas Kibble Hervey, The nun, a poem
Hervey, Thomas Kibble (1799-1859)
c. 1850
Comprises the apparently original holograph manuscript of Hervey's poem 'The nun'. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which is somewhat fuller than that found in the Dictionary of Nationa...