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Total number of records: 802

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Brotherton Collection777
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Herbert Read Collection197
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse179
Leeds Poetry69
Quaker Collection3
Medieval Manuscripts3
Cookery Collection2
Liddle Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

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english poetry802
letters327
english drama309
english fiction283
english literature277
art198
modernism (art)197
sculpture, modern197
art, modern197
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Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)18
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)9
Mcguire, William (1917-)4
Hall, Henry (1656-1707)3
Read, Lady Margaret Ludwig (1905-1996)3
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)3
Dryden, John (1631-1700)2
Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)2
Fitzgerald, Thomas2
Francis, Sam (1923-1994)2

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Archive Collection

Longman Annotated English Poets papers

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...

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Poetry Room, University of Leeds School of English, correspondence and papers

University of Leeds. School of English

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...

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Humphrey Moore Archive, assembled by John Bridgen

Bridgen, John William

1927-2002

Literary archive of Humphrey Moore and associated materials on twentieth-century poetry, assembled by John Bridgen.

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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 -...

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Mortimer Collins, poems

Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)

c.1860-1876

Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain

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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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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"').

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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.

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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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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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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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Charles Benjamin Tayler, On the death of a youthful disciple, a poem

Tayler, Charles Benjamin (1797-1875)

1852

Comprises the apparently original autograph manuscript of Charles Tayler's poem 'On the death of a youthful disciple', written at Otley in 1852. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which i...

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Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

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Algernon Charles Swinburne manuscripts

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

1851-1999

Comprises a substantial collection of manuscripts (many of them autographs), typed or pencilled transcriptions, and some printed proofs and early editions of literary works by Swinburne, including poe...

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George Byron, correspondence and manuscripts, together with related materials

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)

c.1811-1938

Comprises a collection of autograph poetry, letters and other writings by Byron; manuscripts of his poetry and other writings in the hand of others (including Mary Shelley), including copies of his 'E...

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William Clayfield of Bristol, autograph verses attributed to him with one by Thomas Beddoes

Clayfield, William

1820s

Comprises autograph verses by William Clayfield, including 'On a young lady's stooping at a window to examine the Arabis-Stricta recently transplanted from St Vincent's rocks' (dated 1822); 'On the Ny...

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Charles Whitehead, The Solitary: a poem, in three parts

Whitehead, Charles (1804-1862)

1831

Manuscript copy, possibly in Whitehead's hand, of his long meditative poem "The Solitary", which was first published in 1831.

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Walter Pater, poems

Pater, Walter (1839-1894)

1907

Transcripts of poems in manuscript: 'Cassandra' ('Like the stricken hart forsaken'), annotated below stanza 14 (referring to the original manuscript): 'Stanzas 12, 13 & 14 are in a female hand. Proba...

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William Watson, correspondence and literary manuscripts

Watson, Sir William (1858-1935)

1880-1917

Comprises: (1) Correspondence: (i) Autograph letters from Sir William Watson to John Lane, his publisher, 1906-1907, 1913-1914, 1915-1916, 3 vols; (ii) Autograph letter from Sir William Watson to Har...

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Paul Mills literary archive

Mills, Paul (1948-)

1971-2008

This collection comprises autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, critical works and plays by Paul Mills, including 3 notebooks with drafts of plays and poetry. There are also examples of...

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