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Total number of records: 4966
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| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 3136 |
| English Literature | 2110 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 585 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 132 |
| Leeds Poetry | 118 |
| Liddle Collection | 92 |
| Letters Database | 74 |
| Quaker Collection | 64 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 63 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 50 |
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Archive Collection:
SC MS Verse
SC MS Verse
1721-1959
This artificial collection of individual and groups of manuscript verse is not reflected in the more extensive 'Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse' index
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS356
YAS/MS356
1828
Written by 'One of the Fancy', John Dransfield when articled to William Holt of Schofield and Holt, solicitors, Horbury. Concern social occasions in Wakefield and mention many people.
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BC MS 19c Ellis
BC MS 19c Ellis
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Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller.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...
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MS 2282
MS 2282
1792
Manuscript of ‘Sors misera servorum in insulis Indiae occidentalis’ (Ode on The West-Indian Slave Trade) submitted by Coleridge for the Browne Medal for classical composition in his first year at ...
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BC MS 19c Clayfield
BC MS 19c Clayfield
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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BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/1/9
BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/1/9
1983-1988
This series contains items relating to the 'Oxford Book of Travel Verse' (1986), a volume edited by Crossley-Holland.
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BC MS 20c Silkin/6/1
BC MS 20c Silkin/6/1
1988-1997
This series comprises papers relating to Jon Silkin's critical work, 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry.' Includes extensive chapter drafts; papers relating to contributi...
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YAS/MS329
YAS/MS329
1638-1645
The volume has been used from both ends with 26 pages at one end containing verses some addressed to friends and family. The other end of the book has about 50 pages and includes original verses plus...
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MS 1794/02/8
MS 1794/02/8
1980
Correspondence to and from Bateman and research for article on recipes written in verse, printed copy of John Keat’s Porridge by V McCabe, reference list for Recipes in Verse, typed and hand-written...