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Total number of records: 770

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items466
Archives304

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection770
English Literature430
Herbert Read Collection93
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections13
Leeds Poetry4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english literature770
english poetry320
letters287
english drama279
english fiction263
literature30
american literature27
rare books22
literature, modern16
books16

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PlaceCount
Great Britain30
Northern Ireland11
Ireland11
Europe11
England7
Iceland6
Norway6
Scandinavia6
Sheffield (England)2
Suffolk (England)2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)21
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)15
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)12
Pope, Alexander, 1688-174411
Ashley Library11
Anderson, James (1739-1808)11
Roscoe, William10
Roscoe, William (1753-1831)10
Universitat Munster9
Moulton, Charles Wells (1859-1913)8

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From 170030
From 1800129
From 1900514
From 20004

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Up to 179929
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Up to 1999540
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Archive Collection

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...

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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...

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James A. Manson, correspondence

Manson, James Alexander

c.1873-1920

Consists almost entirely of letters received by Manson

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Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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George Eliot, autograph letters to her by celebrities of her time, relating to literary and personal matters

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

c.1875-1919

The correspondents include Anthony Trollope, Harriet B. Stowe, Frederic Harrison, Lord Justice Bowen, Benjamin Jowett, David Kauffman, Sir James Paget, G. J. Holyoake, Douglas Jerrold, Elizabeth Stuar...

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Walter Savage Landor, literary fragments and letters

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

c.1800-1928

Comprises: (1) 3 autograph letters, 1 to Cornelia Crosse, 2 to unnamed correspondents; (2) Folder numbered '3', a note on spelling reform; (3) Folder numbered '4', a slip with notes on 'Troilus and Cr...

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Maarten Maartens Manuscripts

Maartens, Maarten (1858-1915)

1882-1930

Comprises: Boxes of manuscripts, as follows: (1) 'Dorothea', MS 958pp. in 6 envelopes, and first MS drafts I-III in 3 envelopes, held in 2 boxes; (2) 'Eve', MS 510pp. in 4 envelopes, and sections rewr...

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Robert Southey, correspondence, literary manuscripts and printed works

Southey, Robert (1774-1843)

c.1797-1839

Comprises: (1) A collection of autograph letters written by Robert Southey to John May and others, together with manuscript poems and notes by Robert Southey, and autograph letters to John May from T...

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Robert Louis Stevenson, correspondence and literary manuscripts

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

1898-1923

Comprises: (1) 1 box containing 2 vols and 1 other separate volume of copies of letters by Katharine D. Osborne concerning Robert Louis Stevenson, 1922-1923; (2) Correspondence between Sidney Colvin, ...

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William Makepeace Thackeray, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

c.1835-1860

Comprises: (1) 26 letters and manuscripts dated 1835-1860, guarded in order and bound in 1 vol., accompanied by an annotated typed list of contents by Dr Eric Millar and the bill for the cost of bindi...

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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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Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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