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Total number of records: 2737
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| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 1946 |
| English Literature | 1524 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 393 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 179 |
| Leeds Poetry | 69 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 17 |
| Liddle Collection | 11 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 10 |
| Quaker Collection | 7 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 4 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
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| Park, Thomas (1759-1834) | 55 |
| Dodsley, Robert | 46 |
| Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764) | 46 |
| Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016) | 41 |
| Auden, W H (1907-1973) | 35 |
| Drinkwater, John (1882-1937) | 28 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 28 |
| Poetry Book Society | 27 |
| Dryden, John (1631-1700) | 22 |
| Silkin, Jon (1930-1997) | 18 |
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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...
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...
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.
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...