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Total number of records: 772

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Archives106
Indexes28
People and organisations15

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Brotherton Collection474
English Literature161
Herbert Read Collection49
Letters Database28
Cookery Collection10
Leeds Russian Archive7
Leeds Poetry5
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4
Liddle Collection3

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english poetry20
voyages around the world15
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letters12
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Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)341
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824211
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)46
Byron, George Gordon Byron37
Moore, Thomas34
Finden, Edward Francis19
Finden, Edward Francis (1791-1857)19
Byron, John (1723-1786)18
Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820)18
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Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem 'On the Death of the Duke of Dorset’

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(10) Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem 'On the Death of the Duke of Dorset’, together with a typescript transcription, and several pages of notes. 2 ff. conjoined (the manuscript), 2 typescript...

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Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem 'On Washington'

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(11) Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem 'On Washington', together with typescript transcriptions, and a page of notes. 1 f. (the manuscript), held in a transparent plastic envelope, 3 typescript f...

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Manuscript copy of an extract from Byron’s ‘Don Juan Secundus'

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(16) Manuscript copy of an extract from Byron’s ‘Don Juan Secundus', in an unknown hand. 1 vol. (43 ff.; vellum). Bound in boards covered with fine dark green morocco with gilt-tooling on all outs...

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Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem 'The Progress of Beauty'

September 18 1818

(4) Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem 'The Progress of Beauty', dated September 18th, 1818, together with a typescript transcription, and some notes. 2 ff., conjoined (the manuscript), 2 typescri...

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Manuscript copy of Byron’s poem 'Inscription on the monument of a favourite dog'

October 30 1818

(5) Manuscript copy of Byron’s poem 'Inscription on the monument of a favourite dog', that is, his dog ‘Boatswain’, written in the hand of Lady Blessington, dated Newstead Abbey, October 30th, 1...

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Original manuscript of Byron’s story 'Mazeppa' in Mary Shelley's hand
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Original manuscript of Byron’s story 'Mazeppa' in Mary Shelley's hand

1818

(19) Original manuscript of Byron’s story 'Mazeppa' in Mary Shelley's hand, written in Venice in 1818, with corrections in Byron's hand and a frontispiece portrait of him (54 pp); bound with a Frenc...

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Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem beginning 'The blush of my beloved'

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(12) Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem beginning 'The blush of my beloved', together with a typescript transcription, and several pages of notes. 1 f. (the manuscript), 1 typescript folio, and...

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Manuscript copy of the second Fourth Authorised Edition of Byron’s 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers'

1811

(17) Manuscript copy of the second Fourth Authorised Edition of Byron’s 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (London, 1811) written in an unknown hand, with a frontispiece portrait of Byron. 1 vol. ...

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Manuscript copy of the second Fourth Authorised Edition of Byron’s 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers'

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(18) Manuscript copy of the second Fourth Authorised Edition of Byron’s 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (London, 1811), in this case transcribed by W. Simpson with end- rather than footnotes, a...

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Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem beginning 'I'll linger near that font of water'

1818

(6) Autograph manuscript of Byron’s poem beginning 'I'll linger near that font of water' (1818), together with a typescript transcription, and some notes. 1 f. (the manuscript), 2 typescript folios ...

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