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Total number of records: 617

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Books and printed items416
Archives201

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection617
English Literature185
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse178
Herbert Read Collection9
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections6
Medieval Manuscripts3
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry617
commonplace-books39
latin poetry16
english literature15
poets, english15
classical poetry15
verse satire, english15
letters13
books11
covenanters9

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Great Britain18
Europe11
Sheffield (England)9
Derbyshire (England)4
Tyne, River (England)2
Barnsley (England)2
Pensarn (Conwy, Wales)1
Scarborough (England)1
Wath Upon Dearne (England)1
Otley (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dryden, John (1631-1700)20
Dryden, John16
Holland, John (1794-1872)15
Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)13
Tonson, Jacob13
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)12
Dodsley, Robert12
Anderson, James (1739-1808)11
Kelmscott Press10
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)10

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Archive Collection

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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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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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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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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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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Fragment of a Novel

17 June 1816

Sometimes referred to as 'A Fragment' or 'The Burial: A Fragment'. The original holograph manuscript accompanied by a more recent typescript. The story was the result of a meeting that Byron had i...

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William Morris, alterations and corrections to The Story of Olaf the Holy, the son of Harald, translated from Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon, with over 150 lines of English poetry added by Morris

1891

Also known as: Olafs saga helga. English. Comprises the original autograph manuscript of Eiríkr Magnússon's English translation of the Icelandic (Old Norse) Saga 'The Story of Olaf the Holy' with t...

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The bone-house : a poem

Smith, Alfred

1844

By Alfred Smith.

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