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Total number of records: 2580

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Brotherton Collection1805
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Herbert Read Collection382
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Leeds Poetry69
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections17
Liddle Collection11
Leeds Russian Archive10
Quaker Collection7
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3

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Park, Thomas (1759-1834)55
Dodsley, Robert46
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)46
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)41
Auden, W H (1907-1973)35
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)28
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Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)21
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)18
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)18

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Archive Collection:
MS 1611
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 1720
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 1753
1927-2002
Literary archive of Humphrey Moore and associated materials on twentieth-century poetry, assembled by John Bridgen.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Browning
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 -...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Collins
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Elliott
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Graves
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"').
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Hemans
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.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Tennyson
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Hutchinson
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. ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Peacock
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...