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Brotherton Collection233
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Herbert Read Collection16
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Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3
Liddle Collection1
Leeds Russian Archive1
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Park, Thomas (1759-1834)54
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Poetry and Audience - 6th November, 1953
Archive Collection

Poetry and Audience, typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by various authors originally published in 'Poetry and Audence'

c.1954-1972

This collection contains typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by 33 authors, submitted for publication in the Leeds student literary magazine 'Poetry and Audience.' Also included is a small amoun...

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Contemporary Authors

1931-1994

Letter from M.E. Brown (Editor) asking Berry for details to be used in a biographical sketch in a forthcoming issue of Contemporary Authors.

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Society of Authors

1948-1959

Response to questions by Berry on copyright and fees in regard to reprinting articles.

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Picture posies : poems chiefly by living authors

Walker, Frederick (1840-1875); North, John William (1842-1924); Dalziel Brothers

1874

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The poetical works of Thomas Otway : with the life of the author

Otway, Thomas (1652-1685)

[1797]

Two added title pages; one engraved with title "Otway's works, forming part of Cooke's pocket edition of the original & complete works of select British poets..." Tail-pieces.

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BC MS Lt 72, f. 1r: The opening of Alexander Pope's poem
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Miscellany of eighteenth-century poems by various authors.

c.1725-1741

Miscellany containing 18 poems by various authors, chiefly of eighteenth-century origin.

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BC MS Lt 79, f. 129v: The opening of Sir John Harington's poem
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Miscellany of prose writings with some poetry by various authors.

c.1690-1700

Comprises various essays on the control of the emotions, followed by several English poems and Jacobite verse satires, with various dates assigned to particular literary pieces, ranging from 1651 and ...

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A collection of poems : chiefly manuscript, and from living authors

Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)

1823

Subscribers' names: p. [ix]-xliv.

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The tribute : a collection of miscellaneous unpublished poems by various authors

Northampton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of (1790-1851); Smedley, Edward (1788-1836); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (1809-1892); Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-1879)

1837

Published by subscription for the benefit of the widow & family of Edward Smedley.

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