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Total number of records: 2457

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items1703
Archives750
Objects3
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1710
English Literature1401
Herbert Read Collection378
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse177
Leeds Poetry32
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections13
Liddle Collection11
Leeds Russian Archive9
Quaker Collection7
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry2457
english drama307
letters306
english literature300
english fiction271
art201
modernism (art)199
art, modern199
sculpture, modern199
anarchism199

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain30
Europe11
Sheffield (England)11
England6
France5
Ireland4
Derbyshire (England)4
Scotland3
Scarborough (England)3
Bath (England)3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Park, Thomas (1759-1834)55
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)46
Dodsley, Robert46
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)39
Auden, W H (1907-1973)35
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)28
Dryden, John (1631-1700)22
Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)21
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)18
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)17

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1600133
From 1700336
From 1800504
From 19001482
From 20002

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1699114
Up to 1799333
Up to 1899495
Up to 19991515
Longman Annotated English Poets papers

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Poetry Room, University of Leeds School of English, correspondence and papers

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Robert Browning, holograph poems

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Mortimer Collins, poems

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Ebenezer Elliott, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

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Charles Larcom Graves, They all hate Joe

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Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem

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Alfred Lord Tennyson and family, correspondence and literary works

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William Wordsworth, correspondence between Thomas Hutchinson, William Hale White, and others concerning Wordsworth

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Barry Pain, autograph manuscript poem entitled 'I am seventeen and have written three books'

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Florence Peacock, original holograph manuscripts of poems

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Rosamund Marriott Watson, autograph manuscript poem 'A ruined altar'

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