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Total number of records: 1802

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items1027
Archives771
Objects3
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1802
English Literature1011
Herbert Read Collection382
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse177
Leeds Poetry64
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections17
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry1802
letters324
english drama319
english literature302
english fiction287
art202
modernism (art)201
art, modern201
anarchism201
sculpture, modern201

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain24
Europe11
Sheffield (England)10
Derbyshire (England)4
Barnsley (England)2
Scotland2
Tyne, River (England)2
Scarborough (England)1
Spain1
Wincobank (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)38
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)28
Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)21
Dryden, John (1631-1700)20
Dryden, John16
Holland, John (1794-1872)15
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)15
Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)13
Tonson, Jacob13
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)13

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1600132
From 1700234
From 1800273
From 19001135
From 200028

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1699113
Up to 1799237
Up to 1899262
Up to 19991098
Up to latest92
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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Sir Andrew Agnew, two satirical poems and a hymn

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Thomas Kibble Hervey, The nun, a poem

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