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Total number of records: 33066

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Books and printed items25227
Archives4363
Indexes3342
Art items94
Objects39

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection33066
English Literature6108
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3439
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1161
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1143
Herbert Read Collection259
Rudolf Laban Collections12
Incunabula8
Medical Collections5
Letters Database2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters619
letter539
english poetry480
poets, english477
sermons, english469
pre-raphaelites440
drawing260
romanies241
music205
poetry205

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PlaceCount
Great Britain1032
Sheffield (England)253
France207
Europe166
Genoa, Italy163
London, United Kingdom150
England150
Yorkshire (England)99
Rome95
Scotland74

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Anonymous1453
Sala, George Augustus427
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)327
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)260
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)246
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)241
Church of England235
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)235
Montgomery, James (1771-1854)210
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)205

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Up to 179910854
Up to 189922210

Archive Print Collection

1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)

1890s

Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...

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Archive Collection

George Crabbe correspondence and papers

1726-1816

Additional items listed Sep 2017: 'Letter and Watercolour' [BC MS 19c Crabbe/6].

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Archive Collection

'Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm' manuscript volume

Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)

08 Oct 1894

Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller. This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...

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Archive Collection

Arnold Family Archive

Arnold Family

1810-1894

Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...

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Archive Collection

Albert Edward Tebb correspondence

Tebb, Albert Edward

c.1873-1898

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Archive Collection

Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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Bennett Family Correspondence
Archive Collection

Bennett Family Correspondence

Bennett family

c.1840-1866

The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...

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Shirley Brooks, diaries

Brooks, Shirley (1815-1874)

1867-1872

Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...

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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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James Dalton, correspondence

Dalton, James

c.1795-1824

Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...

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Archive Collection

Pierce Egan, The blind lover; or, The maid of Malines

Egan, Pierce (1814-1880)

c. 1850

A historical drama in prose

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