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Total number of records: 475

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Books and printed items453
Archives22

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection248
English Literature157
Herbert Read Collection9
Quaker Collection6
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections6
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
Cookery Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1

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english poetry475
poets, english19
greek poetry10
ballads, english9
latin poetry9
romances, english8
english language7
broadsides7
poetry7
english prose literature6

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Sheffield (England)9
Derbyshire (England)4
Scarborough (England)3
Great Britain3
France3
England2
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Tyne, River (England)2
Pensarn (Conwy, Wales)1
Scottish Literature1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Park, Thomas (1759-1834)55
Holland, John (1794-1872)16
Ellis, George (1753-1815)11
Kelmscott Press10
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)9
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)8
Knox, Vicesimus8
Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)6
Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)6
Wills, James (Senior, of Sheffield)6
Robert Browning, holograph poems

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Mortimer Collins, poems

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Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem

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Florence Peacock, original holograph manuscripts of poems

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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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Charles Benjamin Tayler, On the death of a youthful disciple, a poem

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William Clayfield of Bristol, autograph verses attributed to him with one by Thomas Beddoes

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Charles Whitehead, The Solitary: a poem, in three parts

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Oscar Wilde, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of his play 'The Duchess of Padua', with some related material

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School exercise books, principally containing verse, compiled by Sarah and John Mould, of Gildersome, Yorkshire, and Ackworth School.

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Collection of poetry entitled 'Mountain Minstrel, vol. II, or Pioneer Poems, by Matthew Willis', typed by the poet's granddaughter, Mina Willis Wilkinson.

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