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Total number of records: 427

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives285
Books and printed items142

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection361
English Literature300
Leeds Russian Archive27
Herbert Read Collection19
Leeds Poetry4
Liddle Collection2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english fiction427
letters277
english poetry271
english drama264
english literature259
married women6
german fiction5
english prose literature4
russian fiction4
french literature3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
England7
Middle East2
Midlands (England)1
Palestine1
Rome (Italy)1
Kurdistan1
Canada1
Isle of Wight (England)1
Lake District (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Marryat, Frederick (1792-1848)20
Acton Bell11
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849)11
Blavatnik Honresfield Library9
Newby, Thomas Cautley6
Charles Hunt, London6
Billing, J6
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)5
Kelmscott Press5
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)5

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180076
From 1900351

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189968
Up to 1999359

Archive Collection

Bram Stoker correspondence and manuscripts

Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)

1866-1997

Comprises: (1) Correspondence dated between 1866 and 1911; (2) Autograph literary manuscripts by Bram Stoker: (i) Lecture 'Personal impressions of America', delivered at the London Institute (and else...

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Algernon Charles Swinburne manuscripts

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

1851-1999

Comprises a substantial collection of manuscripts (many of them autographs), typed or pencilled transcriptions, and some printed proofs and early editions of literary works by Swinburne, including poe...

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William Black, The Penance of John Logan

Black, William (1841-1898)

1887

Manuscript copy, autograph, of his novel "The Penance of John Logan", which was first published in 1889. The novel is written on the recto side of each leaf of the volume in a small, condensed hand in...

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Stan Barstow Archive

Barstow, Stan (1928-2011)

1956-1996

Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Barstow's writings, including: 'A brother's tale'; 'A kind of loving'; 'A raging calm'; 'A season with Eros'; ' About the novel'; 'Ask me t...

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Joseph Conrad, correspondence of, or relating to, and materials concerning the production of a dramatised version of his 'The secret agent'

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)

1895-1956

Comprises: (1) Vol.1: 14 autograph manuscript letters from Conrad to his publisher, T. Fisher Unwin, dated 9 July 1895-8 August 1898, and 1 typescript letter with manuscript name and signature from Un...

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Thomas Blackburn Archive

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1893-1988

The items in this collection relate to Thomas Blackburn's personal life, his career as a poet and his teaching career. Comprises: typescripts, autograph manuscripts and other papers relating to Thoma...

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William Boyd, literary manuscript notebook with a related letter

Boyd, William (1952-)

1984-1987

Comprises the autograph manuscript notebook of William Boyd in which he drafted his short story entitled 'Alpes maritimes', dated 'Tuesday. 16. Oct. 1984.' at the beginning, followed by notes written ...

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Roy Fuller Archive

Fuller, Roy (1912-1991)

1941-1990

Comprises: (a) 2 boxes (Boxes 1-2) containing Roy Fuller's autograph manuscript notebooks, comprising 25 numbered notebooks of poetry dated 1941-1983, 2 unnumbered notebooks of his reviews of works by...

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Glyn Hughes, literary papers with related material

Hughes, Glyn

1975-1999

Comprises: (1) 39 autograph manuscript notebooks containing many drafts of Glyn Hughes' poems, research notes for novels, and numerous personal notes, partly dated between ca. 1979 and 1999, with so...

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Keown (Anna Gordon), literary papers with related material, including some correspondence

Keown, Anna Gordon (1902-)

1934-1959

Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of some of Anna Gordon Keown's literary works, including at least 9 short stories or plays, dated ca. 1948-1955, and held in a red folder; at ...

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Francis Berry Archive

Berry, Francis

1931-1994

Literary archive of Francis Berry. The collection is separated into two series: Correspondence and Literary papers. Correspondence files arranged alphabetically by correspondent, following Berry's ...

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John Mackendrick Collection

Mackendrick, John (1946-1979)

1970-1994

The collection includes drafts of plays by Mackendrick, photographs of his productions, newspaper reviews, posters, flyers and correspondence.

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