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Total number of records: 208

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English Literature208
Brotherton Collection171
Leeds Poetry22
Herbert Read Collection1

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english poetry73
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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Dorothy Una Phillips3
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Dorothy Una Clough3
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)3
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips3
Haffenden, John2
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)2
Harrison, Tony (1937-)2

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Archive Collection

Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

Abercrombie Family

1928-1969

Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...

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Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

1991

Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...

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Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers

Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)

c.1900-1980

Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...

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Longman Annotated English Poets papers

1959-1986

Comprises: (1) ca. 125 letters concerning a Chaucer edition, mostly from Richard J. Beck to F.W. Bateson, February 1964 - June 1978; (2) Notes and draft text relating to general aspects of proposed Ch...

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

University of Leeds. School of English

1950-1990

This collection comprises papers and audio recordings relating to the Poetry Room, formerly part of the School of English at the University of Leeds. It incorporates correspondence and other papers re...

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Humphrey Moore Archive, assembled by John Bridgen

Bridgen, John William

1927-2002

Literary archive of Humphrey Moore and associated materials on twentieth-century poetry, assembled by John Bridgen.

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Grace Stuart correspondence and papers

Stuart, Grace

c.1919-1971

Grace Stuart was the author of four books on psychology and three children’s books. She was born Agnes Grace Croll in Sheffield in 1898, and was the older of two daughters. Educated at state schools...

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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 Print Collection

Gosse (Brotherton Collection)

1829-2014

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Leeds University Library Handlist of 'Bronteana'

19th - 20th century

A collection of pamphlets and offprints on Brontë subjects.

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Juliette Drouet Letters to Victor Hugo

1833-1903

Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo. 440 letters, partially covering the years 1833 - 1851. Also included are two letters (1903 - 1906) relating to the collection whilst in the care of John El...

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George Borrow, literary manuscripts with related material

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1840-1913

Brotherton Collection items: Autograph manuscripts of two folktales, one beginning "Sigurd son of Volsun", the other entitled "The pisgey and midwife"; autograph manuscripts of four poems, "Grasach Ab...

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The Disguise. A Comedy. In five acts.

Early 19th century

The original manuscript, probably autograph, of an unpublished early 19th century comedy. The identity of the author is unknown. The play features characters such as Lord Montrose, Sir Charles Lu...

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'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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James A. Manson, correspondence

Manson, James Alexander

c.1873-1920

Consists almost entirely of letters received by Manson

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George Augustus Sala, correspondence

Sala, George Augustus (1828-1895)

c.1830-1913

Consists almost entirely of letters received by Sala. Some letters are undated.

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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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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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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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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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George Eliot, autograph letters to her by celebrities of her time, relating to literary and personal matters

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

c.1875-1919

The correspondents include Anthony Trollope, Harriet B. Stowe, Frederic Harrison, Lord Justice Bowen, Benjamin Jowett, David Kauffman, Sir James Paget, G. J. Holyoake, Douglas Jerrold, Elizabeth Stuar...

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Ebenezer Elliott, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

c.1818-1929

Comprises: (1) 2 bound quarto volumes on Elliott: one by E.R. Seary, 1929, containing a 98 ff. typescript carbon biography entitled 'Reinvestigation into the sources of the biographical material of Eb...

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Charles Larcom Graves, They all hate Joe

Graves, Charles L (1856-1944)

c. 1900

A poem on the pro-Boers' antipathy to Joseph Chamberlain during the South African War, 1899-1902 ('With apologies to the author of 'They all love Jack"').

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