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Total number of records: 2108

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Books and printed items1494
Archives610
Objects3
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection1436
English Literature1240
Herbert Read Collection382
Leeds Poetry69
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections17
Liddle Collection11
Leeds Russian Archive10
Quaker Collection6
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3
Cookery Collection2

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english poetry2108
english drama320
letters314
english literature289
english fiction287
art203
sculpture, modern201
anarchism201
modernism (art)201
art, modern201

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Sheffield (England)11
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France4
Ireland4
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Scotland3
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Park, Thomas (1759-1834)55
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)41
Auden, W H (1907-1973)35
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)28
Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)21
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)18
Holland, John (1794-1872)16
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)13
Marsh, Sir Edward Howard (1872-1953)12
Barker, George (1913-1991)12

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From 1800504
From 19001557
From 200047

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Up to 1899475
Up to 19991513
Up to latest120
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Dale
1993-1998
Principally comprises autograph manuscript drafts of poems by Peter Dale for 'Da Capo', a manuscript notebook belonging to Peter Dale entitled 'Notes/ Da Capo/ 1993-96', several autograph typescript d...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Adcock
1984-1987
Comprises: (1) 1 copy of the published work, 1987; (2) 1 file of correspondence between Fleur Adcock and Craig Raine of Faber and Faber (1984-1986) concerning the publication, together with photocopie...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Foster
c.1888-1942
Comprises: (1) 20 play typescripts; (2) Poems in typescript; (3) 'The Jolly Friar', a light opera; (4) Correspondence, 96 letters in 5 envelopes together with 68 reviews and other items in 3 envelopes...
Archive File:
BC MS Rom/Fraser/B/3/1
1834 - 1908
Bound volume of manuscript[brown ink] short/amusing poems and illustrations including "Characters of men", "Thoughts on a Bachelor's life", "On Writing Poetry", "A Woman Drinking Gin", "A Drunken Tin...
Archive Collection:
MS 1611
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 1753
1927-2002
Literary archive of Humphrey Moore and associated materials on twentieth-century poetry, assembled by John Bridgen.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Browning
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 -...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Collins
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Hemans
c.1810-1835
Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Peacock
c.1895-1896
Comprises the following poems:-(1) 'The charm of the rue'; (2) 'Living though the date be old'; (3) 'A stony way'; (4) 'Though your sins be as scarlet...', Isaiah 1.18; (5) 'A northern sailor'; (6) 'T...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Watson
c. 1900
Split in half horizontally and somewhat damaged; with text written only on the two rectos