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Total number of records: 1010

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items695
Archives315

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection647
English Literature544
Herbert Read Collection87
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society29
Leeds Russian Archive14
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections12
Leeds Poetry4
Liddle Collection3
Ripon Cathedral1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english literature1010
english poetry289
letters288
english drama279
english fiction264
literature32
american literature29
authors, english25
rare books24
eighteenth century18

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain44
England28
Yorkshire (England)8
Scandinavia7
Norway6
Iceland6
Bath (England)6
United States5
Ireland4
Lancashire (England)4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barbauld50
Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Letitia) (1743-1825)50
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)21
Nichols, John (1745-1826)17
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)15
Tenison, Eva Mabel14
Brydges, Sir Egerton (1762-1837)14
Ashley Library11
Pope, Alexander, 1688-174411
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)11

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800291
From 1900704
From 200015

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899253
Up to 1999727
Up to latest30
Archive Collection:
MS 1309
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 1514
c.1890-1922
Comprises letters, press cuttings, and notes
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Borrow
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Arnold
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Manson
c.1873-1920
Consists almost entirely of letters received by Manson
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Barton
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Eliot
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Landor
c.1800-1928
Comprises: (1) 3 autograph letters, 1 to Cornelia Crosse, 2 to unnamed correspondents; (2) Folder numbered '3', a note on spelling reform; (3) Folder numbered '4', a slip with notes on 'Troilus and Cr...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Maartens
1882-1930
Comprises: Boxes of manuscripts, as follows: (1) 'Dorothea', MS 958pp. in 6 envelopes, and first MS drafts I-III in 3 envelopes, held in 2 boxes; (2) 'Eve', MS 510pp. in 4 envelopes, and sections rewr...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Stevenson
1898-1923
Comprises: (1) 1 box containing 2 vols and 1 other separate volume of copies of letters by Katharine D. Osborne concerning Robert Louis Stevenson, 1922-1923; (2) Correspondence between Sidney Colvin, ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Thackeray
c.1835-1860
Comprises: (1) 26 letters and manuscripts dated 1835-1860, guarded in order and bound in 1 vol., accompanied by an annotated typed list of contents by Dr Eric Millar and the bill for the cost of bindi...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Brontë
1812-1925
A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...