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Total number of records: 457

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives310
Books and printed items147

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection385
English Literature323
Leeds Russian Archive29
Herbert Read Collection19
Leeds Poetry17
Liddle Collection2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english fiction457
letters300
english poetry287
english drama267
english literature264
librettos16
married women6
german fiction5
english prose literature4
russian fiction4

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
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849)11
Acton Bell11
Blavatnik Honresfield Library9
Billing, J6
Newby, Thomas Cautley6
Charles Hunt, London6
Morris, William (1834-1896)5
Kelmscott Press5
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)5

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180078
From 1900375
From 20004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189968
Up to 1999359
Up to latest30

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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Peter Rushforth Archive

Rushforth, Peter Scott (1945-2005)

1967-2006

Original deposit of 43 boxes includes: (a) "Kindergarten" drafts, including sections titled 'Shadows of the Living' and 'The Other Side of Silence', TS and galley proofs of final version, with relate...

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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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Barbara Taylor Bradford Archive

Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)

c.1940-2019

Includes typecript copies of her novels, some with manuscript annotations, printers' proofs, published novels, press cuttings and magazines featuring articles about Taylor Bradford, papers relating to...

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David and Betty Beaty Archive

Beaty, David (1919-1999)

1939-2004

Comprises: (a) 2 boxes of correspondence between David and Betty Beaty and several publishers, friends, and others, mainly concerning their respective publications, dated between 1939 and 1998, inclu...

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Kevin Crossley-Holland Archive

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1946-2011

This collection of the literary papers and correspondence of Kevin Crossley-Holland represents the wide range of his interests and achievements. It covers his own poetry, translations and re-tellings ...

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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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