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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

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From 180078
From 1900375
From 20004

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189968
Up to 1999359
Up to latest30

Archive Collection

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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W.G. Curtis Morgan, literary papers and publications with some letters and personal and financial items

Morgan, W G Curtis

1922-1991

Comprises: (1) 3 boxes of literary papers by Morgan, including (a) Mainly typescript drafts with autograph manuscript revisions of 12 plays, namely, 'The Squire of Darkfield' (4 drafts), 'The Jurado R...

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William Trevor, three literary manuscripts with a postcard

Trevor, William (1928-2016)

c.1973

Comprises: (1) Three autograph typescripts of literary works by Trevor with many manuscript revisions, namely fragments of two plays and one piece of fiction, undated and not identified; and (2) An au...

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Angela Thirkell Archive

Thirkell, Angela Margaret

1895-2004

Comprises: (1) 12 boxes of material catalogued by David Gilson, namely, autograph manuscript notebooks containing drafts of the novels 'Love among the Ruins', 'The Old Bank House', 'Morning, afternoo...

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Piers Paul Read Archive

Read, Piers Paul (1941-)

1950s-2001

Manuscripts and typescripts of his novels (Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx, The Junkers, Monk Dawson, The Professor's Daughter, The Upstart, Polonaise, A Married Man, The Villa Golitsyn, The Free Frenc...

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Archive Collection

Frederick William Rolfe, (Baron Corvo), collection

Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)

1881-2011

Includes works and letters by Frederick Rolfe and the papers of Donald Weeks' who wrote and researched extensively on Rolfe.

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Graham Greene, drafts of two novels with literary contracts and film rights

Greene, Graham (1904-1991)

1935-1980

(1) A series of versions of Greene's late novel 'Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party', including a complete signed autograph manuscript, a series of TS versions with MS corrections, proofs, and...

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Archive Sub-collection

Drama

1971-2003

This sub-fonds contains material related to dramatic works written by Kevin Crossley-Holland's.

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