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Total number of records: 980

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items674
Archives306

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection633
English Literature523
Herbert Read Collection87
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society29
Leeds Russian Archive12
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections12
Liddle Collection3
Leeds Poetry3
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english literature980
english poetry284
letters281
english drama276
english fiction259
literature29
american literature28
authors, english25
rare books24
eighteenth century18

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain44
England27
Yorkshire (England)8
Scandinavia7
Iceland6
Norway6
Bath (England)6
United States5
Ireland4
Lancashire (England)4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Letitia) (1743-1825)50
Barbauld50
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
Pope, Alexander, 1688-174411
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)11
Ashley Library11

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800289
From 1900691

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899253
Up to 1999727

Archive Collection

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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Charles Edwyn Vaughan correspondence and papers

Vaughan, C E (1854-1922)

c.1890-1922

Comprises letters, press cuttings, and notes

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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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Arnold Family Archive

Arnold Family

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...

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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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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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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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Walter Savage Landor, literary fragments and letters

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

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...

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Maarten Maartens Manuscripts

Maartens, Maarten (1858-1915)

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...

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Robert Louis Stevenson, correspondence and literary manuscripts

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

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, ...

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William Makepeace Thackeray, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

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...

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Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

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...

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