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Total number of records: 14801

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Books and printed items13680
Archives1121

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English Literature14801
Brotherton Collection8489
Leeds Poetry2

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letter540
poets, english485
letters464
pre-raphaelites440
english poetry387
english drama239
english language180
english essays162
english literature141
theater114

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Rome71
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London (England)29
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Sala, George Augustus428
Dryden, John (1631-1700)318
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)298
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)287
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)280
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)228
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)207
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)165
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)140
Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)131

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Archive Collection

Florence Peacock, original holograph manuscripts of poems

Peacock, Florence

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...

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John Ruskin, miscellaneous correspondence

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

7 Aug 1852 - 17 May 1882

Contains: (1) 2 letters to Miss Gertrude Huish with envelopes, 1 dated 4 November [18]60; (2) 1 undated letter to Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell; (3) 1 undated letter about art to Mr R. Peyton Further materi...

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Robert Southey, correspondence, literary manuscripts and printed works

Southey, Robert (1774-1843)

c.1797-1839

Comprises: (1) A collection of autograph letters written by Robert Southey to John May and others, together with manuscript poems and notes by Robert Southey, and autograph letters to John May from T...

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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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Ichabod Charles Wright correspondence

Wright, Ichabod Charles (1795-1871)

c.1831-1871

Contains: (1) Correspondence when editing Dante, 1831-1871, 2 vols lettered: J.C. WRIGHT ON DANTE: AUTOGRAPH LETTERS; (2) Correspondence when editing Homer, 1846-1865, 3 vols lettered: J.C. WRIGHT'S T...

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Sir Andrew Agnew, two satirical poems and a hymn

Agnew, Andrew

c.1830-1840?

Comprises: (1) 2 satirical poems, the first entitled 'To Saint Andrew Agnew' and signed by 'Ewe', the second entitled 'The "Monstre" Saint' and signed by 'Beta'; (2) A hymn, 'by Saint Andrew Agnew!' a...

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Thomas Kibble Hervey, The nun, a poem

Hervey, Thomas Kibble (1799-1859)

c. 1850

Comprises the apparently original holograph manuscript of Hervey's poem 'The nun'. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which is somewhat fuller than that found in the Dictionary of Nationa...

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Charles Benjamin Tayler, On the death of a youthful disciple, a poem

Tayler, Charles Benjamin (1797-1875)

1852

Comprises the apparently original autograph manuscript of Charles Tayler's poem 'On the death of a youthful disciple', written at Otley in 1852. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which i...

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William Clayfield of Bristol, autograph verses attributed to him with one by Thomas Beddoes

Clayfield, William

1820s

Comprises autograph verses by William Clayfield, including 'On a young lady's stooping at a window to examine the Arabis-Stricta recently transplanted from St Vincent's rocks' (dated 1822); 'On the Ny...

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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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Charles Whitehead, The Solitary: a poem, in three parts

Whitehead, Charles (1804-1862)

1831

Manuscript copy, possibly in Whitehead's hand, of his long meditative poem "The Solitary", which was first published in 1831.

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Blavatnik Honresfield Library

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Patrick Branwell Brontë; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)

c17th - 19th century

Manuscripts, letters and books belonging to the Blavatnik Honresfield Library, collected during the late nineteenth century by William Law. The manuscript items relate to the Brontë family, and inc...

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