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Total number of records: 947

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Archives211

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Brotherton Collection617
English Literature387
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse178
Herbert Read Collection9
Quaker Collection7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections6
Medieval Manuscripts3
Cookery Collection2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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english poetry947
poets, english43
commonplace-books41
latin poetry25
classical poetry19
verse satire, english19
english literature16
english drama16
letters14
ballads, english14

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Park, Thomas (1759-1834)55
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)46
Dodsley, Robert46
Dryden, John (1631-1700)20
Dryden, John16
Holland, John (1794-1872)16
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)15
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)15
Tonson, Jacob13
Anderson, Robert (1750-1830)13

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Robert Browning, holograph poems

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Mortimer Collins, poems

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Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem

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Florence Peacock, original holograph manuscripts of poems

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Sir Andrew Agnew, two satirical poems and a hymn

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Thomas Kibble Hervey, The nun, a poem

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

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

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

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Oscar Wilde, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of his play 'The Duchess of Padua', with some related material

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Safe custody, by Oliver Heywood, and Love, by George Herbert

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School exercise books, principally containing verse, compiled by Sarah and John Mould, of Gildersome, Yorkshire, and Ackworth School.

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