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Total number of records: 45561
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Collection group | Count |
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Brotherton Collection | 45561 |
English Literature | 8490 |
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 7157 |
Incunabula | 1342 |
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 1191 |
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 1161 |
Medieval Manuscripts | 642 |
Herbert Read Collection | 259 |
Rudolf Laban Collections | 12 |
Medical Collections | 5 |
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Archive Print Collection:
BC 1890's
BC 1890's
1890s
Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Crabbe
BC MS 19c Crabbe
1726-1816
Additional items listed Sep 2017: 'Letter and Watercolour' [BC MS 19c Crabbe/6].
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Ellis
BC MS 19c Ellis
08 Oct 1894
Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller.
This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Arnold
BC MS 19c Arnold
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Barton
BC MS 19c Barton
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Bennett
BC MS 19c Bennett
c.1840-1866
The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Brooks
BC MS 19c Brooks
1867-1872
Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Browning
BC MS 19c Browning
c.1820-1866
Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Collins
BC MS 19c Collins
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Dalton
BC MS 19c Dalton
c.1795-1824
Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Egan
BC MS 19c Egan
c. 1850
A historical drama in prose
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Hemans
BC MS 19c Hemans
c.1810-1835
Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c De Quincey
BC MS 19c De Quincey
1837
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Marshall
BC MS 19c Marshall
c.1852-1881
Members of the Marshall Family named in the correspondence include the following:-(1) Julia O'Brien; (2) Edward O'Brien; (3) Nellie O'Brien; (4) Mary Marshall; (5) James Marshall, 1802-1873; (6) Aubre...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Peacock
BC MS 19c Peacock
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Ruskin
BC MS 19c Ruskin
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Southey
BC MS 19c Southey
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Thackeray
BC MS 19c Thackeray
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Wilson
BC MS 19c Wilson
1809-1852
Comprises:- (1) Correspondence between John Wilson ('Christopher North') and the Rev. John Fleming, with letters to John Wilson from various correspondents, including Robert Morehead, George Jardine, ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Wright
BC MS 19c Wright
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Agnew
BC MS 19c Agnew
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Hervey
BC MS 19c Hervey
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Tayler
BC MS 19c Tayler
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...