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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Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller.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