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Total number of records: 2462

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Books and printed items1703
Archives755
Objects3
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection1715
English Literature1401
Herbert Read Collection378
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse179
Leeds Poetry32
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections13
Liddle Collection11
Leeds Russian Archive9
Quaker Collection7
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry2462
english drama307
letters307
english literature300
english fiction271
art201
sculpture, modern199
art, modern199
anarchism199
modernism (art)199

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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Park, Thomas (1759-1834)55
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)46
Dodsley, Robert46
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)39
Auden, W H (1907-1973)35
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)28
Dryden, John (1631-1700)22
Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)21
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)18
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)17

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From 1800504
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Up to 1799333
Up to 1899495
Up to 19991515

Archive Collection

Peter Dale, materials relating to the composition and publication of 'Da Capo: a sequence of poems [by] Dale, with Back for somehow on: an essay on Da Capo [by] Philip Hoy' (London, 1997).

Dale, Peter John (1938-)

1993-1998

Principally comprises autograph manuscript drafts of poems by Peter Dale for 'Da Capo', a manuscript notebook belonging to Peter Dale entitled 'Notes/ Da Capo/ 1993-96', several autograph typescript d...

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Fleur Adcock, papers relating to The Faber book of twentieth-century women's poetry,

Adcock, Fleur

1984-1987

Comprises: (1) 1 copy of the published work, 1987; (2) 1 file of correspondence between Fleur Adcock and Craig Raine of Faber and Faber (1984-1986) concerning the publication, together with photocopie...

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Will Foster Archive

Foster, Will (1864-1955)

c.1888-1942

Comprises: (1) 20 play typescripts; (2) Poems in typescript; (3) 'The Jolly Friar', a light opera; (4) Correspondence, 96 letters in 5 envelopes together with 68 reviews and other items in 3 envelopes...

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Poems and drawings entitled "Facts and Scraps, original and select, wrote for amusement etc. 1838, [by] W.R.B.".

Roberts, W B

1834 - 1908

Bound volume of manuscript[brown ink] short/amusing poems and illustrations including "Characters of men", "Thoughts on a Bachelor's life", "On Writing Poetry", "A Woman Drinking Gin", "A Drunken Tin...

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Longman Annotated English Poets papers

1959-1986

Comprises: (1) ca. 125 letters concerning a Chaucer edition, mostly from Richard J. Beck to F.W. Bateson, February 1964 - June 1978; (2) Notes and draft text relating to general aspects of proposed Ch...

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Robert Browning, holograph poems

Browning, Robert (1782-1866)

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 -...

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Mortimer Collins, poems

Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)

c.1860-1876

Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain

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Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne

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.

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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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Rosamund Marriott Watson, autograph manuscript poem 'A ruined altar'

Watson, Rosamund Marriott (1863-1911)

c. 1900

Split in half horizontally and somewhat damaged; with text written only on the two rectos

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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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