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Total number of records: 10

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Brotherton Collection9
English Literature9

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english poetry10
letters1
sabbatarians1
satire, english1
lectures and lecturing1
epigrams, english1
english drama1
hymns, english1
botany1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde1
Hervey, Thomas Kibble (1799-1859)1
Peacock, Florence1
Tayler, Charles Benjamin (1797-1875)1
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)1
Whitehead, Charles (1804-1862)1
Hemans, Mrs (1793-1835)1
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne1
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell1
Agnew, Andrew1

Archive Collection

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

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

1878-1895

Comprises the following items: (1) Autograph letter to Marian Willets [1878]; (2) Manuscript draft and notes for the original contract made by J.M. Stoddart, and Co. with Wilde for publishing Rennell ...

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