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Total number of records: 35241

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Books and printed items27930
Archives7306
Objects3
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English Literature35241
Brotherton Collection18882
Leeds Poetry4202
Herbert Read Collection201

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english poetry1524
letters903
letter663
english literature645
poets, english617
english drama585
pre-raphaelites503
correspondence365
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)338
english fiction331

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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)923
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)752
Sala, George Augustus506
Dryden, John (1631-1700)323
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)317
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)301
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)288
Crossley-Holland, Kevin287
Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)280
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn249

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Archive Collection

Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

Abercrombie Family

1928-1969

Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...

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Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

1991

Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...

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Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers

Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)

c.1900-1980

Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...

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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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Poetry Room, University of Leeds School of English, correspondence and papers

University of Leeds. School of English

1950-1990

This collection comprises papers and audio recordings relating to the Poetry Room, formerly part of the School of English at the University of Leeds. It incorporates correspondence and other papers re...

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Humphrey Moore Archive, assembled by John Bridgen

Bridgen, John William

1927-2002

Literary archive of Humphrey Moore and associated materials on twentieth-century poetry, assembled by John Bridgen.

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Grace Stuart correspondence and papers

Stuart, Grace

c.1919-1971

Grace Stuart was the author of four books on psychology and three children’s books. She was born Agnes Grace Croll in Sheffield in 1898, and was the older of two daughters. Educated at state schools...

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Archive Print Collection

1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)

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...

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Archive Print Collection

Archive Print Collection

Edward Clodd (Brotherton Collection)

Works by Edward Clodd (1840-1930), including anthropology, mythology, evolution and religion. Clodd, a banker by profession, had a far-ranging influence through his wide circle of intellectual friends...

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Archive Print Collection

Archive Print Collection