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| Collection group | Count |
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| Brotherton Collection | 1988 |
| English Literature | 1591 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 393 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 179 |
| Leeds Poetry | 110 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 17 |
| Liddle Collection | 11 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 11 |
| Quaker Collection | 7 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 4 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
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| Park, Thomas (1759-1834) | 55 |
| Dodsley, Robert | 46 |
| Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764) | 46 |
| Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016) | 43 |
| Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) | 38 |
| Auden, W H (1907-1973) | 35 |
| Silkin, Jon (1930-1997) | 33 |
| Drinkwater, John (1882-1937) | 28 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 28 |
| Poetry Book Society | 27 |
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Old English Poems and Myths: Translation, Re-tellings, Etc.
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
1960-1998
This sub-fonds contains items relating to Kevin Crossley-Holland's translations and re-tellings of Old English poems and mythological tales.
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...
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.
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 -...
Mortimer Collins, poems
Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
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.
Barry Pain, autograph manuscript poem entitled 'I am seventeen and have written three books'
Pain, Barry (1864-1928)
c. 1900
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...