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Total number of records: 1988

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items1166
Archives818
Objects3
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1988
English Literature1103
Herbert Read Collection393
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse179
Leeds Poetry105
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections17
Medieval Manuscripts3
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry1946
letters325
english literature320
english drama319
english fiction287
art202
sculpture, modern201
anarchism201
modernism (art)201
art, modern201

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain24
Ireland12
Northern Ireland11
Europe11
Sheffield (England)10
Derbyshire (England)4
Tyne, River (England)2
Barnsley (England)2
Scotland2
Scarborough (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)40
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)30
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)28
Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)28
Poetry Book Society27
Dryden, John (1631-1700)20
Dryden, John16
Holland, John (1794-1872)15
Astbury, Anthony14
Tonson, Jacob13

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 13002
From 14001
From 15002
From 1600132
From 1700234
From 1800273
From 19001177
From 200028

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 13991
Up to 14992
Up to 1699115
Up to 1799237
Up to 1899262
Up to 19991140
Up to latest92

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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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.

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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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