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Total number of records: 2807
Top 10: Collection group
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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Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Dale
BC MS 20c Dale
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Adcock
BC MS 20c Adcock
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Foster
BC MS 20c Foster
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...
Archive File:
BC MS Rom/Fraser/B/3/1
BC MS Rom/Fraser/B/3/1
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...
Archive Sub-collection:
BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/3
BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/3
1960-1998
This sub-fonds contains items relating to Kevin Crossley-Holland's translations and re-tellings of Old English poems and mythological tales.
Archive Collection:
MS 1611
MS 1611
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 1753
MS 1753
1927-2002
Literary archive of Humphrey Moore and associated materials on twentieth-century poetry, assembled by John Bridgen.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Browning
BC MS 19c Browning
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 -...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Collins
BC MS 19c Collins
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Hemans
BC MS 19c Hemans
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.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Pain
BC MS 19c Pain
c. 1900
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Peacock
BC MS 19c Peacock
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...