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Total number of records: 6628
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 1914 |
| South Bank Show Production Archive | 1186 |
| English Literature | 1134 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 1038 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 414 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 270 |
| Leeds Poetry | 78 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 61 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 54 |
| Ripon Cathedral | 50 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Letitia) (1743-1825) | 54 |
| Barbauld | 53 |
| Bywater, Abel (1795-1873) | 50 |
| Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928) | 37 |
| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 | 30 |
| Silkin, Jon (1930-1997) | 29 |
| Likhachev, D S | 25 |
| Drinkwater, John (1882-1937) | 24 |
| Morris, William (1834-1896) | 24 |
| Grimm, Friedrich Melchior Freiherr Von (1723-1807) | 23 |
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ST GEORGE, GEORGE
1960s-1970s
George St George: "So Bright the Fire: A Play in 3 Acts" (with Cleo Lucas) (nd) /1-3/; "The Honeymoon Suite: A Play, Television or Film Idea" (1969) /4/; "Soviet Woman" (1971) /5-6/; "Stalin's Private...
Algernon Charles Swinburne manuscripts
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)
1851-1999
Comprises a substantial collection of manuscripts (many of them autographs), typed or pencilled transcriptions, and some printed proofs and early editions of literary works by Swinburne, including poe...
Arthur Ravenscroft correpondence and papers
Ravenscroft, Arthur (1923-1989)
c.1963-c.1983
Includes correspondence; student records, examiners' records; lecture notes; conference papers; galley proofs, copyright forms, correspondence and editorial papers of the 'Journal of Commonwealth lite...
Lascelles Abercrombie manuscripts
Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938)
1881-1940
Comprises: (1) Drafts of many of Abercrombie's own publications held in box files individually-labelled; (2) Drafts of literary material in folders; (3) Lecture notes, including those of his own lectu...
George Borrow, literary manuscripts with related material
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)
c.1840-1913
Brotherton Collection items: Autograph manuscripts of two folktales, one beginning "Sigurd son of Volsun", the other entitled "The pisgey and midwife"; autograph manuscripts of four poems, "Grasach Ab...
Henry Céard Archive
Céard, Henry
c.1873-1921
Comprises autograph French manuscripts of Henry Céard towards various of his poems, plays, and prose writings; also, many letters from or to him, dated between 1873 and 1921; together with various ed...
Maarten Maartens Manuscripts
Maartens, Maarten (1858-1915)
1882-1930
Comprises: Boxes of manuscripts, as follows: (1) 'Dorothea', MS 958pp. in 6 envelopes, and first MS drafts I-III in 3 envelopes, held in 2 boxes; (2) 'Eve', MS 510pp. in 4 envelopes, and sections rewr...
George Wilson Knight Archive
Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)
c.1916-1997
Comprises: (1) Knight's letters to: a) Francis Berry, 1931-1985; b) John Duncan Christie, 1962-1985; and c) John E. Van Domelen, especially concerning the latter's biography of Knight, 'The Tarza...
Arthur Ransome Archive
Ransome, Arthur (1884-1967)
1847-2000
Comprises: 1) literary manuscripts and typescripts, including Ransome's original illustrations for his children's books, fishing essays, sailing notes, drafts for his autobiography, diaries, notebooks...
Dora Sigerson Shorter, a play, a story and a volume of press notices about her.
Shorter, Dora Sigerson (1866-1918)
1895-1914
Comprises: 1) Typescript of a play 'The Other Woman's Child', in two acts, 36 ff., typed in black ink, with underlining in red, on sheets interleaved with thick paper, bound in blue cloth; 2) Carbon c...
Clement K Shorter Archive
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)
1893-1927
Comprises: 31 boxes of correspondence with various people (the largest number of letters are from Edmund Gosse, Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards, and Augustine Birrell); and bound volumes as follows: ...
John Armstrong Davison correspondence and papers
Davison, John Armstrong
1922-1969
John Armstrong Davison (1906-1966) was professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Leeds from 1951 until his death in December 1966. He was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christ...