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Total number of records: 9768

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Books and printed items5841
Archives3638
Indexes257
People and organisations21
Objects6
Art items5

Top 10: Collection group

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Brotherton Collection5595
English Literature4455
Leeds Poetry1295
Herbert Read Collection797
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse326
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection215
South Bank Show Production Archive161
Leeds Russian Archive147
Letters Database114
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections97

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english poetry2594
poetry796
letters395
english literature362
english drama339
english fiction291
art217
art, modern208
anarchism207
modernism (art)201

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Genoa, Italy79
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)273
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)244
Virgil147
Crossley-Holland, Kevin136
Horace122
Bridgen, John William120
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)76
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn76
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)67
Aeneas (Legendary Character)60

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Archive File

Poetry

2006

Press cuttings associated with Hannah's poetry. Includes a copy of the poem 'Now and Then'.

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Poetry

1941

Typescript copies of unpublished poems written by Hartley Thwaite. Includes a set of poems sent to William Beach Thomas, and Thomas's note of thanks.

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Poetry

Fulker, Tina (1954-)

[197-]

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Poetry

Pearson, Elizabeth

[1861?]

Dated Birkdale Park, December 21st, 1861 at end.

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Poetry

1843-1877

Two poems by Thomas James Serle, the husband of Cecilia Novello.

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Poetry

1 May 1868

Verse titled 'Mr. Linkie' copied by Porzia Gigliucci on blue paper.

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Poetry

1869-1893

Three poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci, two for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and one for her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke.

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Poetry

9 Apr 1866

Sonnet titled ‘Sonnifero!’ by Giovanni Gigliucci, dated 9 April 1866.

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Archive Print Item

On poetry

Saint-John Perse (1889-1975)

c1961

Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel Prize for literature delivered in Stockholm December 10, 1960.

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Poetry

1840-1868

Two verses by (or transcribed by) Clara Anastasia Novello, 1 in English dated 1868 and one in French, undated.

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Poetry

1739-1882

Handwritten and printed poetry by writers associated with the Novello, Cowden Clarke and Gigliucci families, with some examples of poetry written by both Mary Cowden Clarke and her husband Charles Cow...

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Poetry

1869-1903

Poems, verses, acrostics, riddles and epigrams written by (Mary) Sabilla Novello, often as birthday gifts for her family and friends. The majority were written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, during...

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