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Total number of records: 1871

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items1107
Archives764

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature1871
Brotherton Collection1448
Leeds Poetry218
Herbert Read Collection59

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry226
letters85
english drama69
art64
english literature64
anarchism59
art, modern59
modernism (art)59
sculpture, modern59
manuscripts, english49

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain33
Europe6
France5
England3
Jamaica3
Venice (Italy)3
New York (N.Y.)2
Northumberland (England)2
Oxford (England)2
Wales2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)75
Astbury, Anthony73
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962)44
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)35
Crossley-Holland, Kevin35
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn35
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (1809-1892)33
Day, Aidan31
Heppenstall, Rayner (1911-1981)31
Ricks, Christopher (1933-)31

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From 15001
From 160078
From 1700136
From 1800283
From 19001050
From 2000224

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Up to 1899191
Up to 19991036
Up to latest343

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Manuscript Poems

c.1894 - c.1917

Manuscript drafts of the following published poems: ‘A Villanelle’, ‘The Lark Sang Yesterday’, ‘The Waking of Spring’, ‘To Walt Whitman’, ‘May’, ‘A la lune’ [To Cynthia], ‘At...

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The Pickering manuscript

Blake, William (1757-1827); Ryskamp, Charles (1928-2010)

1972

Poems.

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Brontë Manuscripts' notebook
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Brontë Manuscript notebook

c1847 - 1860

Notebook containing untitled text attributed to Anne Brontë. The text is a discussion on the truth of the Bible, between two speakers 'S' and 'C'. One is a sceptic, the other a believer who justifies...

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Early manuscript drafts

c. 1953 - 1967

Notebooks with various drafts and inserts, loose drafts, letters and notes.

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Early and Unpublished Manuscripts

1970 - Jan 1992

Series covering much of Robinson's early writing. Files include copies of academic work (including his PhD dissertation), poetry and crime fiction.

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Bram Stoker manuscripts

1885 - 1899

Autograph literary manuscripts by Bram Stoker: (i) Lecture 'Personal impressions of America', delivered at the London Institute (and elsewhere), Dec. 28. 1885, with various notes and memoranda; (ii) S...

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ECG manuscript fragments

1757-1914

Separate, occasionally fragmentary manuscripts.

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Manuscript: A City of the North

Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

c.1952

Autograph manuscript of the poem 'A City of the North'; mounted with a label misattributing Kirkup's tenure of the Gregory Fellowship from October 1952 - October 1953 (Kirkup was Gregory Fellow from 1...

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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...

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Manuscripts and Research Material

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

c.1990-1991

These files contain manuscripts, typescripts and research material for Crossley-Holland's 'Tales from Europe' (231 ff.), grouped together as follows: - Contents - The King of the Bears - With My R...

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