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Total number of records: 150

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items92
Archives58

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection110
English Literature64
Leeds Poetry3
Leeds Russian Archive3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Herbert Read Collection1

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SubjectCount
english literature150
english poetry49
letters42
english drama36
english fiction26
rare books12
diaries5
french literature4
literature4
ballads, english3

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Great Britain16
England15
Cornwall (England)3
India1
London1
London (England)1
Wales1

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People and organisationsCount
Tenison, Eva Mabel14
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)12
Ashley Library11
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)11
Pope, Alexander, 1688-174410
Roscoe, William10
Roscoe, William (1753-1831)10
Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)6
Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938)4
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)4

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From 180029
From 190099
From 20003

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Up to 189920
Up to 1999106
Up to latest6

Archive Collection

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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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...

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Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

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Holbrook Jackson, autograph manuscripts

Jackson, Holbrook (1874-1948)

c.1930-1940

Comprises the following autograph manuscripts written by Holbrook Jackson: (1) 1 vol. (191 pp.), containing an original manuscript entitled 'Bookmarkings II. 1931-1940', evidently compiled for a proje...

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John Braine manuscript and typescript drafts

1943-1985

(b) 22 boxes containing autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of his novels, stories, playscripts, articles, broadcasts, and poems. 'These golden days' (boxes 1-3), 'The two of us' (boxes 4-6)...

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Cyril Connolly manuscript notes and reviews

Connolly, Cyril (1903-1974)

1964-1967

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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...

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Robert Louis Stevenson, correspondence and literary manuscripts

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

1898-1923

Comprises: (1) 1 box containing 2 vols and 1 other separate volume of copies of letters by Katharine D. Osborne concerning Robert Louis Stevenson, 1922-1923; (2) Correspondence between Sidney Colvin, ...

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Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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Robert Southey, correspondence, literary manuscripts and printed works

Southey, Robert (1774-1843)

c.1797-1839

Comprises: (1) A collection of autograph letters written by Robert Southey to John May and others, together with manuscript poems and notes by Robert Southey, and autograph letters to John May from T...

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The Peterborough Chronicle : (the Bodleian Manuscript Laud Misc. 636)

Whitelock, Dorothy (1901-1982); Clark, Cecily

1954

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The Winchester anthology : a facsimile of British Library Additional manuscript 60577

Wilson, Edward (1940-); Fenlon, Iain; British Library

1981

Bibliography: pages vi.

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