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Total number of records: 143

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Books and printed items92
Archives51

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English Literature143
Brotherton Collection62
Leeds Poetry36

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clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)6
letters6
autobiography3
english drama3
english poetry3
poets, english3
pre-raphaelites3
proofs (printing)3
riddles3
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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)12
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn12
Crossley-Holland, Kevin9
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)6
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)3
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)2
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)2
Aristophanes1
Arthur Ransome Society1

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Jeanne Ellin

12 May 2002-3 Apr 2006

Booking reference, CV, Charles Pick Fellowship reference, review, webpage printout of author profile from Peepal Tree website, contract between author and Peepal Tree Press for Who Asks the Caterpilla...

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Untraced poem: Fun or the modern art of tormenting

1744-1816

Hand 12, watermark: LGV: A bifolium containing an untraced poem: Fun or the modern art of tormenting [not the poem of that name by Christopher Anstey].

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Mark de Brito (translator) - 'The Trickster's Tongue'

2007

Correspondence and printouts of emails granting permission to publish translated poem from various publishers (untranslated); correspondence from PTP in French and Spanish/Portuguese regarding permiss...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 17.02.1877

Autograph letter and envelope on black-edged paper. Dated Saturday. Date as postmark. Arrangements to meet. DGR wishes to talk about urgent 'Fry and Howard' business and advertisement for house.

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Jean Overton-Fuller

1962-1968

Letters from Jean Overton-Fuller to Francis Berry concerning the writing of Victor Neuberg's biography. The letters also reference Berry's trip to Greenland and Overton-Fuller's later trip to Icelan...

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Notebook 60: Without Title

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

2002

Small black hardback notebook; with ms title in gold on front cover 'The Jumping Boy'.The notebook contains ms poem drafts, fragments and workings towards poems published in 'Without Title', including...

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George Eliot

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1954-1980

This file contains items relating to Hill's teaching on George Eliot at the University of Leeds. Includes: - ms lecture George Eliot and the Rhetoric of Dilemma (11 ff); - typescript lecture/semina...

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Notebook 59

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1951

Notebook containing drafts of poems and a short story. The contents are as follows: - Down dusty corridors she goes to court (front inside cover. Published as Scenes from Childhood VI in The Outer D...

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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

11 March 1961

1 letter from the poet Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to Thomas Blackburn.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Michael Rossetti

c. 30 Sept 1872

'My dear Wm/I hear from Watts with yours of today...'

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Agenda

v.1-3 1959/60-1963/64 Incomplete

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The Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam

Omar Khayyám (1048-1131); Nicolas, Louis Jean Baptiste (1814-1875); Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913); Dole, Nathan Haskell

1903

English and French on opposite pages.

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