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Total number of records: 486

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Books and printed items266
Archives219
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection389
English Literature240
Herbert Read Collection100
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse59
Leeds Poetry17
Quaker Collection3
Cookery Collection2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Leeds Russian Archive1
Liddle Collection1

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english poetry486
anarchism69
art69
art, modern69
modernism (art)69
sculpture, modern69
english literature68
letters58
english drama57
commonplace-books41

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Europe11
Great Britain11
England1
Ireland1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Poetry Book Society27
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)15
Bridgen, John William12
Anderson, James (1739-1808)11
Ashley Library11
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)11
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)10
Knox, Vicesimus8
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)8
Roberts, Michael (1902-1948)7

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From 180060
From 1900287
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Up to 1999282
Up to latest25

Archive File

Books and Bookmen

1931-1994

One letter asking for corrected proof of Berry's submission. Manuscript notes. Issue of Books and Bookmen (April 1978) featuring Berry's article 'Denis Donaghue's Studies in Imagination'.

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Penguin Books

1953-1984

Correspondence on contribution to Guide to English Literature. Request help translating "The York Play of Crucifixion" and "Christ's Dying and Descent into Hell" into German. Lecture by Berry at c...

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BC MS Lt 13, f. 20v:
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Commonplace book

c.1719-1742

Contains Latin and English prose and poetry in several hands, c.1719-1742 or earlier, the main verse hand probably of the 1730s. Flyleaf recto "An account of the Beans", verso "Quaestiones quarum ment...

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Archive Sub-series

Book reviews

c.1914-1968

This series comprises book reviews written by Herbert Read. These reviews are chiefly typescript carbon copies with some manuscripts.

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Archive Print Item

The book of songs

Waley, Arthur

1960

Originally published: 1937.

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BC MS Lt q 3, f.3r:
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Commonplace book

c.1716-c.1736

Diary of important public and private events, 1 August 1714 to May 1728; single satirical verse item, "The British ambassadress's speech to the French king"; notes of account and payment, 3 January 17...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1805

At one end of the book are cookery receipts, medicinal remedies, and instructions for general household management, preceded at the beginning by a poem in a later hand and, after some blank pages, an ...

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Book contracts and agreements A

1929 - 1970

This file contains originals and copies of UK and overseas book contracts, agreements, and some associated correspondence relating to the following books by Herbert Read. Some agreements were made pos...

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The Forward book of poetry (2003)

"A collection of the best poems of the year from the Forward Poetry Prize".

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The Forward book of poetry (1995)

"A collection of the best poems of the year from the Forward Poetry Prize".

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The Forward book of poetry (2007)

"A collection of the best poems of the year from the Forward Poetry Prize".

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BC MS Lt 11, p. 61: The opening of George Plaxton's poem
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Poetical commonplace book

c.1710-c.1820

Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...

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