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Total number of records: 854

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Books and printed items727
Archives127

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English Literature854
Brotherton Collection503
Leeds Poetry90
Herbert Read Collection4

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english poetry31
english drama24
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)23
american literature17
poets, english16
correspondence15
letters14
english literature9
oratorios8
lectures and lecturing england leeds7

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Great Britain19
Ireland1
Jerusalem1

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Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)61
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)60
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)56
Johnson, Samuel34
Reed, Isaac (1742-1807)33
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)31
Defauconpret, A.-J.-B (1767-1843)30
Scott, Walter, 1771-183230
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)24
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)24

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From 1700457
From 1800169
From 1900159
From 20004

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti To William Michael Rossetti Vol 3 (1875-1882)

1843-1909

Bound volume of typescript transcriptions of letters.

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Canaan: Draft Collections

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1996

This file contains 2 photocopied typescript drafts of Geoffrey Hill's collection 'Canaan'. Both copies include cover and title-page. One copy includes an epigram, and the pages comprising poems are nu...

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Press Cuttings, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1961-1969

Press cuttings collected by Silkin, relating to the two World Wars and the literature of the First World War. Includes Philip Hobsbaum's article 'The Road Not Taken' ( 'The Listener,' 23 November 1961...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

25 September [1986]

1 ms letter from Patrick McGuinness to Jon Silkin.

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Letters to Jon Silkin

15 December 1986 - 28 January 1987

2 typescript letters to Jon Silkin from Jack Hicks at the University of California, Davis.

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United States

Cairns, Huntington (1904-1985); Wight, Frederick Stallknecht (1902-1986); Naumburg, Margaret (1890-); Albers, Josef (1888-1976); Rockefeller, Blanchette Hooker (1902-1992); D'Harnoncourt, Rene (1901-1968); Francis, Sam (1923-1994); Kellogg, Rhoda

c.1948 - 1968

Substantial series of correspondence concerning Read's various visits to the United States, beginning with a lecture tour in 1948, followed by a fellowship at Harvard as Charles Eliot Norton Professor...

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The Lady in the van by Alan Bennett

2002

Director: Ian Brown. "None complete" written on cassette.

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Scotia review

no.1-8 (Aug. 1972 - Dec. 1974); 10 (Aug. 1975)

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The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (v.1)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Ingpen, Roger (1936); Peck, Walter Edwin (1891-1954)

1926-1930

"This edition... is ... limited for Great Britain to 495 sets for sale and for the U.S.A. to 285 sets for sale"--Page opposite t.p., v. 2-10. v.8-10: Letters, edited by Roger Ingpen. Includes inde...

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The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (v.2)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Ingpen, Roger (1936); Peck, Walter Edwin (1891-1954)

1926-1930

"This edition... is ... limited for Great Britain to 495 sets for sale and for the U.S.A. to 285 sets for sale"--Page opposite t.p., v. 2-10. v.8-10: Letters, edited by Roger Ingpen. Includes inde...

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The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (v.3)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Ingpen, Roger (1936); Peck, Walter Edwin (1891-1954)

1926-1930

"This edition... is ... limited for Great Britain to 495 sets for sale and for the U.S.A. to 285 sets for sale"--Page opposite t.p., v. 2-10. v.8-10: Letters, edited by Roger Ingpen. Includes inde...

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