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Total number of records: 11805

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	8849
Archives	2195
Indexes	758
Art items	2
Objects	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	11805
English Literature	2360
Herbert Read Collection	798
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	794
Letters Database	324
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	242
Leeds Poetry	167
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	32
Incunabula	21
Medieval Manuscripts	4

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
letters	423
poets, english	379
pre-raphaelites	360
english poetry	195
sermons, english	108
english literature	85
english drama	66
socialism	59
letter	48
popish plot, 1678	48

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	495
England	55
Yorkshire (England)	53
Europe	47
France	45
London (England)	30
Sheffield (England)	30
Rome	28
India	27
Scotland	27

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)	1378
Tipping, William ?	301
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616	291
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)	187
Morris, William (1834-1896)	145
Bridgen, John William	118
Shakespeare, William	89
Anonymous	86
[Bible]	79
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)	79

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From earliest	1
From 1300	2
From 1400	26
From 1500	78
From 1600	2603
From 1700	1722
From 1800	3849
From 1900	3293
From 2000	93

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	1
Up to 1399	2
Up to 1499	25
Up to 1599	67
Up to 1699	2291
Up to 1799	1940
Up to 1899	3521
Up to 1999	3671
Up to latest	149

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William Carlos Williams

Koch, Vivienne

[1950]

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Winter, William to Bryant, William

Winter, William

23 Sep 1890

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This file contains correspondence relating to Hill's involvement in the case for Charles Williams being memorialised in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. Includes 2 typescript letters to Hill from Gil...

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Blackwood, William to Foster, William Dunn

Blackwood, William

20 Oct 1890

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William Michael Rossetti to William Davis

06 Oct 1883

'Dear Mr Davis, I was extremeley obliged to you for those letters of my brother's'. WMR thanks him, but does not presently wish to publish Dante Gabriel Rossetti's letters.

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