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Total number of records: 492
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 259 |
| English Literature | 108 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 74 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 40 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 32 |
| Cookery Collection | 6 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 4 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 3 |
| Ripon Cathedral | 3 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 3 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
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| Baillet, Adrien (1649-1706) | 13 |
| Sallengre, Albert-Henri De (1694-1723) | 12 |
| Bouterwek, Friedrich (1766-1828) | 11 |
| Desmolets, Pierre Nicolas (1678-1760) | 11 |
| Goujet, Claude-Pierre | 11 |
| Goujet, Claude-Pierre (1697-1767) | 11 |
| Sallengre, Albert-Henri De | 11 |
| Eliot, T S (1888-1965) | 10 |
| Bridgen, John William | 9 |
| Eschenburg, Johann Joachim (1743-1820) | 9 |
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Michael Hamburger, correspondence with associated literary manuscripts and other material.
Hamburger, Michael (1924-2007)
1929-1995
Comprises a collection of 2396 autograph manuscript and typescript letters and postcards to Michael Hamburger from 249 correspondents between 1929 and 1994 (many of them well-known literary figures), ...
A.J.A. Symons, literary papers and correspondence with some related material.
Symons, A J A (1900-1941)
c.1923-1942
Comprises: (1) Fragmentary autograph manuscript drafts of a critical work by Symons on Edgar Allan Poe, followed by two versions of it in typescript, with autograph manuscript corrections, all probabl...
A. C. Jacobs Collection
Jacobs, A C; Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (1873-1934); Vogel, David (1891-1944)
1955-2000
The collection represents the works of Arthur C. Jacobs, a Scottish Jewish Poet. It includes 6 boxes of archival material (MS 2065/1) and 5 volumes of printed works (MS 2065/2). The archival material ...
Romany Collection
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)
c.1551 - c.2007
Archive and print items referencing the history, culture and representation of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in the UK, Europe and worldwide. Consists of three sub-collections; 1) Romany 1: The col...
Novello Cowden Clarke
1739-1966
The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...
Le mystère de Jean l'Oiseleur : monologues
Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963)
1924
A series of thirty self-portraits created by Jean Cocteau during a melancholic period in a hotel in Ville-sur-Mer, many created under the influence of opium, including handwritten text in the margins,...
Cecil Roth Collection
1200-1999
Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...
COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)
1825-1898
Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...
COWDEN CLARKE, Charles
1803-1879
Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...
Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles
1814-1856
34 handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, beginning with his imprisonment at Surrey Jail from 1813 to 1815 and going on to contain references to publications and events...
Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
1852-1858
Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke dating from 9 December [1852?] to 4 February [1858]. The letter dated 9 December [1852?] is a copy in Mary Cowden Cl...
Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
1840-1856
Fifteen handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, dating from 20 February 1840 to 14 October [1856], with ten undated. The letter of 2 October 1856 is a copy in Mary Cowden C...