Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 210 records

Total number of records: 210

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives200
Books and printed items10

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection124
English Literature107
Liddle Collection24
Leeds Russian Archive21
Leeds Poetry7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5
Herbert Read Collection3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Business Archives2
Medical Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters210
english poetry58
english literature49
english fiction44
english drama37
poets, english32
pre-raphaelites30
world war, 1914-191824
photographs22
diaries14

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)14
Knox, Vicesimus5
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)5
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)3
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)3
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)2
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)2
Broadley, Alexander Meyrick (1847-1916)2
Crabbe, George (1754-1832)2
Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16002
From 17008
From 180080
From 1900117
From 20003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17994
Up to 189942
Up to 1999153
Up to latest11

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'.

More details


Archive File

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...

More details


Archive File

Address books

1920s-1997

The file contains one address book dating from 1920s. There is a ringbinder style address book of a later date. It includes a flip up telephone number index from 1950s/1960s.

More details


Archive File

Letter-book of Sausmarez Carey

Carey, Sausmarez (1794-1879)

1820-1821

Anonymous letter-book of a Guernsey wine-shipper and merchant, presumably Sausmarez Carey. Includes references to his wife (f.44v), his brother [Frederick] Charles (ff.16r and 45v), and his impending ...

More details


Archive File

Material relating to Louise Welch's book 'Orage with Gurdjieff in America'

1988

The folders include 3 proof copies and 4 published copies of 'Orage with Gurdjieff in America' by Louise Welch and Welch's correspondence and notes about her book. Also contains two copies of 'The Ey...

More details


Archive File

TLS relating to Dominic Reeve's book, "No place like home."

1960

TLSs of 29 January 1960 from Dominic Reeve and of 23 February 1960 from Phoenix House Ltd to Augustus John about his foreword to Reeve's second book, No Place Like Home. 1 p + 1 p.

More details


Archive Collection

Fleur Adcock, papers relating to The Faber book of twentieth-century women's poetry,

Adcock, Fleur

1984-1987

Comprises: (1) 1 copy of the published work, 1987; (2) 1 file of correspondence between Fleur Adcock and Craig Raine of Faber and Faber (1984-1986) concerning the publication, together with photocopie...

More details

BC MS Lt q 40, f.3r: The opening of the Earl of Halifax's poem
Archive Item

Commonplace book of Richard Bowater, containing English poems, a library catalogue, and business accounts and correspondence.

Bowater, Richard

1694-1725

Comprises: (1) Ff. 1v-2r: list of books in a library; (2) Ff. 3r-16v: 9 English poems, largely on affairs of state, including items by Halifax, Milbourne, Pope, and Bold, apparently in the hand of Ric...

More details and larger image


Archive Series

Francis Berry Bibliography

Undated

Complete bibliography of Berry's writing.

More details


Archive Print Item

Elegant epistles: : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters, from the most eminent epistolary writers (v.1)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant epistles from the most eminent writers.

More details


Archive Print Item

Elegant epistles: : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters, from the most eminent epistolary writers (v.2)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant epistles from the most eminent writers.

More details


Archive Print Item

Elegant epistles: : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters, from the most eminent epistolary writers (v.3)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant epistles from the most eminent writers.

More details