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Total number of records: 100

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection47
Brotherton Collection35
English Literature9
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive8
Herbert Read Collection1
Leeds Poetry1

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Horace26
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Metastasio, Pietro (1698-1782)24
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria9
Cowden Clarke, Charles8
Hunt, James Henry Leigh5
Dalby, John Watson2
Holsworth, G.2
Hurd, Richard2
Hurd, Richard (1720-1808)2

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Letters to a young nobleman

Bolton, Robert (1697-1763)

1762

Authorship ascribed to Robert Bolton.--Cf. Stonehill, Anonyma and pseudonyma, 1926, v. 2. Errata: p. [1] at end.

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Memoranda to re-read Leigh Hunt's letters

3 Dec 1869-15 Mar 1888

Memoranda to re-read Leigh Hunt's letters of 1856 and 1858, initally aloud to her husband Charles Cowden Clarke and then alone after his death.

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Album and copy letter book of Miss A. Young, Dundee

1830

The album and letter book of ‘Miss Young’, kept during her time placed with a local family under the auspices of a ‘worthy benefactress’ in Dundee in 1830, for her private education. The copie...

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John Masefield, letters to Greta Stevens, 1952-1966, with associated material.

Masefield, John (1878-1967)

1925-1967

Comprises: (1) Autograph letters from John Masefield to Greta Stevens, March 1952 - ca. 1965, many discussing the work of W. B. Yeats and a Yeats commemorative event in 1964. (2) Four signed photograp...

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Letters concerning poetical translations, and Virgil's and Milton's arts of verse, &c

Benson, William (1682-1754)

1739

Anon., by William Benson.

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A letter of advice to a young poet; together with a proposal for the encouragement of poetry in this kingdom

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); E. F

1721

Signed E. F., 1 December 1720 at end; this is not mentioned by Teerink, and is omitted from the first English edition (Teerink 622). H. Davis is doubtful of Swift's authorship (Prose writings, v. IX...

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Diary of Joseph Bufton, together with four letters from Sarah Unwin to her son, Stephen Unwin.
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Diary of Joseph Bufton, together with four letters from Sarah Unwin to her son, Stephen Unwin.

Bufton, Joseph

1664-1825

Comprises personal notes made by Joseph Bufton, between 1664 and 1716, on blank pages and margins of a printed almanac 'Goldsmith's Almanack 1686'. These include ordinances of the Company of Clothiers...

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Letters to Lord Byron on a question of poetical criticism. Third edition, with corrections : To which are now first added, the letter to Mr. Campbell, as far as regards poetical criticism; and the answer to the writer in the Quarterly Review, as far they relate to the same subject. Second editions : together with an answer to some objections, and further illustrations

Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

1822

Signatures: A12 B-C8 D4 E-H8, B-G H6. 'An answer to some observations of Thomas Campbell, Esq; in his Specimens of British poets' and 'An address to Thomas Campbell, Esq. Editor of the New monthly m...

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Form in modern poetry

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1948

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Cowden Clarke, Charles to Ollier, Edmund

14 Apr 1871

Draft handwritten letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, noting the pleasure of receiving his previous letter and hoping for the announcement of a book in the Daily News, The Times and th...

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