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Total number of records: 155

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Books and printed items142
Archives13

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Brotherton Collection85
English Literature68
Herbert Read Collection10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society10
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

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english literature155
authors, english14
english poetry12
letters11
eighteenth century9
english fiction7
literature7
icelandic literature6
sagas6
english wit and humor5

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Great Britain6
Iceland6
Norway6
Scandinavia6
Cornwall (England)3
Derbyshire (England)1
France1
Jamaica1
Spain1
Wales1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bridgen, John William16
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)10
Pope, Alexander, 1688-174410
Roscoe, William10
Roscoe, William (1753-1831)10
Allan, George, 1736-18009
Basire, Isaac9
Basire, Isaac (1704-1768)9
Basire, James, 1730-18029
Bentley, Samuel9

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William Empson

1958-1988

Letters from Empson to Berry mainly about departmental business and students in the Department of English Literature, University of Sheffield. Also includes a letter from a student asking for exam...

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R. Vaughan Williams

1928-1950

Letters from Vaughan Williams to Berry thanking Berry for his Christmas card and for sending a poem and also asking if Berry's work "Murdock" was in any way influenced by Vaughan William's music.

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William Makepeace Thackeray, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

c.1835-1860

Comprises: (1) 26 letters and manuscripts dated 1835-1860, guarded in order and bound in 1 vol., accompanied by an annotated typed list of contents by Dr Eric Millar and the bill for the cost of bindi...

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A bibliography of Albert Hugh Smith, believed to have been compiled by Joseph William Scott

Scott, Joseph William

c.1967

Marked 'Festschrift'; perhaps originally intended for 'Early English and Norse studies presented to Hugh Smith'(1963), but not used

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Res judicatæ : papers and essays

Birrell, Augustine (1850-1933)

1893

Contents: Samuel Richardson.--Edward Gibbon.--William Cowper.--George Borrow.--Cardinal Newman.--Matthew Arnold.--William Hazlitt.--The letters of Charles Lamb.--Authors in court.--Nationality.--The r...

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The round table : a collection of essays on literature, men, and manners

Hazlitt, William (1778-1830); Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Hazlitt, William (1811-1893)

1841

'I have omitted all those articles which have appeared, or are intended to appear, in other volumes of the current series of the works of William Hazlitt, as published by Mr. Templeman... I have inser...

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