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Total number of records: 243

Count of Record type

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Books and printed items229
Archives14

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection241
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections232
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
romanies243
jews13
cant12
letters10
english language6
poor6
romani poetry5
ethnology4
serpents3
islam3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
United States6
Hungary4
Transylvania (Romania)3
Town Yetholm (Scotland)3
Norway3
Spain2
Vienna (Austria)1
Great Britain1
Bucharest (Romania)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?17
Simson, James (1826-)14
Goadby, Robert (1721-1778)14
Goadby, Mrs Robert12
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?)12
Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)12
Grellmann, H M G (1756-1804)11
Price, Thomas of Poole10
Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)10
Wlislocki, Heinrich Von (1856-1907)9

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From 1800218

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Up to 1899220

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Signed declarations by two magistrates at Glassaugh, Banffshire,

Oct/1752.

Signed declarations by two magistrates at Glassaugh, Banffshire, Concerning the arrest of three Tinkers, 3 pp.

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ALS from Leland to John Sampson, with transcript of "The Tinker and the Beggar."

13/Jun/1899

ALS of 13 June 1899 from Leland to John Sampson, with transcript of The Tinker and the Beggar. 10 pp. + 3 pp.

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ALS John Waley to [ ] Read

15/ Jan/1809

ALS from John Waley to [ ] Read, Bow Street, about a murder in which Wheatley, a Gypsy Traveller, is said to be involved. 1 p.

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ALS Alexandre Paspati to C G Leland.

28/Mar/1872

ALS of 28 March 1872 from Alexandre Paspati to C G Leland. 4 pp.

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Note by C G Leland

c.1872

Note in C G Leland's hand on the etymology of benq, as discussed by Paspati. 1 p.

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ALS HT Crofton to John Holmes and watercolour sketch

5 /Apr/1876

ALS of 5 April 1876 from H T Crofton to John Holmes (2 pp.), with watercolour sketch made by Holmes of a Flemish tapestry showing Gypsies.

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ALS David MacRitchie to Mrs Hammond Ward of the Women's Anthropological Society of America

20/May/1889

ALS of 20 May 1889 from David MacRitchie, founder of the GLS, to Mrs Hammond Ward of the Women's Anthropological Society of America. 3 pp.

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Notes sent by F H Groome to Swan Sonnenschein

c.1889

Notes sent by F H Groome in 1889 to Swan Sonnenschein about the proofs of the entry on Gypsy folklore for the 2nd edition of Sonnenschein's The Best Books (London, 1891). 3 ff.

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ALS F H Groome to Edward Clodd of the Folklore Society

14/Sep/1890

ALS of 14 September 1890 from F H Groome to Edward Clodd of the Folklore Society. 3 pp.

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ALS from MacRitchie to Nicol Brown

23/Nov/1893

ALS of 23 November 1893 from MacRitchie to Nicol Brown. 4 pp.

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