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Total number of records: 18

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Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection11
English Literature7
Business Archives1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters18
english literature4
natural history1
politicians1
portraits, british1
woolen and worsted manufacture1
textile industry1
epigrams, english1
drawing, english1
authors, english1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)2
Ruskin, John James (1785-1864)1
Sheridan Le Fanu1
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde1
Nicholls, Sir George (1781-1865)1
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (1814-1873)1
Marshall Family1
May, John1
Southey, Caroline Bowles (1786-1854)1
Southey, Robert (1774-1843)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17002
From 180016
Archive Collection:
MS 1349
c.1815-1821
Comprises many manuscript letters written between 1815 and 1821 to Captain George Nicholls on St Helena while he was guarding Napoléon Bonaparte, with one dated much later in 1880.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Arnold
1810-1894
Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Tebb
c.1873-1898
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Barton
1818-1848
(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Bennett
c.1840-1866
The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Dalton
c.1795-1824
Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Marshall
c.1852-1881
Members of the Marshall Family named in the correspondence include the following:-(1) Julia O'Brien; (2) Edward O'Brien; (3) Nellie O'Brien; (4) Mary Marshall; (5) James Marshall, 1802-1873; (6) Aubre...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Ruskin
7 Aug 1852 - 17 May 1882
Contains: (1) 2 letters to Miss Gertrude Huish with envelopes, 1 dated 4 November [18]60; (2) 1 undated letter to Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell; (3) 1 undated letter about art to Mr R. Peyton Further materi...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Southey
c.1797-1839
Comprises: (1) A collection of autograph letters written by Robert Southey to John May and others, together with manuscript poems and notes by Robert Southey, and autograph letters to John May from T...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Thackeray
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Wilson
1809-1852
Comprises:- (1) Correspondence between John Wilson ('Christopher North') and the Rev. John Fleming, with letters to John Wilson from various correspondents, including Robert Morehead, George Jardine, ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Wright
c.1831-1871
Contains: (1) Correspondence when editing Dante, 1831-1871, 2 vols lettered: J.C. WRIGHT ON DANTE: AUTOGRAPH LETTERS; (2) Correspondence when editing Homer, 1846-1865, 3 vols lettered: J.C. WRIGHT'S T...