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Archive File

Album of signatures presented to Lady Morris by members of Leeds University Ladies' Tea Club on the occasion of her retirement

Morris, Mary De Selincourt

1963

The volume is bound in green leather with the university crest embossed on it in gold. A letter from the donor, Peter Miller, to the Librarian, Mr R.P. Carr, dated 1st June 1990, is attached to the ba...

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Archive Collection

A.P. Herbert, autograph manuscript of the poem 'Farewell to a Lady'

Herbert, Alan Patrick

c.1925

Comprises an autograph fair copy of A.P. Herbert's poem 'Farewell to a Lady', probably to be dated ca. 1925. It consists of seven four-line stanzas written in dark blue ink and is signed at the end 'A...

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