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People and organisations99
Art items38
Textiles19
Objects4

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Brotherton Collection1886
Business Archives1606
English Literature705
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse572
Letters Database317
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society312
Cookery Collection244
Liddle Collection142
Ripon Cathedral88
Leeds Russian Archive80

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cooking, english115
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world war, 1914-191835

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Anonymous200
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Pulter, Lady Hester121
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)99
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)61
Gosse, Edmund45
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)40
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)39
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)36
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-183235

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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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Sir Denis and Lady Patricia Barnes (née Abercrombie) Archive

c. 1920s - 2000s

Material documenting the personal lives and professional and literary careers of Sir Denis and Lady Patricia Barnes. The archive is divided into five series. The bulk of the collection covers th...

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