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Total number of records: 231

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Archives212
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Brotherton Collection231
English Literature174
Leeds Poetry21
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections6
ApIvor Collection1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Herbert Read Collection1

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Dorothy Una Clough4
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)4
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Dorothy Una Phillips4
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)3
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)3
Thwaite, Anthony (1930-)3

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Archive Collection

Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

Abercrombie Family

1928-1969

Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...

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Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

1991

Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...

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Michael Millgate correspondence

Millgate, Professor Michael (1929-); Thwaite, Dr Ann (1932-); Thwaite, Anthony (1930-)

1986-2011

Comprises mainly Professor Michael Millgate's correspondence with Dr. Ann Thwaite. Also includes some correspondence with Dr. Anthony Thwaite.

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Archive Print Collection

1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)

1890s

Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...

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Archive Print Collection

Gosse (Brotherton Collection)

1829-2014

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Archive Collection

George Crabbe correspondence and papers

1726-1816

Additional items listed Sep 2017: 'Letter and Watercolour' [BC MS 19c Crabbe/6].

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Archive Collection

Leeds University Library Handlist of 'Bronteana'

19th - 20th century

A collection of pamphlets and offprints on Brontë subjects.

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Archive Collection

Juliette Drouet Letters to Victor Hugo

1833-1903

Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo. 440 letters, partially covering the years 1833 - 1851. Also included are two letters (1903 - 1906) relating to the collection whilst in the care of John El...

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George Borrow, literary manuscripts with related material

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1840-1913

Brotherton Collection items: Autograph manuscripts of two folktales, one beginning "Sigurd son of Volsun", the other entitled "The pisgey and midwife"; autograph manuscripts of four poems, "Grasach Ab...

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'Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm' manuscript volume

Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)

08 Oct 1894

Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller. This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...

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Archive Collection

Arnold Family Archive

Arnold Family

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...

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Father Thomas Dawson Correspondence

Dawson, Thomas

1856-1937

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