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Total number of records: 2113

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Archives2075
Books and printed items37
Objects1

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Brotherton Collection2113
English Literature1724
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection115
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
Leeds Poetry22
Herbert Read Collection12
Medical Collections9
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse8

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letters1301
letter663
poets, english662
pre-raphaelites661
english poetry325
english fiction306
english literature291
english drama270
letter writing117
women71

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Great Britain2
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Sala, George Augustus505
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)234
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)53
Hogg, Jabez28
Finlay, F.D.16
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)13
Sala, Mrs13
Sala, Harriet (Mrs George Sala)9
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)9

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Archive Collection

Father Thomas Dawson Correspondence

Dawson, Thomas

1856-1937

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George Augustus Sala, correspondence

Sala, George Augustus (1828-1895)

c.1830-1913

Consists almost entirely of letters received by Sala. Some letters are undated.

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Leigh Hunt, correspondence and related material

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)

1851-1952

Correspondence: (1) 18 autograph letters from Leigh Hunt to George Bird, 24 June 1851-31 October 1852, concerning medical matters; (2) 1 typewritten letter from Dr Cedric Keith Simpson to Dr E. Clayto...

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James A. Manson, correspondence

Manson, James Alexander

c.1873-1920

Consists almost entirely of letters received by Manson

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George Eliot, autograph letters to her by celebrities of her time, relating to literary and personal matters

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

c.1875-1919

The correspondents include Anthony Trollope, Harriet B. Stowe, Frederic Harrison, Lord Justice Bowen, Benjamin Jowett, David Kauffman, Sir James Paget, G. J. Holyoake, Douglas Jerrold, Elizabeth Stuar...

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Bram Stoker correspondence and manuscripts

Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)

1866-1997

Comprises: (1) Correspondence dated between 1866 and 1911; (2) Autograph literary manuscripts by Bram Stoker: (i) Lecture 'Personal impressions of America', delivered at the London Institute (and else...

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Alfred Lord Tennyson and family, correspondence and literary works

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (1809-1892)

1827-1906

Comprises: (1) 'Poems, by two brothers', 1st edition, London, 1827, actually poems by the three brothers, Frederick, Charles, and Alfred Tennyson; (2) 'A collection of autograph letters from Alfred, L...

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William Wordsworth, correspondence between Thomas Hutchinson, William Hale White, and others concerning Wordsworth

Hutchinson, Thomas (1910-)

1895-1907

Correspondents include: Thomas Hutchinson, William Hale White, T. Norton Longman, William Angus Knight, M. J. Campbell, Sir Frederick Orridge Macmillan, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, C. J. Longman, J. E. ...

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Robert Louis Stevenson, correspondence and literary manuscripts

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

1898-1923

Comprises: (1) 1 box containing 2 vols and 1 other separate volume of copies of letters by Katharine D. Osborne concerning Robert Louis Stevenson, 1922-1923; (2) Correspondence between Sidney Colvin, ...

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William Watson, correspondence and literary manuscripts

Watson, Sir William (1858-1935)

1880-1917

Comprises: (1) Correspondence: (i) Autograph letters from Sir William Watson to John Lane, his publisher, 1906-1907, 1913-1914, 1915-1916, 3 vols; (ii) Autograph letter from Sir William Watson to Har...

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Joseph Conrad, correspondence of, or relating to, and materials concerning the production of a dramatised version of his 'The secret agent'

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)

1895-1956

Comprises: (1) Vol.1: 14 autograph manuscript letters from Conrad to his publisher, T. Fisher Unwin, dated 9 July 1895-8 August 1898, and 1 typescript letter with manuscript name and signature from Un...

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William Butler Yeats, letters to Elkin Mathews, together with some correspondence of other members of the Yeats family, typescripts of two short stories composed by Lily Yeats, and miscellaneous other material

Yeats, W B (1865-1939)

1894-1921

Comprises: [Vol.1], Autograph manuscript letters from William Butler Yeats to Elkin Mathews, with additional letters from Elkin Mathews and John Lane to William Butler Yeats, dated between 1894 and 19...

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