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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) | 235 |
| Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919) | 151 |
| Hogg, Jabez | 26 |
| Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910) | 10 |
| Keeley, Robert | 5 |
| Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-) | 4 |
| Melville, Robert Saunders-Dundas | 4 |
| Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981) | 4 |
| Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) | 3 |
| Pearson Family | 3 |
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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers
Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)
1801-2000
The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...
Geoffrey Woledge Archive
Woledge, Geoffrey (1901-1988)
19--
Includes diaries, letters, postcards, photographs, household accounts, notes on bibliography, librarianship and education, papers of various family members, documents relating to Aireborough Civic Soc...
Henry Céard Archive
Céard, Henry
c.1873-1921
Comprises autograph French manuscripts of Henry Céard towards various of his poems, plays, and prose writings; also, many letters from or to him, dated between 1873 and 1921; together with various ed...
George Nicholls, letters received
Nicholls, Sir George (1781-1865)
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.
Charles Edwyn Vaughan correspondence and papers
Vaughan, C E (1854-1922)
c.1890-1922
Comprises letters, press cuttings, and notes
James Digby Firth papers
Firth, James Digby
1888-1965
Includes correspondence, press cuttings, photographs, and pamphlets, mostly related to local history: 1. Manuscript list of correspondence: name and address of correspondent and brief summary. 2. ...
David Edward Jenkins Archive
Jenkins, David Edward
c.1925-1984
Contains material relating to various professional appointments in the World Council of Churches, William Temple Foundation, and the University of Leeds; the Cadbury lectures; personal and family pape...
Community Development Project (Home Office) papers.
c.1945-1975
Comprises: (1) Planning papers, research reports, and administrative papers and correspondence of the Project between 1967 and 1975; (2) Many books on economic history and pamphlets on urban developme...
E. J. Arnold wholesale stationers
1903-1977
Comprises wage books, invoices, miscellaneous company papers and reports, catalogues, examples of printing, correspondence, notes on company history, photographs (loose and in albums), slides, 2 reels...
Aldred Farrer Barker correspondence and papers
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)
1869-1960?
The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...
Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group and St Paul's Gallery Leeds Archive
1979-1988
Comprises: 1) Correspondence, posters, photographs and other material related to "New Art in Yorkshire" exhibition, 1987; 2) Material relating to exhibitions and events held by YCAG, 1984-1988; 3) Mat...
Stancliffe family of North Yorkshire Archive
Stancliffe Family
c.1800-1952
Comprises: (1) Letters, diaries, and a few stamps; (2) Ledgers relating to financial accounts; (3) Various local maps, some rolled, others folded; (4) Game books for the years 1896-1903; (5) An album ...
Robert Kitson papers
Kitson, Robert Hawthorn (1873-1947)
c.1896-1983
Comprises:i) 79 sketchbooks (1903-1947); ii) 3 weather record notebooks (1911-1936); iii) 1 mileage/travel record notebook (1925-1929); iv) File of press cuttings relating to Kitson's family, life (in...
Ernest Gordon Cox Archive
Cox, Ernest Gordon
1886-1999
Comprises: Section A, Biographical, including shorter autobiographical and biographical accounts, significant material relating to his career, honours, and birthday celebrations, and photographs taken...
Reginald Dawson Preston correspondence and papers
Preston, Reginald Dawson
1897-1995
Comprises the professional and academic correspondence of Professor Preston from pre-Second World War days until 17 August 1995, including related printed items, such as offprints of his own and other...
Leeds Luncheon Club papers
1913-2000
Comprises: (1) Administrative papers and correspondence of the Leeds Luncheon Club between 1938 and 2000, with fuller coverage of the years 1955-1986, including statements of the annual accounts, form...
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...
James A. Manson, correspondence
Manson, James Alexander
c.1873-1920
Consists almost entirely of letters received by Manson
George Augustus Sala, correspondence
Sala, George Augustus (1828-1895)
c.1830-1913
Consists almost entirely of letters received by Sala. Some letters are undated.
Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)
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...
Bennett Family Correspondence
Bennett family
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...
James Dalton, correspondence
Dalton, James
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...
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...
Ebenezer Elliott, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material
Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)
c.1818-1929
Comprises: (1) 2 bound quarto volumes on Elliott: one by E.R. Seary, 1929, containing a 98 ff. typescript carbon biography entitled 'Reinvestigation into the sources of the biographical material of Eb...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
Walter Savage Landor, literary fragments and letters
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)
c.1800-1928
Comprises: (1) 3 autograph letters, 1 to Cornelia Crosse, 2 to unnamed correspondents; (2) Folder numbered '3', a note on spelling reform; (3) Folder numbered '4', a slip with notes on 'Troilus and Cr...
Marshall Family, correspondence with various literary personalities
Marshall Family
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...
Maarten Maartens Manuscripts
Maartens, Maarten (1858-1915)
1882-1930
Comprises: Boxes of manuscripts, as follows: (1) 'Dorothea', MS 958pp. in 6 envelopes, and first MS drafts I-III in 3 envelopes, held in 2 boxes; (2) 'Eve', MS 510pp. in 4 envelopes, and sections rewr...
John Ruskin, miscellaneous correspondence
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
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...
Rossetti Family correspondence
Rossetti Family
1843-1909
A collection of manuscript letters and associated material written by various members of the Rossetti family. The collection includes letters written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (DGR), William Michael...
Robert Southey, correspondence, literary manuscripts and printed works
Southey, Robert (1774-1843)
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...
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, ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
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...
John Wilson correspondence
Wilson, John (1785-1854)
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, ...
Ichabod Charles Wright correspondence
Wright, Ichabod Charles (1795-1871)
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...
Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence
Brontë Family
1812-1925
A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...
George Byron, correspondence and manuscripts, together with related materials
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)
c.1811-1938
Comprises a collection of autograph poetry, letters and other writings by Byron; manuscripts of his poetry and other writings in the hand of others (including Mary Shelley), including copies of his 'E...
Charles Dickens, correspondence with related material
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
c.1834-1955
Comprises: (1) 170 autograph letters from Charles Dickens to various correspondents, held in two volumes covering the years 1834-1852 and 1853-1870 respectively and bound in chronological order, toget...
Edmund Gosse Archive
Gosse family
c.1823-1954
The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...
Elizabeth Gaskell manuscripts and correspondence
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
1757-1914
A significant collection of material relating to Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (ECG). The collection includes a nearly complete manuscript draft for ECG's novel 'Sylvia's Lovers', several manuscript frag...
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...
Arnold Bennett, correspondence
Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931)
c.1903-1964
Comprises: (1) 25 autograph manuscript letters and postcards from Arnold Bennett to Pauline Urmson Smith or her mother between 1911-1931, together with typed transcripts made by the donor, A. Ravenscr...
London Magazine Editions Archive
The London Magazine
1965-1979
The archive material contained within this collection relates to the publication of various volumes and dates from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, during the editorship of Alan Ross. The bulk of the ...
London Magazine Archive
1972-2007
Editorial and production papers, earlier versions of material published in the magazine, and correspondence between contributors and editorial staff, predominantly Alan Ross.
Authors' World Peace Appeal, papers and correspondence
1951-1954
Comprises: (1) Correspondence arranged by surname A-Z; (2) Invitation letters; (3) Minutes and agendas of meetings; (4) Bulletins; (5) Various other administrative papers
George Barker, miscellaneous literary papers and letters
Barker, George (1913-1991)
1935-1987
Comprises: (1) 3 letters to or from George Barker, including 1 undated and 2 dated 1977 and 1981 respectively, held in an envelope with typed drafts of his 'Critical sonnet for William Shakespeare', ...
Will Foster Archive
Foster, Will (1864-1955)
c.1888-1942
Comprises: (1) 20 play typescripts; (2) Poems in typescript; (3) 'The Jolly Friar', a light opera; (4) Correspondence, 96 letters in 5 envelopes together with 68 reviews and other items in 3 envelopes...
Thomas Moult correspondence
Moult, Thomas (1885-1974)
c.1911-1962
The fifth box contains newspaper cuttings and a bed-jacket relating to Katherine Mansfield and her death. Some of the letters are undated
Alfred R. Orage Archive
Orage, A R (1873-1934)
1881-1997
The collection includes notebooks, press cuttings and articles. There are various letters to and from A. R. Orage and Jessie Orage (née Dwight). These are from before and after their marriage in 19...
Greville Press Archive
Greville Press
1975-2016
Comprises the business papers of the Greville Press, correspondence relating to the planning and selection of material for publication with some drafts and proofs, examples of Greville Press and other...
Philip O'Connor, letters and papers with some of his writings
O'Connor, Philip (1916-1998)
1916-2003
Comprises the personal papers and documents of Philip O'Connor; his correspondence with various literary figures (including Michael Hamburger, Stephen Spender, Gregory Stephenson, and David Thomson), ...
Fleur Adcock, papers relating to The Faber book of twentieth-century women's poetry,
Adcock, Fleur
1984-1987
Comprises: (1) 1 copy of the published work, 1987; (2) 1 file of correspondence between Fleur Adcock and Craig Raine of Faber and Faber (1984-1986) concerning the publication, together with photocopie...
John Masefield, letters to Greta Stevens, 1952-1966, with associated material.
Masefield, John (1878-1967)
1925-1967
Comprises: (1) Autograph letters from John Masefield to Greta Stevens, March 1952 - ca. 1965, many discussing the work of W. B. Yeats and a Yeats commemorative event in 1964. (2) Four signed photograp...
Stan Barstow Archive
Barstow, Stan (1928-2011)
1956-1996
Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Barstow's writings, including: 'A brother's tale'; 'A kind of loving'; 'A raging calm'; 'A season with Eros'; ' About the novel'; 'Ask me t...