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Total number of records: 21

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society10
English Literature8
Brotherton Collection8
Leeds Poetry1
Business Archives1

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letters9
english literature4
english fiction2
english poetry2
art, english2
textile industry1
sermons1
theater1
theology1
religion1

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Lincolnshire2
Yorkshire1
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding1

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Lee Family of Pinchingthorpe1
Lay, Joan1
Malbisse Family of York1
Morkhill Family1
Pickard Family1
Lay, Cecil Howard (1885-1956)1
Millar, Eric George1
Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)1
Grubb Family1
Gosse, Ellen (1850-1929)1

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection

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...

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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...

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George Wilson Knight Archive

Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)

c.1916-1997

Comprises: (1) Knight's letters to: a) Francis Berry, 1931-1985; b) John Duncan Christie, 1962-1985; and c) John E. Van Domelen, especially concerning the latter's biography of Knight, 'The Tarza...

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NOTES ON THE FAMILY OF FAIRFAX BY BRIDGER

1870-1880

Bound volume of letters to J Camden Hotten and Charles Bridger relating to heraldic and genealogical subjects. There are letters from Joseph L Chester, Richard Sims, Reginald Ames, J A C Vincent, Jose...

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Hilda M. A. Squire and family, letters and papers

Squire, Hilda Martha Lilian (1898-1991)

1836-1991

Hilda Squire was a hospital almoner. She was the daughter of a London doctor, Edward Squire, who had been interested in issues of public health and hygiene. Her grandfather, Dr. William Squire, was ph...

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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...

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Bonamy Dobrée Archive

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

1912-1973

Comprises: (a) 19 boxes of Bonamy Dobrée's autograph manuscript correspondence arranged A-Z by the names of the correspondents and dated between 1912 and 1973, including a large number of letters fro...

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REVEREND JOSEPH HUNTER MANUSCRIPTS: TRANSCRIPTS

19th century

Comprising a volume containing:- (a) Records, temp Edward III and Elizabeth. (b) Will of John Webb of Winterbourne Dantsey. (c) Collation of Mr. Blaauw's copy of the Sussex Subsidy Roll. (d) Inventory...

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Peter Rushforth Archive

Rushforth, Peter Scott (1945-2005)

1967-2006

Original deposit of 43 boxes includes: (a) "Kindergarten" drafts, including sections titled 'Shadows of the Living' and 'The Other Side of Silence', TS and galley proofs of final version, with relate...

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WILLIAM BRIGG MANUSCRIPTS

16th century-19th century

Comprising (a) Correspondence (b) Card index to wills, mostly Yorkshire. (c) Notes on Brigg of Halifax, Brigg and Briggs of Sowerby, Shropshire, Norfolk, Westmorland and Sussex, Henry Brigg the mathm...

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Isaac Holden and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Isaac Holden and Sons Limited; Holden, Sir Isaac (1807-1897)

c.1830-1910

Summary of Contents by Box No. I. Papers referring to patents and other business affairs. 1830s-50s. II. Journals and notebooks. 1844-88. III. Newspaper cuttings, parliamentary bills, addr...

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