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Total number of records: 44

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Books and printed items38
Archives6

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Brotherton Collection44
English Literature18
Herbert Read Collection3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3

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folklore2
german fiction2
mythology2
english fiction2
english literature2
animism2
anthropology2
photographs1
scrapbooks1
english poetry1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)44
Shorter, Clement King19
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-18556
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)4
Bronte, Emily (1818-1848)4
Currer Bell4
Hatfield, C W4
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)4
Ellis Bell4
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)3

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From 180014
From 190030

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Up to 18995
Up to 199939

Archive Collection

Edward Clodd, manuscripts, diaries and correspondence, with a collection of his printed books.

Clodd, Edward (1840-1930)

1875-1930

Comprises: (1) BOUND MSS of some of Clodd's books, comprising volumes entitled: Animism, Dreams, Evolution, The Evolution of Religion, Folklore, Jesus of Nazareth, Magic in Names, Miracle Plays, Myste...

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Dora Sigerson Shorter, a play, a story and a volume of press notices about her.

Shorter, Dora Sigerson (1866-1918)

1895-1914

Comprises: 1) Typescript of a play 'The Other Woman's Child', in two acts, 36 ff., typed in black ink, with underlining in red, on sheets interleaved with thick paper, bound in blue cloth; 2) Carbon c...

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Clement K Shorter Archive

Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

1893-1927

Comprises: 31 boxes of correspondence with various people (the largest number of letters are from Edmund Gosse, Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards, and Augustine Birrell); and bound volumes as follows: ...

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Archive Series

Edward Clodd photographic materials

Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

1896-1926

This series is a separate accrual. It comprises a photograph album which includes photographs of Clodd with his friends and family. These include the writers George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. The ...

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Archive File

Borrow (George Henry) Place-names: (3) fragment manuscripts

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1830-1940

2 Holograph (handwritten) manuscript fragments with typed transcriptions and 1 file of correspondence and catalogue fragments concerning their purchase. Undated

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Archive Print Item

The life and works of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865); Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

1914

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Scrapbook of letters from Ouida, with related material.

Ramée, Maria Louisa

c.1895-1928

Comprises a scrapbook on Ouida, including 20 letters from her to Clement Shorter, who is usually addressed as 'Dear Sir', often undated, but including letters dated 20 July 1895 - 4 September 1897, an...

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The complete poems of Emily Jane Brontë

Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Hatfield, C W; Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

[1923]

"A bibliography of the complete poems of Emily Jane Brontë": p. xv-xvi.

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The Brontës and their circle

Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

[1914]

"Popular edition" - t.p. First published in 1893 with title: Charlotte Brontë and her circle.

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The complete poems of Anne Brontë

Brontë, Anne (1820-1849); Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926); Hatfield, C W

[1920]

With Charlotte Brontë's introduction to selections from poems by Acton Bell, first published in Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, 1850.

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