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Total number of records: 1051

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Archives1047
Books and printed items4

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Brotherton Collection1051
English Literature850
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections33
Medical Collections9
Leeds Poetry7
Herbert Read Collection4

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letters1051
pre-raphaelites495
poets, english495
english poetry292
english literature279
english fiction277
english drama266
portraits, british59
photographs46
romanies33

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Hertfordshire1
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)233
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)146
Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)9
Keeley, Robert5
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)4
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Gawsworth, John2
Dorothy Una Phillips2
George, Henry2

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From 1900370
From 20001

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Up to 1999461

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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Albert Edward Tebb correspondence

Tebb, Albert Edward

c.1873-1898

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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 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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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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Bennett Family Correspondence
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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...

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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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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...

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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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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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