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Archive Collection:
MS 1309
MS 1309
c.1900-1980
Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Borrow
BC MS 19c Borrow
c.1840-1913
Brotherton Collection items: Autograph manuscripts of two folktales, one beginning "Sigurd son of Volsun", the other entitled "The pisgey and midwife"; autograph manuscripts of four poems, "Grasach Ab...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Manson
BC MS 19c Manson
c.1873-1920
Consists almost entirely of letters received by Manson
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Barton
BC MS 19c Barton
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Eliot
BC MS 19c Eliot
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Landor
BC MS 19c Landor
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Maartens
BC MS 19c Maartens
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Stevenson
BC MS 19c Stevenson
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, ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Thackeray
BC MS 19c Thackeray
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Brontë
BC MS 19c Brontë
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Gosse
BC MS 19c Gosse
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Abercrombie (2)
BC MS 20c Abercrombie (2)
1881-1940
Comprises: (1) Drafts of many of Abercrombie's own publications held in box files individually-labelled; (2) Drafts of literary material in folders; (3) Lecture notes, including those of his own lectu...