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Total number of records: 618

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives612
Books and printed items6

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection590
English Literature459
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections9
Medical Collections4
Leeds Russian Archive2
Quaker Collection1
Cookery Collection1
Business Archives1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters618
pre-raphaelites440
poets, english440
portraits, british55
photographs42
autographs16
romanies9
english fiction8
artists5
engraving, english4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)227
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)136
Hogg, Jabez26
Knox, Vicesimus5
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)5
Keeley, Robert5
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)4
Marshall Family2
Torrens, William Torrens Mccullagh2
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)2

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From 1800617
From 20001

Archive Collection

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.

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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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Albert Edward Tebb correspondence

Tebb, Albert Edward

c.1873-1898

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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, ...

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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...

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Louis Henry Hayter correspondence and papers

Hayter, Louis Henry

1884-1897

THESE PAPERS were very kindly presented, to the; Library in February 1976 by Lord Boyle, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds. They had come into his family through L H Hayter having been politi...

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Henry Illingworth, papers and correspondence on the worsted industry in northern France

Illingworth, Henry

1867-1877

Letters, papers and printed documents of Henry Illingworth in connection with a survey of the worsted industry in northern France conducted by himself and John Venimore Godwin on behalf of the Joint T...

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