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Total number of records: 1522

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1507
Books and printed items13
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1087
English Literature891
Liddle Collection155
Leeds Russian Archive85
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections33
Leeds Poetry21
Medical Collections10
Quaker Collection5
Herbert Read Collection4
Business Archives4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters1522
poets, english504
pre-raphaelites503
english poetry314
english fiction300
english literature288
english drama271
world war, 1914-1918151
photographs143
scholars, assistance to78

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Hertfordshire1
England1
Colney Heath1
Birmingham1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)235
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)10
Keeley, Robert5
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)5
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)5
Knox, Vicesimus5
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)4
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800777
From 1900732
From 200013

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899618
Up to 1999857
Up to latest46

Archive Collection

Stancliffe family of North Yorkshire Archive

Stancliffe Family

c.1800-1952

Comprises: (1) Letters, diaries, and a few stamps; (2) Ledgers relating to financial accounts; (3) Various local maps, some rolled, others folded; (4) Game books for the years 1896-1903; (5) An album ...

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Robert Kitson papers

Kitson, Robert Hawthorn (1873-1947)

c.1896-1983

Comprises:i) 79 sketchbooks (1903-1947); ii) 3 weather record notebooks (1911-1936); iii) 1 mileage/travel record notebook (1925-1929); iv) File of press cuttings relating to Kitson's family, life (in...

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Ernest Gordon Cox Archive

Cox, Ernest Gordon

1886-1999

Comprises: Section A, Biographical, including shorter autobiographical and biographical accounts, significant material relating to his career, honours, and birthday celebrations, and photographs taken...

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Reginald Dawson Preston correspondence and papers

Preston, Reginald Dawson

1897-1995

Comprises the professional and academic correspondence of Professor Preston from pre-Second World War days until 17 August 1995, including related printed items, such as offprints of his own and other...

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Leeds Luncheon Club papers

1913-2000

Comprises: (1) Administrative papers and correspondence of the Leeds Luncheon Club between 1938 and 2000, with fuller coverage of the years 1955-1986, including statements of the annual accounts, form...

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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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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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