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Total number of records: 5170

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Archives4984
Art items86
Books and printed items60
Objects39

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection4574
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1601
English Literature1262
Medieval Manuscripts642
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse184
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections110
Rudolf Laban Collections12
Medical Collections5
Leeds Poetry2
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

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letters777
pre-raphaelites588
poets, english588
letter540
letter writing508
family261
drawing248
english poetry205
poetry192
saints175

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PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom279
Genoa, Italy277
Nice, France33
Rome, Italy21
Beckenham, United Kingdom21
Florence, Italy19
Vienna, Austria18
Paris, France17
Manchester, United Kingdom12
Turin, Italy11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sala, George Augustus428
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)226
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)137
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria66
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)46
Cowden Clarke, Charles34
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Hogg, Jabez28
Novello, Vincent27
Patrick Branwell Bronte24

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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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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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Shirley Brooks, diaries

Brooks, Shirley (1815-1874)

1867-1872

Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...

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Robert Browning, holograph poems

Browning, Robert (1782-1866)

c.1820-1866

Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...

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Mortimer Collins, poems

Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)

c.1860-1876

Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain

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James Dalton, correspondence

Dalton, James

c.1795-1824

Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...

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Pierce Egan, The blind lover; or, The maid of Malines

Egan, Pierce (1814-1880)

c. 1850

A historical drama in prose

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Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne

c.1810-1835

Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.

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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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