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Sender: Beckwith, Frank
Recipient: Cox, Dennis
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Oct 1974
Location: SC MS 436/343
Note: Reminiscenes of benefactors of Leeds University Library and their gifts by the Librarian. 2 ff. TS. Unsigned. Some pencil annotations by R.S. Mortimer.
Sender: Beckwith, Frank
Recipient: Gott, Beryl Katherine (nee Robins)
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Apr [1938 ?]
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/11/10
Note: About a Mr Hasse, who gave music lessons at Armley House. 1 p. Sender is Librarian of the Leeds Library; recipient is wife of Francis Gott.
Sender: Ackroyd, Vera
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 2
Date(s): 25 Jan 1967 - 4 April 1967
Location: SC 622/1095, 1112
Note: 1) Annual dinner of the Yorkshire Bookmen. 2) Annual dinner of the
Yorkshire Bookmen. TS.
Sender: Aitken, James Tudhope
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 2
Date(s): 22 June 1944 - 19 June 1945
Location: SC 622/178, 199
Note: 1) University Medical Library; his son; post-war plans of the
University of Leeds; German patients at Pinderfield hospital, Wakefield. 2) Staff problems; his son in army.
Sender: Alexander, Patricia
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 3
Date(s): 6 Sep 1948 - 15 Sep 1948
Location: SC 622/329, 330, 331
Note: 1) Seeks a copy of Edna Lyall, "Donovan". 2) Same topic. TS. 3) Same topic.
Sender: Allred, John Rowland
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 2
Date(s): 26 May 1967 - 9 Dec 1968
Location: SC 622/1126, 1185
Note: 1) A visit by students to the Leeds Library. 2) FB's history of
the Leeds Library.
Sender: Andrews, Sir William Linton
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 11
Date(s): 7 April 1942 - 12 July 1965
Location: SC 622/173, 176, 487, 515, 551, 648, 821, 822, 826, 993, 998
Note: 1) Reminiscence of C.P. Scott. On a note from FB to WLA about C.P. Scott, dated 7 April 1942. 2) Invites FB to take part in a literary Brains Trust. TS. 3) Thanks for notes on the Thoresby Society and Kirkstall. TS. 4) Payment for FB's piece on "Leeds Intelligencer" for "Yorkshire Post". 5) Appreciation of a gift. TS. 6) Personal. TS. 7) Enclosing material about his father 8) A cartoon of his father. 9) Illustrations of his father for Yorkshire Bookmen's "Broadsheet". TS. 10) Copy for the "Broadsheet"; Phyllis Bentley and his view of her attitude to the Brontë Society. 11) Tracts with Brontë associations; controversy on qualifications needed of candidates for curatorship of Brontë Parsonage Museum and Library. TS.
Sender: Aspinall, Algernon
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 21 Feb 1927
Location: SC 622/4
Note: Acknowledges a letter. TS.
Sender: Austin, George Henry
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Sep 1947
Location: SC 622/278
Note: Students to visit the Leeds Library. TS.
Sender: Bacon, Arthur N.
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 4 Aug 1961
Location: SC 622/799
Note: Production of next issue of "Broadsheet" of Yorkshire Bookmen. TS.
Sender: Bagshawe, George F
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 June 1966
Location: SC 622/1061
Note: Personal.
Sender: Bairstow, Leonard
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 2
Date(s): 16 Jan 1961 - 19 Jan 1961
Location: SC 622/778, 780
Note: 1) Seeks information about Robert Oxley, a 17c preacher. 2) Thanks for information on Robert Oxley.
Sender: Ballantyne, Olive
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 3
Date(s): 24 Jul 1954 - 10 Aug 1954
Location: SC 622/521, 522, 523
Note: 1) Seeks information about early 19c printers in Leeds, especially Mann family. TS. 2) Further about the Mann family. TS. 3) Yet more about the Mann family. 2 ff.
Sender: Barker, Pamela
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Dec 1963
Location: SC 622/882
Note: Mr and Mrs Eliot being abroad, she has forwarded FB's letter.
Sender: Barker, Leonard K
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 22 Nov 1961
Location: SC 622/810
Note: Seeks information about some Yorkshire writers.
Sender: Barr, Claus Bernard Louis
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 21 Jan 1965
Location: SC 622/963
Note: Transcripts of the diary of Archbishop Tobie Matthew. TS.
Sender: Bartlett, Donald MacKenzie Maynard, Archdeacon of Richmond
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 Jan 1961
Location: SC 622/779
Note: Use of the cathedral library at Ripon.
Sender: Beck, William
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 15
Date(s): 2 Feb 1949 - 14 Jul 1957
Location: SC 622/341, 344, 347, 351, 353, 367, 372, 386, 428, 433, 436,
451, 460, 465, 629
Note: 1) Pedigree of Hulme family of Manchester and Cheshire. 5 ff. 2) Further to item 341. 3) Questions on the history of Cheshire. 3 ff. 4) His genealogical research. 5) His genealogical research. 6) Posting parcels; acquisitions by local library; his book and research 7) Thanks FB for gift of his work on Thomas Taylor; his own work. 8) Thoresby Society; his genealogical research 9) His genealogical research; a Christmas parcel; world affairs; commission to purchase a book. 10) A copy of "The Australia Genealogist"; trouble with printers; the international situation . 11) Thanks for copies of wills; payment for a book; his research. 12) Thanks for information; more on his genealogical research. 13) Enclosing a copy of "The Australian Genealogist"; personal. 14) A commemorative publication; personal. 15) Publication of his brochure; further genealogical research. TS.
Sender: Beckwith, Lily
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Sep 1933
Location: SC 622/91
Note: Personal and domestic news.
Sender: Bedford, Madeleine
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 27 Jan 1968
Location: SC 622/1161
Note: Payment for a book. TS.
Sender: Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 2
Date(s): 23 Sep 1947 - 7 Sep 1966
Location: SC 622/282, 1073
Note: 1) FB's annotated bibliography of Yorkshire historical fiction. TS. 2) Forwarding papers from S.R. Publishers (probably about copyright). TS.
Sender: Best, Donald
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 2
Date(s): 11 March 1972 - 6 Aug 1972
Location: SC 622/1238, 1243
Note: 1) Notes on Furnival's Inn. 2 ff. 2) More about Furnival's Inn. 2 ff. including press cutting.
Sender: Bevan, Olive
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 22 Feb 1955
Location: SC 622/536
Note: Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and social research, and its occasional papers. TS.
Sender: Binder, Dorothy Walton
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 4
Date(s): 28 April 1948 - 14 Jan 1952
Location: SC 622/310, 314, 463, 467
Note: 1) Her ancestors; acknowledges help from FB and Professor Grant. 4 ff. Date supposed. 2) Genealogy; old Leeds; Mormons. 3 ff; dated
"Sunday" but post-marked 17 May. 3) Genealogy; Mormons; her visit to Leeds. TS. 4) Grimshaw family; the Mormons. TS.