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Total number of records: 4050

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Archives3895
Books and printed items152
Objects3

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection2113
English Literature1742
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive927
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection544
Liddle Collection163
Leeds Russian Archive87
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
Leeds Poetry22
Herbert Read Collection12
Medical Collections10

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SubjectCount
letters1747
letter writing1477
letter663
poets, english663
pre-raphaelites661
english poetry329
english fiction307
english literature293
art education286
english drama272

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PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom605
Genoa, Italy132
Leeds, United Kingdom67
Beckenham, United Kingdom23
Rome, Italy18
Nice, France18
Croagnes, France14
Paris, France14
Oxford, United Kingdom13
Manchester, United Kingdom13

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sala, George Augustus505
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)235
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria58
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)53
Cowden Clarke, Charles30
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Hogg, Jabez28
Novello, Vincent25
Novello, Clara Anastasia20

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From 170091
From 18002138
From 19001746
From 200029

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Up to 179954
Up to 18991871
Up to 19992017
Up to latest73

Archive Sub-collection

Letters and papers of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross, Co. Cork

Pearson Family

c.1700-c.1980

These documents comprise letters and papers by or concerning members of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross, Co. Cork, from the late seventeenth century almost to the present. Besides memb...

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Father Thomas Dawson Correspondence

Dawson, Thomas

1856-1937

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Hilda M. A. Squire and family, letters and papers

Squire, Hilda Martha Lilian (1898-1991)

1836-1991

Hilda Squire was a hospital almoner. She was the daughter of a London doctor, Edward Squire, who had been interested in issues of public health and hygiene. Her grandfather, Dr. William Squire, was ph...

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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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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Leigh Hunt, correspondence and related material

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)

1851-1952

Correspondence: (1) 18 autograph letters from Leigh Hunt to George Bird, 24 June 1851-31 October 1852, concerning medical matters; (2) 1 typewritten letter from Dr Cedric Keith Simpson to Dr E. Clayto...

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Letters from Malcolm Quin to Professor Arthur James Grant and Mr Robertson

Quin, Malcolm

1892-1927

Addresses (except where otherwise stated) Numbers 1-33, 35-53 From 30, Alexandra Place, Newcastle- on-Tyne. Numbers 56-64, 66, 68-82, 84-88 From 10, Manor House Road, Newcastle -on-Tyne . Dates The da...

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Percy Fry Kendall, letters from various correspondents together with some other documents, all mainly on geological topics, 1886-1932

1886-1932

This list records a collection of 113 letters from various correspondents to Professor P F Kendall, together with a few other documents, all mainly on geological topics.

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Further letters and papers of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross, Co. Cork

Pearson Family

1812-1926

These further letters and papers concern wider branches of Mrs S. Laville's extensive family in the nineteenth century, namely, the Clarges and the Hawkes. Also additional document found in 2021 when...

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Charles Edwyn Vaughan correspondence and papers

Vaughan, C E (1854-1922)

c.1890-1922

Comprises letters, press cuttings, and notes

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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 Eliot, autograph letters to her by celebrities of her time, relating to literary and personal matters

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

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...

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