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Total number of records: 1143

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Archives1136
Books and printed items7

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Brotherton Collection1143
English Literature898
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
Leeds Poetry21
Medical Collections9
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
Herbert Read Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters1143
poets, english504
pre-raphaelites503
english poetry325
english fiction306
english literature287
english drama270
portraits, british66
photographs49
romanies40

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Hertfordshire1
England1
Colney Heath1
Birmingham1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)234
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)9
Keeley, Robert5
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)4
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)4
Melville, Robert Saunders-Dundas4
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Osborne, Peregrine Hyde3

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From 160011
From 170043
From 1800682
From 1900393
From 200012

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Up to 179919
Up to 1899605
Up to 1999475
Up to latest35

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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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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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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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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Ebenezer Elliott, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

c.1818-1929

Comprises: (1) 2 bound quarto volumes on Elliott: one by E.R. Seary, 1929, containing a 98 ff. typescript carbon biography entitled 'Reinvestigation into the sources of the biographical material of Eb...

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Bram Stoker correspondence and manuscripts

Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)

1866-1997

Comprises: (1) Correspondence dated between 1866 and 1911; (2) Autograph literary manuscripts by Bram Stoker: (i) Lecture 'Personal impressions of America', delivered at the London Institute (and else...

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Alfred Lord Tennyson and family, correspondence and literary works

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (1809-1892)

1827-1906

Comprises: (1) 'Poems, by two brothers', 1st edition, London, 1827, actually poems by the three brothers, Frederick, Charles, and Alfred Tennyson; (2) 'A collection of autograph letters from Alfred, L...

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