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Total number of records: 1589

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Archives1568
Books and printed items19
Objects2

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Brotherton Collection1143
English Literature903
Liddle Collection155
Leeds Russian Archive86
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
Leeds Poetry21
Medical Collections10
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
Quaker Collection5
Business Archives5

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letters1589
poets, english504
pre-raphaelites503
english poetry327
english fiction307
english literature289
english drama272
world war, 1914-1918151
photographs144
scholars, assistance to78

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Lozere (France : Dept.)1
France1
England1
Aveyron (France)1
Birmingham1
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)235
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)10
Keeley, Robert5
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)5
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)5
Knox, Vicesimus5
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)4
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)4

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Archive Collection

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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Geoffrey Woledge Archive

Woledge, Geoffrey (1901-1988)

19--

Includes diaries, letters, postcards, photographs, household accounts, notes on bibliography, librarianship and education, papers of various family members, documents relating to Aireborough Civic Soc...

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Henry Céard Archive

CĂ©ard, Henry

c.1873-1921

Comprises autograph French manuscripts of Henry Céard towards various of his poems, plays, and prose writings; also, many letters from or to him, dated between 1873 and 1921; together with various ed...

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George Nicholls, letters received

Nicholls, Sir George (1781-1865)

c.1815-1821

Comprises many manuscript letters written between 1815 and 1821 to Captain George Nicholls on St Helena while he was guarding Napoléon Bonaparte, with one dated much later in 1880.

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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 Digby Firth papers

Firth, James Digby

1888-1965

Includes correspondence, press cuttings, photographs, and pamphlets, mostly related to local history: 1. Manuscript list of correspondence: name and address of correspondent and brief summary. 2. ...

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David Edward Jenkins Archive

Jenkins, David Edward

c.1925-1984

Contains material relating to various professional appointments in the World Council of Churches, William Temple Foundation, and the University of Leeds; the Cadbury lectures; personal and family pape...

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Community Development Project (Home Office) papers.

c.1945-1975

Comprises: (1) Planning papers, research reports, and administrative papers and correspondence of the Project between 1967 and 1975; (2) Many books on economic history and pamphlets on urban developme...

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E. J. Arnold wholesale stationers

1903-1977

Comprises wage books, invoices, miscellaneous company papers and reports, catalogues, examples of printing, correspondence, notes on company history, photographs (loose and in albums), slides, 2 reels...

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Aldred Farrer Barker correspondence and papers

Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)

1869-1960?

The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...

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Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group and St Paul's Gallery Leeds Archive

1979-1988

Comprises: 1) Correspondence, posters, photographs and other material related to "New Art in Yorkshire" exhibition, 1987; 2) Material relating to exhibitions and events held by YCAG, 1984-1988; 3) Mat...

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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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