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Total number of records: 96

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Archives39

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Brotherton Collection96
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections96

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romanies17
folklore, romany2
arts1
comparative linguistics1
crime and criminals1
cultural anthropology1
dardic languages1
folk music, gypsy1
folk-songs, gypsy1
genealogy1

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People and organisationsCount
Yates, Dora Esther (1879-1974)11
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)6
Sampson, John (1862-1931)5
Yates, Dora Esther5
Dorothy Una Clough4
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips4
Dorothy Una Phillips4
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)4
John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961)3
Macfie, R A Scott (1868-1935)3

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Yates (Dora Esther), Letters to various.

Yates, Dora Esther (1879-1974)

24/Apr/1935 - 24/Aug/1955

Letters and correspondence with Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (DUR) and DUR's secretaries and husband A.C Phillips.

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Yates (Dora Esther), Letters to various.

24/Apr/1935 - 24/Aug/1955

Handwritten letters and postcards from Dora E. Yates to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (DUR) and DUR's secretaries/personal assistants, Miss [Marion] Wood or Primrose [Cresswell]. Referencing items from Roma...

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Dr. Dora Esther Yates : an appreciation

Bradburn, Elizabeth

[1975]

Bibliography: p. 48.

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Gillespie (John), Letter to Dora E Yates

03/10/1938

Letter to Dora E Yates from Gillespie (John) concerning joining the Gypsy Lore Society and his verse "Romany Joe," that was sent to her by Mrs McGrigor Phillips, (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe).

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Yates (Dora Esther), Copies of 'Glasul Romilor'

Aug/1935

4 small photo copies of plates from the Romanian newspaper publication "Glasul Romilor." (The voice of the Rom)[Roma]

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John (Augustus Edwin), Letter to Dora E. Yates

John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961)

04/07/1955

Letter from Augustus John referencing [Angus] Fraser's review [Journal of Gypsy Lore Society] of a book by La Fuente. Also reference to an exhibition of Spanish Gypsies.

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Yates (Dora Esther), Letters numbered1-88

24/Apr/1935 - 26/Apr/1939

1)Letters numbered 1-51. 2)Letters numbered 60-88. Various subjects including but not limited to:

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Yates (Dora Esther), Letters (not numbered in the sequence)

3/May/1954 - 24/Aug/1955

Subjects include the membership and business of the Gypsy Lore Society.

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Yates, (Dora Esther) “Paspati’s Greek Folk-Songs"

1948

Manuscript, (handwritten) entitled, “Folk songs of the Tchingianes: Extracted from the Etudes of Dr A.G Paspati [Alexandras Georgios Paspates]. Edited, with notes and English translation, by the la...

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Yates (Dora Esther), Letter to Mr A.C. Phillips.

29/01/1951

1) Cardboard notice/sign, stencilled: “no gipsies served here”. 2) On headed notepaper of the Gypsy Lore Society letter to AC Phillips regarding his account of the notice and where it was found/...

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Correspondence between Dora E.Yates and Leeds University Library

Mar 1961 - Feb 1963

Correspondence between Dora E. Yates (Secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society and Honorary Consultant to Brotherton Library) and librarian Mr B. S Page and Sub-librarian, Mr David. I Masson of University ...

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Gillespie (John), Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips and Dora E Yates

Gillespie, John

22/07/1938

Letters from Gillespie (John), to Mrs McGrigor Phillips and Dora E Yates.

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