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Brotherton Collection256
Medical Collections10

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letters155
portraits, british66
photographs48
autographs23
artists11
english poetry5
music4
theater programs4
engraving3
engraving, english3

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Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)10
Keeley, Robert5
Melville, Robert Saunders-Dundas3
Osborne, Peregrine Hyde3
Booth, William H2
Brame, Benjamin2
Constable, Archibald2
Dundas, Henry 1st Viscount Melville2
Masson, David I2

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Letters of John Evelyn

Evelyn, John (1620-1706)

1687-1699

Contains: (1) A letter to Dr Robert Plot, dated 9 Dec [16]87; (2) A letter to Ralph Thoresby, the Leeds historian, dated 19 July [16]99

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Parts of letters and signatures by Florence Nightingale, from letters sent to Flora Masson
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Parts of letters and signatures by Florence Nightingale, from letters sent to Flora Masson

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

n.d. [c.1880-1910]

8 pages of partial letters or cut-out signatures from Florence Nightingale, sent to Flora Masson. Also contains one envelope sent to Flora Masson on 11 Oct 1899. Pencil and ink.

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Letters mainly from John Gage Rokewode, with a few letters between others.

Rokewode, John Gage

1835-1842

Comprises 98 autograph letters, mainly from John Gage Rokewode to William Long, dated between 24 September 1835 and 9 November 1842.

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Anonymous letter to Victor Hugo
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Anonymous letter to Victor Hugo

no date

Love letter in which the writer describes tells her admiration for Hugo and implies that they slept together in the previous night. She adds that she goes to Colombes and tells Hugo that they can meet...

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Anonymous letter to Victor Hugo
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Anonymous letter to Victor Hugo

no date

She describes, in very long paragraphs, all her admiration for Hugo and regrets that they cannot meet this year. She is probably young as she mentions her mother. She also talks about a letter from Hu...

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Letters relating to Victor Hugo

c.1833-1883

14 letters, including three written by Victor Hugo, eleven addressed to him from various correspondents.

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Letters collected by the Masson family.

Masson, David (1822-1907); Masson, [Emily] Rosaline Orme; Masson, David I - University of Leeds (1915-2007)

c.1850-1935

The letters collected by the Masson family, primarily by [Elsie] Rosaline Orme Masson (1867-1949), contain correspondence with many eminent artists, writers, and politicians of the late nineteenth- an...

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Letters: Miscellaneous (Brotherton Collection)

c1565-1942

Letters and correspondence from a variety of people, including: Henry Acland; Sir George Airy; Sir Archibald Alison; Henry Allon; John Bannister; the Duke of Bedford; Sir Benjamin Brodie; Charles Butl...

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Victor Hugo letter to unnamed woman
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Victor Hugo letter to unnamed woman

20 Aug c1856 - 1859

Letter to an unnamed woman, in which Hugo says that they are waiting for her and asks her to send a letter at least 24h in advance once she has arrived. The letter was written at Hauteville House, Gue...

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Adele Rival letter to Victor Hugo
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Adele Rival letter to Victor Hugo

c.1848

She asks for rendez-vous with Hugo and says that he had more time for her before he became a MP. She then mentions that she heard about a riot in the streets.

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Adele Rival letter to Victor Hugo
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Adele Rival letter to Victor Hugo

c.1848

She fears that Hugo has forgotten her and tells that there are only three performances of Le Morne au Diable (by Eugène Sue) left. She therefore enquires whether Hugo could go and see it with her. Th...

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Adele Rival letter to Victor Hugo
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Adele Rival letter to Victor Hugo

c.1848

This letter might be following the previous one as she says that she received a box from Hugo, presumably to attend the play mentioned in BC MS 19c Hugo/6. She however wanted to see him and recalls th...

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