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Total number of records: 440
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 92 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 69 |
| Maurice de Sausmarez Archive | 63 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 55 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 44 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 38 |
| Cookery Collection | 5 |
| John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History | 3 |
| English Literature | 2 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 2 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) | 45 |
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 24 |
| Moore, John (1729-1802) | 12 |
| Burnett, William Civil Engineer | 11 |
| Dugdale, Thomas | 11 |
| Tallis, L | 11 |
| Townsend, Leonard | 11 |
| Bandinel, Bulkeley (1781-1861) | 8 |
| Madden, Frederic (1801-1873) | 8 |
| Nichols, John Gough (1806-1873) | 8 |
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Novello Cowden Clarke
1739-1966
The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...
NOVELLO, Vincent
1808-1964
Five boxes containing jewellery, legal documents, manuscript music, newspaper cuttings, notebooks, photographs and the travel diaries from Vincent Novello's journey across Europe with his wife Mary Sa...
Bridget Riley
1958-1974
Correspondence, notes, photographs, exhibition catalogues, books and associated material related to the artist Bridget Riley and the development of her relationship with Maurice de Sausmarez, dating f...
NOVELLO, Mary Sabilla (née HEHL)
1789-1860
Mary Sabilla Novello's pocket watch, Will, drafts of letters and songs, thoughts on Christianity and the working classes, scrapbooks and commonplace books, family accounts, prose manuscripts, portrait...
K.A. Robertson sketches
c. 1937-1958
Undated pencil, ink and watercolour sketches on paper and tracing paper by K.A. Robertson, including studies of African children and adults, animals, biblical scenes, human and animal anatomy, vehicle...
Travel
1959-1960
Pamphlets, timetables, reservations and photographs associated with the painting trip Bridget Riley took across Italy with Maurice de Sausmarez in the summer of 1960, during which they travelled to Ro...
Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles
30 Oct 1867
Handwritten draft of a letter from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, noting Dickens' forthcoming visit to America and sending their best wishes for his tr...
Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
1880-1882
Correspondence between the novelist and poet Dinah Maria Craik (née Mulock) and Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, concerned with Craik's travels in Italy and associated periods of ill health.
Davies, Fanny to [Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria]
c. 1870
Concluding page of a handwritten note from Fanny Davies to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing that she was looking forward to seeing her and Valeria (likely Cowden Clarke's niece Valeria Gigliucci) and no...
Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)
1822-1835
Nine handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, dated 2 March 1822 to [21 Nov 1835] with four undated. The letters contain social arrangements, dicuss his poetry and ill hea...
Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Vincent and Novello, Mary Sabilla
1821-1823
Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello, dating from 24 December 1821 to 25 July 1823 and containing references to Hunt's health, comic v...
The Dialect of Golcar
Jacobson, Joanne
1974
M.A. project on one dialect speaker from Golcar, West Yorkshire . Analysis is made of material contained within a 34-minute tape recorded interview with Mr. Gledhill, made by Stanley Ellis in 1963. ...