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Archive File

1926

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains 13 transcripts of notices from the 'Jamaica Gleaner' concerning the Manley family; and transcripts of 3 letters between Norman and Edna Manley. All date from the year 1926.

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Archive File

1926

1926

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Archive File

1926

1926

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Manuscript and typescript papers relating to 'The Original Clock Almanack'

Hartley, John (1839-1915)

1903

Manuscript drafts and typescript proofs of 'The Original Clock Almanack' in the Yorkshire Dialect. The journal was founded by John Hartley.

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The military antiquities of the Romans in Britain (v.2)

Roy, William (1726-1790); Society of Antiquaries of London

1793

Appendix no. IV: Observations by Mr. Anderson, professor of natural philosophy in the University of Glasgow, upon the Roman antiquities lately discovered between the Forth and the Clyde: p. 200-204.

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The Tyke 1926
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The Tyke 1926

1926

Yorkshire's Unique Humorous Journal - Undergraduate Appeal Issue,

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Diary, 1926
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Diary, 1926

1926

Small pocket diary, blue, 'Collins Emerald Diary' on front

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Correspondence : 1926

Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

1926

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1925-1926

1926

(1926) (incomplete notebook) 40ff; MS; Russian

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Archive Item

[Diary, 1926]

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(n d) (copy entries) 5ff; TS, with MS amendments; Russian

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Archive Item

1926-1927

No date

(n d) (copy entries) 82ff; TS, with MS amendments; Russian

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