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Total number of records: 1036

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Books and printed items805
Indexes114
Archives92
People and organisations23
Art items2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature272
Brotherton Collection251
Letters Database110
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society90
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society48
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse19
Quaker Collection15
Ripon Cathedral10
Art and Antique Market8
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History8

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SubjectCount
zoology51
english poetry22
birds13
poets, english13
hemiptera10
molluscs9
philosophy9
law8
calculus7
diptera7

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PlaceCount
Great Britain22
England11
Wales8
Flanders3
Netherlands3
United States3
Bath (England)2
Etruria2
Afghanistan1
Burghwallis; Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Gray, John Edward (1800-1875)113
Gosse, Edmund82
Gray, John Edward76
Gray, George Robert (1808-1872)66
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology56
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)54
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)44
Johnson, Samuel37
Cuvier, Georges Baron (1769-1832)36
Griffith, Edward (1790-1858)36

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Gray

Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)

1882

Half-title: English men of letters, edited by John Morley...

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Gray (Alan)

8 September [1898]

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Gray's Elegy

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Jones, Owen (1809-1874)

1846

Text throughout book is framed within ornamental borders. Initials.

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Gray's letters (v.1-2)

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

1819

Added title page engraved.

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Sender: Gray, Francis, 14th Lord Gray

Recipient: [unknown]

Letters: 1

Date(s): 11 Aug 1814

Location: BC Misc letters (bound): "A Collection of Autograph Letters From Eminent Peers" vol. A - K

Note: Collected by John Temple.


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Gray, Thomas to [unknown]

Gray, Thomas

n.d.

Incomplete; fragment only.

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James Gray billhead

James Gray

24 Aug 1843

Simple billhead of James Gray for an order of various furnishings for Mr Dawinport. Customer details written on reverse.

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Title: Epitaph on Philip Gray

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: Churchyard epitaph on one Philip Gray, warning of the inevitability of death

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The works of Thomas Gray (v.5)

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Mitford, John (1781-1859)

1835-1843

Edited by John Mitford.

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Thomas Gray Manuscripts

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

11 Apr 1763 - 1845

Includes a printed copy of Gray's 'Luna est habitabilis' signed by the author; a page from a journal with manuscript notes by Gray on natural history and the weather [11-17 Apr 1763]. A contemporary ...

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