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Brotherton Collection11518
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society5420
English Literature4781
Letters Database2512
Quaker Collection1897
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse794
Herbert Read Collection792
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture761
Liddle Collection710
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society613

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film199
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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1688
Bridgen, John William507
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616477
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)347
Penn, William (1644-1718)337
Society of Friends309
Tipping, William ?301
Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)280

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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM E

1914-1919

Pencil sketch of mosque (nd); 2 watercolour sketches (nd); German postcard (nd); Typescript verse 'The Motor-Lorry Man' by AL Jones (1918); Photograph of Princess Mary (nd); Overseas service stripes (...

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William Carlos Williams

Koch, Vivienne

[1950]

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Elizabeth Williams Collection

1800-1950

Elizabeth Williams (1938-2012) studied at Bedford College, London, and came to Leeds as an assistant lecturer in English Language and Medieval English Literature in 1965, after working for a year in t...

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Sender: Gamble, William

Recipient: Carr, William

Letters: 1

Date(s): 7 Nov 1815

Location: SC MS 646/28

Note: Concerning alleged fee farm rents due upon property at Birstall. 2 ff. Endorsed with Carr's draft reply.

Sender: Fairbairn, William

Recipient: Bennett, William

Letters: 1

Date(s): 2 Oct 1824

Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 193/150

Note: Accompanying a sketch of machinery.

Sender: Gott, William

Recipient: Rutson, William

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1 Jun 1846

Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/6/1

Note: Condolences on the death of his son William. 3 pp. Recipient is second husband of sister of WG's wife.

Sender: Boone, William

Recipient: Gott, William

Letters: 25

Date(s): 14 Feb 1860 - 20 Dec 1860

Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/6/28-29, 31-34, 37, 39-54, 60-62

Note: 1) Enclosing a copy (3 pages) of part of the preface to a translation of the works of the Persian poet Firdausi. 1 p. 2) On books. 1 p. 3) Enclosing his report on the books in Ferguson's sale. 5 pp. 4) Describes the condition of lot 206 (Scottish prayer-book) in Ferguson's sale. 3 pp. 5) Informing him of the purchase of books for him from the sale. 3 pp. 6) Offering for sale a volume of the Surtees Society (Dugdale's "Visitation of the County of Yorke"), and Whewell's "On the Philosophy of Discovery". 2 pp. 7) List of lots purchased on Gott's behalf at Sotheby's sale. 2 pp. 8) About books offered for sale. 2 pp. 9) On Bibles in a sale. 2 pp. 10) More on the Bibles. 2 pp. 11) On the Bibles in the sale. 1 p. 12) Reporting on the Bibles in the sale. 3pp. 13) Reporting on lot 1801 in the sale. 14) Reporting on books in various sales. 3 pp. 15) Reporting on books in a sale. 4 pp. 16) Report of a sale. 2 pp. 17) Describes some books he has for sale.
3 pp. 18) Informing him that he has not bought the folio "Spectator". 1 p. 19) On the purchase of the Bible. 1 p. 20) About books bought for Gott. 3 pp. 21) On a

manuscript Franciscan service-book, and others. 4 pp. 22) On

books. 2 pp. 23) On Bibles. 3 pp. 24) Describing books in a sale. 3 pp. 25) List of lots purchased at a sale. 3 pp. 26) Noting prices of books in a sale. 1 p. Sender is of of T. and W. Boone, booksellers.

Sender: Pickering, William

Recipient: Gott, William

Letters: 3

Date(s): 28 Feb 1851 - 22 Mar 1851

Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/6/109-111

Note: 1) Listing a collection of English liturgies which he has for sale. 2 pp. 2) More on English liturgies. 3 pp. 3) On editions of the Book of Common Prayer. 2 pp.


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Winter, William to Bryant, William

Winter, William

23 Sep 1890

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Williams

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1992-1994

This file contains correspondence relating to Hill's involvement in the case for Charles Williams being memorialised in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. Includes 2 typescript letters to Hill from Gil...

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WILLIAMS

1915

Recollections of Suvla Bay Landing, 9 Aug 1915.

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