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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society136
Brotherton Collection23
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Leeds Poetry3
ApIvor Collection1
Art and Antique Market1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Herbert Read Collection1

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Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)3
Clay, J W2
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Freemantle, W T2
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)2
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor2
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)2
T S Eliot2
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)2

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Archive Collection

'A MEMOIR OF DR JOHN DEAKIN HEATON, M.D. OF LEEDS' EDITED BY T WEMYSS REID [PRINTED]

1883

Inscribed from Mrs Heaton to Harriet Ellen England.

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF DOCUMENTS

1916-1925

Photographs of deeds and court rolls, chiefly illustrations for "A descriptive catalogue of miscellaneous charters and other documents relating to the districts of Sheffield and Rotherham", Sheffield,...

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TRANSCRIPT OF AN ARTICLE

(1845)

'Antiquarian Notices of Claye House in Greteland in the parish of Halifax and County of York' January MDCCC. XL.V by Rev. Joseph Hunter [published in part in an edition prepared by Rev. Thos. James f...

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George Byron, correspondence and manuscripts, together with related materials

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)

c.1811-1938

Comprises a collection of autograph poetry, letters and other writings by Byron; manuscripts of his poetry and other writings in the hand of others (including Mary Shelley), including copies of his 'E...

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Bonamy Dobrée Archive

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

1912-1973

Comprises: (a) 19 boxes of Bonamy Dobrée's autograph manuscript correspondence arranged A-Z by the names of the correspondents and dated between 1912 and 1973, including a large number of letters fro...

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Aldred Farrer Barker correspondence and papers

Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964); Barker, Benjamin (1838-); Hart, Solomon Alexander (1806-1881)

1869-1931

The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...

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Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

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Algernon Charles Swinburne manuscripts

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

1851-1999

Comprises a substantial collection of manuscripts (many of them autographs), typed or pencilled transcriptions, and some printed proofs and early editions of literary works by Swinburne, including poe...

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A.J.A. Symons, literary papers and correspondence with some related material.

Symons, A J A (1900-1941)

c.1923-1942

Comprises: (1) Fragmentary autograph manuscript drafts of a critical work by Symons on Edgar Allan Poe, followed by two versions of it in typescript, with autograph manuscript corrections, all probabl...

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Ebenezer Elliott, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

c.1818-1929

Comprises: (1) 2 bound quarto volumes on Elliott: one by E.R. Seary, 1929, containing a 98 ff. typescript carbon biography entitled 'Reinvestigation into the sources of the biographical material of Eb...

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T.J. Wise, proof copies of pamphlets

Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)

1909-1917

Nine separate titles, as follows, printed for Wise in very limited editions, some annotated by Wise and all of them having proof corrections, often in the hand of Edmund Gosse: (1) "Letters from Alger...

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James Kirkup, literary papers and correspondence with related material

Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

1955-2000

Comprises: Material acquired in 1964, namely, autograph manuscript and typescript drafts and copies of poems composed by James Kirkup between ca. 1955 and 1964, including 8 letters and 8 press cutting...

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