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English Literature13
Brotherton Collection12
ApIvor Collection1
Herbert Read Collection1
Leeds Poetry1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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letters6
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Eliot, George (1819-1880)2
Eliot, Thomas Stearns2
T S Eliot2
Barker, George (1913-1991)1
Barker, Sebastian1
Berry, Francis1
Bottomley, Gordon (1874-1948)1
Brigg (And Briggs) Family of Sowerby, Shropshire, Norfolk, Westmorland and Sussex1
Brigg Family of Halifax, West Yorkshire1
Burder Family1

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Archive Collection

Eliot, George Autograph letter

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

6 October 1859

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George Eliot, autograph letters to her by celebrities of her time, relating to literary and personal matters

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

c.1875-1919

The correspondents include Anthony Trollope, Harriet B. Stowe, Frederic Harrison, Lord Justice Bowen, Benjamin Jowett, David Kauffman, Sir James Paget, G. J. Holyoake, Douglas Jerrold, Elizabeth Stuar...

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T.S. Eliot Correspondence to The Hon. Rufus Noel Buxton

Eliot, Thomas Stearns

1940-1957

Correspondence sent from T.S. Eliot to Rufus Noel Buxton, politian and writer. Mainly relating to Buxton's poems and books. However also relating to plans to meet up, their engagements etc.

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Letter from T. S. Eliot to Professor F. P. Wilson

Eliot, Thomas Stearns

12 Jan 1934

Typed signed letter from T.S. Eliot to Professor Frank Percy Wilson (1889-1963) Professor of English at Leeds University from 1929-1936, then Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford from 1947...

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Juliette Drouet Letters to Victor Hugo

1833-1903

Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo. 440 letters, partially covering the years 1833 - 1851. Also included are two letters (1903 - 1906) relating to the collection whilst in the care of John El...

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Archive Print Collection

Herbert Read Library (Brotherton Collection)

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

Personal library of Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968), reflecting his career as art critic, theorist, advocate and administrator, poet, novelist and publisher, and much else. The contents range from the ra...

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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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WILLIAM BRIGG MANUSCRIPTS

16th century-19th century

Comprising (a) Correspondence (b) Card index to wills, mostly Yorkshire. (c) Notes on Brigg of Halifax, Brigg and Briggs of Sowerby, Shropshire, Norfolk, Westmorland and Sussex, Henry Brigg the mathm...

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Archive Print Collection

English

The English Collection forms the largest subject section within Special Collections and contains many old and rare materials dating from the mid-17th century onwards. Its classification follows that o...

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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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George Barker, miscellaneous literary papers and letters

Barker, George (1913-1991)

1935-1987

Comprises: (1) 3 letters to or from George Barker, including 1 undated and 2 dated 1977 and 1981 respectively, held in an envelope with typed drafts of his 'Critical sonnet for William Shakespeare', ...

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George Wilson Knight Archive

Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)

c.1916-1997

Comprises: (1) Knight's letters to: a) Francis Berry, 1931-1985; b) John Duncan Christie, 1962-1985; and c) John E. Van Domelen, especially concerning the latter's biography of Knight, 'The Tarza...

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