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Total number of records: 16

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Archives15
Books and printed items1

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Brotherton Collection8
English Literature7
Cookery Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

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letters5
english literature4
diaries2
literature2
art, english1
commonplace-books1
drawing, english1
education1
english fiction1
english poetry1

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Calton; Kirkby Malham; Yorkshire West Riding1
Chevet; Royston; Yorkshire West Riding1
Gisburn; Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)2
Benn, Thomas Vincent1
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L (1887-1965)1
Bronte Family1
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)1
Bronte, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848)1
Clapton, George Thomas1
Constance Anne Wilson1
Currer Bell1
Currer Family of Kildwick, West Riding of Yorkshire1

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Archive Print Collection

Hall (Brotherton Collection)

A small collection of works on conjuring, witchcraft and games, formed by Trevor Henry Hall (1910-1991), bibliographer and former president of the Leeds Library.

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Archive Collection

Thomas Vincent Benn correspondence and papers

Thomas V. Benn

1921-1991

Comprises: (1) Notes, card indexes, and photocopies relating to Mercier and other French bibliographical subjects; (2) Anglo-French catalogues; (3) Annotated papers of Dr Hainsworth, on which Benn wor...

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Archive Collection

C. Anne Wilson Archive

Wilson, C. Anne (1927-2023)

1964-2017

The archive contains papers relating to Anne Wilson's publications including correspondence and bibliographic references for her sources. There are also documents linked to the Leeds Food Symposium o...

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Archive Collection

G. T. Clapton papers

Clapton, George Thomas

1919-1975

Comprises folders of research and bibliographical autograph manuscript notes on French history, literature, and literature written partly in French and partly in English; Some letters written to Clap...

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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

Roger Senhouse, notebooks and literary papers including some letters

Senhouse, Roger (1899-1970)

c.1937-1970

Comprises: (1) 6 autograph manuscript notebooks kept by Roger Senhouse between ca. 1942 and 1962, numbers 1, 3, and 4 being commonplace-books (chiefly containing notes on books and on meetings with ot...

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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

Holbrook Jackson, autograph manuscripts

Jackson, Holbrook (1874-1948)

c.1930-1940

Comprises the following autograph manuscripts written by Holbrook Jackson: (1) 1 vol. (191 pp.), containing an original manuscript entitled 'Bookmarkings II. 1931-1940', evidently compiled for a proje...

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[Latin Bible]
Archive Collection

[Latin Bible]

Eden, Sir Robert Johnson (1774-1844); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor; Sams, Joseph

13th century

Manuscript in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textura) on parchment, containing the text of the Old and New Testaments. Decoration: Minimal decoration, but occasional fine decorated capitals in red and blue...

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Archive Collection

Miscellaneous papers collected by W. T. Freemantle

Freemantle, W T

c.1775-c.1925

Includes papers on local history and music compiled and written by W. T. Freemantle. There are many music scores.

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Archive Judaica Collection

Cecil Roth Collection

1200-1999

Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...

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Archive Collection

Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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