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Archive Collection

THOMAS HEYWOOD MANUSCRIPTS: THE SONG OF LADY BESSY

17th century

Being in manuscript 'The most pleasant song of Lady Bessy the eldest daughter of King Edward the fourth and how she married King Henry the Seventh of the house of Lancaster' (68pp), with engraving of ...

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PAPERS RELATING TO LEDSHAM SCHOOL (LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' FOUNDATION)

1739-1949

Includes: registers 1749-1831 and 1833-1949; accounts 1739-1810, 1837-1874; housekeepers' accounts 1770-1771, 1816-1817; accounts and vouchers for the building of the new schoolhouse 1739; examiners' ...

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A.P. Herbert, autograph manuscript of the poem 'Farewell to a Lady'

Herbert, Alan Patrick

c.1925

Comprises an autograph fair copy of A.P. Herbert's poem 'Farewell to a Lady', probably to be dated ca. 1925. It consists of seven four-line stanzas written in dark blue ink and is signed at the end 'A...

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Sir Denis and Lady Patricia Barnes (née Abercrombie) Archive

c. 1920s - 2000s

Material documenting the personal lives and professional and literary careers of Sir Denis and Lady Patricia Barnes. The archive is divided into five series. The bulk of the collection covers th...

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LETTER FROM E ROKEBY, HAGUE HALL, TO LADY HEWLEY OF YORK

1786

On reverse is a note by Joseph Hunter.

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Isabella Augusta Gregory, original autograph manuscript of 'The golden apple', with related correspondence with Lord Brotherton.

Gregory, Lady

1913-1928

Comprises 2 notebooks containing the original autograph manuscript of Lady Gregory's play 'The golden apple', dated 1913, together with correspondence between Lord Brotherton and Lady Gregory concerni...

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LECTURES AND NOTES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SUBJECTS BY R J A BUNNETT

1934-1960

Including Yorkshire literary associations, Byland Abbey, lost towns on the Yorkshire coast and Lady Anne Clifford

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TATE FAMILY PAPERS

19th century-20th century

Photograph on glass of a lady [?Mrs Sam Tate of Leeds] nd [19th century] with other Tate items 1885 and 20th century

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EXTRACTS FROM 'A PURITANS DIARY', BEING THE DIARY OF LADY MARGRET HOBY, WIFE OF SIR THOMAS POSTHUMUS HOBY, KNIGHT OF HACKNESS, YORKSHIRE BY J W CLAY

20th century

With correspondence and other papers of J W Clay, 1938. Original is British Library Egerton MS2614

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William Clayfield of Bristol, autograph verses attributed to him with one by Thomas Beddoes

Clayfield, William

1820s

Comprises autograph verses by William Clayfield, including 'On a young lady's stooping at a window to examine the Arabis-Stricta recently transplanted from St Vincent's rocks' (dated 1822); 'On the Ny...

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Hawksworth deeds

1625-1706

The deeds refer to Sir Walter Hawksworth 1682 including a probate document dated 1683, Richard Hawksworth 1625, Lady Hawksworth 1687 and also a release from William Vavasour to Thomas Green of Bingley...

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