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Total number of records: 606

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Archives599
Books and printed items5
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society279
Brotherton Collection145
English Literature139
Business Archives16
Leeds Poetry16
Feminist Archive North10
Medical Collections4
Quaker Collection3
Art and Antique Market2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters123
english poetry55
english literature33
english fiction19
business records15
english drama15
textile industry15
diaries9
commercial correspondence7
education6

Top 10: Place

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Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding15
Yorkshire8
York; Yorkshire4
Oxford; Oxfordshire3
Scriven; Knaresborough; Yorkshire West Riding3
Calton; Kirkby Malham; Yorkshire West Riding2
Crayke; Yorkshire North Riding2
Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding2
Fountains Abbey; Markington; Ripon; Yorkshire West Riding2
Lincolnshire2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family7
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Blakeston Family3
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)3
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)3
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)3
Adams Family2
Ashton Family2
Barker, George (1913-1991)2

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From 170062
From 1800213
From 1900229
From 20004

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Up to 169933
Up to 179959
Up to 1899140
Up to 1999314
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Archive Collection

Letters

1713-1934

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PHOTOCOPIES OF LETTERS

(1702-19th century)

From John Evelyn to Ralph Thoresby, 1702

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LETTERS PATENT

1 Dec 1600

1. Queen Elizabeth I 2. John Mylborne of Hynderskelf, gentleman Property: a capital messuage and appurtenances at Thornton under Ryseburghe Consideration: £830 Term: lives of said John Mylborne a...

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Miscellaneous letters

1800-2000

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LETTERS OF CLAPHAM FAMILY

1801-1869

Comprising letters of George Clapham 1801-1824 and John Clapham 1843-1869. Also a copy of Birstall tithe map, 1848, with part of schedule extracted by Barbara Clapham 1995. Also trancripts of the lett...

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LETTERS TO RALPH THORESBY

1681-1710

Includes letters from Matthew Henry, Richard Stretton, Charles Townley and Philip, Lord Wharton. Also portraits of Matthew Henry and Philip, Lord Wharton.

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FRAGMENT OF LETTERS PATENT

2 Aug 1618

Fragment of letters patent of James I creating Robert Sidney, Viscount Lysle earl of Leicester

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PHOTOSTAT COPY OF LETTER

(27 Nov 1732)

From Thomas Hearne, Edmund Hall, Oxford to Constable regarding Woodhead and his recently published book

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Letters to Seamus Scully

O'Casey, Sean (1880-1964)

1949-1960

Typescript and autograph letters

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Letters of Arthur Symons

Symons, Arthur (1865-1945)

1920s

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Letters of Alice Meynell

Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson (1847-1922)

1875-1914

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George Nicholls, letters received

Nicholls, Sir George (1781-1865)

c.1815-1821

Comprises many manuscript letters written between 1815 and 1821 to Captain George Nicholls on St Helena while he was guarding Napoléon Bonaparte, with one dated much later in 1880.

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