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Total number of records: 50

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive17
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection12
Brotherton Collection6
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5
English Literature1
Leeds Poetry1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
travel39
letter writing18
voyages and travels9
diaries7
community life5
family5
home5
holidays4
postcards4
automobile driving3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom9
Genoa, Italy3
Brissago, Switzerland2
Paris, France2
Salzburg, Austria2
Vienna, Austria2
Anticoli, Italy1
Antwerp. Belgium1
Ascona, Switzerland1
Bedford, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hunt, James Henry Leigh2
[Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria]1
[Her Children]1
Baguley, Glynis Mary1
Bouverie, Sir Henry Frederick (1783-1852)1
Burroughs Family1
Burroughs, Hal1
Burroughs, Henry (1815-1884)1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1

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From 180020
From 190026
From 20001

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Up to 189919
Up to 199927
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Archive File

May, Jun, 2007, Trier

Apr 2007 - Jun 2007

Correspondence regarding Zygmunt Bauman's contribution to the "Topologies of Travel" conference. (31 May - 3 Jun 2007, University of Trier)

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Travel

1829-1850

Original travel diaries and later transcriptions from Mary Sabilla Novello's journey across Europe in the summer of 1829 with her husband Vincent Novello, including details of their visits to Mozart's...

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The Netherlands: an account of a journey by three English travellers through Belgium in 1833

c.1833

The narrative is prefaced by (1) an historical account of the country, (2) an essay on travelling, (3) directions to travellers, and (4) a note on money

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Diary of a journey round Australia and back to England

1876

Covers a sea voyage round Australia, a journey inland to New South Wales and Victoria, and a voyage back to England

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Photographs of Bridget Riley in Italy

1960

Copies of two black and white photographs, one showing Bridget Riley next to a table in a rural landscape and one showing the back of campervan and some washing on a line hung between two trees. Datin...

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Travel timetables

1960

Printed travel timetables for car sleeper services to France, in France, from Belgium to Germany and Italy and to Belgium, with a fly-drive timetable from the United Kingdom to Europe, a Chanel Air Br...

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Maurice de Sausmarez postcards

c.1967

Three undated blank postcards from Switzerland, two with scenes from Brissago and one from Ascona, purchased by Maurice de Sausmarez during his visit to the artist Ben Nicholson.

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Poems by Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin

1739

Three handwritten poems on German themes by Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin. The first is titled ‘Song on leaving Berlin’ and dated November 1739.

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Campervan pamphlets

1959-1960

Eleven printed pamphlets and price lists for different makes and models of campervans, collected by Maurice de Sausmarez in preparation for the painting trip Bridget Riley took across Italy with de Sa...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles

30 Oct 1867

Handwritten draft of a letter from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, noting Dickens' forthcoming visit to America and sending their best wishes for his tr...

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Davies, Fanny to [Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria]

c. 1870

Concluding page of a handwritten note from Fanny Davies to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing that she was looking forward to seeing her and Valeria (likely Cowden Clarke's niece Valeria Gigliucci) and no...

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Charlotte Drake-Brockman to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez

1964-1965

One typewritten and one handwritten letter from Charlotte Drake-Brockman, Maurice de Sausmarez's former secretary at Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez, providi...

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