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Total number of records: 15674

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Brotherton Collection6052
English Literature2761
Liddle Collection2095
Leeds Poetry1800
Herbert Read Collection995
Quaker Collection453
Joseph Wood Collections382
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society300
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive243
Business Archives230

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letters830
world war, 1914-1918389
letter writing329
english poetry308
correspondence296
english fiction254
english drama245
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poets, english241
pre-raphaelites241

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Top 10: People and organisations

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)204
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)188
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)142
Stoker, Bram113
Crossley-Holland, Kevin59
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)38
Wood, Joseph (1750-1821)38
English National Opera North33
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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)32

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Archive File

Letter

1914-1918

Landgirl 'Robinson' letter to Miss Needer, bailiff on Corbett Ashby farms. Taken from Corbett Ashby papers.

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Letter

1914-1918

Letter to Rachel from her mother (August 11th, no year given). Rachel in Women’s Land Army. Donor: Mrs Ann Fanshaw (sister-in-law of Rachel), see Res.Corresp.

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Letter

1914-1918

Letter (undated) from Dame Margery Corbett Ashby re shelling of with Zeppelins (See DF Files).

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Letters

1914-1918

Letters from S.Magen & M.Magen (8.7.17) re Gotha raid (7.7.16, London). Originals & one xerox copy of each.

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Letter

1914-1918

Letter from J.C.W.Francis (3.10.17) re Gotha raid (1.10.17.) at Folkestone. See letter '17/50' under Francis (GS)

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Letter

1914-1918

Letter from Miss Walden 6.6.17 re Aeroplane raid (Southend-on-Sea, 3.6.17). See Southend Air Raids file, DF, also Mrs. Chandler, Research File.

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Letters

1914-1918

Prof. A. V. Murray (CO) papers - photocopy of a letter dated 7 July 1917 from Winifred Seares in London to her mother. Winifred married Albert V. Murray in 1923 in Prestwich.

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Letter

1914-1918

Sydney Thomas's letter to Mrs.Peto 2.8.14.

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Letter

1914-1918

Letter from Miss Walden re Zeppelin raid (Southend). (WO)

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Letter

1914-1918

Letter to his former pupils at St.Helen's Aukland School: F.W.Lamb.

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Letter

1914-1918

Harrogate Headmistress's 1918 letter to former pupil (Mrs.N.Liddle) Miss Hammond.

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Letter

1914-1918

Mr.Adamson's letter to his daughter teaching in Germany, August 1914.

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