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Total number of records: 124

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive85
Brotherton Collection14
English Literature12
Leeds Poetry12
Quaker Collection3
Business Archives1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters124
british45
russians27
photographs24
english fiction12
english poetry12
librettos12
russian literature12
diaries10
postcards10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pearson Family3
Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)2
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)2
Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)2
Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869)2
Banks, Cyril (1901-1969)1
Banks, Gladys1
Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)1
Bithell, Jethro (1878-1962)1
Bodger, John Eric Sturton1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17005
From 180042
From 190077

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18992
Up to 1999105
Up to latest17

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Francis Leslie Watson Collection

1871-1982

Comprises: Box 1, Personalia relating to Major Frank Watson and Mrs Charlotte Watson, including their birth, marriage, and death certificates, Major Watson's army documents, several of his later diari...

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Letters and papers of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross, Co. Cork

Pearson Family

c.1700-c.1980

These documents comprise letters and papers by or concerning members of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross, Co. Cork, from the late seventeenth century almost to the present. Besides memb...

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Additional letters and papers of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross. Co. Cork

Pearson Family

1883-1993

These additional letters and papers were most kindly deposited in the Brotherton Library by Mrs S Laville of West Malvern in January 1993, in continuation of her previous deposit made in 1989 (MS Dep....

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Further letters and papers of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross, Co. Cork

Pearson Family

1812-1926

These further letters and papers concern wider branches of Mrs S. Laville's extensive family in the nineteenth century, namely, the Clarges and the Hawkes. Also additional document found in 2021 when...

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Drama

1971-2003

This sub-fonds contains material related to dramatic works written by Kevin Crossley-Holland's.

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PLATTS Collection

1900, 1931, 1960s-1980s

Photographs and negatives of coronation mug, 1896, /1-3/, Modern prints and negatives of photographs of Russian Imperial study? by Rentz & Schreider, 1900 /4-8/, Modern prints and negatives of photogr...

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LUHRS Collection

[1910s], 1986, 1991

Luhrs family-history notes /1/. Modern print of photograph of Luhrs family house, Archangel /2/. Photocopy of letter from Lev Leibson, St Petersburg, to Eugenie Fraser, Edinburgh (1991) /3/.

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MARSHALL, Annie

[1902-1903], 1983-1986

Photocopies of letters from Annie Marshall, Bogorodskii (i.e. Bogorodskoe, near Moscow?) to Eliza Donkersley, England (7, 1902- 1903) /1-7/. "Old West Riding", vol 3, no 1 (Spring 1983) (contains publ...

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TALBOT RICE, Tamara Borisovna (née ABEL'SON; 1904-1993)

1897-1996, nd

T B Abel'son and Abel'son family: Zhenskaia gimnaziia Kniaginy Obolenskoi, Moscow: class V entry requirements, geometry syllabus, timetable, 1916-1918 /1-4/; Vserossiiskii Soiuz Gorodov, Otdel o voenn...

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RICHES, Frank (1859-1932)

1917, 1986

Photocopies of letters from Frank Riches in Petrograd to Dora Riches (née Bucknall) in Manchester (3, 1917) /1-3/. Notes on 1-3 by Violet Whitehead /4/.

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SHEPPARD Collection

[1960s]

Photocopies of: [?] Blampied "'HMS Nairana': North Russian Expedition, 1919" /1/; [?] "Sergeant Don Kelly RFC/RAF" /2/; correspondence between Leslie H Kemp and Air Vice Marshal Raymond Collishaw (3, ...

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ADDISON (nee Hill), Lucy (1861-1946)

1890s, 1939-1946, 1971-1985

Photocopies of transcribed letters from Lucy Addison to Rhona Chave (1939-1946) (see 9) /1/. Copy letters from Harvey Pitcher to: Toby Roxburgh (1984) /2/, Rhona Chave (1985) /3/. Notes by Harvey Pitc...

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