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Total number of records: 257

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Brotherton Collection257
Medical Collections10
English Literature1
Leeds Poetry1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters155
portraits, british66
photographs48
autographs23
artists11
english poetry5
music4
theater programs4
engraving3
engraving, english3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)10
Keeley, Robert5
Melville, Robert Saunders-Dundas3
Osborne, Peregrine Hyde3
Booth, William H2
Brame, Benjamin2
Constable, Archibald2
Dundas, Henry 1st Viscount Melville2
Masson, David I2

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From 15002
From 16004
From 170018
From 1800225
From 19007

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Up to 16992
Up to 17996
Up to 1899227
Up to 199921

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Letters: Miscellaneous (Brotherton Collection)

c1565-1942

Letters and correspondence from a variety of people, including: Henry Acland; Sir George Airy; Sir Archibald Alison; Henry Allon; John Bannister; the Duke of Bedford; Sir Benjamin Brodie; Charles Butl...

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Pringle Album

c1824 - 1867

Letters received by Thomas Pringle, and, after his death Richard Hill. Letters principally relate to the Anti-Slavery Society.

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Transcripts of a collection of 52 autograph letters from Miss Ellen Nussey to Mrs Annie Atkinson.

Nussey, Ellen (1817-1897)

c.1893-1897

Comprises transcriptions of a collection of 52 autograph letters from Miss Ellen Nussey to Mrs Annie Atkinson between 22 March 1893 and 4 October 1897, including 18 letters undated and a brief list of...

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Correspondence of Butler Wood

Wood, Butler

1891-1942

Comprises 235 autograph letters from or to Butler Wood and his wife Elizabeth dated between 1891 and 1942.

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Letters from Henry George and other members of his family to Father Thomas Dawson and other recipients, with a plea for the formation of a league of nations.

George, Henry

1877-1901

Comprises 43 autograph manuscript or typescript letters, dated 10 February 1882-22 July 1901, chiefly from Henry George to Father Thomas Dawson, but also from his son, Henry George Junior, his wife, A...

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Letters of John Evelyn

Evelyn, John (1620-1706)

1687-1699

Contains: (1) A letter to Dr Robert Plot, dated 9 Dec [16]87; (2) A letter to Ralph Thoresby, the Leeds historian, dated 19 July [16]99

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Correspondence of Sir David Wilkie, with related material

Wilkie, Sir David (1785-1841)

c.1806-1849

Comprises a collection of Wilkie's correspondence with several persons, notably Thomas Macdonald, dated ca. 1806-1849, together with many engravings taken from original pictures painted by Wilkie, pri...

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Correspondence of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto, and Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.

Elliot Murray Kynynmound, Gilbert

1807-1812

Comprises correspondence between Minto and Dundas (73 letters, including 39 copy letters); two letters from Lady Minto to Dundas requesting information about her husband in India; a letter from Lord C...

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Correspondence and papers of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney.

Townshend, Thomas

1742-1838

Comprises letters from numerous correspondents sent to Viscount Sydney or his father, Thomas Townshend (1701-1780), concerning political affairs. Passport of John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney, gr...

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Miscellaneous correspondence from Alexandre Dumas junior to various recipients.

Dumas, Alexandre

1850-1883

A miscellaneous collection of 129 autograph letters and other documents, many with envelopes attached, sent from Alexandre Dumas junior to various correspondents between September 1850 and May 1883, a...

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