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Total number of records: 2061

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Books and printed items1683
Archives351
Indexes24
Textiles2
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection588
English Literature184
Quaker Collection169
Ripon Cathedral140
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections102
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society101
University Archive73
Leeds Russian Archive54
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society40
Liddle Collection31

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manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts.50
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.46
world war, 1914-191840
churches, quaker34
russians22
socialism22
letters21
piyutim -- texts.21
manuscripts, hebrew -- 19th century -- texts.19
operas17

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Scandinavia13
Verona (Italy)11
Provence (France)8
Germany7
London (England)7
Ancona (Italy)6

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Society of Friends170
Burrough, Edward (1634-1662)50
Church of England48
Balzac, Honore De (1799-1850)40
Saintsbury, George (1845-1933)40
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)31
Great Britain. Parliament24
Howgill, Francis (1618-1669)24
Great Britain23
Catholic Church20

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M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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Guo li Beijing da xue guo xue ji kan

Guo xue ji kan bian ji wei yuan hui

1:1-4(1923)

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Sender: Vale, Hazel (nee Lewis)

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 Dec 1958

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C5

Note: Informing of the birth of A.R.'s great-granddaughter on 10 December 1958. Sender is A.R.'s granddaughter.

Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Other Units

O.Lyle (GS) Letter p10 - R.E., Artillery, R.F.C., A.S.C.

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Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Stokes, Richard Rapier

Letters: 4

Date(s): 27 Feb 1941; 10 Dec 1946; 30 May 1950; 20 Oct 1954

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Attached to 10 Dec 1946 is a TS of A.R.'s views on the "Misuse of Wireless".

Sender: Gnosspelius, Janet B.

Recipient: Ransome, Evgenia

Letters: 10

Date(s): 31 Aug 1967 - 5 Jan 1971; 1 n.d. [c. 1962/3]

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C11

Note: With letter 10 Sep 1987 is "rough draft" of A.R.'s about the origins of "Swallows and Amazons".

Anthraquinone Blue S R in paste on loose wool, slubbing and worsted yarn [dyeing samples]
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Anthraquinone Blue S R in paste on loose wool, slubbing and worsted yarn [dyeing samples]

Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik A.G. (1865-)

mid 19th-mid 20th Century

This folded booklet shows examples dyed with Anthraquinone Blue S R. The examples show dyes with three different percentages: 2.5%, 5%, and 10% of Anthraquinone Blue S R paste on loose wool, slubbing...

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Category: Hospitals - War (BEF Hospitals in France mainly)

R.S.Forbes (GS) Letter 1.10.16. Canadian Hospitals have

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Sender: Ransome, Gordon

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 23 May 1949

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2; with Graham-Vivian correspondence

Note: A.R.'s draft reply on reverse, 10 June 1949. Enclosing duplicated letter from the Harveian Librarian, Royal College of Physicians.


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On the language of the Gypsies of Qainat (in Eastern Persia)

Ivanow, Wladimir

1914

Offprint from the'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal' n.s. vol. 10, no. 11 (December 1914).

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