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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture22
Brotherton Collection3
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Leeds Russian Archive3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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manners and customs35
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Pickering, Michael J8
Brockett, John Trotter (1788-1842)3
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)3
Burnett, T A J (1937-)3
Burnett, T. A. J3
Currer Bell3
Dinan, Carolyn3
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)2
Mirabeau, Honore-Gabriel De Riqueti Comte De (1749-1791)2
Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel De Riqueti, Comte De, 1749-17912

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Archive File

The Calvert Manuscript

Calvert, George

[1960s-1970s]

Photocopy of a manuscript compiled by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside, and completed by his son, Alfred Calvert, for Sir Martin Stapleton. The original manuscript (dated 1823) consists of a collecti...

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The Fowler Manuscript

Fowler, Wilelmine M E

[1960s-1970s]

Bound photocopy of Wilelmine Fowler's manuscript, 'Yorkshire Sayings and Superstitions Collected in the Neighbourhood of Wakefield' ( ca. 1890s). Fowler intended the manuscript for publication in the ...

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The Greenwood Manuscript

Greenwood, Harry

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...

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The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers

1973-1974

This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...

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Russian stories : stories in the original Russian = Russkie rasskazy

Struve, Gleb (1898-1985); Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)

1961

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The life of Arseniev : youth

Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953); Struve, Gleb (1898-1985); Wachtel, Andrew

1994

English translation of books 1-4 published by Knopf in 1933 as The well of days. Book 5 never before published in English.

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Welsh folklore and folk-custom

Jones, T Gwynn (1871-1949)

1930

"List of works quoted or consulted": pages xv-xx.

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