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WILLIAM BRIGG MANUSCRIPTS
16th century-19th century
Comprising (a) Material for the history of the Brigg family including abstracts of wills. (b) Brigg wills proved in the Prerogative Courts of Canterbury, with index. (c and e) Index of Brigg wills fro...
WILLIAM BRIGG MANUSCRIPTS
16th century-19th century
Comprising (a) Correspondence (b) Card index to wills, mostly Yorkshire. (c) Notes on Brigg of Halifax, Brigg and Briggs of Sowerby, Shropshire, Norfolk, Westmorland and Sussex, Henry Brigg the mathm...
F A COLLINS MANUSCRIPTS
17th century-20th century
Comprising (a) Material for the history of Kirkburton including, Hearth Tax, 1666 and 1672-1674, Subsidy Rolls and genealogical notes on the families of Armitage, Booth, Brooke, Castle, Peace and Sav...
James Brown manuscripts and papers
Brown, James Clifford (1923-2004)
c.1933-2000
Comprises the manuscript notebooks, musical compositions, and associated printed works written and compiled by James Brown between the years 1933 and 2000, along with miscellaneous personalia and an a...
Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence
Brontë Family
1812-1925
A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...
Ripon Cathedral Manuscript Fragments
11th-15th century
This collection comprises 65 numbered medieval manuscript fragments, mostly on vellum but some on paper, many in several parts. The majority are loose and housed in boxes. Others remain in situ in the...
Evelyn Waugh, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of 'Vile Bodies', with related material.
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)
1912-1993
Comprises the following items: (1) Carbon typescript with autograph manuscript title-page of Volume 1 of 'The Pistol Troop magazine', compiled by Waugh when a child, 1912; (2) Mimeographed typescript ...
Arabic, Middle Eastern and Asian Manuscripts
500-2000
The Department of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies has deposited its collection of Middle Eastern and Asian manuscripts in Special Collections. There are over 370 manuscripts in primarily in...
WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: YORKSHIRE COLLECTIONS
1827
Comprising a small book lettered "Radcliffe, Yorkshire Collections". It contains a number of extracts from Dodsworth's mss, monumental inscriptions in Featherstone Church and extracts from the pari...
WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: FAMILY EVIDENCES
1807-1825
Comprising a book lettered "Radcliffe's family evidences". Principal contents include the following extracts, evidences at Kirklees Hall made in 1809, evidences of Joseph Armytage of Outwood Lodge, ...
Oscar Wilde, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of his play 'The Duchess of Padua', with some related material
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
1878-1895
Comprises the following items: (1) Autograph letter to Marian Willets [1878]; (2) Manuscript draft and notes for the original contract made by J.M. Stoddart, and Co. with Wilde for publishing Rennell ...
WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES VOLUME 1
1808-1825
Volume lettered "Geneal. Vari. R III"containing pedigrees. At page 165 of first volume and page 166 of the second volume are original letters from the Rev. Joseph Hunter. No index