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Total number of records: 56

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Archives54
Books and printed items2

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Brotherton Collection32
English Literature12
Leeds Russian Archive7
Liddle Collection6
Herbert Read Collection2
Medical Collections2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Business Archives1
Quaker Collection1

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letters56
portraits, british8
photographs7
world war, 1914-19187
poets, english6
pre-raphaelites6
autographs5
diaries5
british4
english poetry4

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Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)2
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)2
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)2
1st Earl of Minto1
Anstruther, Mary Frances1
Ashburton Family1
Ashburton, Louisa Caroline1
Bannister, John (1760-1836)1
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)1
Baron Brotherton1

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Up to latest3

Archive File

LINDSAY, LADY KATHLEEN

1878-1921, 1929, 1949-1953

63 manuscript letters and postcards to and from Lady Kathleen Lindsay and her family (28 June 1878-26 Sep 1921, 5-17 Feb 1949, nd); Press cuttings (28 Dec 1914, 11 Nov 1918, nd); Papers and correspond...

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NAPIER, LADY MABEL

1914-1920

Manuscript letter to her sons, Joseph and Charles, who were at Neuchatel, Switzerland, at the outbreak of the First World War (23 Aug 1914); 5 manuscript letters to JWL Napier (son) (8 Aug-31 Oct 1918...

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PAGET, Lady Muriel (née Finch-Hatton) (1876-1938)

1872-1981

[BOXES A-H] Letters from Lady Muriel Paget to Richard Arthur S Paget (also Alice [?], A Anderson, W Dobson Bainbridge, [?] Buchan, P Burne-Jones, C Chancellor, [?] Choats, Clifford-Turner & Co, Q Dobb...

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Autograph poems of Lady Caroline Lamb, together with a letter from her.

Lamb, Caroline

c.1825

Comprises 1 unsigned letter from Lady Caroline Lamb to Mr Wilmington Flemming undated, and 5 manuscript poems by her, 4 in English and 1 in French, including 4 drawings.

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Material relating to Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, with a letter to his wife, Lady Augusta Stanley.

c.1874-1893

Comprises 1 letter from a friend, whose name is erased, to Lady Augusta Stanley, incompletely dated 22 November but possibly written about the time of the marriage in Russia of the Duke of Edinburgh a...

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Isabella Augusta Gregory, original autograph manuscript of 'The golden apple', with related correspondence with Lord Brotherton.

Gregory, Lady

1913-1928

Comprises 2 notebooks containing the original autograph manuscript of Lady Gregory's play 'The golden apple', dated 1913, together with correspondence between Lord Brotherton and Lady Gregory concerni...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Michael Rossetti

c.30 Oct 1857

'Dear W./I have written to Marshall & to Lady Trevelyan on Hogg's behalf...'

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Francis Hueffer

c. Jan 11 1873

'Dear H/Only Brown & Lucy went there. I don't know whether tonight will be fixed for going to the old lady's...'

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Correspondence M

1965-1994

The folder includes correspondence with Elizabeth Mason, Désirée MacEwan, Lady May Mellanby, Sybil Merrick, Nevill Mott and Jessie Murray.

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Letters from members of the Ashburton family, with related material.

Ashburton family

c.1847-1887

Comprises 3 autograph letters from Lady Ashburton to Jabez Hogg, one with a separately-mounted stamped-addressed envelope, 1 autograph letter from Lady Anstruther to an unknown male recipient, 1 autog...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 08.06.1879

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated Sunday. Request to dine. DGR seeks WD advice on a letter draft, thoughts of [W.A.?] Turner and hopes to speed sales. Wants to invite Fry to see the Lady of the Win...

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BOSWELL, DENIS ST GEORGE KNOX

1906-1918

Large photograph album, with press cuttings and maps (1908-1918); Scrapbook of school reports and games results, college papers, telegrams, cards and press cuttings (1906-1922); Photocopied letters, m...

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