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Total number of records: 48

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Liddle Collection25
Brotherton Collection19
English Literature13
Leeds Poetry4
Business Archives1
Leeds Russian Archive1

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diaries48
world war, 1914-191823
letters14
voyages and travels6
english literature5
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)3
art criticism2
conscientious objectors2
english drama2
photographs2

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Brown, Wayne2
Aptall, George1
Blythe, Ronald (1922-)1
Braine, John (1922-1986)1
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1
Dorothy Una Clough1
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips1
Dorothy Una Phillips1
Gibson, Elizabeth1
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962)1

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Archive Series

Literary and theatrical manuscripts of Cyril Maude

Maude, Cyril (1862-1951)

c.1882-1942

Comprises: Box 1: 27 vols of musical scores for performing 'She stoops to conquer'; 4 vols of stage instructions for performing 'Grumpy', 1 for each Act; 2 notebooks; 1 five year diary, 19-?. Box 2: T...

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John Braine manuscript and typescript drafts

1943-1985

(b) 22 boxes containing autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of his novels, stories, playscripts, articles, broadcasts, and poems. 'These golden days' (boxes 1-3), 'The two of us' (boxes 4-6)...

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Rayner Heppenstall, literary manuscripts, journals, press cuttings, and correspondence

Heppenstall, Rayner (1911-1981)

1933-1987

Comprises: (Box 1) 12 autograph manuscript diaries compiled by Rayner Heppenstall between 1969 and 1981; (Box 2) 6 scrapbook volumes of news cuttings compiled by him between 1947 and his death, includ...

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Correspondence and papers of Ralph Miliband

Miliband, Ralph; Liebman, Marcel

1940-2002

Ralph Miliband, the political scientist and socialist, was born in Belgium of Jewish parents on 7 January 1924. He and his father fled to London in 1940 as the German army was invading Belgium. Here h...

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JOHNS, N (NÉE LEESMITH)

1916

Manuscript diary (1916).

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FOISTER, JACK

1914-1919

Manuscript statement (nd); Press cutting from 'The Labour Leader', with photocopy (nd); Issue of 'The Tribunal', No. 15 (29 June 1916); Manuscript copy of diary, 1919 (nd); Manuscript recollections (n...

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MACINTYRE, ALISON (LATER SHEPPARD)

1915

Manuscript diary (9 Jan-31 Dec 1915).

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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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HUTCHINSON, GLADYS

1908-1928

Manuscript diary, with bound typescript copy (15 Jan 1908-16 Apr 1928).

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HAIGH, JOHN F

1918-1919

4 maps, three of which are of Baku (nd); Manuscript list of casualties (c 1918); Photocopied diary (Mar 1918-Mar 1919); 3 manuscript receipts (Jan-Feb 1919); Aquittance roll form (Feb 1919); c 100 mes...

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Ronald Blythe, pre-publication text of anthology 'Each returning day : the pleasure of diaries', with a related letter

Blythe, Ronald (1922-)

c.1989-1991

Comprises the complete pre-publication text of Ronald Blythe's anthology, here entitled 'Diaries: an exploration'. The accompanying autograph manuscript letter from Blythe is dated 25 March 1991, and...

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