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Brotherton Collection10
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Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)4
Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869)2
Alfred Richard Orage1
Atkinson, Annie1
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)1
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)1
Bodger, John Eric Sturton1
Edmondson, Jacob1
Gent, Thomas1
Godwin, John Venimore1

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Archive Collection

Barbara Taylor Bradford Archive

Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)

c.1940-2019

Includes typecript copies of her novels, some with manuscript annotations, printers' proofs, published novels, press cuttings and magazines featuring articles about Taylor Bradford, papers relating to...

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Literary papers

Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)

2016

This series is a separate accrual. Comprises author's original copy of a draft manuscript of 'The Cavendon Luck', a copy of the manuscript with the author's handwritten notes and a proof copy from th...

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Literary papers

Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)

2017

This series includes a typescript draft of the fourth book in the Cavendon series, entitled 'Secrets of Cavendon', with manuscript annotations by the author. It also contains page proofs for 'Secrets...

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Literary papers

Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)

2019

This series includes a typescript draft of 'Master of His Fate', with manuscript annotations by the author. This was the first in the 'House of the Falconer' seequence of historical novels.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 28.04.1879

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated Tuesday. Date as postmark. DGR hopes TWD will be able to visit tomorrow and discuss matters. He reports [Frederic James] Shields is unable to come following the de...

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Transcripts of a collection of 52 autograph letters from Miss Ellen Nussey to Mrs Annie Atkinson.

Nussey, Ellen (1817-1897)

c.1893-1897

Comprises transcriptions of a collection of 52 autograph letters from Miss Ellen Nussey to Mrs Annie Atkinson between 22 March 1893 and 4 October 1897, including 18 letters undated and a brief list of...

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Isaac Holden and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Isaac Holden and Sons Limited; Holden, Sir Isaac (1807-1897)

c.1830-1910

Summary of Contents by Box No. I. Papers referring to patents and other business affairs. 1830s-50s. II. Journals and notebooks. 1844-88. III. Newspaper cuttings, parliamentary bills, addr...

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Yorkshire Association of Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers, correspondence together with some related documents, 1914-1915

Bodger, John Eric Sturton

1914-1915

This manuscript collection comprises official correspondence to and from John Eric Sturton Bodger whilst honorary secretary of the Yorkshire Association of Students of the Institution of Civil Enginee...

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Collection of letters and notes relating to Eugene Aram, chiefly by Norrison Cavendish Scatcherd, together with a manuscript poem on the life and death of Eugene Aram by Thomas Gent.

Scatcherd, Norrison Cavendish

1759-1873

Comprises: (1) 12 autograph letters from Norrison Scatcherd to Jacob Edmondson between 27 May 1834 and 10 October 1838; 1 letter from Jacob Wood to J.S. Edmondson dated 26 February 1836; 1 letter from...

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John Foster and Son, Business Archive

John Foster and Son

c.1820-1950

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Black Dyke ...

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THORNTON Collection

1829-2016

[BOX 1] Photocopies of: Thornton family letters (22, 1829, 1867-68, 1892, 1907) /1-22/; English newspaper cuttings about Thornton Mill, 1905-1907 /23/; Nellie Thornton "An English Woman's Experiences ...

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Archive File

FALK, EDWARD MORRIS

1914-1918

2 photographs (nd); Typescript recollections (1920); Photostat letter from the Junior Army and Navy Club (nd); Photostat obituary, with service career (nd).

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