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Total number of records: 65

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Brotherton Collection29
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Leeds Russian Archive12
Liddle Collection9
Herbert Read Collection4
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Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
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Sotheby & Co. (London, England)4
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)2
Ross, Alan (1922-2001)2
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Baines Family1
Baines, Anita Florence Seed1
Baines, John Manwaring (1910-2002)1
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)1
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)1
Barker, Sebastian1

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Archive File

Letters, papers and catalogues relating to the Holden Library.

c.1933-1948

Comprises: (1) Correspondence relating to the rearrangement of the Holden Library in 1934 during Bishop Burroughs' time between H.G. Mulliner and Richard Offor; (2) Various copies of regulations for t...

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BC MS Lt q 40, f.3r: The opening of the Earl of Halifax's poem
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Commonplace book of Richard Bowater, containing English poems, a library catalogue, and business accounts and correspondence.

Bowater, Richard

1694-1725

Comprises: (1) Ff. 1v-2r: list of books in a library; (2) Ff. 3r-16v: 9 English poems, largely on affairs of state, including items by Halifax, Milbourne, Pope, and Bold, apparently in the hand of Ric...

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Catalogue of Americana, travel and atlases: printed books, autograph letters and drawings... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries ... : Day of sale: Monday, 13th April, 1964

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of Americana, travel and atlases: printed books, autograph letters and drawings comprising the property of the Library Company of Philadelphia.. the trustees of the late John C....

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Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters and historical documents... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1, on Monday, the 16th March, 1964

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters and historical documents, the property of... Baron Dimsdale ... John Maitland ... Robert Gathorne-Hardy ... Mrs. V.M. Richards ... t...

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Letters and papers of Russell Stanley Mortimer

Mortimer, Russell Stanley

1952-1955

Letters and papers relating to a survey of cataloguing practice in university libraries, in connection with a symposium organised by the School of Librarianship and Archives, University College, Londo...

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BROWN, THOMAS

Brown, Thomas B

nd

Photocopied papers, including letters to parents, relating to his internment as a POW (Prisoner of War), 1918 (nd).

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Francis Berry Correspondence

c1940 - 2006

A substantial series of letters addressed to Francis Berry with occasional copies of letters written by him in return. Letters are generally grouped by correspondent, with some letters filed togeth...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Michael Rossetti

c. 7 May 1880

'My dear Wm/I have here some twenty drawings by Blake of which you may like to take notes for your Catalogue on Monday...'

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Catalogue of valuable printed books, natural history, fine bindings, autograph letters and historical documents... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1, on Monday, the 10th February, 1964 and the following day

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of valuable printed books, natural history, fine bindings, autograph letters and historical documents, comprising the property of... the trustees of the 5th Earl of Ilchester's ...

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HORRIDGE, G B

Horridge, G B

1916-1917

5 manuscript letters to his mother (1 November 1916-3 July 1917, nd). The papers were placed in the Collection by G.B. Horridge in 1976.

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Catalogue of nineteenth-century & modern English & French literature, autograph letters & literary manuscripts : comprising first editions or presentation copies of Barrie... Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co.... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1, on Monday, the 11th May, 1964

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of nineteenth-century & modern English & French literature, autograph letters & literary manuscripts, comprising the property of... Philippa Strachey ... Margaret Sackville ... ...

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KENNEDY, Patrick Gilbert

Kennedy, Patrick Gilbert (1899-1977)

1917-1919

7 photographs with negatives (Sept 1917, nd); Field report book (nd); 2 'Soldiers' Own' diaries (1918, 1919); Address book with pen & ink silhouette drawings of battleships (nd); Officer's Record of S...

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