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Total number of records: 10

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Archives8
Books and printed items2

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refugees, political10
letters6
refugees, jewish6
scholars, assistance to6
russians2
british1
disabled veterans1
displaced persons1
dissenters1
endowment of research1

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People and organisationsCount
Esther Sinovitch1
Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)1
Rossiiskoe Obshchestvo Krasnago Kresta1
Simpson, Dr Francis Vivian (1927-2014)1
Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)1
Zarubezhnyi Soi︠U︡Z Russkikh Voennykh Invalidov1

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From 19007

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Up to latest1

Archive Sub-collection

TYLER Collection

1917-1919, 1980s

Edith Watson (née Tyler) "Frederick Tyler (1873-1966): One of Nipper's Men" (includes large number of transcribed documents and letters reflecting Tyler family's sojourn in Georgia and Russia, 1909-...

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Archive File

National Art Collections' Fund

1959-1996

Simpson was a member of the Fund and supported it through deed of covenant.

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Archive Collection

Esther Simpson correspondence and papers

Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)

1918-1997

This collection reflects Esther Simpson's work on behalf of refugee scholars over the course of fifty years. It also documents the many friendships and contacts she developed. The main collection (i...

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Archive File

Membership cards

1952-1995

The file contains Simpson's membership cards of organisations such as Hampstead Music Club, National Art-Collection Fund, the Friends of The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the International Voluntary S...

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Leeds Academic Assistance Committee (Additional Papers)

1933-1940

Comprises a minute book, bank statements, cheque books, a card index file, and the Society's fourth report, November 1938.

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Archive Print Item

Zarubezhnyĭ soi︠u︡z russkikh voennykh invalidov

Zarubezhnyĭ soi︠u︡z russkikh voennykh invalidov

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Archive File

Christmas and birthday cards

1968-1994

The file contains greetings cards addressed to Esther Simpson. These include traditional Christmas cards and postcards which have been used for seasonal greetings.

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Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, correspondence, memoranda and other papers, 1933-1940

1933-1940

These papers were discovered in a cupboard in the School of Economic Studies and were presented to the Library through the good offices of Professor J R Crossley, in December 1976. The Leeds Academic...

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BOKOV, Nikolai Konstantinovich (1945-2019)

1899-2019

N K Bokov: letter to V F Bokova (1953) /1/; "Kharakteristika uchenika [...] Bokova Nikolaia", 1953 /2/; school exercise books, Moscow, 1957 /3-4/; photocopies of KGB documents, Moscow, 1974 /5-7/; cop...

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