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Total number of records: 480

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Archives478
Books and printed items2

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Brotherton Collection423
English Literature387
Liddle Collection21
Leeds Russian Archive14
Leeds Poetry4
Quaker Collection2
Business Archives1

Top 10: Subject

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letters480
poets, english360
pre-raphaelites360
photographs31
world war, 1914-191821
portraits, british18
english poetry16
english fiction15
english literature11
english drama9

Top 10: People and organisations

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Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)26
Hogg, Jabez5
Berry, Francis2
Booth, William H2
Keeley, Robert2
Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)2
Knight, W F Jackson2
Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869)2
Torrens, William Torrens Mccullagh2

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From 190057
From 20007

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William Michael Rossetti to William Davis

06 Oct 1883

'Dear Mr Davis, I was extremeley obliged to you for those letters of my brother's'. WMR thanks him, but does not presently wish to publish Dante Gabriel Rossetti's letters.

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TOWNSEND, WILLIAM

1914-1916

2 letters from Townsend to his niece, Dorothy Mullinder (1914, 1916).

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William Empson

1958-1988

Letters from Empson to Berry mainly about departmental business and students in the Department of English Literature, University of Sheffield. Also includes a letter from a student asking for exam...

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BLAND, CHARLES WILLIAM

1917-1919

Separation Allowance and Allotment of Pay form (9 Feb 1917); Letter to Mrs Bland from Captain Borthwick, relating to her missing husband (23 Apr 1918); 5 letters, four with envelopes, from CW Bland to...

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DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS

1914-1920

Officer's record of services book (8 June 1919); Imperial Camel Corps Christmas card (Dec 1918); Imperial Camel Corps sports programme (23-24 Dec 1918); Imperial Camel Corps Old Comrades' Association ...

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MOORE, WILLIAM JOSEPH

1914-1921

Commission, with original envelope (13 May 1914); Memorandum (19 June 1919); Typescript dispersal draft list (nd); Army instructions (30 Nov 1917); Army instructions (27 Jan 1919, nd); 4 photographs (...

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WATSON, FRANK WILLIAM

1916-1919

2nd/1st London Field Ambulance shoulder flash (nd); Identity discs (nd); POW (Prisoner of War) camp coin (1916); 13 photographs (Feb 1917, nd); Parchim camp pass (nd); 5 postcards and two letters to h...

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WILLIAMS, ARTHUR JONES

Williams, Lieutenant Arthur Jones (1886-1917)

1904-1929

The first accrual comprises: correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the Williams' family history, and in particular to the service of John Williams who served on HMS Victory under Nelson...

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ROSE, WILLIAM K

1917-1921

Letter of reference and covering note relating to an application to join the Motor Machine Gun Service (25 Jan 1917); RFC (Royal Flying Corps) memorandum relating to training (nd); RFC (Royal Flying C...

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R. Vaughan Williams

1928-1950

Letters from Vaughan Williams to Berry thanking Berry for his Christmas card and for sending a poem and also asking if Berry's work "Murdock" was in any way influenced by Vaughan William's music.

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Photograph of Arthur Jones Williams
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Photograph of Arthur Jones Williams

c.1915

Framed photograph of Williams. The frame shows the insignia of the Welsh regiment.

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William Michael Rossetti correspondence

1843-1909

Letters written by William Michael Rossetti to various correspondents. Includes a significant series of letters addressed to John Lucas Tupper, and a further series to Annie Tupper.

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