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Total number of records: 50

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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive25
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection13
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture12
Brotherton Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
health50
letter writing28
well-being12
culture11
family11
community life10
english language - dialects9
occupations7
food6
manners and customs6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom37
Leeds, United Kingdom4
Genoa, Italy3
Rome, Italy2
Burley In Wharfdale, United Kingdom1
Croagnes, France1
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
London, United Kindom1
Newick, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette3
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Houck, Charles L2
Hunt, James Henry Leigh2
Lamb, Charles2
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)2
Savage, Priscilla (1881-1881)2
Aldous, Leonard1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Clarke, Charles Cowden1

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From 17001
From 180012
From 190037

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189911
Up to 199939

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Essex, Middlesex and London Responses: Book VI

[1960s]

Collated responses from locations in Essex, Middlesex and London to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Questionnaire Book VI: The Human Body.

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Essex, Middlesex and London Responses: Book IX

[1960s]

Collated responses from locations in Essex, Middlesex and London to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Questionnaire Book IX: States, Actions, Relations.

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Medical note on fitness for fire duties

12 Dec 1941

Handwritten note by a medical doctor of 99 Harley Street, London, dated 12 December 1941, based on an examination on 5 September 1941, noting that Maurice de Sausmarez was suffering from cardiac valvu...

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Rosamund Henriques to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez

1963-1967

Two letters from Rosamund Henriques to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez, the handwritten letter expresses regret at not being able to accept an invitation to visit them in London and hoping to meet them ...

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Letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to the County Medical Officer

8 Oct 1958

Typed copy of a letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to the County Medical Officer of Middlesex County Council, providing further details of the heart condition caused by childhood rheumatic fever and the...

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Report on Mr. de Sausmarez

8 Sep 1941

Typewritten report by a medical doctor of 99 Harley Street, London, dated 8 September 1941, based on an examination on 5 September 1941, noting that Maurice de Sausmarez was suffering from cardiac val...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

22 February 1980

Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...

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Solicitors' letter and draft divorce petition

5 May 1961

Typed letter from Wray, Smith & Co. solicitors to Maurice de Sausmarez, discussing the legal proceedings against his wife Kate de Sausmarez (née Lyons) for a divorce on the grounds of desertion. The ...

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Lamb, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1821-1834

Ten letters from Charles Lamb to Charles Cowden Clarke. All except the letter of 15 May 1829 are copies in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, with a memorandum detailing to whom the original letters had been ...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1840-1856

Fifteen handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, dating from 20 February 1840 to 14 October [1856], with ten undated. The letter of 2 October 1856 is a copy in Mary Cowden C...

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Snuff

1961-1973

This file contains items on snuff, snuff production and the taking of snuff, including a photocopy of 'Snuff and the Story of Snuff-Taking' (Sheffield: J. & H. Wilson Ltd, [undated]); a photocopy of a...

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Maurice de Sausmarez to David Herbert

9 Sep 1969

Copy of a typewritten letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to David Herbert, publishing Director at Studio Vista, expressing his relief about Herbert's positive reaction to the manuscript for his monograp...

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