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Beckwith, Frank5
Hamburger, Michael5
Gosse, Edmund2
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-19682
Ward, John Towers2
Bindman, David1
Brauner, Bohuslav1
Carpenter, Edward1
Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, 1st Marquess of Crewe1
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Sender: Twistleton, Thomas, 13th Baron Saye and Sele, d. 1788

Recipient: Townshend, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney

Letters: 1

Date(s): 27 Feb 1784

Location: BC Sydney/Townshend: File H28


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Sender: Sheriff of Yorkshire

Recipient: Scathord & Halton, William

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Apr 1782

Location: SC MS 283: Leeds White Cloth Hall Collection: envelope C 9

Note: Draft of notice to levy ?28.3.11d of the goods of Thomas Brooke, being damages awarded to John Wheatley et al.; this sum to be paid to Wheatley in court on 13 May. Recipient are bailiffs.


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Terry, Fred to Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905

Terry, Fred

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Letter beginning "When in Monte Carlo ... " (n.d.) encloses a Constitutional Club card from Mr R.E. Villiers written to Henry Irving. Letter beginning "I fear that all sests ... " (n.d.) encloses a t...

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Gawsworth, John to Gardiner, Charles Wrey

Gawsworth, John

19 December 1961 - 29 January 1967, 2 n.d.

15 letters, 14 of which are extant in two versions, the corresponding letters being held in 'The Reluctant Landlord' 1-3 (a large collection of letters between Gawsworth and Gardiner, with other mater...

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Rawson, Nicholas to Hamburger, Michael

Rawson, Nicholas

30 April 1975 - 20 March 1994

4 n.d. Includes: 1) Copy of letter from Rawson to Samuel Beckett, 13 July 1976. In letter of 13 July 1976. 2) Copy of draft letter from Rawson to Karl Ruhrberg, 28 July 1976. In letter 13 August 1...

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Sender: Fairfax-Blakeborough, John

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 2

Date(s): 30 Jun 1954; 7 Jul 1954

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Low House, Westerdale, Castleton, Yorks. pp.4, 25*20cm. About Thomas Baker, Gypsy, The first letter is preceded by a postcard from Roy Coverdale to Mrs Phillips, 29 June 1954, from the Post Office, Kirbymoorside. The second has enclosures: letter from Thomas Baker to Fairfax-Blakeborough, 29 November 1952, pp.6, 18*13cm.; manuscript poem by Baker "A vagabond's life", with corrections by Fairfax-Blakeborough, f.1, typed 224*174mm.; covering note by Fairfax-Blakeborough, 6 July 1954, typed and signed; "Yarm fair and The Gypsy, two poems", by Harold Taylor, pp.4, 13*11cm., Middlesbrough, n.d. Also "Appleby fair", a poem by Harold Taylor, p.1, 25*11cm., June 1954, signed and dated 25 February 1955 with his covering letter [to Fairfax-Blakeborough], from 23 Grange Road, Middlesbrough, pp.2, 23*18cm.


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Rudolf, Tony to Hamburger, Michael

Rudolf, Tony

6 Jan. 1969 - 13 Nov. 1991; 17 n.d.

Dated from postmarks. 7 written on Menard Press cards, nearly all of which bear printed poems or quotes from various authors, including several written or translated by Rudolf. 8 other Menard Press ca...

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Sender: Scott, Sir Walter

Recipient: Southey, Robert

Letters: 4

Date(s): 10 Sep [1809?] - 2 May 1817

Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT

Note: 1) Met old follower of Rob Roy by Loch Lomond; encloses [missing] note from George Ellis; political shibboleths are for knaves and fools, and Ellis and Canning should know Southey's views (a pension for Southey is in view); plans for the Morte d'Arthur; Southey's missionary article; Spain. Lord Valenica, Bruce; article on Miss Edgeworth. 2) Introduces the younger Ballantyne; plan of a "British Librarian"; offer to accompany Southey to Edinburgh; Wordsworth. 3) Commends family of Henry Mackenzie, author, visiting the Lakes; Wordsworth's "Excursion" and "White Doe"; the Duc d'Enghien and Captain Wright. 4) In 2 pieces (6 pages). Apologies for not writing; sympathy over Waterloo pilgrimage; has been ill and suffered severe treatment; Southey's controversy with William Smith; Smith's character; thanks for continuation of history of Brazil; work for the poor; Scott of Lincton; impoverished versifier; Gilmour's play is unlikely to get acted; Duke of Buccleuch also anit-Smith. Forwarded (by
N.L. Lockhart ?) from Keswick to 15 Queen Ann Street, Cavendish Square, London. Postmarked 7 May. The original letters (1-3) with typescript copies, bound in the above order preceded by Southey portrait "London, bei Black & Armstrong" after Finden. Letter 4 with seal, loose in envelope. Letters published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).

Sender: Gosse, Edmund

Recipient: Dobson, Henry Austin

Letters: 237

Date(s): 26 Aug 1874 - 23 Apr 1920; 58 n.d.

Location: BC Gosse correspondence.

Note: Letter of 26 March 1879, and one undated letter are incomplete. Letter of 16 September 1917 is torn. The letter of 8 December 1897, and an attached letter, undated, but probably written a few days later, concern a poem by Dobson beginning "Who Can Dwell With Greatness?", a copy of which in Sir Edmund Gosse's handwriting is attached. Letter of [November 1906?]: enclosed is a letter from Dobson to Gosse dated 13 November 1906 and an undated draft of a letter from Dobson to "Dear Lady D." [Lady

Dorothy Nevill]. Letter of 5 April 1907: enclosed is Dobson's reply, dated the same day. Letter of 30 March 1920: attached is a letter from the Clerk of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, E.M. Serin, to Dobson dated 26 March 1920. Letter of 23 April 1920: enclosed is the rough draft of Dobson's reply of the same date in Mrs Dobson's hand, but signed by Dobson. Of the undated letters, three are written on the same sheet as the letters to which they are replies. Not in printed catalogue.

Sender: Ward, John Towers

Recipient: Beckwith, Frank

Letters: 25

Date(s): 18 Jun 1955 - 19 Nov 1963

Location: SC 622/562, 570, 571, 699, 700, 703, 726, 729, 731, 735, 741,

751, 783, 785, 814, 815, 817, 838, 839, 840, 843, 848, 852, 876,

880

Note: 1) His research. Post-card. 2) Books from the Leeds Library. 3)

A bibliographical reference. 4) Seeks information on William Aldam, M.P. for Leeds, 1841-7. 5) Miscellaneous points on books

and authorship. TS. 6) Miscellaneous; Professor Turberville's papers. TS. 7) His research and other matters. TS. 8) Requests FB's criticism of his essay on Sadler. TS. 9) His essay on Sadler;

Robert Baker, Matthew Balme and Factory Inspectorate; history of

the working class; opinion of G.D.H Cole. 10) Suggested ammendments to his essay on Sadler; rejection of his paper on Aldam by Thoresby Society; G.D.H Cole. TS 11) Forwarding a paper on Stephens. 12) Forwarding papers; dates in Leeds. 13) Sending an offprint. 14) Miscellaneous; 19c Leeds Liberals; his research.

TS. 15) His research; book on the factory movement accepted by

Macmillans. 16) Leeds and the factory movement; his book; teaching and research. TS. 17) G. Kitson Clark; offprints; research on Norfolk MSS. at Sheffield; appointments to York University. TS. 18) Forwarding an offprint on William Aldam; progress with his book. 19) FB's corrections to proofs of his book on the factory movement. 20) Thanks for further corrections; reflections on writing his book. TS. 21) Index to his book; reviews of it. 22) Forwarding a paper; application to University of York. 23) His reviews; comments on E.P. Thompson; application to York University. TS. 24) Forwarding an offprint; his removal to the University of Strathclyde. 25) Enclosing an offprint; his latest project. TS.

Sender: Brauner, Bohuslav

Recipient: Smithells, Arthur

Letters: 14

Date(s): 13 Aug 1888 - 11 Jul 1930; 1 n.d.

Location: SC MS 416/29, 36, 233, 243, 292, 324, 333-337, 339, 350, 406

Note: 1) Not attending British Association at Bath; visit of Professor

Carrington Bolton to him at Prague; work of F.W. Ostwald, D.I.

Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer; physics and chemistry; his own work and holiday in Bohemia. MS. 4 ff. 2) Regrets that AS did not attend his lecture at Chemical Society in London; encourages AS in his work. MS. 2 ff. 3) Personal; German and English education; possibility of meeting at St Andrew's; research on flame; nature of elements. MS. 2 ff. 4) Seeks AS's criticism of a communication he sent to the Editor of "Nature"; requests advice on a suitable text for lectures on physical chemistry. MS. 2 ff. 5) Cost of postage and reflections on late war; work on isotopes and two letters to "Nature"; personal and family affairs. MS. 2 ff. 6) Appreciation of T.E. Thorpe; personal news. MS. Post-script dated 23 March 1925. 7) Personal news; encloses an article for "Nature", criticising H.B. Baker and H.T. Riley on the atomic weight of Ag [cf. "Trans. Chem. Soc." (1926), p.2510], and asks AS to commend it to the Editor. MS. 8) Agrees to AS correcting the English of his paper
(cf. 333) and returning it for approval. MS. 2 ff. 9) Thanks AS for his corrections; has sent the paper to "Nature" with a suitable flattering letter. MS. 10) AS has been

understamping letters; begs AS to commend his paper to "Nature". MS. 11) Problem of atomic weights; recent advances in physics (A. Einstein and M. Planck); the Church and evolution; astronomy; his foreign friends. MS. 4 ff. 12) Encloses a note for "Nature"; requests AS to examine it and forward it. MS. 13) Reviews his work on atomic weights and valency; opinions of F.A. Kekule, A.W.H. Kolbe and E. Frankland; exchange of views with Sir Oliver Lodge in "Nature"; encloses two papers, one on D.I. Mendeleev. MS. 2 ff. 14) His journey to Russia to meet D.I. Mendeleev. MS. 2 ff. Latter part of letter; dated after 20 Sep 1883.