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Total number of records: 96

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items62
Archives34

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection59
Herbert Read Collection5
Liddle Collection3
English Literature2
Leeds Russian Archive2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
autographs96
letters25
manuscripts21
portraits, british13
diplomatics7
manuscripts, english7
photographs5
incunabula4
rare books4
auction catalogs3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain17
France8
America2
Argentina1
Latin America1
Russia1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Morrison, Alfred (1821-1897)13
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt13
Blessington, Marguerite7
Blessington, Marguerite Countess of (1789-1849)7
Bulstrode, Richard7
Bulstrode, Sir Richard (1610-1711)7
Great Britain7
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey7
Great Britain. Public Record Office7
Hamilton, Emma7

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From 16002
From 17002
From 180060
From 190032

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 189962
Up to 199933

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SMITH, THOMAS

1915-1918

1 sheet of autographs (nd); typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (Tape 25, 1972); photocopied transcript (nd).

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Autographs collected by Frances Asyth Robinson

Robinson, Frances Asyth

1859-c.1877

Contains autographs cut out from other sources

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Autographs collected by Charles Thomas Whitmell

Whitmell, Charles Thomas (1849-1919)

1866-1893

Includes index of names on pp.1-3.

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Album presented to Hannah Thurnam

Thurnam, Hannah

1841-1845

Contains a collection of drawings, paintings, and verses, inscribed with signatures and dates, by friends of Hannah Thurnam

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Autograph album, compiled by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

c.1878-1900

Contains a collection of signatures of well-known musicians and conductors, letters, postcards, festival-tickets, and a portrait, mounted on separate sheets, with pencil notes by Herbert Thompson iden...

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Illuminated address presented to Miss Fanny Passavant on the occasion of her retirement from the University Library, Leeds, 1919

Passavant, Fanny

1919

Contains signatures of members of the staff of the University. Two alternative versions of the address are included.

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Address to Arnold Lupton, Esq., instructor in coal mining in the Yorkshire College, Leeds, from members of the Yorkshire College, November, 1883, with the signatures of the members

1883

The large envelope contains: (1) A certificate awarded to Arnold Lupton (with a silver medal) by the Order of St John of Jerusalem, for the rescue of two persons after an explosion at Wharncliffe Coll...

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Address to John Montague Spencer Stanhope on his coming of age, December 31st 1881

1881

Contains an illuminated address to J.M. Spencer Stanhope from the tenants on his father's estates of Horsforth and Thornton, to accompany the presentation of a chased silver bowl. With signatures of t...

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Autographs of royal, noble, learned, and remarkable personages conspicuous in English history, from the reign of Richard the Second to that of Charles the Second : with some illustrious foreigners; containing many passages from important letters

Nichols, John Gough (1806-1873); Smith, Charles John (1803-1838); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts

1829

"The originals of the present series are mostly the property of the British nation, preserved in its metropolitan Museum."--Pref., p. xiii.

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