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Total number of records: 13

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Leeds Russian Archive7
Brotherton Collection6
English Literature5
Leeds Poetry5

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autobiography13
british4
photographs3
russians3
bank notes1
books and reading1
conversation in literature1
correspondence1
english poetry 20th century history and criticism1
journalists1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)4
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn4
Hogg, Jabez1
Holdsworth, Samuel1
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)1

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From 18003
From 190010

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Up to 199910
Up to latest2

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THOMSON, William Montgomerie (1877-1963)

1924, 1997

Photocopy of W M ('Wiggy') Thomson "Trans-Caucasia, 1918-1919" (1924) /1/. Offprint of B Pearce publication of 1, "Revolutionary Russia" (London), vol 10, no 1 (1997) /2/.

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KENNETT (KRAMINSKII) Viktor Azar'evich (1894-1980)

1895-1920, [1970s]

V A Kraminskii's baptismal certificate, school and higher education, residence and travel documents /1-10/. A A Kraminskii's St Petersburg firm envelope /11/. Power of Attorney given to V A Kraminskii...

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SMITH, Henry (Harry) (1892-1981)

1970s-1980s

Harry Smith "The Smiths of Moscow" (included Nina Smith "Good-bye Moscow") /1/, "Moscow of the Smiths" /2/, "My Memories of Moscow and Murmansk" /3/, "Miscellaneous `Odds & Ends'" /4/. Contents list o...

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Mixed Prose and Criticism (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1959-1964

Annotated typescript draft translation of the Ungaretti poem 'Rivers;' typescript draft essay titled 'Journalists;' carbon copy typescript essay titled 'Readerships,' concerning audiences and the read...

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CARR, Edward Lambton (1903-2001)

1918-1919, 1992-1996

Photocopy of Edward Carr's interpreter's pass, 53rd Stationary Hospital, Archangel, 1918 /1/. Photographs of medical officers (FitzWilliams, Littlejohn, Ormerod, Vilgrain), 53rd Stationary Hospital, ...

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Letters from Samuel Holdsworth, with related material.

Holdsworth, Samuel

1859-1896

Comprises 4 autograph letters from Samuel Holdsworth to Jabez Hogg dated 11 July 1859, 18 August 1861, 24 April 1869, and 2 November 1885 (with transcripts), and 1 autobiographical retrospect by Dr Ho...

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Notebook 42

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

Notebook containing autobiographical prose and drafts of poems, as follows: - Autobiographical prose (fol. 1-2) - My wife has returned from Sweden... (untitled poem, fol. 3-4) - In a brown coat an...

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Notebook 50

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1976

Notebook containing drafts of poems, critical notes and fictionalized autobiographical prose: - Now that arth[r]itis conditions... (untitled poem, fol. 1) - Retired at Sixty - It was beginning tha...

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SHAFT Family

1910s-1920s, [1980s], 1993

Shaft family baptism and school certificates and passports, Moscow, 1833/1905, 1871/1884, 1888, 1902-1918 /1-7/. Savings book, receipts and financial documents, Moscow, 1910-1919 /8-20/. Tax documents...

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Notebook 51

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1951

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - Consciousness(fol. 1) - J.A.B(fol. 1) - Morning turns the event between subtle fingers (untitled poem, fol. 2) - His head rolled forward on hi...

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LIVEN (LIEVEN) Andrei Aleksandrovich (1884-1949)

[1810s]-2001, 2019-2022

A A Liven recollections of: "Stepan Stepanovich Strekalov" /1/; "Aleksandra Nikolaevna Strekalova" /2/; "Petr Alekseevich Vasil'chikov" /3/; ["Les Dessous de l'Histoire" /4/ (moved to 337 below)]; "Ig...

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FEN, Elisaveta (JACKSON, Lydia; née ZHIBURTOVICH, Lidiia Vital'evna) (1899-1983) (1)

1910-1984, 2012

[BOX 1] NOVELS, STORIES, POEMS (texts, books, journal issues, readers & "Prose Club" reports, blurbs, summaries, reviews, associated lists/papers): "Against the Tide" (1976) /1-5/; "All Thy Waves" (19...

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