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Total number of records: 18

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Brotherton Collection12
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letters18
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Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)3
Knowles, James Sheridan (1784-1862)2
Anstruther, Mary Frances1
Ashburton Family1
Ashburton, Louisa Caroline1
Brame, Benjamin1
Brodie, Benjamin1
Grant, Arthur James (1862-1948)1
Haldimand, William1
Hogg, Jabez1

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William Michael Rossetti to John Lucas Tupper

Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)

c.25.09.1862

Two envelopes both addressed to J.L.Tupper in William Michael Rossetti's hand. One addressed to Portland Villa, with a postmark of 25.09.1862. The other addressed to Milton Cottage, South Lambeth.

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KING, Susan (née Johnson) (1837-1936)

1800s-1910s

Photocopies of: transcription of Susan King's diary of a visit to St Petersburg and Moscow with her uncle, Rev Robert Ingram, 1863 /1/; transcribed Ingram, Johnson and King family documents and letter...

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Letter from James Sheridan Knowles, with related material.

Knowles, James Sheridan (1784-1862)

1834-1862

Comprises 1 autograph letter from James Sheridan Knowles to his son 'Keily' undated, but probably in 1834 (with a transcript), 1 printed illustration of Knowles as 'Walter' in 'The Hunchback', and 1 o...

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William Michael Rossetti to Annie Tupper

Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)

09.08.1897

Autograph letter and envelope. Letter begins 'I dare say you remember that many months ago you sent me one of your own [illeg] transcripts.' WMR asks permission to reprint letters from [Dante] Gabri...

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William Michael Rossetti to Annie Tupper

Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)

15.08.1897

Autograph letter and envelope. Letter begins, 'Thank you for your very cordian assent to my request about your Husband's letter'. WMR explains that depending on the reception of his volume on the R...

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Letters from Sir Thomas Watson, with related material.

Watson, Thomas

1859-1882

Comprises 4 autograph letters from Sir Thomas Watson, 2 to Jabez Hogg dated 20 February 1879 and 21 March 1882, and 2 to an unnamed gentleman dated 20 January 1859 and 12 December 1862 (all with trans...

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Letters from members of the Ashburton family, with related material.

Ashburton family

c.1847-1887

Comprises 3 autograph letters from Lady Ashburton to Jabez Hogg, one with a separately-mounted stamped-addressed envelope, 1 autograph letter from Lady Anstruther to an unknown male recipient, 1 autog...

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Two letters from Sir Benjamin Brodie, with related material.

Brodie, Benjamin

1802-1898

Comprises 2 autograph letters from Brodie to Charles Taylor dated 2 April 1812 and to an unnamed recipient dated 21 October 1852 (with a transcript for the former), 1 autograph receipt from Thomas Bro...

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Holland family correspondence and related material

1838 - 1891

Includes genealogical notes on the Holland and Gaskell families, incl. an extract from the Manchester Guardian on Sir Henry Holland’s ancestry (1888), and a drawing of the coat of arms of Henry VI H...

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Correspondence and literary manuscripts of James Sheridan Knowles

Knowles, James Sheridan (1784-1862)

1825-1925

Comprises: Vol.1: A collection of autograph letters from James Sheridan Knowles to James Muspratt, with a letter from Lady Max Muspratt presenting the collection to Lord Brotherton, 18th April, 1831-1...

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Letter from John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer, with related Spencer family material.

Spencer, John Poyntz

1803-1882

Comprises 1 autograph letter from John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer, to Lady Bessborough, undated (with a transcript), 2 autographs of George John Spencer, Earl Spencer, dated 8 January 1816 and 5 Jun...

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BUTTERWORTH, WALTER

1914-1918

Press cutting and obituary (nd, Sep 1935); Typescript of 'Walter Butterworth: Man of Letters' by LM Angus-Butterworth, including letters sent from Ruhleben in 1916 (1977); Publication 'Walter Butterwo...

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