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Total number of records: 28

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Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)2
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)1
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Barker, George (1913-1991)1
Constable, Archibald1
Cox, Ernest Gordon1
Darwin, Erasmus1
Haffenden, John1
Halifax, Charles Lindley Wood (1839-1934)1
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (1881-1959)1

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Archive File

BLELLOCH, DAVID HABERSHON HAMILTON

1914-1921

Letter from Sidney Ball, Senior Tutor at St. John's College, Oxford, testifying to sincerity of Blelloch's Conscientious Objection (3 Mar 1916); Letter from Maurice B Redcott, St. John's College, Oxfo...

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MAIRIS, Edward (-1958)

1916

Photocopies of: cutting from "The Times", 20 June 1916, about arrival of Royal Naval Service armoured car unit in Russia /1/; letters from Sonny Howe, Petrograd, to Edward Mairis, Archangel (2, 1916) ...

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Member of Ambulance unit
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BOLTON, DOUGLAS JOSEPH

1914-1917

Statements, official and private correspondence, certificates, memoranda, court-martial papers; Prison papers & ephemera (including prison badge, improvised knife (made from spine of document binder),...

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Correspondence with and about the Boehm family

1930-1979

This file contains letters from Daisy Boehm to Simpson. It also includes letters from her son Klaus Boehm to Simpson. There is some correspondence between the Friends Committee for Refugees and Alie...

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Archive Print Item

Correspondence, memoranda and other papers of the Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, 1933-1940

Jones, John Harry (1881-1973); Leeds Academic Assistance Committee

1933-1940

Leeds Academic Assistance Committee was founded in 1933 by John Harry Jones, Professor of Economics, and others, to collect funds for the support of academic refugees from Nazi Germany. The Committee ...

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Collection of autographs of, and signed letters from, miscellaneous prominent Victorian people.

c.1844-1885

The volume comprises autographs of, and signed letters from, about 115 different prominent people in the Victorian xage between about 1844 and 1885, beginning with Queen Victoria and ending with Elih...

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Arnold Wesker, autograph typescript and manuscript drafts of contribution to a composite play entitled 'Consequences', with related correspondence between him and Simon Reade.

Wesker, Arnold

1990-1991

Comprises eighteen items related to the Gate Theatre Club's conception of a play to raise funds to found an International Script Unit, for which major playwrights were asked to write a short scene, in...

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Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, correspondence, memoranda and other papers, 1933-1940

1933-1940

These papers were discovered in a cupboard in the School of Economic Studies and were presented to the Library through the good offices of Professor J R Crossley, in December 1976. The Leeds Academic...

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LONGMUIR, JOHN BOGIE

1914-1920

Notice to join Terriotorial Force (4 Aug 1914); Typescript unit diary, May-Sep 1915 (nd); 5 photographs [1918]; Letter to Mrs Longmuir from the War Office (30 Apr 1918); Service Record book (1917-1918...

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Christina Rossetti to Frederic Shields

8 Sep 1884

Letter 1248 Christina Rossetti toFrederic Shields, 8 September 1884 6 5 Station Road Birchington-on-sea. Monday. [?8 September 1884] Dear Mr Shields I return with many thanks th...

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Archive Item

Correspondence of Archibald Constable, with some related material.

Constable, Archibald

c.1788-1827

Comprises over 400 autograph letters written by or to Archibald Constable between 1788 and 1827, together with some related documents, historical, and literary pieces, including (in manuscript) a vers...

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