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Total number of records: 215

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Archives207
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Liddle Collection66
Brotherton Collection56
English Literature24
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection20
Leeds Russian Archive19
Leeds Poetry13
Business Archives9
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive5
Medical Collections1
Quaker Collection1

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diaries215
world war, 1914-191862
letters30
travel22
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british11
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textile industry10
business records8
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Vienna, Austria10
Salzburg, Austria7
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Boulogne, France1
Chalons-Sur-Marne, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Crossley-Holland, Kevin5
Brown, Wayne4
Bufton, Joseph3
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)3
Hodgson, John Crawford2
Surtees Society2
Aptall, George1
Askren, Thomas1
Baillie, Sir James Black (1872-1940)1
Baines, John Manwaring (1910-2002)1

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Archive Collection

Shirley Brooks, diaries

Brooks, Shirley (1815-1874)

1867-1872

Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...

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George Crabbe : priest, poet and philosopher (1754-1832) : his life, written by his son, the Rev. George Crabbe, M.A. ; extra-illustrated by A.M. Broadley with correspondence, portraits and verse.

Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

c.1726-1914

Comprises the 1847 edition of the 'Life of Crabbe' re-bound into 6 vols in 1903 by Broadley. They are extra-illustrated by the insertion of numerous portraits, poems, watercolour views, and maps, toge...

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Literary and theatrical manuscripts of Cyril Maude

Maude, Cyril (1862-1951)

c.1882-1942

Comprises: Box 1: 27 vols of musical scores for performing 'She stoops to conquer'; 4 vols of stage instructions for performing 'Grumpy', 1 for each Act; 2 notebooks; 1 five year diary, 19-?. Box 2: T...

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Ronald Blythe, pre-publication text of anthology 'Each returning day : the pleasure of diaries', with a related letter

Blythe, Ronald (1922-)

c.1989-1991

Comprises the complete pre-publication text of Ronald Blythe's anthology, here entitled 'Diaries: an exploration'. The accompanying autograph manuscript letter from Blythe is dated 25 March 1991, and...

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John Braine Archive

Braine, John (1922-1986)

1943-1995

The literary archive of John Braine, comprising over 200 manuscript notebooks, 22 boxes of manuscript and typescript drafts and associated material. The collection is divided into 3 distinct series: ...

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John Braine Archive notebooks

1950-1986

14 boxes containing 209 autograph manuscript notebooks of John Braine, with some previously numbered, presumably by Braine. D 1-125 serve as diaries (dated from 1950 to 1986), FF 1-10 contain dra...

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John Braine manuscript and typescript drafts

1943-1985

(b) 22 boxes containing autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of his novels, stories, playscripts, articles, broadcasts, and poems. 'These golden days' (boxes 1-3), 'The two of us' (boxes 4-6)...

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John Braine autobiographical material

1985 - 1995

1 box containing some photocopied autobiographical material, dated 1986, several photographs of Braine alone or with others, some photocopied correspondence between Braine and Mrs Barbara Jones, his t...

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1937

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains: - 21 page transcript copy of Norman Manley's diary from 1937. - 6 page transcript and 4 page transcript of a two-part Jamaica Gleaner article on Edna Manley's art, written by Es...

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1938

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file items concerned with the year 1938. Most items are from that year, but where they are not a date is given in the list below. This file contains the following items: - 2 page transcript of ...

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Edna Manley's Diary : Scripts 100- 281

Brown, Wayne

1971

This file contains 181 transcripts of excerpts from Edna Manley' s diary from February 1939 to 16 May 1951, compiled by Wayne Brown in 1971. The original folder was labelled 'Edna' s Diary copy 2 [100...

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Scripts 400-560

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains a 160 page transcript of Norman Manley's diary, labelled 'NW's Diary 4th copy,' by Wayne Brown. The diary entries range from 4 April 1937 to 19 May 1963.

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