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Total number of records: 1608

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Brotherton Collection1153
English Literature909
Liddle Collection155
Leeds Russian Archive86
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
Leeds Poetry21
Medical Collections10
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
Business Archives5
Quaker Collection5

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letters1608
poets, english504
pre-raphaelites503
english poetry331
english fiction307
english literature289
english drama275
world war, 1914-1918151
photographs145
refugees, political78

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)235
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)10
Keeley, Robert5
Knox, Vicesimus5
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)5
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)5
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)4
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)4

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Traduction littérale d'une lettre écrite en anglais, & déposée au Comité de salut public

Chateauneuf-Randon, Alexandre comte de (1757-1816); France. Convention nationale, 1792-1795; France. Convention nationale, 1792-1795

[1793?]

Caption title. "Juin 29 1793, 7 heures du soir." "Notes tirées d'un port-feuille anglais, traduites sur l'original": p. 7-10. "Extrait du procès-verbal tenu par les représentans du peuple fra...

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Letters from Florence Nightingale

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

19th century

Contains two letters from Florence Nightingale, one sent to Mrs Richard Morris and the other to Lydia Leigh; and three copies of printed artworks.

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Letters of wit, politicks and morality

Guevara, Antonio de; Aristaenetus; Bentivoglio, Guido cardinal (1579-1644); Bussy, Roger de Rabutin comte de (1618-1693); Fontenelle M. de (1657-1757); Cheek, Thomas; Savage, John (1673-1747); Boyer, Abel (1667-1729)

1701

Paging irregular: pp. 157-176 omitted and pp. 337-347 misnumbered 327-437. Sig. D6 (fly-title to "Six select epistles out of Aristaenetus") not included in pagination. "Epistle dedicatory" signed: A...

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An ingenious contention, by way of letter, between Mr. Wanly, a son of the Church; & Dr. Wild, a nonconformist

Wanley, Nathaniel (1634-1680); Wild, Robert (1609-1679)

printed in the year, 1668

Verse - "SO the bright Taper useless burns"; preceded by "Mr. Nathan Wanley to Dr. Wild, was laid aside for Nonconformity." Printed in four columns. Drophead title and colophon.

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A collection of miscellany poems, letters, &c

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1699

First edition of this year. Title within double line border. Cf. Bibliographical Society, London. Supplement to... Transactions. 1925. no. 4, p. 156-157. Signatures as in Case, i.e. no sheet I (...

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Arnold Family Archive

Arnold Family

1810-1894

Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...

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Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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Bennett Family Correspondence
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Bennett Family Correspondence

Bennett family

c.1840-1866

The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...

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Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

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Correspondence of Josephine Butler

Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey (1828-1906)

c.1860-1885?

Correspondents include Mrs Hannah Ford and Miss Emily Ford, of Leeds

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George Byron, correspondence and manuscripts, together with related materials

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)

c.1811-1938

Comprises a collection of autograph poetry, letters and other writings by Byron; manuscripts of his poetry and other writings in the hand of others (including Mary Shelley), including copies of his 'E...

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Fragment of a Novel

17 June 1816

Sometimes referred to as 'A Fragment' or 'The Burial: A Fragment'. The original holograph manuscript accompanied by a more recent typescript. The story was the result of a meeting that Byron had i...

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