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Total number of records: 81

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Brotherton Collection74
Herbert Read Collection2
Liddle Collection2
English Literature1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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portraits, british81
letters66
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Hogg, Jabez7
Keeley, Robert5
Crabbe, George (1754-1832)3
Brame, Benjamin2
Broadley, Alexander Meyrick (1847-1916)2
Torrens, William Torrens Mccullagh2
Airy, George Biddell1
Alexander, Samuel1
Alison, Archibald1
Allon, Henry1

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Archive Print Item

Fifty heads

Evans, Powys

[1928]

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

Pulling, F S (1854-1893)

1880

Chronology of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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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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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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The romance of an elderly poet : George Crabbe's ten years' correspondence with Elizabeth Charter ; by A.M. Broadley and Walter Jerrold, extra-illustrated with the original letters, other correspondence, and related material.

Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

c.1803-1913

Comprises the 1913 edition of 'The Romance of an Elderly Poet', by A.M. Broadley and Walter Jerrold, re-bound by Broadley and originally extra-illustrated with the original letters from Crabbe to Char...

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Autograph letter from George Crabbe to Elizabeth Charter, dated November 1816, with related material.

Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

c.1816

Comprises an autograph letter from George Crabbe to Elizabeth Charter, headed 'Trowbridge, Nov. 1816', an engraved portrait and bust of Crabbe, and a further engraving of the thatched house in Aldebur...

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Correspondence of Sir Francis Chantrey, with related material.

Chantrey, Francis

c.1811-1842

Comprises ca.120 autograph letters from Chantrey to various recipients dated 27 September 1811-1 November 1841, including some undated letters, 1 autograph letter from Lady Chantrey to 'Mr. Cooke' dat...

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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of Sir George Biddell Airy.

Airy, George Biddell

1879

Comprises 2 autograph letters by Sir George Airy dated 14 April and 18 November 1879 (with transcripts), an engraved portrait of him signed and dated by 'T.H. Maguire 1852', his autograph signature, a...

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Letter from Sir Archibald Alison, with related press-cuttings.

Alison, Archibald

1849-1867

Comprises 1 autograph letter from Alison to an unnamed recipient (with transcript) concerning a visit by Queen Victoria to Scotland in 1849 and 2 press-cuttings, being his obituary extracted from the ...

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Letter from Henry Allon, with related material.

Allon, Henry

1873-1892

Comprises 1 autograph letter from Allon to W.H. Ramsay (with transcript), 2 printed obituaries on him dated 16 April 1892, and a coloured portrait of him.

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Letter from Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, with related material.

Alma-Tadema, Lawrence

1876-1921

Comprises an autograph letter from Alma-Tadema to William H. Booth (with transcript), an engraved portrait of him extracted from the Illustrated London News for 6 May 1876, and a press-cutting concern...

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Letter from the Marquis of Anglesey, with related material.

Paget, Henry William

c.1852-1854

Comprises 1 autograph letter from Anglesey to Rev. T.R. Ross concerning the latter's sermon preached at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington (with transcript), 1 engraved portrait of the 'Marquis of ...

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