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Total number of records: 27

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Brotherton Collection22
English Literature15
Leeds Russian Archive3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Leeds Poetry1
Liddle Collection1

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letters27
english poetry10
english literature7
english drama5
english fiction5
portraits, british3
artists2
poets, english2
pre-raphaelites2
aeronautics1

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Crabbe, George (1754-1832)2
Beaty, Betty1
Beaty, David (1919-1999)1
Berry, Francis1
Broadley, Alexander Meyrick (1847-1916)1
Charter, Elizabeth1
Chorley, Henry Fothergill1
Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)1
Dobree, Georgina1
Dobree, Valentine (1894-1974)1

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Longmans, Green & Co.

1956-1969

Letter from Berry to Mr Blagden, dated 7th January 1956. Letter from Blagden to Berry rejecting for publication Berry's "Poets' Grammar". Request to publish Berry's essay "Restoration of Grammar"...

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Attingham Park

1953

Reply to letter from Berry. Thanks for giving lecture at Attingham Park and for description of the Green Man.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 22.02.1877

Autograph letter and envelope on black-edged paper. Dated Thursday night. Date as postmark. DGR has asked Fry, his wife and Herkomer to visit and view the painting [Astarte Syriaca]; voices concern re...

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Alfred Lord Tennyson and family, correspondence and literary works

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (1809-1892)

1827-1906

Comprises: (1) 'Poems, by two brothers', 1st edition, London, 1827, actually poems by the three brothers, Frederick, Charles, and Alfred Tennyson; (2) 'A collection of autograph letters from Alfred, L...

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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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Correspondence and papers of the Luttrell family, including some relating to Narcissus Luttrell.

Luttrell family

c.1676-1770

Comprises: (1) Much fragmentary eighteenth-century poetry in English, Latin, and French; (2) Miscellaneous commonplace notes, extracts, and speeches; (3) Various documents in French, including an eigh...

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Correspondence of Sir David Wilkie, with related material

Wilkie, Sir David (1785-1841)

c.1806-1849

Comprises a collection of Wilkie's correspondence with several persons, notably Thomas Macdonald, dated ca. 1806-1849, together with many engravings taken from original pictures painted by Wilkie, pri...

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Letter from Thomas Moore, with related material.

Moore, Thomas

1824-1833

Comprises 1 autograph letter from Thomas Moore to Messrs Baldwin & Co. dated 31 January 1826 (with a transcript), 5 printed portraits of Thomas Moore at various dates, including 1824 and 1833, and in...

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William Makepeace Thackeray, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

c.1835-1860

Comprises: (1) 26 letters and manuscripts dated 1835-1860, guarded in order and bound in 1 vol., accompanied by an annotated typed list of contents by Dr Eric Millar and the bill for the cost of bindi...

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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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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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Mendelssohn (Felix), autograph letters mainly to Ignaz Moscheles

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)

1824-1846

76 letters from all periods of Mendelssohn's life, 65 of them to his friend, the Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso Ignaz Mosceheles, of whom he was at one time a pupil. The letters are full of refe...

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