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Brotherton Collection2
English Literature2

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english literature2
letters2
art, english1
christian converts from judaism -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
education1
english poetry1
great fire, london, england, 1666 -- sources.1
hebrew letters -- texts.1
historical research1
jews -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1

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Ethiopia1
Florence (Italy)1
London (England)1

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7th Earl of Huntingdon1
Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)1
Ben Samuel, Jacob1
Bronte Family1
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)1
Bronte, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848)1
Currer Bell1
Faitlovitch, Jacques1
Gosse Family1
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)1

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Archive Collection

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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Additional papers of Frank Beckwith

Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)

1774-1960

This accrual comprises 7 boxes. Box 1 includes typed copies of articles from the 'Gentleman’s Magazine' c.1790, relating to the history of the Baptist church with notes and references, 2 folders of...

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Archive Judaica File

[Begging letter, after 6 September 1666, from Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel Augusto to the Earl of Huntingdon, referring to "that unhappy fire in London hath undone me, for my pleace[!], for my hebrew bookis, and for my living" (original)].

[1666?]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 249. Summary: Only first leaf recto, and last leaf verso (address and traces of red wax...

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Archive Judaica Collection

Cecil Roth Collection

1200-1999

Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...

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Archive Collection

Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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Archive Judaica File

[Letter of support to the Jews in Ethiopia (Beta Israel), October/November 1906–April 1908, signed by 1 secular Jewish leader and 43 rabbis from all over Europe, Pittsburg, PA (USA), Palestine, and Egypt (original)].

Faïtlovitch, Jacques

[1906–1908]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Variant title: Igeret el Yehude Ḥabash. (אגרת אל יהודי חבש (אתיופיה. Approximate dates of production may be derived from 2 dates given in the ...

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