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Total number of records: 51

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Archives48
Books and printed items3

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Brotherton Collection26
Leeds Russian Archive12
English Literature10
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3
Liddle Collection3
Herbert Read Collection1
Medical Collections1

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letters51
english poetry9
russians8
diaries4
english literature4
photographs4
poets, english4
pre-raphaelites4
french literature3
french poetry3

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Aveyron (France)1
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Lozere (France : Dept.)1

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Osborne, Peregrine Hyde2
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)2
Aristaenetus1
Arnott, Neil1
Baines, John Manwaring (1910-2002)1
Barbier, Paul (1873-1947)1
Berwick, James Fitz-James (1670-1734)1
Bithell, Jethro (1878-1962)1
Boieldieu, Francois Adrien (1775-1834)1
Briscoe, Samuel (1691-1727)1

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Letters from Joris Karl Huysmans to Arnold Goffin

Huysmans, Joris-Karl (1848-1907)

1885-1906

Largely concerning French literature

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Familiar and courtly letters

Voiture Monsieur de (1597-1648); Brown, Thomas (1663-1704); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Cheek, Thomas; Dennis, John (1657-1734); Aristaenetus; Pliny the Younger; Fontenelle M. de (1657-1757); Briscoe, Samuel (1691-1727); Wycherley, William (1640-1716); Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1700

First edition. The "Epistle dedicatory" signed: Sam. Briscoe. Pt. 2 has title: Letters of friendship, and several other occasions... Written by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Wycherly [and others] With letters w...

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William Michael Rossetti to John Lucas Tupper

Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)

c. 22.12.1871

Autograph letter, begins 'Accept warmest congratulations from me and mine.'

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Orpheus

1959

Letters in French and Italian from Dr F Sciuto from the University of Catania

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Partial letter from Florence Nightingale to Flora Masson
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Partial letter from Florence Nightingale to Flora Masson

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

21 Feb 1893

Letter and envelope, sent from 10 South Street, Park Lane, W. The first page of the letter has been cut away from underneath the address. The page of the letter that remains discusses a French novel o...

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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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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John Lucas Tupper

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

16.12.1871

Autograph letter, begins 'Some friends of mine are much interested for a French artist.' In folder titled No. 5 DGR. DGR writes in relation to a Monsieur Leverdays, a French artist and refugee. Leve...

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Henry Céard Archive

Céard, Henry

c.1873-1921

Comprises autograph French manuscripts of Henry Céard towards various of his poems, plays, and prose writings; also, many letters from or to him, dated between 1873 and 1921; together with various ed...

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BC MS Lt q 46, f.21r: The opening of
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Papers of John Salvio.

Salvio, John

c.1698-1736

Comprises: (1) Miscellaneous manuscript and printed items of various sizes, including orders and receipts, a page of calligraphic writing exercises, pages of geometrical and navigational drawings, a r...

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MCLAREN, ALEC T

1918-1919

Photocopied account book (4 June-29 Nov 1918); 10 photocopied letters to his parents (8 Apr-22 Sep 1918); French map of Europe (); 3 postcards (Jan 1919, nd).

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 24.05.1881

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated Tuesday. Date as postmark. DGR will send the alteration to press [in Ballads and Sonnets?] and asks TWD to return volumes of a French Dictionary [Nouvelle Biograph...

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Catalogue of nineteenth-century & modern English & French literature, autograph letters & literary manuscripts : comprising first editions or presentation copies of Barrie... Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co.... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1, on Monday, the 11th May, 1964

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of nineteenth-century & modern English & French literature, autograph letters & literary manuscripts, comprising the property of... Philippa Strachey ... Margaret Sackville ... ...

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