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Total number of records: 56

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Liddle Collection18
Brotherton Collection14
English Literature12
Leeds Russian Archive11
Leeds Poetry4
Business Archives3
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
diaries56
letters30
world war, 1914-191817
british8
photographs5
english literature3
family archives3
postcards3
textile industry3
travel3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Munich, Germany2
Paris, France2
Salzburg, Austria2
Boulogne, France1
Linz, Austria1
London, United Kingdom1
Vienna, Austria1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Brown, Wayne2
Bufton, Joseph2
Baines, John Manwaring (1910-2002)1
Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)1
Blythe, Ronald (1922-)1
Broadley, Alexander Meyrick (1847-1916)1
Brooks, Shirley (1815-1874)1
Burroughs Family1
Burroughs, Hal1
Burroughs, Henry (1815-1884)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16002
From 17003
From 180020
From 190030
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 18995
Up to 199947
Up to latest3

Archive Collection

Roger Senhouse, notebooks and literary papers including some letters

Senhouse, Roger (1899-1970)

c.1937-1970

Comprises: (1) 6 autograph manuscript notebooks kept by Roger Senhouse between ca. 1942 and 1962, numbers 1, 3, and 4 being commonplace-books (chiefly containing notes on books and on meetings with ot...

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Additional letters and papers of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross. Co. Cork

Pearson Family

1883-1993

These additional letters and papers were most kindly deposited in the Brotherton Library by Mrs S Laville of West Malvern in January 1993, in continuation of her previous deposit made in 1989 (MS Dep....

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Diary of Joseph Bufton, together with four letters from Sarah Unwin to her son, Stephen Unwin.
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Diary of Joseph Bufton, together with four letters from Sarah Unwin to her son, Stephen Unwin.

Bufton, Joseph

1664-1825

Comprises personal notes made by Joseph Bufton, between 1664 and 1716, on blank pages and margins of a printed almanac 'Goldsmith's Almanack 1686'. These include ordinances of the Company of Clothiers...

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Ronald Blythe, pre-publication text of anthology 'Each returning day : the pleasure of diaries', with a related letter

Blythe, Ronald (1922-)

c.1989-1991

Comprises the complete pre-publication text of Ronald Blythe's anthology, here entitled 'Diaries: an exploration'. The accompanying autograph manuscript letter from Blythe is dated 25 March 1991, and...

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1937

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains: - 21 page transcript copy of Norman Manley's diary from 1937. - 6 page transcript and 4 page transcript of a two-part Jamaica Gleaner article on Edna Manley's art, written by Es...

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NAPIER, LADY MABEL

1914-1920

Manuscript letter to her sons, Joseph and Charles, who were at Neuchatel, Switzerland, at the outbreak of the First World War (23 Aug 1914); 5 manuscript letters to JWL Napier (son) (8 Aug-31 Oct 1918...

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COOPER, W

1915-1919

Photograph (10 May 1917); Extracts from diaries, letters and official papers, compiled by his daughter, Gwen Cooper (nd); Bound photocopy of extracts from diaries, letters and official papers, compile...

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Maurice Warwick Beresford correspondence and papers

Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)

c.1886-1992

Comprises: (1) Diaries; (2) Various family papers and photographs; (3) Letters and papers relating to publications, especially a Gazetteer of Medieval English boroughs, and similar material on Europea...

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Gott papers; section 2: family records

Gott Family

c.1750-c.1941

Comprises: personal letters, diaries, travel notebooks, legal papers, inventories, etc. of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Records of William Gott's collections of books and paintings; J...

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1938

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file items concerned with the year 1938. Most items are from that year, but where they are not a date is given in the list below. This file contains the following items: - 2 page transcript of ...

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Personalia

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1947-1997

2 boxes containing mixed personal items and papers belonging to Jon Silkin. Includes the following: - Diaries for 1966 (letters inserted, incl. Lionel Miskin, Falmouth School of Art), 1977-78, 1979,...

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PEASE, MICHAEL S

1911-1920

Photocopied typescript essay regarding Ruhleben Camp School (20 Sep 1916); 13 photocopied photographs (nd); Photocopied manuscript and typescript recollections (nd); Photocopied Christmas cards, postc...

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