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Total number of records: 97

Count of Record type

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Books and printed items56
Archives41

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection97
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections97

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
romanies97
letters40
cant2
beggars1
christmas1
folk songs, romany1
folk-lore, gipsy1
gypsies1
lay missionaries1
magi1

Count of Place

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Birmingham1
Colney Heath1
England1
Europe1
Great Britain1
Hertfordshire1
North America1
Town Yetholm (Scotland)1
United States1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kochanowski, Jan4
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?)3
Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?3
Goadby, Robert (1721-1778)3
Price, Thomas of Poole3
Simson, James (1826-)3
Binns, Dennis2
Bunyan, John, 1628-16882
Carew, Bampfylde Moore2
Fraser, Angus M2

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From 17008
From 180022
From 190067

Count of Latest date

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Up to 17992
Up to 189922
Up to 199968
Up to latest5

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Letters T W Thompson to Gilliat-Smith

1931-32

7 ALSs from T W Thompson to Gilliat-Smith, 1931-32, mainly about Albanian Romani.

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Letters between Gilliat-Smith and Hermann Arnold

1752-1976

Correspondence between Gilliat-Smith and Hermann Arnold, largely about Arnold's book Die Zigeuner. 1965-67.

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Letters from R A S Macfie to George Hall.

29/Jun/1909 - 26/Jan/1910

4 ALSs (29 June, 5 and 15 October 1909, 26 January 1910) from R A S Macfie to George Hall. 2 pp. + 2 pp. + 1 p. + 2 pp.

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Letters from R A S Macfie to George Hall

1752-1976

Two ALSs (8 and 16 March 1910) from R A S Macfie to George Hall. 2 pp. + 2 pp.

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Letters from R A S Macfie to George Hall.

12/Sep/1915 - 13/Nov/1915

4 ALSs from RAS Macfie to George Hall A.12 September 1915 B. 11 October, 1915 C.1 November 1915 D.13 November 1915) 4 pp.

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Letters between Dora Yates and B Gilliat-Smith

1931-1957

Correspondence of 1931-57 between Dora Yates and B Gilliat-Smith (4 letters).

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Draft letter -Eva Justin to Sister Marta Droste

c.1940

Draft autograph letter in German from Eva Justin, [Ritter's assistant,] to Sister Marta Droste, seeking information about two Gypsy children. Ca 1940. 2 pp.

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Draft letter from Gilliat-Smith to Siegmund Wolf

1960

Draft letter from Gilliat-Smith to Siegmund Wolf about his Großes Wörterbuch der Zigeunersprache. 1960. 4 pp.

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Letters between Gilliat-Smith and F G Huth

1966

Correspondence between Gilliat-Smith and F G Huth about some English Romani words. September-October 1966.

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A Christmas letter : The gypsies : Romans from little Egypt

Biddle, Moncure (1882-)

1940

"Dedication" signed: Moncure Biddle

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The King of the beggars : Bampfylde-Moore Carew

Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Price, Thomas of Poole; Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert; Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett (1888-1960)

1931

"Conclusive evidence of his popularity is furnished by the great number of editions [with varying titles] in which Carew's adventures are described at varying length. But his story as told in The life...

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