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Total number of records: 78

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives75
Objects2
Books and printed items1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters78
scholars, assistance to78
refugees, jewish77
refugees, political77
displaced persons1
holocaust1
jewish community1
jewish refugees1
political refugees1
world war ii1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)2
Simpson, Dr Francis Vivian (1927-2014)2
Elton, Godfrey Elton Baron (1892-1973)1
Esther Sinovitch1
GáL, Hans (1890-1987)1
Humphrey, John Herbert Cbe (1915-1987)1
Leeds Academic Assistance Committee1
Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)1

Count of Earliest date

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From 190077
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 199977
Up to latest1

Archive File

Correspondence with Ina Broda

1966-1967

The file includes letters and cards from Broda and copies of Simpson's letters.

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Archive File

Organisations - H

1968-1995

Includes letters and questionnaires from Hampstead Consumer Group. Also contains letters from the H. G. Wells Society.

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Correspondence with Anna Amalia Bremmer-Hollmann

1965-1989

The file contains letters and cards from Anna Amalia Bremmer-Hollmann, known as Annie. There are copies of Simpson's letters to Bremmer-Hollmann.

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Correspondence with and about the Boehm family

1930-1979

This file contains letters from Daisy Boehm to Simpson. It also includes letters from her son Klaus Boehm to Simpson. There is some correspondence between the Friends Committee for Refugees and Alie...

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Correspondence N

1967-1990

Folder includes a letter from Joseph Needham.

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Correspondence B

1956-1993

The file comprises correspondence to Simpson from people whose family names begin with B including Erika Bach, Marjorie Belmore, Ruth Benatt, John Desmond Bernal. It also contains copies of letters f...

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Correspondence E

1968-1995

The file includes correspondence to and from Alfred and Gladys Eccles. Galdys was a friend from Leeds. Also includes correspondence letter and obituaries for Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton.

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Esther Simpson correspondence and papers

Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)

1918-1997

This collection reflects Esther Simpson's work on behalf of refugee scholars over the course of fifty years. It also documents the many friendships and contacts she developed. The main collection (i...

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Archive Series

Correspondence from and with various charitable organisations

1949-1996

The series contains correspondence mainly from charitable organisations. Simpson arranged these in folders labelled from A-Z. Each folder contains material from various organisations beginning with t...

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Correspondence, memoranda and other papers of the Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, 1933-1940

Jones, John Harry (1881-1973); Leeds Academic Assistance Committee

1933-1940

Leeds Academic Assistance Committee was founded in 1933 by John Harry Jones, Professor of Economics, and others, to collect funds for the support of academic refugees from Nazi Germany. The Committee ...

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Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, correspondence, memoranda and other papers, 1933-1940

1933-1940

These papers were discovered in a cupboard in the School of Economic Studies and were presented to the Library through the good offices of Professor J R Crossley, in December 1976. The Leeds Academic...

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Mencap

1986-1996

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