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Total number of records: 4072

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Books and printed items153
Objects3

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Brotherton Collection2123
English Literature1086
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive927
Letters Database663
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection544
Liddle Collection163
Leeds Russian Archive87
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
Leeds Poetry22
Herbert Read Collection12

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letters1766
letter writing1479
letter663
poets, english663
pre-raphaelites661
english poetry333
english fiction307
english literature293
art education286
english drama275

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Sala, George Augustus505
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)235
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria58
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)53
Cowden Clarke, Charles30
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Hogg, Jabez28
Novello, Vincent25
Novello, Clara Anastasia20

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Archive Sub-collection

Letters and papers of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross, Co. Cork

Pearson Family

c.1700-c.1980

These documents comprise letters and papers by or concerning members of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross, Co. Cork, from the late seventeenth century almost to the present. Besides memb...

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

Pearson Family

1812-1926

These further letters and papers concern wider branches of Mrs S. Laville's extensive family in the nineteenth century, namely, the Clarges and the Hawkes. Also additional document found in 2021 when...

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Collection of autograph letters, notes, and related material, mainly sent to the first and second Lords Melville.

Dundas, Henry 1st Viscount Melville

1755-1848

Comprises autograph letters from upwards of 52 main correspondents to one or other of the Viscounts Melville between 1755 and 1848 with some additional letters to or from different correspondents incl...

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Letters from Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, to his wife, Bridget Osborne.

Osborne, Peregrine Hyde

1677-1723

Comprises 44 autograph letters from Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, to his wife Bridget dated 14 September 1677 - 21 May 1723 (with transcripts). Many of these letters were written before their ...

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Miscellaneous correspondence associated with the third earl of Ilchester and others, with some related material.

Strangways, Henry Stephen Fox Earl of Ilchester

c.1802-1910

Comprises 30 autograph letters to or from members of the Fox-Strangways family, notably the 3rd Earl and the Countess of Ilchester, Mary Eleanor Anne Dawson, dated between 1802 and 1910, but with som...

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Father Thomas Dawson Correspondence

Dawson, Thomas

1856-1937

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Hilda M. A. Squire and family, letters and papers

Squire, Hilda Martha Lilian (1898-1991)

1836-1991

Hilda Squire was a hospital almoner. She was the daughter of a London doctor, Edward Squire, who had been interested in issues of public health and hygiene. Her grandfather, Dr. William Squire, was ph...

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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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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Miscellaneous correspondence from Alexandre Dumas junior to various recipients.

Dumas, Alexandre

1850-1883

A miscellaneous collection of 129 autograph letters and other documents, many with envelopes attached, sent from Alexandre Dumas junior to various correspondents between September 1850 and May 1883, a...

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Christmas card from Malcolm Quin to Mr Robertson

23 Dec 1911

Contains a statement about the three Christmas Day masses and a poem by Quin.

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Christmas card from Malcolm Quin to Mr Robertson

23 Dec 1912

Contains a quotation from St. Luke and a poem by Quin.

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