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  • 1
    Letter from 'Buff' to 'Marquis', by James Thomson
    1742
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 67
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Thomson James (1700-1748).
    Extent:2 ff. conjoined, manuscript. Autograph manuscript. On f.2v there is an early endorsement in a different hand from that of the main text which reads 'From Thomson to Mrs Robertson's Dog Marquis'
    Language:English
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  • 2
    Conduct book, probably compiled during the early seventeenth century
    ca.1601-1650
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 90
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (266, [6] ff.) manuscript The whole of the main text is written by a single hand. Two further notes at the end are added by a second, much later hand, the name of the writer possibly being W. Hutton, F.A.S.S., Birmingham, 18[19?]. Bound in dark red leather boards with traces of metal clasps, now lost, and gilt embossed on both covers and spine with tooling and highly decorated with gilt folio edges. On the inside of the front cover a letter is attached, dated 'Vicarage January 4 1838', addressed to G. Wright Esq., and signed by W.F. Hook, who asks that this volume be added to the former's 'Library of Curiosities'. On the inside back cover there is an owner's printed bookplate bearing his coat of arms and name, 'H.C. Embleton'. The main text is foliated throughout, probably by the original compiler
    Language:English
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  • 3
    Governor William Selwyn's advice to his son
    1701
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS 19c Selwyn
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Selwyn William d 1702.
    Extent:1 vol. (2, 15, 1 ff.), typescript, with 1 manuscript letter inserted In dark green leather covers with green ribbon. The title of the work is typed on a piece of paper stuck to the front cover. The manuscript letter is held in a pocket stuck to the inside back cover, with the typed note "Letter from G.W. Miller to Sir Edmund Gosse 25-4-23"
    Language:English
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  • 4
    Archive of the University of Liverpool: Guild of Students, Student Societies and Student Life
    1894-1999
    Ref:GB 141 ULIV Guild
    Location:University of Liverpool Special Collections & Archives
    Name of creator:
    Guild of Students of the University of Liverpool.
    Extent:6 series of records
    Language:All of the records are written in English unless otherwise stated
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  • 5
    Archive of the Stancliffe Family of North Yorkshire
    ca.1800-1952
    Ref:GB 206 MS 1578
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Family Stancliffe.
    Extent:5 boxes held on 1 shelf, printed, paper, leather, and parchment
    Language:English
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  • 6
    Miscellany of prose writings with some poetry by various authors
    ca. 1690-1700
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 79
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (134, [3] ff.), manuscript. Written mainly in a single hand, but with at least one other hand represented in some parts of the text towards the end of the volume. Bound in vellum with some blind tooling
    Language:English Latin
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  • 7
    The Jain Collection
    1951 - 1993
    Ref:GB 3071 JAIN
    Location:De Montfort University Archives and Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Jain Centre Temple Leicester.
    Extent:1.5 linear metres
    Language:English Sanskrit
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  • 8
    Commonplace-book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
    ca. 1650-1730
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 102
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (97 ff.), manuscript. Written in several different seventeenth and eighteenth century hands from both ends of the volume, meeting after f.45r. There is some subsidiary pagination within some of the separate sections of text. Bound in worn and somewhat damaged leather with traces of gilt tooling on the outside covers and spine, and traces also of clasps which have been broken off on the fore-edges of the volume
    Language:English
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  • 9
    Letter from John Row to his uncle, 1691
    1691
    Ref:GB 227 msLF1117.R6
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Row John.
    Extent:4pp
    Language:English
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  • 10
    Lady Stafford's Letters
    1774-1907
    Ref:GB 150 STA
    Location:University of Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library, Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Stafford Lady Susannah.
    Extent:155 items
    Language:English
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  • 11
    Hector C Cameron, St Andrews in the 1850s, 1928.
    January 1928
    Ref:GB 227 msDA890.S1C2
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Sir Hector C Cameron.
    Extent:1 volume, 31ff
    Language:English
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