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Scope and Contents Diaries and related papers of Elizabeth Firth, recording her life in the Yorkshire village of Thornton in the 1810s and 1820s. The diaries which form the bulk of the collection are of the simplest kind: brief day-to-day records of social and church occasions of a young girl in a small village near Bradford and at boarding school near Wakefield. Their principal interest lies in the references to members of the Brontë family with whom Elizabeth was acquainted, and the collection includes a...

Scope and Contents Family and other papers, working notes and annotated printed texts, including material relating to the life and works of Thomas Randolph, made by George Charles Moore Smith (1858-1940), Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield.The collection is of a miscellaneous character, and has been acquired through several separate donations. It consists of a selection of early essays by Professor George Charles Moore Smith; papers and correspondence...

Scope and Contents Records of the People's College, Sheffield, together with later information about the College, 1848 to 1912.The archive includes records of the College, some published text books, and John Derby's note books, essays, correspondence, notes and papers. Also included are some post-closure documents: correspondence, notes, press cuttings and pamphlets relating to the College, assembled by G. C. Moore Smith, Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Sheffield...