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A young Arthur Ransome standing in garden outside Hatch, smoking a pipe

A young Arthur Ransome standing in garden outside Hatch, smoking a pipe. [Image]

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Amazing Stories, April 1928

(1928) Amazing Stories, April 1928. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, August 1928

(1928) Amazing Stories, August 1928. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, February 1928

(1928) Amazing Stories, February 1928. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, February 1929

(1929) Amazing Stories, February 1929. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, January 1928

(1928) Amazing Stories, January 1928. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, January 1929

(1929) Amazing Stories, January 1929. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, July 1928

(1928) Amazing Stories, July 1928. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, June 1929

(1929) Amazing Stories, June 1929. [Image]

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Amazing Stories, March 1928

(1928) Amazing Stories, March 1928. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, March 1929

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Amazing Stories, May 1927

(1927) Amazing Stories, May 1927. [Image]

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Amazing Stories, November 1928

(1928) Amazing Stories, November 1928. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Amazing Stories, September 1928

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Arthur Ransome and Tabitha standing outside Hatch

Arthur Ransome and Tabitha standing outside Hatch. [Image]

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Arthur Ransome descending from a red cross train

(1922) Arthur Ransome descending from a red cross train. [Image]

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Arthur Ransome wearing Russian hat, in snow

Arthur Ransome wearing Russian hat, in snow. [Image]

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Autograph fair copy, for the printer, of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's novel Sylvia's Lovers (slightly incomplete)

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Autograph fair copy, for the printer, of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's novel Sylvia's Lovers (slightly incomplete). [Artefact] Item availability may be restricted.

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Boat under sail, a Gatt cutter yacht

Ransome, Arthur (1927) Boat under sail, a Gatt cutter yacht. [Image]

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Bomb-damaged building

Ransome, Arthur (1927) Bomb-damaged building. [Image]

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Boy and man (Ransome?) play board game. Soldiers watch from outside the window. Inscription on back Volga steamer, summer 1921

(Summer 1921) Boy and man (Ransome?) play board game. Soldiers watch from outside the window. Inscription on back Volga steamer, summer 1921. [Image]

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Demonstration in street

Ransome, Arthur (1917) Demonstration in street. [Image]

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Ransome, Arthur (1917) Demonstration in street. [Image]

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Ransome, Arthur (1917) Demonstration in street. [Image]

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Evgenia Ransome with brother and sister

Evgenia Ransome with brother and sister. [Image]

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Ink drawing at the bottom of a letter to ? entitled 'Pobre'. Branwell explains that, The best epitaph ever written was found carved on a cross in Spain over a murdered traveller and means 'Poor fellow'.

Brontë, Patrick Branwell (1847) Ink drawing at the bottom of a letter to ? entitled 'Pobre'. Branwell explains that, The best epitaph ever written was found carved on a cross in Spain over a murdered traveller and means 'Poor fellow'. [Image]

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Ink drawing of a gravestone with a carving of a scull and crossbones and the epitaph 'Resurgam' (foreground) with scattered gravestones set within a wild moonlit moorland.

Brontë, Patrick Branwell (1842) Ink drawing of a gravestone with a carving of a scull and crossbones and the epitaph 'Resurgam' (foreground) with scattered gravestones set within a wild moonlit moorland. [Image]

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Ivy Ransome holding Tabitha (aged about 4) outside Hatch

Ivy Ransome holding Tabitha (aged about 4) outside Hatch. [Image]

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Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'.

(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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(1808) Page from the manuscript of part of an otherwise unknown and untitled play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]'. [Image]

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Pen and ink illustration on a loose piece of paper. The image features a man wearing glasses with his head in a noose. The caption reads Patrick Reid turned off without his cap, 1848.

Brontë, Patrick Branwell (1848) Pen and ink illustration on a loose piece of paper. The image features a man wearing glasses with his head in a noose. The caption reads Patrick Reid turned off without his cap, 1848. [Image]

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Quayside scene with boats

Ransome, Arthur (1927) Quayside scene with boats. [Image]

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Radek close-up, smoking pipe

(1919-1920) Radek close-up, smoking pipe. [Image]

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Radek standing against a gatepost in a forest, smoking a pipe

(1918) Radek standing against a gatepost in a forest, smoking a pipe. [Image]

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Radek with another man in the street; Radek smoking pipe

(1919) Radek with another man in the street; Radek smoking pipe. [Image]

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Radek with wife and daughter

(c.1920) Radek with wife and daughter. [Image]

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Restaurant card for 'Restaurant du Grand Hotel' in Cherbourg. In English and French

Restaurant card for 'Restaurant du Grand Hotel' in Cherbourg. In English and French. [Image]

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Soldiers in street

Ransome, Arthur (1917) Soldiers in street. [Image]

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Soldiers riding bicycles

(1916) Soldiers riding bicycles. [Image]

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Soldiers with bicycles

(1916) Soldiers with bicycles. [Image]

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Tabitha Ransome running in garden at Hatch

Tabitha Ransome running in garden at Hatch. [Image]

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Tabitha Ransome with donkey and cart

Tabitha Ransome with donkey and cart. [Image]

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Tabitha and Ivy Ransome, Tabitha holding donkey's harness

Tabitha and Ivy Ransome, Tabitha holding donkey's harness. [Image]

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Walkway by quay, passing multi-roofed structure composed of multiple pyramids.

Ransome, Arthur (1927) Walkway by quay, passing multi-roofed structure composed of multiple pyramids. [Image]

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Wonder Stories, April 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, April 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, August 1930

(1930) Wonder Stories, August 1930. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, August 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, August 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, December 1931

(1931) Wonder Stories, December 1931. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, February 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, February 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, January 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, January 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, July 1930

(1930) Wonder Stories, July 1930. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, June 1930

(1930) Wonder Stories, June 1930. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, June 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, June 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, March 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, March 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, May 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, May 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, November 1931

(1931) Wonder Stories, November 1931. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, October 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, October 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

Wonder Stories, September 1932

(1932) Wonder Stories, September 1932. [Image] Item availability may be restricted.

soldiers in a trench, with bicycles

soldiers in a trench, with bicycles. [Image]

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soldiers standing in line with bicycles

(1916) soldiers standing in line with bicycles. [Image]

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soldiers with bicycles standing in a line

(1916) soldiers with bicycles standing in a line. [Image]

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