Add.MS. 1   1754-6
“A journal of some occurances [sic.] kept by Ra: Ward begun 6th Sept. 1754”(to end of 1756).
Journal kept by Ralph Ward, Gisbro.
39f. 
Size: 30 cm.
Bought from Grafton, £3. 3s., October 1945.
Digitised material for Journal of Ralph Ward - Add.MS. 1

Add.MS. 2   1928-44
Towie Castle, and The Widow, Maids of Athens, (Silverdale). Three verse plays by Gordon Bottomley in author's pencil manuscript.
34f. 
Size: 13 x 18 cm
Presented by the author, October 1945.

Add.MS. 3   29 December 1903
Letter from Selby W. Plummer, Durham, to Dean Kitchin, on the exhumation of St Cuthbert's remains.
With typescript transcript.
3f. 
Size: 25 cm.
Presented by Mrs Sclater Booth of Castle Eden, 15 February 1946.

Add.MSS. 4-6
Presented by Dunlop Rubber Co. via B.R.A. [B.R.A. 329], 13 June 1946.

Add.MSS. 7 - 16   c.1920
Billingham development documents: 8 plans, printed copy of Tees Valley Water Bill, and typewritten list of Billingham and Stockton councillors.
Paper
Planfile
Deposited on permanent loan by G.F. Brown & Co. via the B.R.A. [B.R.A. 590], 13 June 1946.

Add.MS. 17   1825-35
Pencil drawings of celebrities of the city of Durham, by J. Bouet (Joseph Sebastien Victor François Bouet, sometimes called Nicolas Bouet, 1791-1856, artist, of Durham City).
75 portraits, including some engravings, photographs etc.
Size: 32 cm.
From Castle Eden. Bought from Steedman, £4. 14. 6. 1 July 1946.
Cross, David A., The art of Joseph Bouet (1795-1856) : a catalogue of two albums in Palace Green Library (Special Collections) Durham University with reference to other works located in Durham and elsewhere(Durham, 2003).
Digitised material for Pencil portraits of people from Durham city, 1825-35, by Joseph Sebastien Victor François Bouet (1791-1856) - Durham University Library Additional MS 17

Add.MS. 18   December 1945
Lumley Castle: Mining report by Forster, Raw and Partners, Newcastle, to G.E. Fawcus Esq. (typescript).
27f. and 8 plans. 
Size: 33 cm.
Presented by G.E. Fawcus Esq.

Add.MSS. [19-156]
Numbers formerly used for part of the Van Mildert Papers, which were transferred from Additional Manuscripts to form a separate collection, June 2006.

Add.MSS. 157-162   1822-1849[?]
Six poems in her own hand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, some incomplete and probably unpublished [?]:
The second poem is torn at the top and bottom.
6 pieces: 8f., various sizes. 
Bought from A. Rogers, £12. 12s., 13 March 1947.
Digitised material for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Savonarola” - Add.MSS. 157
Digitised material for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, My beloved sister Henrietta on her birthday - Add.MSS. 157-162
Digitised material for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A flower in a letter, stanzas XVII-XX - Add.MSS. 159
Digitised material for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A child's grave at Florence, stanzas 25-32 - Add.MSS. 160
Digitised material for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sweetest do not fly me - Add.MSS. 161
Digitised material for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, O my little soft soul - Add.MSS. 162

Add.MS. 163
Letter from Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, beginning "Dear Watkins", dated "Sunday" only, Kensington.
2f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Loosely inserted in a volume bought Sotheby's, 30 July 1947.

Add.MS. 164   1947
Photographs of the book presented to Princess Elizabeth by the University of Durham on 23 October 1947 at the laying of the foundation of St Mary's College, specially bound by Sydney M. Cockerell.
With a specimen of the leather, tooling and lettering.
Size: 25 cm.
Presented by S.M. Cockerell, 16 January 1948.

Add.MS. 165   1891
Memorial verses on the death of William Bell Scott by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Author's autograph manuscript.
Printed in the Athenaeum, 28 February 1891, p.281 (copy of printed version included here), and in Astrophel and other poems, 1894.
4f. 
Size: 34 x 20 cm.
Bought Sotheby's £5. 10s. 9-10 February 1948.

[Add.MSS. 166-167]
Relocated to Durham University Records, as UND/F9/E1B/1-2, 12 June 2006.

[Add.MS. 168.]
Relocated as Thomas Wright MS. 16, September 2003.

Add.MSS. 169.-174   11 February 1853 - 13 December 1853
Six autograph letters of Edward Bradley, relating to the Verdant Green drawings, etc, Stilton, Leigh.
14f. 
Bought Myers, £5. 5s., 1948.
See separate Edward Bradley catalogue

Add.MS. 175   Between 1672 and 1719
Printed copy of The ancient rites ... of Durham, (London, 1672), edited by J. Davies of Kidwelly, interleaved with ms. notes by James Mickleton (1638-1693), the dedicatee, with a few notes by his grandson James Mickleton (1688-1719).
Size: Octavo
Bought Goldschmidt, £6, 24 March 1949.
Digitised material for The ancient rites ... of Durham, (London, 1672), edited by J. Davies of Kidwelly - Add.MS. 175

Add.MS. [176.]
Minutes and accounts of Durham University Choral Society, 1903-1921: now transferred to UND/GE4/A1, University of Durham Society Records.

Add.MS. 177   11 and 18 January 1776
Letter from Henry Seymour Conway, signed H.S.S., written Henley and London.
3f. 
Size: 24 x 19 cm.
Found in book accessioned 27 August 1949 (found in a folder indicating it to have been part of a sale of autograph letters formerly belonging to Alfred Morrison.

Add.MS. 178   24 December 1792
Indenture of apprenticeship of Thomas Young of Gateshead to William Wilson, pipe-maker (on a printed form).
Size: 14 x 26 cm.
Presented by J.A. Gordon Esq., Bede College, 7 October 1948.

Add.MS. 179   1833
The education of the peasantry in England. What is it? & what ought it to be? with a somewhat detailed account of the establishment of M. de Fellenberg at Hofwyl in Switzerland, by Baldwin Francis Duppa (published, London, 1834).
Author's signed manuscript.
136f. 
Size: 20 x 16 cm.
Binding: Vellum bound.
Bought from P. Murray Hill, £2.16s. 8d., Autumn 1949.

Add.MS. 180   20 May 1818
Letter from Count Jozef Boruwlaski, London, to Miss Ebdon, Durham, with signature and seal.
2f. (one blank). 
Size: 23 x 19 cm.
Formerly loose in Boruwlaski's Memoirs(Durham, 1820), accession no. 78,793.
Presented by Mr H.W. Fox, 1948.

Add.MS. 181   1818
Durham County election ball.
Verses, attributed to _. Ord of Newton Ketton.
6f. 
Size: 19 x 15 cm.
Presented by Stanley Smith (ex Armstrong College), Spring 1950.

Add.MSS. 182.-184   1911-22
John Masefield: letter, signed, undated, from Boar's Hill to Mr Grubb: 2 postcards, one from Gt Hampden, signed, dated 21 September 1911, to G.P Putnams Sons, the other, initialled, from Boar's Hill, postmarked [19]22.
3f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm; 14 x 9 cm.
Bought with books at auction, November 1949.

Add.MSS. 185.-186   1903
Two letters from Samuel Waddington, signed, one on Board of Trade paper, from 7 Whitehall Gardens, S.W., 25 March 1903, the other from 47 Connaught St, W.
4f. 
Size: 19 x 12 cm.
Bought with copy of Poems(1902), c.1949-50.

Add.MS. [187.]
Fragment of a commentary on the Psalms.
Now transferred to Add.MS.1950/A/25

Add.MS. 188   14 March 1895
Letter from T.E. Young to Hardy, signed, returning his copy of the Babylonian Record.
4f. 
Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Found in Babylonian Record, 24 November 1949.

Add.MS. 189   4 February 1893
Letter from Joseph Bain, London to G. Neilson.
4f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Found in Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, vol. iv, c. 1949-50.

Add.MS. 190   c.1850
“A repertory of the Close Rolls of the Court of Chancery of Durham” (manuscript), by William Henry Brockett.
With letter of author, initialled W.H.B., inserted.
Bookplate of Matthew Mackey; inscriptions of C.O.P. Gibson and W.H.D. Longstaffe.
80, 1f. 
Size: 24 x 18 cm.
Bought from Johnson's Bookstall, Durham, 5s., 16 October 1946.

Add.MS. 191   1776
A sketch of the life & character of the Right Honourable and Reverend Richard Trevor Lord Bishop of Durham. With a particular account of his last illness., (Darlington, printed by Messrs Darnton & Smith, 1776), compiled by George Allan and incorporating an account of Trevor's last illness, which is ascribed within the text to Robert Hutchinson, one of the bishop's domestic servants, by whom the portrait of Trevor in the engraved frontispiece was drawn.
Proof copy (quarto) of the printed text (port.+[iv]+13+[i]pp.) with Allan's ms corrections, preceded by an engraved portrait of Allan, an earlier proof of the printed title page with imprint date 1775, another proof of the engraved frontispiece portrait of Bishop Trevor and an ink and wash drawing of him with related notes, specimens of Bishop Trevor's signature, and Allan's fair copy manuscript text of the printed work. A marginal note added in red ink on p. 12 of the ms records the suggestion, heard in Durham by WH [? William Hutchinson, historian of Co. Durham] that the account of Bishop Trevor's illness was actually composed by the bishop's nephew.
19p. 
Bought Johnson's Bookstall, Durham, 16 November 1946.
Formerly Phillipps MS 14076.
Digitised material for A sketch of the life and character of Richard Trevor, Lord Bishop of Durham - Add.MS. 191

Add.MS. 192   1777
“Statuta et ordinationes Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi et Beati Mariae Virginis Dunelmensis”, John Lambert scrip. & del.
With title page vignette of Durham Cathedral, head and tail pieces, and decorated letters.
95f. 
Size: 24 x 19 cm.
Presented by Mrs Sclater-Booth for Colonel Rowland Burdon, December 1946.

Add.MS. 193   1911
Typescript copies of letters from Captain Cuthbert Collingwood (1st Baron), to Dr Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle of Inveresk, 1792 - 1805, with supplementary documents to 1840 and plans of the Battle of St Vincent.
With introduction and notes by John Oxberry.
202f. 
Size: 26 x 20 cm.
Presented by Basil Anderton Esq., who had been instrumental in having the transcripts made, 14 August 1947.

Add.MS. 194   1913
Typescript copy of journal kept by Admiral Lord Collingwood (1st Baron) in the Mediterranean, December 1807 - January 1810.
Copied, by permission, from the original in the possession of Mr Alfred Brewis, Granville Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Portrait of Collingwood and letter from Brewis inserted.
64f. 
Size: 26 x 19 cm.
Presented by Basil Anderton Esq., who had been instrumental in having the transcripts made, 14 August 1947.

Add.MS. 195   1745
“Elementa logicae tam veteris quam novae in usum juventutis academicae. Opera Tho: Johnson A:M: Coll: Mag: Cantab: Soc. MDCCXLV” (manuscript)
(Thomas Johnson of Magdalene College, Cambridge - the nearest of this name died in 1737)
88f. 
Size: 20 x 15 cm.
Relocated from Old University MSS sequence, (old pressmark M.VI.49), 1950.

Add.MS. 196   1679-80
“Physica a R.P. Francisco Sandero tradita excipiente me Thoma Durham A n no D omi ni 1679 & 1680” (manuscript).
Dictated by Francis Sanders (1648-1710, Vice-President of the Jesuit house of studies at Liège), written down by Thomas Durham, vere Collingwood (1651-1725).
Bookplate of J.T. Brockett.
305f. 
Size: 16 x 10 cm.
Relocated from Old University MSS sequence, (old pressmark L.V.32), 1950.

Add.MS. 197   1678
“Logica a R.P. Franc. Sandero tradita.” (manuscript).
Dictated by Francis Sanders (1648-1710, Vice-President of the Jesuit house of studies at Liège), written down by Thomas Durham, vere Collingwood (1651-1725), along with “Brevis inspectio in doctrinam Cartesij non'ullorumq. atomistarum”.
Bookplate of J.T. Brockett.
305f. 
Size: 16 x 10 cm.
Relocated from Old University MSS sequence, (old pressmark L.V.31), 1950.

Add.MS. 198   1680-94
“Metaphysica”, (1680-81) with “Ex tract' Vo sive ultimo et M[eta]phys[i]co R.P. Fr. Gul[iel]mi” [1694?] prefixed and “Tractat us de Physiognomia humana”1681appended. (Manuscript).
Dictated by Francis Sanders (1648-1710, Vice-President of the Jesuit house of studies at Liège), written down by Thomas Durham, vere Collingwood (1651-1725) and extract copied by him from tractates of Francis Williams (died at Liège 1681).
Bookplate of J.T. Brockett.
327f. 
Size: 16 x 10 cm.
Relocated from Old University MSS sequence, (old pressmark L.V.33), 1950.

Add.MS. 199   1904
Durham University: earlier foundations and present colleges, by Joseph Thomas Fowler (College histories: London, 1904).
Author's interleaved copy, with many of his ms. notes.
Size: 18 cm.
Bequeathed by the author.
Relocated from Library's printed collections (old pressmark 39.C.16), 1950.
Digitised material for Durham University: earlier foundations and present colleges, by Joseph Thomas Fowler (College histories: London, 1904) - Add.MS. 199

Add.MS. 200   1834
The Bishoprick garland
A miscellany of Durham poems and notes, some printed but most in the hand of Sir Cuthbert Sharp, with a few additions by Robert Surtees.
The first edition of this miscellany, collected and edited by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, was published under the title The Bishoprick garlandin 1834. It does not include many of the items contained in this volume, and the text of items which are included frequently diverges from that found here. Some of the additional items found here were not printed for reasons of decorum or because they had a tenuous connection with the Palatinate, others were intended to be included in a second edition.
143f. 
Size: 23 x 14 cm.
Presented to Dr Henry Gee, Master of University College, Durham, by J.G. Wilson in 1915, and purchased by the University Library in 1939.
Digitised material for The Bishoprick garland - Add.MS. 200

Add.MS. 201   c.1880
The Psalms, translated by John Low Low, with other poetical passages from the Old Testament. Author's manuscript.
314f. and 19 loose inserts. 
Size: 23 x 14 cm.
Presented by Andrew Low, early 20th century: re-located from Library (old classmark 33.D.4a), 1950.

Add.MS. 202
Relocated to DCG 7/1, October 2012.

Add.MS. 203
Relocated to DCG 2/1, October 2012.

Add.MS. 204   7 October 1836
Letter from John Banks Jenkinson, Bishop of St Davids (signed J.B. St Davids) at Abergwili, to Dr C.J. Bloomfield Bishop of London, on the University of Durham.
12f. 
Size: 22 x 18 cm.
In library before 1930. Transferred from Old University MSS sequence (pressmark H. iii. 23.

Add.MS. 205   29 August [1837 ?]
Letter from Edward Maltby, Bishop of Durham, signed E. Dunelm, at Auckland Castle, to Lord John Russell on the lodgement of judges at Durham Castle.
2f. 
Size: 23 x 18 cm.

Add.MS. 206   29 July 1875 - 1 March 1892
Guardbook of 156 letters from Edward Augustus Freeman, at Wells, etc., mostly to Joseph Thomas Fowler, with other material including 10 photographs and 4 sketches of churches and portraits.
363f., including both numbering sequences. 
Size: 21 x 15 cm.
Presented by Canon J.T. Fowler.
Formerly numbered 206-276, 631-730 (each letter having been given a separate accession number)

Add.MSS. [207-276]
Numbers not now in use: formerly used as accession numbers for individual letters within Add.MS. 206.

Add.MSS. 277-278   1863-1864
Letter and carte-de-visite from Edward Bradley
4f., 1. 
Bought from Myers, 7s. 6d., July 1951.
See separate Edward Bradley catalogue

Add.MS. 279   1883-4
Book of autographs of members of the Durham County Assizes Grand Jury, with portraits and miscellaneous photographs, collected by Alfred Backhouse, Sheriff of Durham (with Sheriff's badge inset in cover).
52f. 
Size: 31 x 25 cm.
Bought Symington, £1. 1s., 13 October 1944.

Add.MS. 280
Copies (made in 1880's ?) of Royalist composition papers, 1642-51, relating to the family of Lilburne during the Civil Wars in England, mainly concerning George Lilburne of Sunderland.
With engravings of Col. Robert Lilburne and Lt-Col. John Lilburne.
From the original papers in the PRO.
Bound volume of transcripts of 60 documents, and 4 engravings.
[1], 191, [4]f. 
Size: 31 x 21 cm.
Presented by Sir Charles Harding Firth, June 1909.

Add.MS. 281   1804-1883
Volume of correspondence, notes, drawings, offprints and cuttings on antiquarian and archaeological topics, chiefly relating to the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, with spine title “Select Antiquarian Tracts & Autographs”.
Contains 83 items, approximately half of which are manuscript and half printed. Manuscript contents list at front of volume
Bookplate of Frederick Hendriks FSS, FLA, Knight of Vasa, 1893.
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Presented by E.B. Birley, 1951.
See separate catalogue

Add.MSS. [282-315]
Numbers not now in use: formerly used as accession numbers for individual ms items within Add.MS. 281.

Add.MS. 316   1792
Extracts from Aristotle's Art of poetry, with observations upon it, translated from the original Italian of Abbate Pietro Metastasio ... by John Dixon.
With ms. note: "Mr [William] Mason intended to have written notes but did not find time ... To the end of the first chapter is in the hand writing of Mr Mason"; and "Bought at the sale of Canon Dixon's library, 1854."
372f. 
Size: 20 x 17 cm.
Relocated from Old University MSS sequence (former pressmark Theta.vi.20.

Add.MS. 317   c.1792
Letters on music, by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Metastasio, translated by Dr William Burgh, from an unidentified printed edition.
14f. 
Size: 20 x 17 cm.

Add.MS. 318   1809-27
Scrap book miscellany compiled by John William Smith of Barnard Castle.
Engraved portraits, mainly English and French subjects, some views of places, sketches, notes on Durham antiquities, with drawings, notes on scientific experiments, original letters and other documents.
Also contains 34 tithe receipts, Tanfield parish, 1654-1722.
Owner's name, place and date 1809 on cover. Some notes initialled J.W.S., others in different hands.
185f. 
Size: 32 x 20 cm
Bought from Boddy, £4. 4s., 1951.

Add.MS. 319
“Mem dums as to practice in the Courts of Gaol Delivery and Sessions of the Peace at Durham. Process for outlawry.”.
A legal precedent book, the precedents from Charles II to George III, entered from opposite ends of the book in different hands, one half apparently written c. 1700, the other c. 1800.
vii, 218f. 
Size: 16 x 9 cm
Bought from Wilson, 42s., c.1951.
Digitised material for Courts of Gaol Delivery and Sessions of the Peace at Durham: precedent book - Add.MS. 319

Add.MS. 320   c.1837
“On the practicability of bringing an uncivilized and rapidly wasting aboriginal population into a state of security, civilization & progressive improvement. Respectfully submitted to Chas Buller Esqr M.P.”, by Thomas Hodgkin, M.D.
Manuscript bound with printed evidence of Hodgkin and S. Bamnister before the Select Committee on Aborigines, British Settlements, 1837.
11f. 
Size: 33 x 20 cm
Presented by W. Waples Esq. 1949.
Digitised material for Evidence to Select Committee on British Settlements, 1837 - Add.MS. 320

Add.MS. [321.]   11 February 1857
Letter from Thomas Baker, at Whitburn, to the Rev d. the Librarian, Durham University, about experiments in making straw paper, with gift of M. Koops Historical account of the substances which have been used to describe events ...(1801).
3f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm
Bound in at front of book (location: SC 01641)

[Add.MS. 322.]
Relocated as Thomas Wright MS. 17, September 2003.

Add.MS. 323   26 February 1945
Letter from Mrs M.D. Darwin (née Wharton), at London, to H.W. Acomb, Durham University Librarian, about the Wharton family papers presented by her to the Library.
1f. 
Size: 20 x 12 cm.
In copy of The Whartons of Wharton Hall, by E.R. Wharton, presented by Mrs Darwin in 1945 (location: XL929.2).

Add.MS. 324   1617
“Sanctus Cuthbertus puer - postea Lindisfarnensis episcopus - a levitate lusuum per trimum puerulum mirabiliter convers us. A Minore Congregatione Academica Beatae Mariae Virginis datus in Theatrum illustri domini comiti Davidi Brembato, cum iterum Marianus Praefectus esse iuberetur.”, (Ingolstady [Ingolstadt]).
Manuscript, with music.
[ii, 42, iii]f. 
Size: 20 x 15 cm.
Purchased from I.K. Fletcher, 17 March 1952, £65. Previously owned by W.H. Cumming and Sir Leicester Harmsworth. Bought by Fletcher, Sotheby's, October 1945, lot 1971, £30.
Digitised material for Sanctus Cuthbertus puer (play) - Add.MS. 324

Add.MSS. 325.-328   1945
4 letters regarding the St Cuthbert play from Ingolstadt.
2 from H. Chadwick S.J., 4 November 1945and 7 November 1945, at Stonyhurst College.
1 from Leo Hicks, London, 31 October 1945.
1 (typed) from W Kane, S.J. 22 November 1945, from Loyola University, Chicago.
1f. each. 
Size: 23 x 16 cm.
Purchased from I.K. Fletcher, 17 March 1952, £65. Previously owned by W.H. Cumming and Sir Leicester Harmsworth. Bought by Fletcher, Sotheby's, October 1945, lot 1971, £30.

Add.MS. 329   c.1630
“Reports in the Star-Chamber from I o to III o Car. I”.
[ii], 220, [vi] pages. 
Size: 30 x 21 cm.
Presented by Miss Alice Edleston of Gainford, 24 April 1952.
Previously owned by John A. Stewart, 1809, [then Richard Heber (d.1833); his sale, Evans, 10-19 February 1836, lot 1481; then Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS. 8342), sold 1895, lot 1057, to Reya (£1 10s) (ex info Sir John Baker)]. Formerly numbered MS 346.458.
Another copy: Mickleton & Spearman MS 65.
Digitised material for Reports in the Star Chamber from I to III Charles I - Additional MS. 329

Add.MS. 330   26 March 1908
Letter from Arthur Hughes to Mr Brown agreeing to sign his illustrations to W. Allingham's The music master.
2f. 
Size: 15 x 10 cm.
Bound with book (location: SC 08739).
Bought with and inserted in W. Allingham's The music master(1855), 1952.

Add.MS. 331   4 November [1855]
Letter from William Allingham (signed W.A.), at New Ross, to Arthur Hughes about the arrangement of The music master.
2f. 
Size: 12 x 9 cm.
Bound with book (location: SC 08739).
Bought with and inserted in W. Allingham's The music master(1855), 1952.

Add.MS. 332   29 August 1915
Letter from Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, at London, to Mr Waters, with a copy of The big drum, 1915.
2f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bound with book (location: SC 09647).
Bought with book.

Add.MS. 333   1950
“The essence of mysticism, set forth in rhythmic sentences, by a disciple of Thomas a Kempis”, Herbert Pentin.
The author's typewritten copy with an autograph account of his career.
iv, 104f. 
Size: 26 x 20 cm.
Presented by author (M.A. Dunelm.), 5 September 1950.

Add.MSS. [334.-336.]
Durham University Union Society committee meeting books, 1902-1918: now transferred to UND/GE1/AC1-2, University of Durham Societies Records.

Add.MS. 337   1843
Letter from John Ruskin at London, to Revd. Walter L. Brown, [Ruskin's tutor] postmarked 1843.
Apparently lacks beginning.
2f. 
Size: 23 x 19 cm.
Via Brown's youngest daughter, Miss Caroline M. Brown, to her cousin Revd. G.C. May, who presented it to the library, 1935.

Add.MS. 338   [1877]
“Sir Walter Scott: Preliminary memoir”, by William Bell Scott.
Author's manuscript: apparently the introduction to an edition of Sir Walter Scott's poems, 1877.
18f. 
Size: 20 x 18 cm.
Previously owned by Miss E. Morse. Bought Sotheby's, 10-11 March 1952, lot 191, £3.

Add.MS. 339
A Scottish kirk session book of Dailly, Ayrshire, 1691, copied out by William Bell Scott.
[1], 22, [i]f. 
Size: 21 x 17 cm.
Previously owned by Miss E. Morse. Bought Sotheby's, 10-11 March 1952, lot 191, £3.

Add.MS. [340]
Returned to Bishop Cosin's Library as Cosin MS. B.I.27(i).

Add.MS. 341   8 September 1852
Letter from Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. at Middle Hill, to Dr M.J. Routh.
2 corners torn off with a few words.
4f. 
Size: 21 x 11 cm.
Found in Routh III.E.15.
Digitised material for Letter from Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. at Middle Hill, to Dr M.J. Routh - Add.MS. 341

Add.MS. 342   20 June [1850]
Letter from William Sidney Gibson at Newcastle, to Revd. Joseph Stevenson asking for help in researches into the life of Richard de Bury.
8f. 
Size: 25 x 21 cm.
Found in a book [?]

Add.MS. 343   1817
“A catalogue of the manuscripts constituting the collections known under the name of the Mickleton and Spearman MSS. Presented by Wasey to Shute [Barrington] lord Bishop of Durham; and by him presented in ... 1817 to the library founded by Bishop Cosin at Durham”, by Sir Henry Ellis.
[iv], 111, [iii]f. 
Size: 25 x 20 cm.
Presented by Mr Kenneth Povey of Liverpool University (bought Graftons, £3. 3s.)
Digitised material for Catalogue of the Mickleton and Spearman MSS - Add.MS. 343

Add.MS. 344   28 September 1887
Letter from Edward Lear at Sanremo, to Miss Campbell, on the misery he has been enduring from the heat and food of Italy.
2f. 
Size: 21 x 13 cm.
Found in copy of Journals of a landscape painter in Southern Calabria(1852), bought 1952.

Add.MS. 345   1817-1826
“Poems”, by Michael Alexander Lowry (Kilmashogue).
Author's manuscript.
Title-page and dedication are dated 1817, but individual poems have dates from 1813 to 1826.
90f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bought from Herrick, c.1949.

Add.MS. 346   27 March 1777
Letter from George Allan at Darlington to William Hutchinson, discussing his and others' etchings and drawings, and also antiquarian topics.
1f. 
Size: 33 x 19 cm.
Bought from I.K. Fletcher, 25s., 20 February 1953.
Digitised material for Letter from George Allan to William Hutchinson - Add.MS. 346

Add.MS. [347.]   27 September [184?]
Letter from J. Mitchell, at London, in the third person to _ Sainsbury proposing that the Prince Louis Napoleon and the Count d'Orsay should visit Sainsbury's Napoleon collection.
2f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bound with the book (location: SC 10562)
Acquired with copy of Napoleon III, by P. Henrichs (1857), presented by Miss Edleston of Gainford, 1953.

Add.MS. [348.]   25 février [184?]
Autograph letter from Napoleon III at 1 Carlton Gardens London, in the third person, to _ Sainsbury, proposing to call and see his Napoleon collection.
2f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bound with the book (location: SC 10562)
Acquired with copy of Napoleon III, by P. Henrichs (1857), presented by Miss Edleston of Gainford, 1953.

Add.MS. [349.]   28 June 1881
Letter from Octavius Pickard-Cambridge at Blandford presenting his Spiders of Dorset (1879-81) to the University Library, Durham.
1f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bound with book (location: SC 00683).
Bound with presented copy of book.

Add.MSS. 350-399   5 June 1860 - 26 December 1861
45 Letter from Joseph Bonomi, enclosing two further letters by Miss I.M. Martin (not included in numbering sequence (?).
41 are to J. Lee, and one each to Mrs Lee, W. Camps, Dr Pratt and the Council of the Syro-Egyptian Society.
With miscellaneous notes by or about Bonomi, (5 items) apparently attached to the letters.
95f., 6f. 
Size: Various sizes.
Add.MSS. 350-418 bought from Myers, Autumn 1953, £10. 10s.

Add.MSS. 400-412   25 March 1862 - 2 June 1865
13 copies of letters to Admiral William Henry Smyth, made for J. Lee: from C. Ker, C.L. Prince (3), Revd. W. Monkhouse, G. Chambers, Sir R.I. Murchison, A.K. Barclay, the editor of the Intellectual Observer, Dr T.R. Robinson, B.A. Gould, G. Knott, S.B. Kincaid.
24f. 
Size: 18 x 12 cm.
Add.MSS. 350-418 bought from Myers, Autumn 1953, £10. 10s.

Add.MS. 413   2 June 1803
Letter from Boulton, Watt & Co. to R. Potter.
2f. 
Size: 26 x 20 cm.
Add.MSS. 350-418 bought from Myers, Autumn 1953, £10. 10s.

Add.MS. 414   7 November 1843
Letter from A. Sidgwick at Cambridge to (?).
2f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Add.MSS. 350-418 bought from Myers, Autumn 1953, £10. 10s.

Add.MS. 415   22 November 1847
Letter from Sir David Brewster at St Andrews to John Lee.
2f. 
Size: 19 x 12 cm
Add.MSS. 350-418 bought from Myers, Autumn 1953, £10. 10s.

Add.MS. 416   Undated
Copy of letter from Lady Margaret Maria Brewster (afterwards Mrs Gordon) at St Andrews to Mrs John Lee.
2f. 
Size: 22 x 18 cm
Add.MSS. 350-418 bought from Myers, Autumn 1953, £10. 10s.

Add.MS. 417   23 February 1853
Letter from Sir William Crookes at Oxford, to _ Spiller.
4f. 
Size: 19 x 11 cm
Add.MSS. 350-418 bought from Myers, Autumn 1953, £10. 10s.

Add.MS. 418   9 July 1864
Letter from William Henry McAlpine at London to J. Lee.
1f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm
Add.MSS. 350-418 bought from Myers, Autumn 1953, £10. 10s.

Add.MS. 419   10 June 1784
Letter from William Van Mildert, at Bradden, to Samuel Mendez da Costa, reporting on the progress of his Oxford studies, particularly on fossils and natural history, and sending news of fellows and others at Oxford to whom Menendez da Costa had given him recommendatory letters.
4f. 
Size: 23 x 18 cm.
Bought from I.K. Fletcher, 25s., 18 December 1953.

Add.MSS. 420-429   5 August 1882
Manuscript pieces by Peter Pindar (pseudonym of John Wolcot [1738-1819]), including folders of “Poems & Hymns for Young Folks”, “Tales & Fables”, “Madrigals”, “Sacred Poems by Dr Wolcot”, “Anacreontics”, “New and Old Ballads Composed for Queen Elizabeth”.
3 boxes 
Bought from G.F. Sims.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 430   5 August 1882
Letter from Sir Henry Taylor at Bournemouth to Miss Kate Perry discussing books (Shelley references).
Date may be read as 9th May. Recipients name supplied in pencil.
6f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bought from I.K. Fletcher, 21s., 26 January 1954.

Add.MS. 431   9 November 1637
Copy of a letter from John Cosin at Cambridge to Joseph Mead (here spelt Mede) relating to his discourse Churches, that is, appropriate places for Christian worship (published 1638 ).
Copy apparently made in 1672 or 1677.
1f. 
Size: 19 x 14 cm.
Bought from John Grant, 10s., June 1952.
Printed: Durham Philobiblon, v.1, pt.9.

Add.MSS. 432-438   29 November 1911 - 26 November 1915
Seven Letter from Henry James, at London or Rye to Mrs Howes, wife of the vicar of Rye (two undated).
8f. 
Size: 23 x 20 cm, etc.
Presented by G. Fawcus Esq., 2 February 1954.

Add.MS. 439   1680
“An account of the national affaires frome June the first one thousand six hundred and eighty, shewing whatsoever hapened considerable in that time ... [by] Gabriel Hasting. Aetatis meae An: 19. E Collegio Universitatis, 1680”. With, appended (f.9), “The speech of James ye 2d to his first parliament”.
Author's autograph.
Inscribed: "E libris Gabrielis Hastings è Coll. Vniversitatis, June 2 1680 pretium 1s 4d
James Bate of Ashby.
E libr. J: Bate e Coll: Jes: apud Cant. AB:1697."
Bookplate of Revd. Joseph Edleston M.A. LL.D., Gainford Vicarage, Trin. Coll. Camb.
[ii], 9, [ii]f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Presented by Miss Alice Edleston of Gainford, Summer 1953.
Digitised material for Account of national affairs from June 1st 1680 by Gabriel Hasting - Add.MS. 439

Add.MS. 440   29 March 1892
Letter from Walter Hamilton at London to Mr Day of Cork about a projected book on French Ex-libris.
2f. 
Size: 21 x 13 cm.
Found in copy of Hamilton's Dated bookplates given by Miss Edleston, 1952.

Add.MS. 441   3 December 1901
Letter from William James Dawson at London to Sir John Martin Harvey introducing his play Savonarola.
2f. 
Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Bought with copy of Savonarola.

Add.MS. 442   23 December 1858
Letter from Sir Richard Owen at London to Sir John Forbes M.D. on the gorilla, with acknowledgment of help given in a translation from the Periplusby the Bishop [Edward Maltby ?].
2f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Found in Maltby 112.E.17-18.

Add.MS. [443.]   2 November 1835
Letter from John Taylor of Mold to W. Wharton of Dryburn, Durham.
Written on a printed monthly report on Cornish engines by T. Lean.
1f. 
Size: 43 x 56 cm.
Bound with book (location: SC+ 00127).
Bound into Thomas Tredgold, The steam engine(1827).

Add.MS. 444   Undated [July 1861]
Letter from Ford Madox Brown at London to C.P. Boyce, referring to a largish water colour just finished and to a visit from W.B. Scott.
Annotated on verso “rec[eived] July 3/61”
1f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bought from Blackwell, 10s. 6d.

Add.MS. 445   Undated
Geological notes with coloured sections of strata, by Joseph Barber Lightfoot.
2f. 
Size: 27 x 21 cm.
Found in Bishop Lightfoot's copy of Sir C. Lyell Principles of Geology(1853).

Add.MS. 446   [1915]
Letter from Jane Ellen Harrison at Cambridge to J.D. Duff with a present of her Russia and the Russian verb(1915).
2f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Acquired with copy of the book presented by Mrs J.D. Duff, September 1950.

Add.MS. 447   27 November 14 Henry VIII [1522]
Composition between (1) and (2) regarding the division of land at Startforth.
Remains of three seals.
Parchment.   1m.
Size: 42 x 65 cm.
Bought from B. Halliday (Cat. 265, item 211), £3, 7 May 1952.
Digitised material for Composition regarding division of land at Startforth - Add.MS. 447

Add.MS. 448   c. 1800?
The famous history of Sir Thomas Wyat. With the coronation of Queen Mary, and the coming in of King Philip ... Written by Thomas Dickers [Dekker] and John Webster. London, printed by E.A. for Thomas Archer ... 1607.
Copied (in manuscript) from the Bodleian copy by A. Dyce and S. Reay.
With a ms. note by M.J. Routh, to whom this once belonged.
66f. 
Size: 25 x 20 cm.
Bought from The Bookshop, Cirencester, 27s., 29 March 1954.

Add.MSS. 449-452
Purchased temp. Canon Fowler, who added thumb-index tabs.
Phillipps MSS 20110 and 20873.

Add.MS. 453   c. 1680
“A discourse in defence of the King's right to dispense with the stattutes called the teste viz the 25th and 30th Carl 2d, by one whose profession is the law and whose communion is according to the Church of England.”(manuscript, written about 1680, defending the right of James II to dispense with the Test Acts).
[iv, 12, xii]f. 
Size: 30 x 19 cm.
Binding: Half bound in morocco (20th century).
ff.9-12 nibbled by mice.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953, who had bought it from Colbeck Radford & Co Ltd, Bruton St, London, who had bought it from Sotheby's, July 1930.
Digitised material for Defence of the right of James II to dispense with the Test Acts - Add.MS. 453

Add.MS. 454   c.1765
“List of temporal chancellors of the Co. Palat. of Durham [to 1770] ... of spiritual chancellors [to 1759] ... attorney generalls ... solicitor generals [to 1753] ... officers of the several courts ... for ... 1760 ... sheriffs [to 1747].”
Manuscript, written on the blank backs of broadsides and similar local documents, the printed sides of which have been pasted together.
21f. 
Size: 23 x 19 cm.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953.
Digitised material for List of temporal legal officers of the Palatinate of Durham - Add.MS. 454

Add.MS. 455   1706
“York four days stage-coach begins on Friday the 12th of April 1706 ... performed by Benjamin Kingman, Henry Harrison, Walter Baynes ...”: advertisement for new stage-coach service, annotated with receipt to Mr Badingfold for a place booked for 3 June 1706.
1f. 
Size: 25 x 18 cm.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953.
Digitised material for York four days stage-coach - Add.MS. 455

Add.MS. 456   c. 1680
“... Sr. Philip Musgrave of Hartley Castle in ye county of Westmoorland Baronett ... a short plain and true narrative ...”, by Gilbert Burton, Edenhall.
Manuscript: Edited and published by Samuel Jefferson, under the title The Life of Sir Philip Musgrave(Carlisle, 1840.
Flyleaf inscription “Jos. Musgrave e Coll. Oriel 1749”
[iii, 82, vi]f., f.4 and 5 transposed. 
Size: 17 x 11 cm.
Binding: 19th century gold-tooled red goatskin, by Hering of Newman St [London], imitating 17th century style and with Musgrave armorial stamp and motto “Sans changer” on both covers.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953, who had bought it from Bernard Holliday, Leicester, June 1927, who had bought it in London a few weeks earlier.

Add.MS. 457   8 February 1891- 20 November 1905
Twenty-nine letters from Joseph Thomas Fowler at Durham to C.C. Hodges.
51f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953.

Add.MS. 458   8 August 1879
Letter from William Greenwell at York[?], to W.H.D. Longstaffe.
3f. 
Size: 18 x 12 cm.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953.

Add.MSS. 459-460
“The Journall of the proceedings of the House of Commons”, November 9th to 19th 1685.
With typewritten transcript of above manuscript, Durham, 1927[?]
Ts: 30f. 
Size: 26 x 19 cm.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953. Bought by him from James Wilson, Birmingham, 1927.
Previously owned by G. Sacheverell of Barton, Notts., and Sir Robert Wilmot, of Osmaston, Derbyshire.

Add.MS. 461   c.1689
“A collection of the principal proceedings in the Convenc io n of the Lords and Commons which made the Prince of Orange King”(manuscript).
[iv, 250, viii]f. 
Size: 31 x 19 cm.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953. Bought by him from T.Thorp, Guildford, August 1931.

Add.MS. 462   c.1685
“A kalender of ye iournalls of ye House of Peers begns. in May 1660 ... endg. in Iune 1685... wth. an acct. of ye appeals & writs of error wn. brought in & iudged” (manuscript).
With an alphabetical index, lacking A.
50f. 
Size: 38 x 26 cm.
Bequeathed by Professor C.E. Whiting, 1953. Bought by him from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, June 1927, £1. 10s.
Formerly Phillipps MS 22895.

Add.MSS. [463-466]
Acquired 31 August 1940, bound with Durham County Poll Book, 1761, etc.
Bookplate of Richard Lawrence Pemberton.

Add.MS. 467   19 March 1875
Letter from Mrs [Lucy] John Gough Nichols at London to T.F. Dillon Croker, offering him a copy of Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols.
2f. 
Size: 18 x 12 cm.
Bound with the presentation copy of the book (location: SC 10240)
Acquired with copy of Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, (1874) by R.C. Nichols, presented by Miss Alice Edelston, 1953.

Add.MS. 468   12 April and 13 December 1861
Two Letter from John Gough Nichols at London to Dillon Croker.
4f. 
Size: 19 x 12 cm.
Bound with the presentation copy of the book (location: SC 10240)
Acquired with copy of Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, (1874) by R.C. Nichols, presented by Miss Alice Edelston, 1953.

Add.MS. 469   1861
Military description of the south-east part of England, by Major-General William Roy, 1765.
A handwritten copy prepared, according to accompanying letter, by W.F.D. Jervois for Lord Palmerston in 1861.
43f. 
Size: 33 x 20 cm.
Add.MSS. 469-470: Bought from Alick Fletcher, catalogue 71 item 842, November 1954, £5. 5s.
Digitised material for Copy of Military description of the south-east part of England, by Major-General William Roy, 1765 - Add.MSS. 469-470

Add.MS. 470   17 October 1861
Letter from William F. Drummond Jervois at the War Office to Lord Palmerston enclosing the above item, (469).
2f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Add.MSS. 469-470: Bought from Alick Fletcher, catalogue 71 item 842, November 1954, £5. 5s.

Add.MSS. 471-472   1928 - 1935
Letter (Add.MS 471/1) from Gordon Bottomley at Silverdale to Penelope Wheeler, dated 3 November 1931, referring to the death of Charles Ricketts.
Autograph note (AddMS 471/2) from Gordon Bottomley at Silverdale to Penelope and Christopher Wheeler, dated Christmas 1933 , originally with a Christmas present from Emily and Gordon Bottomley.
With these are a signed photograph to the same, Christmas 1928 (Add.MS 472/1), another signed photograph, 1935 (Add.MS 472/2), and a signed syllabus to the same, of the Oxford Recitations (Add.MS 472/3).
1f. 
Size: 19 x 11 cm.
Bought from C. and I.K. Fletcher, catalogue 91 item 19, Autumn 1954, £4. 14s. 6d.

Add.MSS. 473-474   1865-1866
Letter, and poem “The Kingfisher”, by Edward Bradley (Cuthbert Bede).
Bought from C and I.K. Fletcher, list 91, item 21, £1. 5s., October 1954.
See separate Edward Bradley catalogue

Add.MS. 475    c.1700 ?
Notes upon coal, by John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburgh (attributed in ms. to "Earl of Roxborough".
12f. 
Size: 20 x 15 cm.
Bound in Rare tracts ... collected by G.C. Greenwell, vol.2, 3rd item (location: XLL942.8GRE)
Purchased as part of collection (largely printed) with binding title Rare tracts, antiquarian, topographical, etc. collected by G.C. Greenwell.

Add.MS. 476    1852
“A survey of the Maiden Way from ... Birdoswald Station northward to the Scottish Border ...”(manuscript), John Maughan, Bewcastle.
39f. 
Size: 25 x 20 cm.
Bound in Rare tracts ... collected by G.C. Greenwell, vol.2, 9th item (location: XLL942.8GRE)
Purchased as part of collection (largely printed) with binding title Rare tracts, antiquarian, topographical, etc. collected by G.C. Greenwell.

Add.MS. 477   29 April 1640
Indenture of sale of lands at Hurworth by Ralph and Barbara Booth to Richard Baddeley of Durham, before Gab. Clarke and M. Bullock.
Seal and signature of R. Baddeley.
Parchment.   1m.
Size: 49 x 60 cm.
Presented by S.M. Stobbs, 61 Whinney Hill, Durham, 12 September 1955.

Add.MSS. [478-479.]
Numbers not used.

Add.MS. 480   1875
Durham University examinations.:
B.A. Examination, December 1875.
Analytical Geometry, June 1875.
Mechanics, December 1875.
Spherical Trigonometry and Astronomy.
6f. 
Size: 22 x 14 cm.
Bound in Examination papers ... 1874-5-6(location: XL053.78)
Bound in volume of printed papers with title-page Examination papers set to students in Arts 1874-5-6and inscription of R.J. Pearce, Jan.15.77, presented by Secretary, 1958 .

Add.MS. 481   1771
“An account of the money subscribed for the relief of poor sufferers in the parish of Gateshead in the late inundation ... 1771.”.
14f. 
Size: 19 x 13 cm.
Bound with Narrative of the great flood in the ... Tyne(1772) and other printed items on the same subject (location: XL942.8TYN).
Presented by Miss Edleston, 1954.

Add.MS. 482   15th century
Language:   Latin
Breviloquiumof Bonaventura, defective at the beginning and the end, etc. Distelbrink, no. 1. Text missed through the loss of leaves: one before f.1, containing ed. A.M. a Vicetia (Freiburg im Bresigau, 1881) pp. 1-6/6 (the opening of the preface); one after f. 19, ibid. 167/1-176/4 (II, 11-12); two after f. 65, ibid. 633/up6-642/19 (VII, 5-60); and one after f. 67, ibid. 652/14 seq. (VII, 7). Chapter list to the seven parts follows the preface, f.5-6.
ff.1-67v: sunt quinque. Secundi .x. Tercij .v que. Et quarti ... ... delectaciones in rebus delectabilibus qualis.
Corrections by deletion in red, e.g. f.28v, 44v.
A marginal note, s.xv, f.26v. Many small + marks in margins, a few, e.g. f.10v and 57, in red. Notes in pencil, s. xviii (?) refer to "Aristot", f.20, 39.
Written in north-western Continental Europe.
Secundo folio lost.
Also described in Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II, 521.
Size: 67ff. Membrane (0.18mm.; some natural edges, holes (three in f.33, the two in the written space circled in red), quires with hair side outwards), 201 x 142mm., all leaves cockled through the effect of damp; brownish yellow staining in most lower margins, outer quarter of f.1 and lower outer corner of f.2-5 eaten by vermin with some loss of te x t, lower margin of f.23 and 29 cut away.
Decoration: capitals lined or filled with red; simple paraphs in red. Initials, to chapters and parts, 2-line, plain red.
Script: Written in a squat textura, proficiently with the 3 in the abbreviation for sed barely dropping below the line; perhaps by several hands, most conspicuously changing for f.39 (6 1 ), also on f.33.
Binding: medieval. Sewn on five split white thongs, the upper three broken, drawn through the boards, across the inner face for c. 40mm. in a "VIV" pattern, and pegged in holes through the board; head bands, with white and blue thread, drawn across the outer face of the boards at 45° for 15mm., and similarly pegged; wooden boards with cushion bevelling, almost flush with leaves; square recess cut into front board at the centre of outer edge, with two holes from pins fixing clasp; remains of metal catch in the corresponding position on the edge of the back board; covering of boards and spine gone, leaving traces of glue on the inner face of the boards, including clear marks of the tongues of the corner-mitres inside the back board.
Presented by Miss Edleston, 1953.
Provenance information:
"F", c. 30mm. high, cut into the centre of the front board. "J" f.6, 61, and "R J H J", f.67., large thick capitals, s. xvi or xvii (?). "Presented by Alice Edleston of Gainford from her family collection 1953", on a printed label stuck inside the front board.

Add.MS. 483   4 May 1953
Binding, lettered on spine, "Durham, May 4th 1953".
Prepared for the opening of St Mary's College by the Queen Mother, but not presented owing to the cancellation of the ceremony at that time. On the re-arranged date (2 November 1956) the contents (photographs of Durham) were removed and rebound in similar style and duly presented.
The binding, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, is green-gray crushed morocco with a St Cuthbert cross inside a wreath lettered “Durham 4th May 1953” above and “Ancilla Domini” below: on spine “Durham 4th May 1953”. Doublure single gold line; signature stamp inside end cover (the replacement differed in having tiny crosses sparsely semé End papers and slip case of characteristic Cockerell marblings.
Size: 36 x 29 cm.
Cover, and illuminated inscription, was secured for an additional charge of £4 (the main volume costing £38).

Add.MS. 484   4 May 1953
Inscription in red and black on vellum “To her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother who opened the new buildings of St Mary's College on the 4th of May 1953 these pictures of Durham are offered with gratitude and humble duty by the University of Durham” (written by Joan Tebbutt).
1f. 
Size: 36 x 28 cm.
As above.

Add.MS. 485   c. 1916
Diary of the First World War, for the period 1914-1916, of Alexander Angus Macfarlane-Grieve (of the Seaforth Highlanders).
[i-ii], 282 pages. 
Size: 23 x 17 cm.
Presented by Lieut.-Col. A.A. Macfarlane-Grieve, 20 March 1957.

Add.MSS. 486-510
Presented by the Librarian, Ushaw College, 20 February 1958. Formerly belonging to Edward Arthur White (some compiled by him?).

Add.MS. 511   16 June 1849 - 16 May 1850
Minute book of Durham Architectural Society, with loose insets of the last minutes, letters of apology from Joseph Bonomi and Mr Cory, and a memorandum from W. Sidney Gibson, and also 3 leaves of drawings.
140f., of 14 have been written on, 5f. loose. 
Size: 23 x 19 cm.
Found in Lowe Library, Durham Castle.

Add.MS. 512
Relocated to Durham University Records, as UND/F1/D1/2, 12 June 2006.

Add.MS. 513   c. 1780
Book of precedents for the Durham law courts.
Cases from 17th and 18th centuries, in various hands, including that of John Dixon, with an alphabetical index.
Bookplate (armorial) of John Dixon, Durham.
[3 blank], 187f. 
Size: 20 x 16 cm.
Binding: 18th century blind-tooled reversed calf, by Waghorn of Durham.
Bought Steedman, £1. 5s., 30 May 1941. Transferred from printed book accession 60,213.
Digitised material for Book of precedents for the Durham law courts - Add.MS. 513

Add.MS. 514   c. 1837
Lines occasioned by the death of Count Boruwlaski ...
1f. 
Size: 9 x 11 cm.
Bound in volume (location: XL920B7)
Found inserted in copy of Boruwlaski's Memoirs(Durham, 1820), accession 114,583, acquired from the library of Revd. T. Romans, April 1958.

Add.MS. 515   c.1670
Durham County memorandum book: a miscellany in various 17th century hands, of transcripts of legal documents mostly relating to places in County Durham including Sunderland, Brancepeth, Alnwick, Stockton, Durham, Greatham, Gateshead Moor, Jarrow, Westoe, Barnard Castle, Seaton Carew and Frosterley.
First item is “The Incorporac i on of the Brough of Sunderland ... 21 Marcij 1634”.
Also includes recipes concerning the blood and teeth.
Compiled by a member of the Dixon-Johnson family of Aykley Heads.
[5], 357f. Many blank leaves in the old foliation, including one unnumbered between f.109 and f.110. 
Size: 19 x 14 cm.
Sold, [15 July 1953 ?] by Edward C. Lowe, Birmingham, for £22. Probably not acquired at this time by the library. Accessioned 1958.
Digitised material for Durham County legal and historical miscellany - Add.MS. 515

Add.MS. 516   c.1780
Copy of charter of 22 March 1600of Newcastle upon Tyne, Elizabeth Dei Gra. etc, reciting that Newcastle upon Tyne was an ancient town.
3f. last leaf blank. 
Size: 29 x 19 cm.
Found in book.

Add.MS. [517]
Returned to Bishop Cosin's Library as Cosin MS. V.II.18.

Add.MS. [518]
Returned to Bishop Cosin's Library as Cosin MS. V.II.19.

Add.MS. 519
Third catalogue of books, compiled by Edward Chandler in his own hand, revised with notes and additions, between 1730-38.
Thomas Osborne, the London bookseller, offered Chandler's library in fixed price sales in 1752 (A.N.L. Munby and L. Coral, British book sale catalogues 1676-1800(1977); Factotum 5 (1979), p.4)
278f. 
Size: 37 x 23 cm.
Bought from F. Weatherhead, bookseller, 25 April 1952, £5.
Digitised material for Edward Chandler's catalogue of his books - Add.MS. 519

Add.MS. [520-525]
Returned to Bishop Cosin's Library, bound in Cosin MS. B.II.19.

Add.MS. 526   c.1730
Shelflists of his books, compiled by Edward Chandler.
11f. 
Size: 30 x 19 cm.
Found loose in Add.MS. 519.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 526

Add.MS. 527   c.1730
List of books purchased by Edward Chandler, with prices and names of auctioneers and booksellers, and two lists of maps.
11ff 
Size: 23 x 18 cm., etc.
Bought with Add.MS. 519.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 527

Add.MS. 528   c.1730
“Doctor Hunter's pamphlets [in the Cathedral Library Durham]”, list apparently written in Bishop Chandler's hand.
2f. 
Size: 18 x 15 cm.
Bought with Add.MS. 519.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 528

Add.MS. 529   c.1730
“Bishop Cosin's Library”, (i.e. a list of books from it), in Bishop Chandler's hand.
4f. 
Size: 20 x 16 cm.
Bought with Add.MS. 519.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 529

Add.MS. 530   c.1730
“Duplicates set apart in Bp Cosin's Library”, in Bishop Chandler's hand, but not bought by him, at least before the compilation of his own catalogue.
3f. 
Size: 19 x 15 cm.
Bought with Add.MS. 519.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 530

Add.MS. 531   c.1730
“Catalogue of popes”, (with notes on authorities,etc.), compiled by Bishop Chandler.
4f. 
Size: 21 x 16 cm.
Bought with Add.MS. 519.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 531

Add.MS. 532   c.1730
“P[ope] Joan”, (with authorities for and against), compiled by Bishop Chandler.
6f. 
Size: 21 x 17 cm.
Bought with Add.MS. 519.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 532

Add.MS. 533   c.1730
“Sermons”, apparently contents lists of bound up volumes: with papers by Bishop Chandler, but not in his hand.
6f. 
Size: 30 x 21 cm.
Bought with Add.MS. 519.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 533

Add.MS. 534/1-141
Bowes family papers: letters and documents, concerning the Bowes family of Streatlam, Co. Durham. The contents relate particularly to the 1569 Rising of the Northern Earls. They include lists of the rebels condemned to execution before Sir George Bowes, several drafts of the petition from Sir George to Queen Elizabeth entreating a reward for his services and losses during the rebellion, 3 letters from Sir George as Marshal of Berwick in 1579, household accounts detailing purchases and other expenses, draft of the indenture conveying Streatlam and other lands from Sir William Bowes to his nephew George Bowes 1611, rentals and other papers concerning the conveyance, administration and inheritance of the Bowes estates. Many of the items and the guards on which they are mounted bear notes and markings by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, the Durham antiquary, and there is an index by him on the two final leaves.
Originally 144f. mounted in a guardbook. 
Size: 30 x 23 cm., etc.
Binding: Originally half-calf, marbled paper sides, 19th century. Spine blind-tooled, lettered in gold at head "Bowes MSS", with paper label at foot lettered in ink "12". Ink no. "A9" crossed out on front board and "vol 12" written above.
No. 12 of a series of volumes of Bowes family papers bound up at the instigation of the Durham antiquary, Sir Cuthbert Sharp, who discovered the papers at Gibside, another Bowes family house in Co. Durham, in 1833, and drew on them extensively for his Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569. A few of the papers in this volume are printed in the Memorials. Most of the series were sold at Sotheby's on 28 March 1923 with the contents of Streatlam, when the house was given up by the Strathmores (the Bowes-Lyon family, Earls of Strathmore, to whom the Bowes estates had passed). The inclusion of the mss in the sale was apparently unintentional, and many volumes were bought back by the Strathmores, but a number were widely dispersed. This volume was eventually purchased by Durham University Library at Sotheby's, 22 April 1958, £66. 6s. (with a contribution of £33 from the Friends of the National Libraries). Other volumes are in the British Library and the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.
See separate catalogue B.L.H. Horn & F.J. Shaw “Bowes bound correspondence and papers”, Archives, XIV, no. 63 (Spring 1980), 134-140 (an account of the mss and their migrations, and a list of the volumes with their then locations).
H.B. McCall, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, XVIII.

Add.MS. 535   1681
Copy of Decree in Chancery concerning the executors of Bishop Cosin: Sir Thomas Orby, John Durell, Miles Stapylton and Thomas Blakiston, at the suit of Sir Gilbert Gerard, Denis Granville and Isaac Basire and their wives, in 1677.
Judgment given, 17 September 1681 at Westminster.
4f. 
Size: 30 x 18 cm.
Presented by Ushaw College: from the collection of E.A. White.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 535

Add.MS. 536   1665-1668
Account of money received from collectors on behalf of the bishop of Durham (John Cosin) across the wards of County Durham Modern title given as “Rental book for Darlington Ward” although it covers a wider area:
100f. 
Size: 32 x 20 cm.
Bought Hodgson's auction no. 11, 28 July 1954, lot 143, together with a printed book, £4.
Phillipps MS. 18464. Belonged to T.F. Hedley in 1924, and seen by Edward Wooler of Darlington at that date.
Digitised material for Money received from collectors on behalf of the bishop of Durham, 1665-1668 - Add.MS. 536

Add.MSS. 537-538
“Collection of important original historical documents, MS. papers and letters etc. relating to the counties of Durham and York ... 1713-1812”.
Not all original, but some apparently contemporary transcripts. A large number of copies of 1 letter about sheriff of Yorkshire included.
2 volumes. 37f. and 35f. 
Size: 34 x 21 cm., etc.
Bought Hodgson's auction no. 11, 28 July 1954, lot 144, £4. 10s.

Add.MS. 539   1853-1866
Diary of J. Theodore West, begun in Leeds (where West was in business as an analytical chemist in Albion Street) 1 January 1853, and continued through his emigration in that year to Australia (where he worked for some time in the goldfields near Bathurst) and his return with his family to England, arriving in March 1862. The diary resumes, after a gap, in January 1866 and continues until October 1866, ending in Darlington
Vol. 1 covers 1853 - 16 October 1858 and (pp. 287-348) 13 December 1861 - October 1866, with a gap from March 1862 - January 1866. At back of volume (pp. 350-364) there are notes of letters written and received.
Vol. 2 begins (pp. 3-14) with a diary kept by West's wife during his absence on the gold fields, beginning 7 October 1858 and running on for some days. It continues with West's own diary from 4 November 1858 - 20 November 1861. At back of volume (pp. 185-202) there are accounts of expenditure. Both volumes include drawings and vol. 2 has pressed flowers, presumably from Australia, between pp. 142-143 and 148-149.
2 volumes. (364, 202p.) 
Size: 186 x 115, 172 x 123 mm.
Bought from remnant stock of Hildreth, Darlington bookseller, 1957, for 10s.

Add.MS. 540   17th - 19th century
A list of the knights and burgesses who have represented the county and city of Durham in Parliament[compiled by Sir Cuthbert Sharp], 2nd ed. Sunderland, 1831, heavily extra-illustrated with manuscript and printed items relating to County Durham, 17th - 19th century, including numerous pedigrees and election broadsides.
Bought from Elly, 18 May 1934, Elly having obtained it from the Colepike Hall sale.
See separate catalogue

Add.MSS. [541-566.]
Numbers not in use; (used formerly as accession numbers for individual manuscript items in Add.MS 540).

Add.MS. 567   24 October 1797
Letter from Martin Joseph Routh at Oxford, to Messrs Lackington, Allen & Co., booksellers.
2f. 
Size: 20 x 16 cm.
Bought from I.K. Fletcher, 14 June 1958, £1. 15s.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 567

Add.MS. 568   10 September 1820
Letter from Martin Joseph Routh at Oxford, to W. Ford, bookseller, of Lambeth.
2f. 
Size: 23 x 18 cm.
Bought from I.K. Fletcher, 14 June 1958, £1. 15s.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 568

Add.MS. 569   25 June 1847
Letter from Martin Joseph Routh at Tylehurst, near Reading, to Revd. Arundel Mildmay, Merton College.
1f. 
Size: 10 x 11 cm.
Bought from I.K. Fletcher, 14 June 1958, £1. 15s.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 569

Add.MS. 570
Relocated to Durham University Records, as UND/CD10/A3, 12 June 2006.

Add.MS. 571   1788
Baleazar King of Tyre, a tragedy.(manuscript five act play in verse)
Attributed in manuscript to William Hutchinson by the author's granddaughter, 1859.
Spine title: MSS Vol. 2
[viii], 153, [iii]p. 
Size: 19 x 12 cm.
Add.MSS. 571-576: bought from Francis Edwards, 1959, £10. 3s.
Formerly in the possession of two of Hutchinson's grandchildren, Marshall Hutchinson and Tempest Camps (who makes the ascription to Hutchinson).
Digitised material for Baleazar King of Tyre, a tragedy - Add.MS. 571

Add.MS. 572   1787
The tears of Bellville vale, a poem, in seven parts.(manuscript)
Attributed in manuscript to William Hutchinson by the author's granddaughter, 1859.
Spine title: MSS Vol. 1
[x], 314, [vii]p. 
Size: 19 x 12 cm.
Add.MSS. 571-576: bought from Francis Edwards, 1959, £10. 3s.
Formerly in the possession of two of Hutchinson's grandchildren, Marshall Hutchinson and Tempest Camps (who makes the ascription to Hutchinson).
Digitised material for The tears of Bellville vale, a poem, in seven parts - Add.MS. 572

Add.MSS. 573-576
Honourable love, in a series of letters from persons in real life.(manuscript)
By [William Hutchinson].
In 5 volumes (vol. 4 missing).
Size: 20 x 14 cm.
Add.MSS. 571-576: bought from Francis Edwards, 1959, £10. 3s.
Formerly in the possession of two of Hutchinson's grandchildren, Marshall Hutchinson and Tempest Camps (who makes the ascription to Hutchinson).
Digitised material for Honourable love, in a series of letters from persons in real life v.1 - Add.MSS. 573
Digitised material for Honourable love, in a series of letters from persons in real life v.2 - Add.MSS. 574
Digitised material for Honourable love, in a series of letters from persons in real life v.3 - Add.MSS. 575
Digitised material for Honourable love, in a series of letters from persons in real life v.5 - Add.MSS. 576

Add.MS. 577
“A trew copie ffound in the lord Conyers studie of the names of certaine Knights that dwelt within the Bishoprick of Durham ... A.D. 1264.”
With Consecration of the Bishops of Durham; Genealogies of northern families, including Nevill, Lumley, Hansard, Bulmer, Madison, Burton, Bellasis, Tailbois, Conyers, Barnes, etc. all written about 1625, with some later notes on rents, about 1728.
43f. 
Size: 31 x 20 cm.
Bought from J. Burke, bookseller, London N4, 19 June 1959, £9. 9s.
Digitised material for Add.MS. 577

Add.MSS. 578-579   c. 1910
Manuscript pedigrees of the descendants of William Chambers of Monkwearmouth Hall (b. 1647, with two family seals, and of Chambers of Cleadon ..., compiled by Bertram Mordaunt Chambers (b. 1866).
3f. 
Size: 33 x 41 cm.
Bound with Northern notes(1906) (location: SC 12349).
Bound in an odd volume of Northern Notes and Queries(accession no 121,953), bought from Steedman, 11 March 1959.
Digitised material for Manuscript pedigrees of the descendants of William Chambers of Monkwearmouth Hall (b. 1647) - Add.MSS. 578-579

Add.MS. 580   1909
“Outline of a scheme for instruction of working men and country lads of 17 or 18 years of age and upwards at Durham University”, typescript, by John Percival, Bishop of Hereford.
5f. 
Size: 33 x 20 cm.
Presented by Sir James Duff, 7 September 1960.

Add.MSS. 581-615
Bought from E. Hall, 1959, £3. 15s., with Add.MSS 617-620.

Add.MS. 616   8 August 1937
Letter from George G. Napier at 22 Braidburn Terr., Edinburgh, on genealogical matters.
2f. 
Size: 23 x 18 cm.
Bought with copy of H. Scott's Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae(1866-71), to which it refers.

Add.MS. 617   16 April 1890
Letter from Sir Joseph W. Pease, Hutton Hall, Guisborough to Captain H. Toynbee declining to attend a meeting of the Mission to Seamen.
1f. 
Size: 18 x 11 cm.
Bought with 581-615.

Add.MSS. 618-620
“Lines to his daughter on her marriage”, and three pencil drawings of Broadwater church, one of the exterior and two of the interior, circa 1840's, by George Townsend.
Items accompanying No. 602 above.
3 items 
Bought with 581 - 615.

Add.MS. 621   1830
Memoranda, mainly dealing with fees, with three printed forms, bound with or pasted into a volume containing printed tracts on the same subject, all relating to Durham Palatine Courts.
Not all in the same hand, but with the name of William Brignal, solicitor in several places.
30f. 
Size: 25 x 20 cm. etc.
Bound with Tables of fees etc. for Durham Palatinate Courts.
Bought Grafton, 19 April 1944, £2. 2s.
Digitised material for Durham Palatine Courts fees and regulations (19th century) - Add.MS. 621

Add.MS. 622   1850's
Old Exchequer (Palace Green, Durham) ground plan, by J. Henry, Dun Cow Lane, Durham.
Showing each floor after acquisition by the University for library and lecture rooms.
1 sheet. 
Size: 52 x 65 cm.
Planfile
Digitised material for DUL Additional MS 622 - Old Exchequer Building (Palace Green, Durham) ground plan, by J. Henry, Dun Cow Lane, Durham

Add.MS. 623   [c. 1834]
Plan of the Stanhope Tyne rail road, from the Durham Turnpike to South Shields.
NW is at the top. Properties and owners of land are marked (which evidence suggests that the map was made about the time of the opening of the railway in 1834).
scale: 4in:1 mile, approx.
1 sheet. 
Size: 41 x 110 cm.
Planfile
Bought from Grafton, 12 October 1943, £2. 2s. 6d.

Add.MS. 624   15 September 1887
Letter from Edward Bradley at Scarborough.
Bought from J. Wilson, Birmingham, 21 October 1960, 7s. 6d.
Missing, since at least January 1999.
See separate Edward Bradley catalogue

Add.MS. 625   1788 - 1789
Poems and literary essays, and copies of letters describing a journey in France fron November 1788 to April 1789, by R.W.C., addressed to Miss Nanney Wynne of Maes-y-Neuadd, N. Wales.
116f. 
Size: 24 x 18 cm.
Presented by Professor John Lough, 1961 (from Howes Bookshop, Cat 136, item 663, £6. 10s.
Bibliography: John Lough “Letters from France, 1788-1789”, Durham University Journal(1961-62) 1-12. (An article on Add.MS 625; a typescript copy, presented by the author, is shelved with the ms)

Add.MS. 626   22 April 1955
Autograph letter signed to Benedikt S. Benedikz from Sir William Alexander Craigie, at Watlington, about Guðbrandur Vigfússon and his work on the Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1869
Paper   2f.
Presented by the recipient.

Add.MS. [627]   1841
Section shewing the gradients on the line ... from Darlington to York, of the Great North of England Railway, drawn by T. Sopwith ?
1 sheet. 
Size: 102 x 31 cm.
Bound with SC++ 00937.
Bound with A plan of the proposed Clarence rail road, (1827) and four other printed plans relating to rail roads, as 3rd item in volume; binding title “Maps of proposed railways 1827-1845”.
Bought from Steedman, 12 January 1959.

Add.MSS. 628-629
The day of the sardine, Sid Chaplin.
Author's typescript (Add.MS 629), with signed letter dated 25 April 1961 (Add.MS 628).
i,277f. 
Size: 33 x 20 cm.
Presented by the author, 1961.

Add.MS. 630   1953
Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone. Photographed in its setting ...
Book made for the University of Durham by E.A. Milton (manuscript) at Freetown, Sierra Leone.
51f. 
Size: 31 x 15 cm.
Book, binding and slipcase made at Fourah Bay College for presentation to the University, 1953.

Add.MSS. [631-730]
Numbers not now in use; (formerly used for individual letters in Add.MS 206).

Add.MS. 731   c. 1790 ?
“A descriptive account of the several birds, animals, reptiles, insects, fish, shells, fossils and other natural & artificial curiosities in the Musaeum of George Allan Esqr of Grange near Darlington. Arranged in systematic order. Part 1st. Containing the land-birds”.
1 volume - 77 original leaves (interleaved with 78 blank leaves) 
Size: 18 x 14 cm. [blanks 30 x 22 cm]
Binding: 18th century reversed calf.
Presented by A.N.L. Munby, 1963.
Digitised material for A descriptive account of the Musaeum of George Allan Esqr of Grange near Darlington. Part 1. Land-birds - Add.MS. 731

Add.MSS. 732-744   ca.1849-1890
Letters, sketches etc., by Edward Bradley (Cuthbert Bede).
See separate Edward Bradley catalogue

Add.MS. 745   1945-1956
Guest book of F.A. Paneth at the Old Corner House, Shincliffe, 1945 - December 1953, and at Wiesbaden, April 1954 - April 1956.
F.A. Paneth was Professor of Chemistry at Durham University, 1939-1953, where he founded the Londonderry Laboratory for Radio-Chemistry. His guests included many distinguished scientists.
1 vol. (13f.) 
Presented by Miss E. Paneth, 1986.

Add.MS. 746   1963
Letter to Miss Eva Paneth from Professor F.A. Paneth's former secretary, Mainz, 26 July 1963, recounting a joke played on her by the professor in the guise of an experiment. With English tr. of the anecdote by Miss E. Paneth.
2,1f. 
Presented by Miss E. Paneth, 1986

Add.MS. 747   1938
Photocopy of letter to Professor Soddy, Oxford, from the secretary of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, Nobel-Committee for Chemistry, 12 November 1938, acknowledging his proposal of F. Paneth and G. von Hevesy for the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1939 (the proposal was unsuccessful).
1f. 
Presented by Miss E. Paneth, 1986

Add.MS. 748   1945
“On the teaching of radiochemistry in Great Britain”, memorandum to W.A. Akers from F.A. Paneth, Montreal, 20 March 1945, urging that government backing be given to the establishment of a school of radiochemistry at Durham University. Marked confidential, with copies to Dr J.D. Cockcroft and Dr J. Chadwick.
F.A. Paneth was Professor of Chemistry at Durham University, 1939-1953, where he founded the Londonderry Laboratory for Radio-Chemistry.
3f. 
Presented by Miss E. Paneth, 1986

Add.MS. 749   1942
Pencil notes for a lecture by Professor F.A. Paneth on “Der Bernstein in Geschichte und Wissenschaft”, given at Durham University, 21 August 1942, with announcement of the lecture, notes on his reading on amber, envelope of samples of emery paper, and photograph of Paneth.
1 envelope. 
Presented by Miss E Paneth, 1986

Add.MS. 750   1957
Correspondence of F.A. Paneth on amber play counters, January-September 1957, with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Sir George Thomson, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Museum of the History of Science, Oxford; British Optical Association, London; and Dr Karl Andrée Gottingen.
19 f., 1 photograph. 
Presented by Miss E Paneth 1986, as background to the Paneth amber collection in Durham University's Department of Geology.

Add.MS. 751   1957-1979
Correspondence of Miss E. Paneth on amber play counters, 1957-79, with photographs of the counters.
9f., 1 pamphlet, 56 photographs 
Presented by Miss Paneth, 1986, as background to the Paneth amber collection in Durham University's Department of Geology.

Add.MS. 752   1986
Recollections of Durham University, 1939-1973, by Leonard Slater, former Reader in Geography and Master of University College, Durham. Typed from tape recordings made in 1986.
24f. 
Presented by the author.

Add.MS. 753   1825
“The Common Place Book being A Collection of Recipes Selected from various Sources by William Trueman Whitby 1823”.
Largely medical, household and other non-culinary recipes - Trueman practised as a chemist in Durham from about 1830, for a time in partnership with Matthew Thompson (cf. Durham Cathedral Library MS Raine 117, another of his commonplace books).
12 pp. index follows p.197 - Pencil quotation on memory on second front flyleaf, pencil recipe for preserving birds on end flyleaf and another for mist. pector. on back pastedown. Trueman's bookplate with ms crest on front pastedown, printed sheet Kitchingman's Stenographytipped in on back pastedown.
1 vol. ([8], 1-18, 21-197, [15] p.) 
Size: 128 x 120 mm
Bought from Turton, 1986.
Digitised material for Common Place Book, A Collection of Recipes by William Trueman, 1823 - Add.MS. 753

Add.MS. 754   [c. 1400-1425]
The Poor Caitiff
Middle English prose compendium of religious belief and devotion, composed c. 1400 and commonly called by this title.
Incipit: p. 1, “This tretys compiled of a pore caitif ...”
Writing and decoration: c. first quarter 15th century, textura script, illuminated initials, flourished paraffs.
Inscriptions of John Turner, 16th century and Bibliotheca Swaniana, 1792. Given by Henry Yates Thompson to G.M. Trevelyan.
For detailed description see Catalogue of medieval manuscripts in Durham University Library (available in Search Room).
Parchment   1 vol. iii f., 466 p.
Size: 112 x 82 mm
Presented to University Library by Mrs M.C. Moorman, 1986.

Add.MS. 755   11 October in the 20th year of Hatfield's episcopate [1364].
Letters patent from Thomas [Hatfield] Bishop of Durham granting rights of free warren to the master and brothers of St Giles Hospital, Kepier [near Durham], so that no-one may hunt there without licence from them, on pain of forfeiting £10 to the Bishop.
This charter seems to be otherwise unrecorded in medieval sources; it is not enrolled on Hatfield's Chancery roll.
Vellum, with large fragment of Hatfield's seal.   1m.
Purchased, with assistance from the government's Purchase Grant Fund, Phillips Sale on 26 June 1986, lot 4. The charter was presented to the Soc. of Antiquaries of Newcastle by A.J. Rudd in 1909, and removed from its custody without due authority at an unknown date between then and 1963. Now deposited at Durham by consent of the Society.
Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3rd ser. v. 4 (1909), pp.125-126.
Digitised material for Letters patent from Thomas Hatfield Bishop of Durham granting rights of free warren to the master and brothers of St Giles Hospital, Kepier - Add.MS. 755

Add.MS. 756   1981
“Memoirs of an ordinary man”: semi-fictionalised autobiography of Laurie Moran, concerned particularly with Brandon, Co. Durham, and the collieries in the area.
Glossary on last two pages, followed by folding plan of Brandon colliery.
1 vol. ([2], 79, [2] p., [16] sheets of illus., 1 folding) 
Photocopied from author's typescript (completed 1981) in 1987

Add.MS. 757   1894
Letter to Bartholomew Price, Master of Pembroke College Oxford, from J[ohn] Percival, Headmaster of Rugby School, 20 September 1894. Photocopy of Pembroke College, Oxford, MS. 60/14/154.
Thanks Price for his help in Percival's unsuccessful bid to become Dean of Durham and Warden of Durham University.
2 sheets. 
Presented by Aidan Lewes, 1986

Add.MS. 758   1915
Autobiography of John Wray (b. 1843) of Western Australia, son of John and Celia Wray of Co. Durham. Photocopied typescript.
Gives Wray's recollections of England before his emigration to Australia in 1853, including a visit to the Great Exhibition in 1851, and of his life thereafter in the Albany area of Western Australia, and later in Perth. The autobiography was written in 1915 (f. 8).
[2], 30, [1] f. 
Presented by A.F. Whitford, 1987 via Department of Palaeography.

Add.MS. 759   1987
“Some reminiscences of the Department of Geology at Durham, 1946- 1951”, by E.A. Vincent, Lecturer in Mineralogy and Crystallography at Durham University 1946-1951, later Professor of Geology at Oxford.
1 vol. (Word processed. 27 p.). 
Presented by the author, 1987.

Add.MS. 760   1986
“Davenport ancestry”: pedigree of the descendants of Richard Davenport (buried 9.1.1623) of Wigston Magna, Leics., from the 17th to the mid-20th century, compiled by John Lloyd Marlow, 1986. Photocopy.
Richard Davenport was grandfather of George Davenport, Rector of Houghton-le- Spring.
1 sheet. 
Presented by Malcolm Davenport, 1987.

Add.MS. 761   1831-1882
5 letters (20.7.1831, 15.11.1831, 11.5.1838, 15.8.1838, 22.6.1863) to C.T. Whitley from Charles Darwin, and of 1 letter (13.6.1882) to Whitley from Sir Francis Darwin. Photocopies of the originals, with transcripts.
C.T. Whitley, a friend of Charles Darwin's from their undergraduate days at Cambridge, was from 1833-55 Reader in natural philosophy and mathematics at Durham University.
16 sheets. 
Presented by Mrs T.W. Bower, 1987.
The originals of the letters are at Shrewsbury School.

Add.MS. 762   1859
Transcript of the will made by George Lilburne [d. 1676] of Sunderland on 23 July 1674, "copied from the original in the position of Mr Kidson Sunderland Solicitor, September 14 1859".
1 pamphlet (6 p., stitched, in paper wrappers). 
Size: 219 x 135 mm.
Presented by the executors of Gavin G. Lilburn, 1985.

Add.MS. 763   18--
“The Lilburne MS”: volume of 19th century memorials, transcripts, clippings, etc, concerning the Lilburne family.
Concerns particularly John Lilburne the Leveller, his uncle George Lilburne [d. 1676], and 18th century property disputes involving the Lilburnes.
With several internal sequences of pagination; not bound up entirely in sense order (gap in sense between f. 87 and f. 88 is filled by text on ff. 100-111); ff. 128-138 loosely inserted.
1 vol. (146 f.) 
Size: 345 x 222 mm.
Presented by the executors of Gavin G. Lilburne, 1985; coloured armorial of [Charles] Lilburn [1842- 91] mounted on front free endpaper; volume probably compiled by or for him.

Add.MS. 764   1656
Warrant from Oliver [Cromwell], Lord Protector, to the Admiralty Commissioners, 8 February 1655/[56] to send a naval vessel to Hamburg to bring home Edward Rolt, Envoy to the King of Sweden.
1 bifolium. (1 p., with endorsed title) 
Size: 305 x 202 mm.
Presented by the executors of Gavin G. Lilburn, 1985.

Add.MS. 765   1691-c.172-
“A catalogue of books belonging to John Cock 1691”.
The original catalogue of the collection formed by John Cock, Vicar of St Oswald's Church, Durham, until his deprivation as a Non-Juror in 1690, and given by him to his successors in the living in perpetuity. Written in Cock's own hand (see heading on f. 13r), with some additions (mostly listing further books received from Cock in 1704/05), probably in the hand of Pexall Forster, Cock's successor at St Oswald's. With amplifications and corrections in the hand of Thomas Rud (who followed Forster in the living), and notes of various loans from the collection.
Title above from f.3r. Addressed on back wrapper "For the Reverend Mr Pexall Foster these Durham".
The catalogue lists the books in shelf order, thus revealing the arrangement of the library, and gives very abbreviated details of author, title and format.
The Cock Library was sold ca 1930, without a faculty, by the then incumbent of St Oswald's, and dispersed.
1 vol. (28 f., plus original grey paper wrappers). 
Size: 355 x 137 mm
Purchased, with assistance from the government's Purchase Grant Fund, 1987, (with Add. MS. 766) from Steedman, Newcastle).
Digitised material for Catalogue of books belonging to John Cock 1691 - Add.MS. 765

Add.MS. 766   17-- - 1881
“Catalogus Librorum, quos Vir Reverendus Joannes Cock A.M. Vicarius Ecclesiae Sti Oswaldi Dunelm. Successoribus suis in perpetuum legavit, Classicus”.
Catalogue, in the hand of Thomas Rud, Durham Cathedral Librarian, Vicar of St Oswald's 1711-25, of the library given to St Oswald's by John Cock (Vicar of the church until his deprivation as a Non-Juror in 1690) and dispersed ca 1930. On p.1-47 Rud lists the collection in shelf order, giving the pressmark of each volume, with format, author, title, place and date of publication. For pamphlet volumes the total number of items in the vol. is stated, and the first item identified. On p.49-75 Rud then gives a contents list for each pamphlet vol., in pressmark order; this section of the catalogue appears to have been left incomplete, stopping at F.G.6.
On p.91-105 is a further shelf list of class M, shelves A-E, written between 1876 and 1881 by A.C. Headlam, later Bishop of Gloucester, whose father was Vicar of St Oswald's. Headlam marked with a pencil dot all the books in Rud's catalogue which were still present in the Library at that period. Also annotated by E.V. Stocks (Durham University Librarian) to show which books he was unable to find in 1916 (note on p. iv). Cock Library bookplate on p. i.
1 vol. (58 f., with modern pencil pagination iv, 112 p.) 
Purchased with assistance from the government's Purchase Grant Fund, 1987, (with Add. MS. 765) from Steedman, Newcastle.
Digitised material for Catalogus Librorum, quos Vir Reverendus Joannes Cock A.M. Vicarius Ecclesiae Sti Oswaldi Dunelm - Add.MS. 766

Add.MS. 767   [c. 1200-1499]
Peter Comestor, Historia scholastica, with several shorter items
Shorter items include: Alexander of Ashby, Argumenta bibliorum ad Lethardum; ?Guido de Pileo, Obsecrationes versificate veteris et novi testamenti; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi (incomplete); 1487 catalogue of the library of the collegiate church of St Cuthbert, Darlington.
Writing and decoration: Peter Comestor copied early 13th century, extensively annotated 13th - 15th centuries, rubrics, flourished initials, marginal drawings, shorter items copied 13/14th - 15th centuries, rubrics, diagrams.
Erased 15th century inscription of bequest to the Darlington collegiate church by Richard Witton, Dean, on f. 177r; inscriptions of Anthony Branson, 16/17th century; Thos Mascall, 17/18th century; Conyers 16/17th century; Thomas Hopper, 18th century; T.F. Powell, 1949.
For detailed description see Catalogue of medieval manuscripts in Durham University Library (available in Search Room).
Parchment   1 vol. 189 f.
Size: 335 x 245 mm
Presented to University Library by H.F Smith, Leicester, 1988.

Add.MS. 768   1907
Alphabetical List of all Graduates, Licentiates, Scholars, or the University of Durham, 1833 to 1911. Compiled and written by Walter Consitt Boulter in 1907.
1 vol. (240 f.) 
Presented by Professor C.W. Whiting, 1934.

Add.MS. 769   17--
Manuscript notes on the Greek Testament, by John Taylor (1704-66, classical scholar and Archdeacon of Buckingham).
1 vol. (iii, 211 f.) 
Provenance: inscription on f. iii, 24 September 1856, of gift to the University of Durham by Edward Maltby, Bishop of Durham, with note that he had it from [Samuel] Parr, who was given it by [Anthony] Askew (to whom Taylor left his books and mss). Further puzzling inscription (on f. i, in the hand of J.T. Fowler, University Librarian) of gift by Mrs Bland, 1880. Formerly numbered Maltby 157.E.7.

Add.MSS. 770-771   1902-1917
Memoirs etc. of J.T. Fowler, Vice-Principal of Hatfield College, Durham and University Librarian.
Photocopied, 1982, from originals in private ownership. The material copied was selected by C.D. Watkinson of Durham University Library as being of greatest Durham interest.
See separate catalogue

Add.MSS. 772-776   18--
“Index idoneorum”: commonplace book of George Taylor (1772-1851) of Witton le Wear, Co. Durham, consisting largely of extracts from his classical reading, thematically arranged.
Contents: v.1, A-Dog. v.2, Dou-Jen. v.3, Jes-Pat. v. 4, Pau-State. v. 5, Statu-Z and Supplement.
Compiler's ownership inscription in v. 2 dated 31 March 1835, in v. 4 7 July 1841 and in v. 5 15 October 1842.
For biographical note on Taylor by James Raine, mentioning this commonplace book, see pref. to Taylor's Memoir of Robert Surtees(Surtees Society 24, p. x- xvi).
5 vols. 
Size: 190 x 250 mm
Provenance: inscription in v. 1 of Sir Henry Taylor (G.T.'s son).
Purchase by D.U.L. at Sotheby's sale. 25/26 May 1988, lot 1422.
Digitised material for Index idoneorum: commonplace book of George Taylor (1772-1851) of Witton le Wear, vol.1 - Add.MS. 772
Digitised material for Index idoneorum: commonplace book of George Taylor (1772-1851) of Witton le Wear, vol.2 - Add.MSS. 773
Digitised material for Index idoneorum: commonplace book of George Taylor (1772-1851) of Witton le Wear, vol.3 - Add.MSS. 774
Digitised material for Index idoneorum: commonplace book of George Taylor (1772-1851) of Witton le Wear, vol.4 - Add.MSS. 775
Digitised material for Index idoneorum: commonplace book of George Taylor (1772-1851) of Witton le Wear, vol.5 - Add.MSS. 776

Add.MS. 777   1768
“An accurate Plan of Mr John Watson's Estate within the Township of Westoe near Shields in the County of Durham. By Richard Richardson in 1768”.
Drawn in ink, with some pencil additions. Title in cartouche.
scale: 30 chains [= 92 mm.]
1 membrane. 
Size: 432 x 596 mm
Purchased (Todd Bequest) from J. Shotton of Durham, 1986.

Add.MS. 778   1986
“Some reminiscences of Fritz Paneth and Durham”, by G.R. Martin. Photocopied typescript.
G.R. Martin, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kent, was taught by Paneth at Imperial College, London, and in the 1940's and early 1950's worked with him in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University, where Paneth was Professor from 1939-53. The reminiscences deal in some detail with Paneth's scientific work, especially the research undertaken by the Londonderry Laboratory for radiochemistry which he established in Durham. They also include accounts of other Durham science staff of the period. The appended photograph shows the Durham Radiochemistry Group, 1950-51.
i, 24 f., with appended photocopied photograph. 
Presented by the author, 1986.

Add.MS. 779   1947-1953
“E.J. Wilson”: Professor F.A. Paneth's file on Edward James Wilson, one of his research students in the Department of Chemistry, Durham University, from 1947- 49.
Contents: 17 items, consisting of correspondence between Paneth and Wilson, 1947-53, about his thesis (Ph.D. awarded 1950), employment possibilities, publications etc, with a report by Wilson "for submission to D.S.I.R." 1948 on his research on determining the disintegration constant for uranium I.
1 envelope. 
Presented by Paneth family?, date uncertain.

Add.MS. 780/1-409   1938-1955
Correspondence (photocopied) of Prof. F.A. Paneth (1887-1958, Professor of Chemistry at Durham University 1939-53).
409 letters and telegrams: 1 box. 
Received via Miss E. Paneth, 1981
See separate catalogue

Add.MSS. 781-785   1871-1875
4 autograph letters, signed (dated 19 June [18]71, 6 November [18]73, 21 September [18]75 and 29 September [18]75) from John Ruskin to Sir Willoughby Jones Bt., Cranmer Hall, Fakenham, Norfolk, a letter (6 August 1968) from Sir Lawrence Jones Bt., the recipient's grandson, giving them to Mrs V. Surtees.
Ruskin's letters include references to his boyhood friendship with Jones and their personalities then, and to his present ill health and difficulties in working. Each Ruskin letter has its envelope, except that for 1873 which has the envelope (postmarked Jy 2 [18]71) of another letter (not now present) from Ruskin to Jones.
5 pieces, 4 envelopes. 
Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1989.

Add.MS. 786   3 March 1878
Autograph letter, signed, from D[ante] G[abriel] Rossetti to Mrs [Cowper-]Temple (later Baroness Mount-Temple.
Refers to the health and financial position of the painter James Smetahm, sales of Smetham's paintings (with prices) to the Cowper-Temples and others, and to Rossetti's own progress with the predella of his painting the Blessed Damozel.
1 piece. 
Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1989; with clipping from sale catalogue, dated in ms on verso 1947, in which it was item 246..

Add.MS. 787   13 July [190]4
Concerns the date of birth of his brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wife Elizabeth Siddal, which he suggests was in or about 1834 (in fact 25 July 1829).
1 sheet. 
Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1989; with clipping from John Wilson (Autographs) sale catalogue, and letter from the firm, 1982.

Add.MSS. 788-797   1786-1876
Deeds etc. relating to property around Durham City, Co. Durham, Northumberland and London.
Purchased from Miss C. Robson, 1972.

Add.MS. 798   27 April 22 Eliz. I [1580]
Bargain and sale of lands formerly belonging to the chapel of St Oswald in the parish church of Hurworth, Co. Durham, by John Walker, citizen and scriptor of London and Roger Rante of London, gent. to Henry Lawson of Neasham, Esq.
With attached memorandum of the enrolment of an indenture from the Earl of Lincoln and Christopher Gouff to John Walker and Roger Rant, 16 April 22 Eliz. I [1580].
Parchment   1m. and 1 piece.
Add.MSS. 798-800: Acquired in packet, source unknown.

Add.MS. 799   31 January 1650/51
Grant of a messuage, cottage garth and lands at Hurworth by William Jennison of Neasham, gent. to Thomas Braithwaite of Shackleton, Yorks, gent. in pursuance of an indenture of partition of the same date..
Parchment   1m.
Add.MSS. 798-800: Acquired in packet, source unknown.

Add.MS. 800   27 June 12 Charles II [1660]
Exemplification of a fine for conveyance of lands at Hurworth from Thomas Braithwaite, gent. and Ursula his wife to Anthony Bierley for £240..
Parchment, seal missing.   1m.
Add.MSS. 798-800: Acquired in packet, source unknown.

Add.MS. 801   8 December 1 George III [1760]
Indenture of apprenticeship of Thomas, son of Francis Plowdon of Callaly, Northumberland, yeoman to Mark Ferry of Callaly, weaver.
Printed form completed in ms.
1 m. 
Add.MSS. 801-802: acquired in a packet, source unknown.

Add.MS. 802   1794-1795
Will of James Reynolds of South St, Durham, gent., 29 September 1794, with note of grant of probate, 20 November 1795.
Copy, in a 19th century hand, extracted from the Registry of the Consistory Court of Durham.
4f. 
Add.MSS. 801-802: acquired in a packet, source unknown.

Add.MS. 803   16 March 1772
Power of attorney granted by some of the freemen and burgesses of the city of Durham and the township of Framwellgate to George Pearson of Durham, gent., authorising him to present to Parliament their petition against the bill for enclosing Framwellgate Moor and two pieces of ground in Framwellgate called the Intack or Cow pasture and Shaw Wood, and to represent their interests in all negotiations thereon.
Signed by approximately 330 names.
Versions of this bill were introduced in both 1771 and 1772, but not enacted.
Parchment   1 m.
Add.MSS. 803-804: deposit from Preston, 1943; details of source not recorded.

Add.MS. 804   10 June 1802
“Laws and Regulations for the Conduit and Management of the Schools for the Education of Poor Children in the County of Durham”.
Deed signed by Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, pursuant to the Act of 41 Geo. III (1801) for the establishment of schools for the education of poor children in the County Palatine of Durham.
Parchment   3mm.
Add.MSS. 803-804: deposit from Preston, 1943; details of source not recorded.

Add.MSS. 805-812   1725-1853
Parcel of 8 deeds relating to property in Binchester, Staindrop, Hylton and Ford in County Durham.
Purchased 1952 (BRA 846, part of a lampshade-maker's stock)
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 813   1719
Bill of complaint of John Walton of Lanchester in a case (Walton v. Clavering) in the Court of Common Pleas.
Concerns payments etc, which Walton claims are due to him through his wife Sarah, but which he alleges are being detained from him by James Clavering the younger of Stone House, esq. (later Sir James Clavering, 6th Bart), William Roper, Durham attorney, and others.
At head of f. 1: “Report. in Officio XIV. die Augti Anno D[o]m. 1717”.
Paper   58 f.
Provenance: unknown; apparently not part of the Library's Clavering Papers.

Add.MS. 814   1922
“Sonata [in G major] for viola and piano”by Arnold Bax. Autograph performing score, ink with additional pencil markings.
Dated at end (p.35) Jan 9th 1922. Written on manuscript paper with imprint A L No. 12; “60100” in red pencil at head of p.1. In manilla folder with inscription “Harriet Cohen”, and “942” in red ink. First performance Aeolian Hall, 17 Nov. 1922; published London, Murdoch, 1923.
35 p. on 18 leaves. 
Size: 359 x 265 mm.
Provenance: bequeathed by Miss Harriet Cohen, 1968.

Add.MS. 815   ca. 1919-1946
Music manuscripts from the collection of Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948), mostly short choral pieces or songs, some of them settings of poems by Bottomley.
10 items 
Bequeathed by Gordon Bottomley, 1948
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 816   1880-1923
Kilburn correspondence
Letters to Nicholas Kilburn (1843-1923), Bishop Auckland pump manufacturer, influential music amateur, and friend of Elgar, together with a few letters to Kilburn's wife Alice and several miscellaneous items.
The letters are largely concerned with musical matters. They illustrate Kilburn's contribution to the musical life of the North-East (he was conductor of the Bishop Auckland Musical Society, the Middlesbrough Musical Union, and the Sunderland Philharmonic Society) and the wide range of his contacts among contemporary composers and musicians, both English and American.
85 items 
Purchased Sotheby's, 9 February 1976
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 817   1871-1944
Incomplete draft of Derrick Leon's book Ruskin: the Great Victorian (posthumously published London, 1949) together with a collection of letters and other material used by Leon as sources for the biography
The collection of source material is particularly concerned with Ruskin's love for Rose La Touche. It includes original correspondence of Ruskin's friends the novelist George MacDonald and his wife, in whom Rose confided. Also included is “John Ruskin, friend and lover ... the story of his friendship with George MacDonald and his love for Rose La Touche”by George MacDonald, George's son, unpublished in this form.
51 items 
Presented by Virginia Surtees, 1984.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 818   29 November [1848]
Autograph letter from [C.K.J.] Bunsen, Prussian diplomat and scholar, to “My dear Mr Dean” [George Waddington, Dean of Durham]. Asks Waddington to intercede for three Prussian sailors, imprisoned for smuggling tobacco when they came ashore at Shields.
3p. on 1 folded leaf, tipped to a leaf from a disbound album (no. 55). 
Purchased, with Add.MSS. 819-824, from Richard Ford, London bookseller, 1990. From a disbound album of letters to or accumulated by Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), the Co. Durham antiquary (whose note identifies the recipient of the letter and amplifies the date).

Add.MS. 819   17 May [18]42
Autograph letter from [Henry George Grey, Viscount] Howick, [later 3rd Earl Grey], to “Dear Sir” [Sir Cuthbert Sharp]. About the progress of a memorandum from Sharp on improvements to the postal system in Sunderland. Howick [M.P. for Sunderland] has had it submitted to the Postmaster General.
2p. on 1 folded leaf, tipped to a leaf from a disbound album (no. 129). 
Purchased, with Add.MSS. 818 and 820-824, from Richard Ford, London bookseller, 1990. From a disbound album of letters to or accumulated by Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), the Co. Durham antiquary.

Add.MS. 820   21 August 1714
Letter from [Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of] Scarbrough, to Ralph Gowland, Durham attorney. Attempt at Aberdeen to proclaim the Old Pretender as King [after Queen Anne's death]; Durham city and county electoral manoeuvrings.
1 folded leaf, tipped to a leaf from a disbound album 
Purchased, with Add.MSS. 818 - 819, from Richard Ford, London bookseller, 1990. From a disbound album of letters to or accumulated by Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), the Co. Durham antiquary, number 13/[14] - 21/[22].

Add.MS. 821   5 October 1714
Letter from [Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of] Scarbrough, to Ralph Gowland, Durham attorney. Durham electoral manoeuvrings; patronage.
1 folded leaf, tipped to a leaf from a disbound album 
Purchased, with Add.MSS. 818 - 819, from Richard Ford, London bookseller, 1990. From a disbound album of letters to or accumulated by Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), the Co. Durham antiquary, number 13/[14] - 21/[22].

Add.MS. 822   14 October 1714
Letter from [Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of] Scarbrough, to Ralph Gowland, Durham attorney. Appointments of Durham militia officers and J.P.s - “I design .. to gett the Gentlemen that were turned out of the Peace restored” ; Sussex electoral affairs.
1 folded leaf, tipped to a leaf from a disbound album 
Purchased, with Add.MSS. 818 - 819, from Richard Ford, London bookseller, 1990. From a disbound album of letters to or accumulated by Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), the Co. Durham antiquary, number 13/[14] - 21/[22].
Digitised material for Appointments of Durham militia officers 1714 - DUL Add.MS. 822

Add.MS. 823   19 March 1715
Letter from [Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of] Scarbrough, to Ralph Gowland, Durham attorney. Patronage; appointment of J.P.s; militia affairs; bill to improve navigation of the Wear (the date of this letter could be 1716 new style, but from the content 1715 seems rather more probable.
1 folded leaf, tipped to a leaf from a disbound album 
Purchased, with Add.MSS. 818 - 819, from Richard Ford, London bookseller, 1990. From a disbound album of letters to or accumulated by Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), the Co. Durham antiquary, number 13/[14] - 21/[22].

Add.MS. 824   10 March 1715[16]
Letter from [Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of] Scarbrough, to Ralph Gowland, Durham attorney. Leaves; fortunes of the Old Pretender and his followers.
1 folded leaf, tipped to a leaf from a disbound album 
Purchased, with Add.MSS. 818 - 819, from Richard Ford, London bookseller, 1990. From a disbound album of letters to or accumulated by Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), the Co. Durham antiquary, number 13/[14] - 21/[22].

Add.MS. 825   10 January [1859]
Letter from J[ohn] Ruskin, Den[mark] Hill, to [W.S.] Williams (of the publishing firm Smith Elder), about the arrangements for the publication of The Oxford Museum, a pamphlet by H.W. Acland with appended letters by Ruskin (published London, Smith Elder, 1859; 2nd ed. Oxford, Parker, 1860).
With pencil dating and other notes by Sir Sydney Cockerell.
3 p. on 1 leaf. 
Add.MSS. 826-831: Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1984, to whom they had been given by Sir Sydney Cockerell.

Add.MS. 826   25 May 1860
Letter from John James Ruskin to W.S. Williams (of the publishing firm Smith Elder), about the forthcoming publication by his firm of vol. 5 of his son John Ruskin's Modern painters.
With pencil annotations by Sir Sydney Cockerell.
3p. on 1f. 
Add.MSS. 826-831: Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1984, to whom they had been given by Sir Sydney Cockerell.

Add.MS. 827   Thursday [ ]
Letter from Christina Rossetti to Mr Bryant. Sends £1 - “This time I must make it a loan to be repaid as soon as you can”.
1p. 
Add.MSS. 826-831: Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1984, to whom they had been given by Sir Sydney Cockerell.

Add.MS. 828   [1858?]
Letter from Ford Madox Brown to “My Dear Sir”, setting out, in reply to a series of questions from his unidentified correspondent, his ideas on the place of Art in the instruction to be provided in working men's colleges.
Dated in pencil by Sir Sydney Cockerell “? later part of 1858”.
12p. on 3f. 
Add.MSS. 826-831: Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1984, to whom they had been given by Sir Sydney Cockerell.

Add.MS. 829   14 February 1912
Letter from Helen Rossetti Angeli to Cockerell returning Add. MS. 828 to him and commenting on it.
4p. on 1f. 
Add.MSS. 826-831: Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1984, to whom they had been given by Sir Sydney Cockerell.

Add.MS. 830   13 May 1911
Letter from Isabel Swinburne to [Sydney] Cockerell, in part about D.G. Rossetti's portrait drawing of Algernon Swinburne.
3p. on 1f. 
Add.MSS. 826-831: Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1984, to whom they had been given by Sir Sydney Cockerell.

Add.MS. 831   9 December [19]38
Letter from A.H. Mackmurdo to Sir Sydney Cockerell, enquiring about the possible location of letters from Brown to William Morris.
1 p. 
Add.MSS. 826-831: Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 1984, to whom they had been given by Sir Sydney Cockerell.

Add.MSS. 832/1-36   1879-1905
Letters of Sir Henry Irving, 1879-1905
Most of the letters, possibly including some of those in which the recipient is unnamed, are to Sir Francis Burnand, the playwright and editor of Punch. The content is largely theatrical chat, invitations and enquiries after the Burnand family. Four letters are present only in transcript, the originals having been given by Virginia Surtees to the British Theatre Museum for its Irving collection (see Add. MS. 832/36); these four have been printed in Laurence Irving, Henry Irving the Actor and his World, London, 1951. Most of the letters are accompanied by a typed transcript.
36 items. 
This group of letters was presented by Mrs. Virginia Surtees in 1984 (at the same time as Add. MSS. 825 - 831); (the group consists of 33 letters, one envelope and one card from Irving, with a note by the donor about their provenance). They were purchased for Virginia Surtees ca.1940, probably from Maggs.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 833/1-38   1841-1854
Letters to the Rev. James Raine the elder (1791-1858) from various correspondents.
The letters concern Raine's activities as antiquary and historian, librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, Surtees Society secretary, Rector of Meldon, Principal Surrogate in the Consistory Court of Durham etc.
38 items 
Purchased from Edward Hall, 1957.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 834   1832-1850
Letters to the Rev. Charles Thomas Whitley (1808-1895), Reader in Natural Philosophy and Mathematics, Durham University, from various correspondents, and 2 concerning him or his family.
Many of the letters concern Durham University affairs; several relate to Whitley's scientific interests and friendships (with Darwin, Whewell, William Hopkins, Thomas Sopwith etc.); two concern alterations to Durham Castle.
24 items 
Purchased from Myers, 1971.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 835   1857-1859
94 letters from John Stephens Blackett in India to his mother in Ireland, with later notes etc. about the letters.
The letters were written from the neighbourhood of Agra, where Blackett was in the service of the East India Company as a surveyor. They cover the period of the Indian Mutiny, and also throw light on the social conditions experienced by young “Chota Sahibs”.
97 items 
Deposited on permanent loan by J.P.M. Blackett, 1948.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 836/A-J   1786-1887
Correspondence and family papers of Samuel Smith (1766-1841) Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1824-1831, Canon and Sub-Dean of Durham 1831-1841, and of his sons.
The collection includes (A/1-21) correspondence, mostly between Samuel Smith and Bishop William Van Mildert, concerning the University of Durham 1832-1834, and (C/1-35) letters of Thomas Smith, 90th Infantry Regiment, from the Crimea 1854-1856 and from India 1857-1859.
1 box. 
Purchased from Robin Waterfield, Oxford, 1980, with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 837   1832-1865
Chevallier corespondence
129 letters mainly between Rev. Temple Chevallier (1794-1873) and Rev. George Elwes Corrie (1793-1885), concerning particularly the affairs of the Universities of Durham and Cambridge, the Church of England, and the diocese of Durham, as well as personal and family matters.
1 box 
Purchased from Miss Susan Todd via Ciderpress Books, 1976.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 838   1850-1890, 1949
William Bell Scott letters
146 letters from the artist William Bell Scott to W.M. Rossetti, 1850-1890, together with 3 related letters from Alice Boyd to W.M. Rossetti, 1890, and 6 letters from Rossetti's daughter Mrs Helen Rossetti Angeli to Prof. C.C. Abbott of Durham University, 1949, concerning the acquisition by Durham University Library of these letters to her father.
The subject matter of the letters is largely literary, artistic and domestic, with numerous references to the work and lives of members of Scott's wide circle of acquaintances and friends, particularly D.G. Rossetti and other leading Pre-Raphaelites.
155 items 
Purchased from Mrs Olivia Rossetti Agresti, 1949.
See separate catalogue

Add.MSS. 839-842   1855-1889
Photostats of correspondence of or relating to William Bell Scott (1811-1890).
Acquired in connection with V. Walker's research on Scott for her Durham Ph.D thesis, 1951.

Add.MSS. 843-844   ca.188-
“Abstract of Cassiodorus”: autograph ms of Thomas Hodgkin's condensed translation of the Epistolae Variaeof Cassiodorus.
Hodgkin's translation was published under the title The letters of Cassiodorus, London, 1886. This ms is a draft, differing frequently from the final text, and it does not include the life of Cassiodorus and other introductory editorial matter which preface the published version. The title “Abstract of Cassiodorus”appears on the spines of the bindings.
2 vols 
Presented by David J. Hall, 1991 (accession 1990/91: 5).

Add.MS. 845   1814
“Principles of Scripture-Interpretation considered with reference to Religious Controversies”: autograph draft of the Bampton lectures delivered in the University of Oxford, 1814, by William Van Mildert.
The lectures were published under the title An Enquiry into the General Principles of Scripture-Interpretation, (Oxford, 1815). This extensively corrected draft, “begun July 1813” (f.i), has frequent differences of wording from the published version.
1 vol. (i, 93 leaves). 
Purchased 1991 from Gage Postal Books with a contribution from S.A. Routh (accession 1990/91: 1).

Add.MS. 846   1991
“James Boswell: the unearthing of the journals”by John Wain: text of a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 transmitted on 12 May 1991.
Includes an account of the discovery of a large quantity of Boswell mss at Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, by Professor Claude Colleer Abbot of Durham University.
i, 18 p. 
Purchased from the BBC, 1991 (accession 1990/91: 3).

Add.MS. 847   1991
“A Hatfield view of the English Pennines”: draft of a lecture delivered by Sir Kingsley Dunham, as Senior Fellow of Hatfield College, University of Durham, 17 January 1991. Typescript.
Autobiographical account of his own research on the geology of the Pennines with some introductory remarks on Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham 1344-81, and his silver mines.
16 p. 
Presented by the author (accession 1990/91: 4).

Add.MS. 848   1725
“A Plan of Land Belonging to Mr Jno Hodgshon Called Old Park Lying in the Parish of Woolsingham and County of Durham Anno 1725”: ms estate map of land at Wolsingham formerly part of the medieval Helm Park.
With table of names and sizes of 17 closes. Shows the location of old and active pits in the Moor Close, and gives names of the holders of adjacent land.
scale: Scale bar: 27 [chains] = 7 five-eighths inches, “A scale of Decimal Chains 3.5 in one inch Statute Measure”.
Ink and colours on parchment.
Size: 738 x 772 mm.
Planfile
Purchased from Abley Rare Books, 1990 (accession 1990/91: 2).

Add.MS. 849   1987-1988
Family tree of the Todd family of Escomb, later of Wolsingham (Weardale) and Aukside (Teesdale), researched by Rosemary Allen, drawn by Harvey J. Allen, 1987, revised 1988. Photostat copy of ms.
1 sheet, with attached leaf of photocopied additional notes. 
Planfile
Presented by Mrs A.W. Todd via Professor D.F.S. Scott (accession 1991/92: 2).

Add.MS. 850   ca.1760
“A Survey and Plan of Land in the Township of West Auckland in the County of Durham belonging to Sir John Eden Bart”: ms estate map.
With table of measurements of the five farms, giving names and sizes of fields. Incomplete; keying of table to map covers only three of the farms.
scale: Scale bar: 22 chains = 3 thirteen-sixteenths inches, “Scale of Decimal Chains 4 Ch[ains] 50 Links in one Inch Statute Measure”.
Ink, colours, and pencil on vellum. Coloured crest.
Size: 688 x 890 mm.
Planfile
Purchased, with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund, at Sotheby's sale 26 February 1992, lot 637 (accession 1991/92: 3); Burgess Browning cat. 3, 1991, no. 36.

Add.MS. 851/1-11   1978-1979
Letters, from Professor Gordon Manley to Miss Joan Kenworthy (Principal of St Mary's College, University of Durham), largely concerning the Durham meteorological record, with associated tables of calculations.
Presented by Miss Kenworthy (accession 1991/92:4).

Add.MSS. 852-853   1870-1884
The Rev. Charles Clinton Chevallier's meteorological register for Heighington, Co. Durham 1870-1884 (Add. MS 852), with associated loose papers (Add. MSS 853/1-9).
Presented by Mr M.D. Lowes, 1991 (accession 1991/92:5).
See description and commentary in J.M. Kenworthy and M.D. Lowes, “The Chevallier family: their contribution to meteorology in the north east of England”Weather48 no.2 (February 1993), 51-56.
Pepin, N.C., “Analysis of the Chevallier meteorological record: Heighington 1870-84”, Weather, 49 (1994) 230-238.

Add.MS. 854/1-22   1857-1896
A small group of letters and photographs of members of the Backhouse family of Darlington, with related cuttings.
1 file 
Purchased 1992 from D.P. White, Averys, Rusper, nr Horsham (lots 47, 48 and 56 in his Occasional list 43).

Add.MSS. 855-859   1976-1979
Publicly available evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on legal services, 1976-79.
The commission, chaired by Sir Henry Benson, was set up in 1976. Its final report (Cmnd. 7648) was published by HMSO in 1979. Written and oral evidence was submitted by a wide range of individuals and organisations.
12 boxes, 1 card index and 2 index folders. 
Some evidence was treated as confidential because of its personal character; copies of the rest were deposited in the Public Record Office and a number of libraries (Final report, para. 1.19-1.23). Durham's set is believed to be that used by Mrs S. Ramsden.

Add.MS. 860   ca. 1890s - 1930s
Short stories and prose pieces by Rudyard Kipling (some including verse): autograph drafts of 31 items, bound up together with typescript contents list and title-leaf for each item.
The volume contains one unpublished item, “Red Dog (political allegory)”, four stories collected in Land and Sea Tales, 1923, all fourteen stories collected in Debits and Credits, 1926, five stories collected in Limits and Renewals, 1932, three uncollected works ( “Railway Reform in Great Britain”, “The Benefactors”and “A Tour of Inspection”), a series of newspaper articles ( “The War in the Mountains”), a story outline ( “Buried Treasure”), a speech ( “Club”) and an article in dramatic form ( “The Voyage Home”).
1v. ([2], 273 f.). 
Size: 380 x 300 mm.
Presented by Kipling's widow, Mrs. Caroline Kipling, in 1937, on condition “that the manuscripts should not be used for collation”. Mrs. Kipling's letter and associated correspondence are in a pocket at the back of the volume. The volume is one of sixteen similarly bound up in green morocco by Messrs Maggs for the Kiplings, and presented by them to various institutions.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 861   1974
“John George Gibson (1857-1927) ... clerk in holy orders: an exercise in verification by C.W. Gibby ... 1974”.
An exposure of fraudulent claims to qualifications, etc, made by John George Gibson, incumbent of Ebchester, Co. Durham, 1895-1927, and author of various publications on masonry, local history, etc.
Photocopied typescript. [2], 15 p. 
Received 1982, among a deposit of records from the Science Faculty Office of Durham University.

Add.MS. 862   1931-196-
“The story of South End ... Durham”, compiled by Mary Apperley, 1931.
An account of South End House, formerly the Shepherd's Inn. Contains a transcript of an article “The Old Inn”, from the Durham County Advertiser, 4 July 1913, followed by a description of the buildings and adjoining cottages by Mary Apperley. Plan of the house in 1882 on final leaf. The accompanying map dates from the 1960's.
Carbon copy typescript, with two photographs and two newspaper clippings tipped in, and a loose map.   [4], 12, [2]p., plus map.
Received 1982, among a deposit of records from the Science Faculty Office of Durham University.

Add.MS. 863/1-32   1986-1994
Plans and drawings of Durham Castle, drawn by Martin Leyland.
The deposit is mainly of plans drawn up for archaeological investigations in the Castle at Durham. The two exceptions are 863/3, a plan of the city defences, and 863/32, a section of a trench cut at the back of Bailey Court and to the east of the Almshouses.
Some plans are in pencil, some have been drawn up in ink, a few are in both versions.
Scales are on the drawings where applicable. The list below, compiled from information supplied by Martin Leyland, gives the dates of the drawings' creation, where known. Most of these drawings were either executed for an undergraduate dissertation in 1986 or for a Ph.D thesis submitted in 1994. Other drawings are lodged at the section of Durham University Library's Archives and Special Collections at No. 5 The College, the County Record Office at County Hall and some remain with Dr. Leyland.
32 pieces 
NSR Planfile B bottom shelves
Presented by Martin Leyland, 21 April 1994 (accession Misc.1993/94:13)
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 864   1994
“My first eight or so years at Palace Green”: recollections by Dr A.I. Doyle in 1994 of the early years, 1950-ca.1958, of his career on the staff of Durham University Library.
Photocopied typescript
3f. 
Presented by the author, 1994 (accession Misc.1993/94:16)

Add.MS. 865   [1640's]
Notes of twenty sermons preached in 1642, between 15 July and 25 August, by Dr. Calibut Downing and other Parliamentarian sympathisers. Written in a contemporary hand.
f.1r: Mr. Arrowsmith. 15 July. On Jeremiah 33.6.
f.4v: Mr. Furth. 17 July. On Jeremiah 35.15.
f.9r: Dr. Downeing. 17 July. On Thessalonians 5.17.
f.12v: Mr. Hall. 24 July. On Psalm 125.1.
f.17r: Mr. Batt. 24 July. On 2 Corinthians 5.19.
f.22v: Mr. Ash. 27 July, at a public fast. On Isaiah 3.10.
f.28r: Dr. Downeing. 27 July, at a public fast. On Proverbs 25.5.
f.32r: Mr. Ash. 27 July, at a public fast. On Isaiah 3.10.
f.36v: Dr. Downeing. 31 July. On Thessalonians 5.18.
f.40v: Mr. Hall. 31 July. On Psalm 125.1-2.
f.48r: Dr. Downeing. 4 Aug., before the sacrament. John 6.53.
f.51v: Mr. Foxly. 7 Aug. Matthew 12.30.
f.59v: Mr. Welde. 14 Aug. John 5.40.
f.65r: Mr. Mockett. 14 Aug. Genesis 22.14.
f.71r: Mr. Batchelor. 15 Aug. Ephesians 2.7.
f.74r: Mr. Welde. 16 Aug. Psalm 137.1-2.
f.79r: Mr. Sprige. 16 Aug. Psalm 85.8.
f.82v: Mr. Carter. 21 Aug. Romans 8.2.
f.87r: Mr. Hall. 21 Aug. Psalm 127.2.
f.90r: Mr. Greenehill. 25 Aug. Revelation 1.5.
1 vol. (95 f.) 
Size: 180 x 115 mm.
Presented by Dr. A.I. Doyle, 1994. Inscription on f.95v of John Neale, in a 17th-century hand, not that of the compiler.

Add.MS. 866   1612-1617
Diary of Thomas Chaytor of Butterby, Co. Durham, May 1612 - December 1617.
Thomas Chaytor of Butterby (died 1618), second son of Christopher, inherited Butterby from his father, and, like his father, held the offices of Registrar of the Durham Consistory Court and Surveyor General of the Northern Counties. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Nicholas Tempest of Stella. His diary records the weather and its effects, harvesting, prices of crops and other agricultural matters, social activities, births, marriages and deaths of family and friends, his own and his family's health and remedies, matters relating to his offices as registrar and surveyor, occasional political matters, etc. Durham probate records include his nuncupative will and detailed inventory of his property in Butterby and Durham.
1 vol. When received the diary was disbound and disordered, and its order has had to be reconstructed from internal and physical evidence. Some leaves are probably lacking.   62 f.
Purchased at Sotheby's sale, 13 December 1993, lot 256, with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund. (accession Misc.93/94: 5).
Digitised material for Diary of Thomas Chaytor of Butterby, Co. Durham, May 1612 - December 1617 - Add.MS. 866

Add.MS. 867   1603
Commutation of tithes, Great Stainton, Co. Durham, 1603.
Indenture made 15 November 1 James I (1603) between (1) Thomas Ingmathorp (otherwise Ingmethorp, Inglethorp), clerk, parson of Great Stainton, and (2) William Lampton of Chylton (Chilton), Co. Durham, gent.
(1) commutes all tithes and other dues owed to him from the lands of (2) at Great Stainton, expecting only his dues for mortuaries, burials, weddings and christenings, for 3 years from last midsummer day, renewable every 3 years for a term of 21 years if (1) lives and retains the parsonage, for an annual payment of £14.17s., payable in 2 equal instalments at midsummer and St Andrew's day.
Witnesses: Robert Scoggen, John White, Martin [illegible].
Parchment   1m.
Purchased at Sotheby's sale, 13 December 1993, lot 256, with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund. (accession Misc.93/94: 5).
Digitised material for Commutation of tithes, Great Stainton, Co. Durham, 1603 - Add.MS. 867

Add.MSS. 868-870   1949
The Royal Arms, light opera by Arthur Hutchings, based on the play of the same title by C.A. Alington and composed in 1949. Autograph full score and vocal score, with copy of the printed play annotated by Hutchings.
Autograph full score.
Autograph vocal score.
King Harrison & Others, by C.A. Alington (London, [1923]).
Includes, p. [99]-212, the text of Alington's play The Royal Arms, marked up by Hutchings as libretto for his light opera.
3 vols. (188, 108, 1v)  
Presented 1993, by L. Saunders, to whom they were given by Hutchings (accession Misc.93/94: 4).

Add.MSS. 871.-884   1791-1995
Howlett Papers
The Howlett Family Papers were formerly the property of Mrs. Barbara Denness who lived in Hexham from 1971 to her death in 1996. They consist of two donations. The first is six volumes of memoirs and papers belonging to Mrs Denness's great-grandfather Samuel Burt Howlett (1794-1874), surveyor for the Ordnance Survey, and his eldest daughter, her great aunt, Martha Ann Howlett (1827-1914) . The second was compiled by Mrs Denness, and consists of her work on the history of the Howlett family, and her journal (96 vols).
14 boxes 
The six volumes of memoirs (Add.MSS 871-876) were donated by Mrs B. Denness in 1986, the rest of the material was donated by Mrs Denness's daughter in 1999.
See separate catalogue

Add.MSS. [885-886]
Numbers formerly used for part of the Van Mildert Papers, which were transferred from Additional Manuscripts to form a separate collection, June 2006.
Van Mildert family papers

Add.MS. 887   1889-1990
E.V. Lucas Papers
A small collection of short published pieces by the author, publisher, and lover of cricket, Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938), letters from him to his sister and nephew, other family papers, pictures of him, recollections, correspondence, articles, extracts and cuttings about him, and lists of publications by him, gathered up by his nephew Colonel Andrew Man (1907-2000).
1 box 
Part of a bequest of publications and other material by and about E.V. Lucas collected by his nephew Col. Andrew Man, and received via Col. Man's executor, Nicholas Man (accession Misc.2001/2002:114). The bequest was primarily of books by and about EVL. Only books not already held by the University Library were acquired, and these have been incorporated in the Library's printed collections, and are listed in an appendix to the catalogue of the contents of Add.MS 887.
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 888   1785-1839
Four miscellaneous deeds relating to Sunderland.
4 items 
Acquired with the Darlington Turnpike Deeds from an unknown source prior to ca. 1950 (accession Misc.2001/2002: 116); at some time probably in the possession of John Cresswell Brigham, antiquarian book seller, of Darlington

Add.MS. 889   30 September 1745
Copy of letter from Francis Paxton (a Quaker?) addressed to George II.
Interprets the present troubles as a sign of God's judgment on the sins of the nation. Argues from the Scriptures that God will look favourably on a righteous king and scatter his enemies, and urges the king to discountenance vice and encourage virtue.
1 folio bifolium 
Acquired with the Darlington Turnpike Deeds from an unknown source prior to ca. 1950 (accession Misc.2001/2002: 116)

Add.MS. 890   29 July 1789
Warrant, issued at the request of the church-wardens and overseers of the poor for Darlington, to have Susannah Pratt, wife of Ambrose Pratt, joiner, brought before the magistrates to ascertain the place of her legal settlement.
1 leaf 
Acquired with the Darlington Turnpike Deeds from an unknown source prior to ca. 1950 (accession Misc.2001/2002: 116)

Add.MS. 891   31 October 1803
Letter from Joseph Wood (schoolmaster and botanist?) at Whitehaven to Revd. Mr. Harriman at Gainford near Barnard Castle, concerning exchange of mineral and botanical specimens.
2 folded leaves 
Acquired with the Darlington Turnpike Deeds from an unknown source prior to ca. 1950 (accession Misc.2001/2002: 116)

Add.MS. 892   27 November 1839
Estimate of the expense of pumping the water out of the High Main coal waste at the old pit, Manor Wallsend Colliery, and sinking that pit down to the Bensham seam and establishing a colliery thereon.
1 folio bifolium (4 p.) 
Acquired with the Darlington Turnpike Deeds from an unknown source prior to ca. 1950 (accession Misc.2001/2002: 116)

Add.MS. 893   4 March 1840
Draft terms agreed by William Anderson on behalf of Messrs Brandling & Co. and Charles Millner on behalf of himself and others for liberty to sink a pit or pits and erect a colliery on their Biddick estate and in a field on the east side of the Boldon turnpike road adjoining the lands of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and to transport coals over the estate by a railway linked to the Brandling Junction Railway; with appended letter from William Anderson (to Charles Millner?) asking him to confirm the terms of the draft as soon as possible.
2f. 
Acquired with the Darlington Turnpike Deeds from an unknown source prior to ca. 1950 (accession Misc.2001/2002: 116)

Add.MS. 894   9 November 1841
Calculation and estimate of the cost per fathom of sinking Harton pit, made for William Coulson.
4 leaves 
Acquired with the Darlington Turnpike Deeds from an unknown source prior to ca. 1950 (accession Misc.2001/2002: 116)

Add.MS. 895   1867
The Posthumous Book of Hieronymous Magius of Anghiari on Bells. Illustrated with Notes by Franciscus Swertius junr. of Antwerp.
Done into English, with a few additional notes by J.T. Fowler M.A., F.S.A. [Rev. Joseph Thomas Fowler (1833-1924), Durham University Hebrew Lecturer 1872-1917, Keeper of Bishop Cosin's Library 1889-1911, Hon. Canon of Durham 1897] in 1867.
Spine title: Magius. M.S. Trans. Dr. Fowler.
Attached to p.2: specimen of page printed in 1872; with note by M.E.A. Powles recording Fowler's decision that the manuscript must not be printed until the translation had been revised.
MS. paper, folio.   79f.
Size: 330 x 210 mm.
Manuscript given by Fowler to M.E.A. Powles, 1899 and presented to the Library by Mrs Powles (née Brooksbank) of St Oswald's, Crieff, 24 May 1928.
Originally kept in the Old University Manuscripts collection, reference F.III.52, transferred to Add.MSS. 2002.

Add.MS. 896   6 January 1899
Letter from Canon William Greenwell (1820-1918) of Durham to "Dear Madam", about the lack of wills, particularly Umfreville wills, in the Durham monastic muniments; mentions also his own gout, and a stained glass panel in Lanchester Church, Co. Durham, with Tempest arms impaling those of Umfraville.
1f. (4p.) 
Presented by Dr. Richard Britnell; found in a copy of Feodarium ...which he purchased (accession Misc.1996/97:6)

Add.MS. 897   Copied 1996
Photocopied recollections by Mary Apperley of her childhood in Durham, including descriptions of her home, South End House (formerly the Shepherd Inn), her grandmother's home, Elvet Hill House, and her education in the 1860s at a girls' school in the city.
See also Add. MS 862, which includes the same photographs of the building as appear here, but with completely different text.
9f. 
Copied by Martin Roberts, Durham City Planning Office, partly by photocopying original typescript with ms corrections and photographs, partly by typing up original manuscript, from material lent to the City Planning Office by Dr. and Mrs W. Chapman. Presented, December 1996, by Martin Roberts, with the consent of Dr. and Mrs Chapman (accession Misc.1996/97:7)

Add.MS. 898/1-3
3 letters to John Trotter Brockett (1788-1842), the Newcastle upon Tyne antiquary
Bought from Alex Fotheringham (bookseller), 1996 (accession Misc.1996/97:8)

Add.MS. 899   1995
Dr. P.J. Fitzpatrick (Dept. of Philosophy), “A Tyneside anniversary: Richard Dawes and the Miscellanea Critica 1745-1995”(1995). Word processed article on the Newcastle classical scholar and schoolmaster (1708-1766).
51 p. (numbered [1]-46, [1]-5) 
Presented by the author, 1995 (accession Misc.1995/96:11)

Add.MS. 900   [18th century]
“Instrumentum Appropriationis Ecclesia de Emeldon, 1341”, 18th century transcript of a document concerning the appropriation of the living of Embleton, Northumberland, to Merton College, Oxford.
16f. 
Presented by Dr. Jeremy Griffiths, Oxford, December 1996 (accession Misc.1996/97:3). On front cover “Phillipps MS 9657”.
Digitised material for Transcript of appropriation of living of Embleton, Northumberland, to Merton College, Oxford - Add.MS. 900

Add.MSS. 901-902   1984 & 1995
Two memoirs by Professor W. Roy Niblett of his period as Acting Registrar of the University of Durham. The first (Add. MS. 901/1-2) entitled “Some characters”forms part of the later, expanded “Wartime registrar: Durham (1940-44) and return to Newcastle (1944-45)”(Add. MS. 902/1-11), covering mainly people encountered, and some events.
2p. and 11p. 
Presented by the author (accessions Misc.1984:17 & Misc.1995/96:5)

Add.MS. 903   12 December 1811
Autograph letter from Robert Surtees to John Bell, bookseller, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, from Mainsforth. Relays permission from Sir Walter Scott for Bell to print Fetherstonehalghand explaining the source of the poem “Rookhope” in Scott's Minstrelsy.
1f. 
Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees. Originally offered by Mrs Surtees to Durham Cathedral Library, but transferred by agreement to the University Library, to which Mrs Surtees gave a number of Scott first editions given by him to Robert Surtees (accession Misc.1995/96:23)
Digitised material for Letter from Robert Surtees to John Bell, bookseller - Add.MS. 903

Add.MS. 904   ca. 1995
“A memoir concerning the Londonderry Laboratory for Radiochemistry at the University of Durham”, a historical account by Professor Dennis G. Tuck (b.1929) of the development of the Department of Chemistry in the University of Durham from 1924 to 1953, and recollections of his own years as a member of it, first as an undergraduate from 1946 to 1949, and then as a research student in the Londonderry Laboratory founded by Professor F. A. Paneth.
1 vol. ([i], 21 p., word-processed) 
Presented by the author, 1999 (accession Misc.1998/99:14)

Add.MS. 905   1996
“On the folding of the R[oyal] A[nthropological] I[nstitute], 1967-71”, word-processed account by Dr. R.M. Bradfield of his perspective on the closure of the Institute and the transfer of the library to the British Museum.
[1], 5, 2, [1] f. 
Presented by the author, one of 5 copies given by him to 5 different UK libraries (accession Misc.1996/97:1)

Add.MS. 906   1937
Handing-over notes compiled by E. Henry Longbottom at the end of his period as Science tutor on the staff of Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, 1936/7, together with related photographs and clippings.
Presented by the author (accession Misc.1992/93:5)
Digitised material for Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, 1936/7 - Add.MS. 906

Add.MS. 907   early 19th century
“Retrospections and Recollections, with other Fragments Spouting and Amateur Casts &c”, an account by [ ] Garthwaite [b. 1792] of his experiences in amateur theatricals in Sunderland and Ryhope, 1808-1810 and 1814-1816, and his life as an apprentice and journeyman painter in London 1810-1813.
Includes cast lists from productions, theatrical anecdotes, his life in London (working in a shop, as a scene-painter at Covent Garden working 12½ days a week, unemployment, witnessing a suicide, taking work as a ship's steward, becoming a ship painter for the British and Russian fleet, various accidents) before returning to Sunderland and resuming theatrical work, and marrying Fanny Hodson.
Paper, folio   5f. (remainder blank)
Purchased from Alex Fotheringham, bookseller, 1998 (accession Misc.1997/98:9)
Digitised material for Retrospections and Recollections, with other Fragments Spouting and Amateur Casts &c - Add.MS. 907

Add.MS. 908   July 1917
First World War British printed trench map, with manuscript annotations, relating to trench warfare near Moeuvres in Artois, and showing the approximate British front line on 27 July 1917.
Printed at head “Moeuvres. Ed. 2c. Special sheet. Parts of 57c N.W. N.E. & S.W. S.E. Positions map 27-7-17. Detail and trenches revised to 18-7-17. 3rd Field Survey Co., R.E. (1843)” The area covered is part of the Hindenburg Line position with a section of the Canal du Nord and the villages of Pronville, Moeuvres and Havrincourt. German trenches, wire entanglements and known and suspected artillery battery positions are shown in full. No British trenches are mapped. Evidence is marked of German demolitions carried out during the withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in February and March 1917. The area was fought over in November 1917 during the British tank attack of the Battle of Cambrai. The manuscript annotations relate to buried signal cables and possibly to a British artillery battery near Hermies. Ms inscription on the verso "Mr Wilkinson". Belonged to Mr Wilkinson of Hull, who served in the First World War, possibly in the East Yorkshire Regiment.
scale: 1 : 20,000
Size: 56 x 78 cm
Presented by Mrs Linda Drury (whose husband's step-grandfather was Mr. Wilkinson, the map's original owner) (accession Misc.1997/98:4)

Add.MS. 909   25 April 1971
Letter from Malcolm MacDonald to Veronica Owen (d. 1999), headmistress of Malvern Girls College, Worcestershire, congratulating her on the intelligence of her pupils, to whom he had recently given a talk, and offering to repeat the occasion - “I like nothing better than talking with members of the young generation - the rulers of the world tomorrow - about some of our contemporary international problems”. With photocopy of letter accompanying donation providing further information on Miss Owen.
2f. & 1f. 
Presented by the recipient's brother, Captain C.H.H. Owen, 1999 (accession Misc.1999/2000:3)

Add.MS. 910/1-3   1995
Typescripts of three poems by Denis Goacher:
“In the Cotswolds”, - “Threading that wood, April 1942”, signed and dated le quatorze juillet 95.
“This way Parnassus”- “Up the slopes of Parnassus, sculptors the fewest”, dated Last Day of March 95.
“S1”- “Here again, second wife, same”, signed and dated 10.8.95.
1f. each. 
Presented by the author, enclosed in letters from him re the Library's purchase of letters to him from Basil Bunting (accession Misc.1995/96:6)

Add.MS. 911   11 April 1833
Letter, Bishop William Van Mildert to Hon. Arthur Trevor, from East Sheen about prospective appointees to a post in the bishop's gift and thanking him for his advice about Mr Duncombe (mentions inclosure - not now present).
1f. 
Purchased Mary Gilborson, bookseller, 1989 (accession Misc.1989:1)
Digitised material for Add.MS. 911

Add.MS. 912/1-18   1930s - 1995
Photocopies of papers concerning Edna Maud Doyle, née Halton, who graduated from Durham University in 1933 with 1st class honours in physics, later working for ICI at Billingham. Comprises photographs (912/1-2) of rag parade (EMD on the right) and family group (EMD on the left); bill for books; examination papers (912/4-5); certificates (912/6-10); references (912/11-15); list of reports written for ICI 1942-51; biographical note by her son, July 1995.
2 photographs & 16f. 
Presented by her son Anthony Doyle, (accession Misc1994/95:24)

Add.MS. 913   1998
“Samuel Balmforth Wood, Mus.Bac. (Dunelm) (1896-1977)”: biographical notes on Balmforth, who graduated as Bachelor of Music from the University of Durham in 1934 and became a prolific composer for the brass band, written by his daughter-in-law, Mrs Sarah Josephine Wood, and illustrated with inkjet printed photographs.
4f. 
Presented by the author, 1998 (accession Misc.1998/99:5)

Add.MS. 914   1998
“He held the lantern: English in the North East”: word processed copy of a paper by Prof. J.R. Watson (read in Newcastle upon Tyne, 5 March 1998, on the occasion of the celebration of "One hundred years of English" in Newcastle) about the history of the teaching of English literature, and development of a Department of English, in both the Newcastle and Durham divisions of the University of Durham until the Newcastle division became the independent University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1963, and thereafter in both universities.
15f. 
Presented by I.M. Stewart, Deputy Registrar, with the agreement of the author (accession Misc.1998/99:4)

Add.MS. 915/1-29   1742-1879
Miscellaneous documents, many relating to the Burdon family.
29 items. 
Presented by H. Pitman, 1989 (accession Misc.1989:6)

Add.MS. 916   [late 12th century]
Language:   Latin
Single leaf from a breviary of Durham usage, containing part of the office for St Nicholas. In the recto margin names matching some to be found in St Giles' parish register in the late 16th century have been added.
1 leaf 
Size: 30 x 19 cm.
Deposited by the parish of St Giles, Durham, ca. 1962 (accession Misc.1996/97:3)
B.S. Benedikz, “Leaf from a twelfth century monastic breviary”, Trans. Arch. & Arch. Soc. of Durham and Northumberland, 11 pts 3-4 (1962), 281-283.
Digitised material for Breviary leaf (late 12th century) - DUL Add.MS. 916

Add.MS. 917   [March 1183 x October 1184]
Language:   Latin
Grant by H[ugh of Le Puiset] bishop of Durham to Thomas de la Buteillerie of three bovates of land in Heighington, formerly held by Hugh Brun and his wife Alice and was sold by them to Thomas, rendering annually 4s.
Witnesses: Gilbert Hansard, Philip the sheriff, William of Howden, John of AMudneville, Ralph of Chester, Eudo of Puntchardon and ROger his son, Richard de Parca and Geoffrey his son, Geoffrey son of Richard, Jordan Escolland, Alexander of Helton, Richard of Puntchardon and Walter his son, Thomas son of WIlliam and William his son, Alexander de Hameled, Gilbert son of Gilbert the chamberlain, William of Lumley, Roger de Keivill and Richard his brother, Stephen of the chamber, Amisio.
The document has been extensively annotated in a modern hand.
1m. 
Size: 12 x 16.5 cm
Purchased from Sotheby's auction, 14 December 1977, lot 31 (accession Misc.1977:36)
Printed: English Episcopal Acta 24 Durham 1153-1195, ed. M.G. Snape (Oxford 2002), p.127-128.
Digitised material for Grant by Hugh Le Puiset to Thomas de la Buteillerie of land in Heighington - DUL Add.MS. 917

Add.MS. 918   [early 13th century]
Language:   Latin
Grant by William, son of Thomas of Ferye, to Simon of Midel[t]un of land in Morton. Document annotated in a modern hand.
1m. 
Size: 12 x 16.5 cm
Purchased from Sotheby's auction, 14 December 1977, lot 32 (accession Misc.1977:19)
Digitised material for Grant by William, son of Thomas of Ferye, to Simon of Mideltun of land in Morton - DUL Add.MS. 918

Add.MS. 919   [early 14th century]
Language:   Latin
Grant by John of Eggyscliff to Robert of Eggiscliff of a messuage in Eggiscliff [Egglescliffe]. Document annotated in a modern hand.
1m. 
Size: 10.5 x 23.5 cm
Purchased from Sotheby's auction, 14 December 1977, lot 32 (accession Misc.1977:17)
Digitised material for Grant by John of Eggyscliff to Robert of Eggiscliff of a messuage in Egglescliffe - Add.MS. 919

Add.MS. 920   28 March 11 Henry VIII [1520]
Lease from Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland to Robert Colleys, concerning a pasture called Stotfolde within the Bisshopr[i]k of Durham. With tag, seal broken away.
1m. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:14)
Digitised material for Lease from Ralph Neville to Robert Colleys, concerning a pasture called Stotfolde - Add.MS. 920

Add.MS. 921   10 October, 5 Edward VI [1551]
Bond of £20 of John Banebrig and Anthony his son, of Snott[er]ton, Co. Durham to Richard Bowis of Norham, Northumberland, for fulfilment of a covenant of the same date. Signed by the two Banebrigs; with 2 seals, both now broken.
1m. 
Purchased from Miss W. Myers, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:4)
Digitised material for Bond of £20 of John Banebrig and his son Anthony, of Snotterton, Co. Durham to Richard Bowis of Norham, Northumberland - Add.MS. 921

Add.MS. 922   24 April 1570
Letter from the Privy Council to Sir George Bowes concerning the loan he is to raise in the “Bysshoprik”. As some are unable to pay owing to the despoliations of the recent rebellion, others of sufficient means are to be approached at Bowes' instruction.
Signed Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford; Sir Francis Knollys; Sir James Croft; William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
With a modern transcript (marked as inaccurate).
1f. each. 
Purchased from Sotheby's auction, 20 November 1973, lot 218 (accession Misc.1973:16)
Digitised material for Letter from the Privy Council to Sir George Bowes, 1570 - Add.MS. 922

Add.MS. 923   1575 x 1600
Copy of Bernard Gilpin's letter to his brother George, concerning his conversion to the Protestant faith, written in 1575.
2f. 
Purchased from Adab Books, catalogue 520, no. 52 (accession Misc.1982:9)
An abridged text of this letter is printed on pp.25-32 of W. Gilpin's Life of Bernard Gilpin(1752); the text on p.32-41 of G. Carleton's Life of Bernard Gilpin(1629) differs more extensively as it appears to be a translation of the Latin version given in the 1628 Latin edition of Carleton's work.
Digitised material for Copy of Bernard Gilpin's letter to his brother George, 1575 - Add.MS. 923

Add.MS. 924/1-14   1576-1715; n.d.
Documents relating to the Wren family of Binchester, Co. Durham.
14 items 
Purchased from Sotheby's sale, 6 June 1978, lot 34. (accession Misc.1978:14)

Add.MS. 925   5 May 1594
Letter from Ro. Delavale to William Rande, joiner, at Newcastle on Tyne, agreeing to discharge a debt of £3. 6s. 8d. owed to Rande by George Gray of Alnwick, for which John Basnett, tailor, of Newcastle has stood surety. Receipted by Thomas Wilken[son?].
1f. 
Purchased from W. Myers, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:11)
Digitised material for Letter from Ro. Delavale to William Rande, joiner, at Newcastle on Tyne, 1594 - Add.MS. 925

Add.MS. 926   [17th century]
Manuscript book containing copy of sermon on Colossians I. 15. “Who is the image of the invisible God, the first borne of every creature” by Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680) independent divine - see DNB “Of his writings the larger number were not printed in his lifetime, though prepared for the press”.
12f. 
Size: 19 x 15 cm
Purchased from SPCK bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:21)
Digitised material for Thomas Gibson, sermon on Colossians I. 15 - DUL Add.MS. 926

Add.MS. 927   1603
“Origo episcopatus Dunelmensis anno Domini 1603. Liber Johannes Hall de Conset Generosi: 1603”
A history of the bishops of Durham from Aidan to Cuthbert Tunstall (635-1559). Perhaps the earliest of eleven known manuscripts of this work, an English version of the so-called chronicle of William de Chambre.
The English appears to be the work of a recusant, who signs himself “T. R.” in a Cathedral copy, possibly from the same background as the author of the Rites of Durham, the well-known account of the monastery at the time of its dissolution in 1540, composed about 1593.
The introduction to the work states that it was produced on the 1st August 1603, at the charge of John Hall, for his use. John Hall of Consett and Framwellgate (1568-1624) was related by blood and marriage to several recusants, and one of his grand-daughters married James Mickleton (the elder, d. 1693), of Crook Hall, Durham, to whom the first edition of the Rites ..., 1672, was dedicated.
14 f. (f.5 [original foliation] misbound after f.8). Fragment from a larger, leather bound volume. 
Size: 30 x 21 cm
Purchased (source not specified) (accession Misc.1966:14)
The origin and succession of the bishop's of Durham[sic] (1779), by George Allan, from Durham Cathedral Chapter Library MS C.IV.14, on his private press at Darlington.
Digitised material for Origo episcopatus Dunelmensis anno Domini 1603 - DUL Add.MS. 927

Add.MS. 928/1-13   1604-1657; n.d.
Accounts of revenues and expenditure of Kepier Grammar School, Houghton-le-Spring (chiefly on building works) and a later transcript of an account of tithe rents.
26 items (mostly mounted) on 13 sheets. 
Purchased from Lt.-Col. J.G. Birch, 1968 (accession Misc.1968:5)
Digitised material for Accounts of Kepier Grammar School, Houghton-le-Spring - Add.MS. 928/1-13

Add.MSS. 929-936   [17th century]
A series of documents relating to 17th century religious controversies, once part of the collection of the Duke of Manchester.
When the Duke of Manchester deposited his collection in the PRO for the HMC to describe, some were erroneously marked with the Public Record Office stamp.
Purchased at Sotheby's auction, 24 March 1970 (Duke of Manchester's MSS), lot 413 (Misc 1970:4, 11, 13, 18, 22, 24, 28 and 30)

Add.MS. 937   15 October 1627
Language:   Latin
Letters patent, signed by Richard, Bishop of Durham (Richard Neile [1562-1640] Bishop of Durham, 1617-31; Archbishop of York, 1631-40), allowing Sir Thomas Blakeston and John Witham to alienate land in East Shipley, [Northumberland or Yorks.?] to Christopher and Hugo Blackett.
Endorsed on verso, “... recordo in rotulis clausis cancellar. Dunelm. scdo. die Augusti ... 1628”.
1m. 
Size: 24.5 x 28.5 cm
Seal: Large defective pendant seal of bishop of Durham, originally ca. 9 cm in diameter.
Purchased from Miss W. Myers, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:16)
Digitised material for Letters patent, signed by Richard, Bishop of Durham (Richard Neile [1562-1640] Bishop of Durham, 1627 - Add.MS. 937

Add.MS. 938   [ca. 1634]
An itemised estimate for the cost of materials for the finishing of the stone bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed from 18th August [1633-34]. Incomplete.
1f. 
Purchased S.P.C.K. bookshop (accession Misc.1977:6)
Digitised material for An itemised estimate for the cost of materials for the finishing of the stone bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed - Add.MS. 938

Add.MS. 939   9 April 1640
Letter from Thomas, Bishop of Durham [Thomas Morton (1564-1659)] from Stanforth, to Lord Willoughby at Grimsthorp, with autograph opening, signature and seal. Apologises for not visiting him in his journey north, but must return without delay. Nevertheless, he would have stopped at Grimsthorp, but for a flood that has held him at Stanforth.
1f. 
Purchased from Sotheby's auction, 23 June 1970, lot 348 (accession Misc.1970:25)
From the family papers of Bertie of Grimsthorp.
Digitised material for Letter from Thomas [Morton], Bishop of Durham from Stanforth, to Lord Willoughby at Grimsthorp - Add.MS. 939

Add.MS. 940   6 April 1647
Letter of attorney from Robert Bradford of Dublin to his brother Charles to claim property of their parents John and Ellynor Bradford in Hamsterley, Co. Durham. Witnessed, signed, with armorial seal.
1f. 
Purchased before 1971 [Leslie, Hull?] (accession Misc.2001/2002:137)
Digitised material for Letter of attorney from Robert Bradford of Dublin to his brother Charles to claim property of their parents John and Ellynor Bradford in Hamsterley, Co. Durham - Add.MS. 940

Add.MS. 941   20 June 1662
Receipt signed by Ellinor Pattison & Jane Belam, daughters of Anthony Crosier, acknowledging the payment of £50 of royal bounty to the daughters in recognition of their late father's services to Charles I.
Witnessed by the mayor and justices of Newcastle on Tyne: John Marley, Robert Shafto, Mar. Milbanke and John Em[e]rson.
1f. 
Purchased from Peter Eaton before 1971 (accession Misc.2001/2002:16)
Digitised material for Receipt signed by Ellinor Pattison & Jane Belam, daughters of Anthony Crosier, 1662 - Add.MS. 941

Add.MS. 942   29 September 1664
Letter from Henrietta Maria's Council, Denmark House, Strand, to the bishop of Durham [John Cosin] concerning payment of the Queen's rents.
2ff [fragile] 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:12)
Digitised material for Letter from Henrietta Maria's Council, Denmark House, Strand, to the bishop of Durham [John Cosin] concerning payment of the Queen's rents - Add.MS. 942

Add.MS. 943   23 March 1667/8
Questions on lease of a coal-mine, with legal opinions in answer, signed by Will. Leake. Endorsed “for Mr. Hacker of flyntham”.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:11)
Digitised material for Questions on lease of a coal-mine, with legal opinions in answer, signed by Will. Leake - Add.MS. 943

Add.MS. 944   23 August [16]68
Letter from John Brockett, Barnard Castle, to an unidentified recipient requesting a licence for William Raine (the bearer of the letter) to be his clerk, Raine having the correct qualifications and the approval of the [bishop's] official.
1f 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:5)
Digitised material for Letter from John Brockett, Barnard Castle requesting a licence for William Raine to be his clerk - Add.MS. 944

Add.MS. 945   4 July 1668
Receipt from Robert Myers of the High Nicke, Co. Durham, cooper, and his wife Elizabeth for £42.9s. for sale of a house near Sunderland to John Littell, with signatures and marks.
1f. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:16)
Digitised material for Receipt for sale of a house near Sunderland, 1668 - Add.MS. 945

Add.MS. 946   1680s
Houghton-le-Spring - Halmote Court:
Presentment of the jury for the homage of Bishopwearmouth, 26 September 1684, with wrapper
J. Johnson's quietus from the Bishop of Durham, 16 January 1689, with wrapper
Also transcripts and notes by J.T. Fowler.
8f. 
Acquired early 20th century ? (accession Misc.2001/2002:139)
Digitised material for Houghton-le-Spring - Halmote Court documents - Add.MS. 946

Add.MS. 947/1 a-c   21 November 1689
Letter from the Privy Council, Whitehall, to the Sheriff of the County of Durham asking for a list of horses belonging to Papists. Mounted on page from album probably collected by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, with original address, and 19th century notes on signatories which indicates letter was in possession of Mr Surtees.
3 pieces mounted on 1f. 
Purchased from J. Wilson, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:20)
Digitised material for Letter from the Privy Council, Whitehall, to the Sheriff of the County of Durham asking for a list of horses belonging to Papists - Add.MS. 947/1 a-c

Add.MS. 948   20 August 1687
License fee receipt signed by Jo. (?)Humble, , for John Rogers gent to concord with Edward Longuevile and others for various lands in Seaton. With papered seal, noted as that of Richard Neile, Bishop of Durham (but this seems unlikely as he had been dead for half a century: Seaton was not bishopric land, so the issuer of this receipt is not known).
1f. 
Found in book of C.H. Hunter Blair's donated by his son (accession Misc.2001/2002:138)
Digitised material for License fee receipt for various lands in Seaton - Add.MS. 948

Add.MS. 949   21 September 1688
Warrant signed by members of the Corporation of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, appointing Joseph Dixon and Thomas Moore, from whom one is to be chosen by them to be the Elector for the Company of Weavers.
1f. 
Donated by Miss W. Myers, 1972 (accession Misc.1972:12)
Digitised material for Warrant signed by members of the Corporation of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne to chose the Elector for the Company of Weavers - Add.MS. 949

Add.MS. 950   1 October 1692
Bargain and sale between David Hymus, skipper, his wife Elizabeth and son Thomas, and Ephraim Atkinson, mariner, and his wife Elizabeth (all from Sunderland) of a messuage in the High Street, Sunderland. signed and sealed (3 seals). Endorsed with witnessed livery of seisin.
1m. 
Purchased from Winifred Myers, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:18)
Digitised material for Bargain and sale of a messuage in the High Street, Sunderland - Add.MS. 950

Add.MS. 951   27 October 1693
Presentment made by the Grieve and jury of Ryton [i.e. list of fines levied for small local offences], addressed to “John Hutchinson Steward of ye Halmot Court liueing in Framegaite in Durham” (recorded in Halmote Court Book at Chester-le-Street 18 October 1693 [f. 1456v]).
1f. 
Purchased from Adab Books, cat. 520, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:23)
Digitised material for Presentment made by the Grieve and jury of Ryton Halmote Court - Add.MS. 951

Add.MS. 952   13 October 1699
Sale of property in Darlington Market Place, by Robert Trueman, woollen draper to Timothy Middleton, mercer and Joseph Fisher, dyer (all from Darlington). Signed and sealed by Trueman and endorsed by witnesses.
1m. 
Purchased S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:40)
Digitised material for Sale of property in Darlington Market Place - Add.MS. 952

Add.MS. 953   [18th century]
List of expenses paid to witnesses for attending assizes (place not specified but Simonburn mentioned).
1f. 
Donated by Dr. M. Hughes, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:26)
Digitised material for List of expenses paid to witnesses for attending assizes - Add.MS. 953

Add.MS. 954   [18th century - GR watermark]
Scheme of cultivation for each piece of common land, Welton (Yorkshire)
1f. 
Purchased from H. T. Jantzen, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:35)
Digitised material for Scheme of cultivation for each piece of common land, Welton - Add.MS. 954

Add.MS. 955   27 January 1701
Bond in £3,000, Ralph Hutton of Mainsforth to Robert Spearman of Durham, to ensure the fulfilment of certain covenants and indentures.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:26)
Digitised material for Bond of Ralph Hutton of Mainsforth to Robert Spearman of Durham - Add.MS. 955

Add.MS. 956/1   23 October 1712
Letter from Thomas Sharp (d.1758, canon of Durham), Cambridge, to his brother John, about family matters.
1f. 
Purchased from Miss W.A. Myers (part of a larger lot of letters to John Sharp, of which Add. MS. 956/2 was the only other purchased) (accession Misc.1971:42)
Digitised material for Letter from Thomas Sharp (d.1758, canon of Durham), Cambridge, to his brother John - Add.MS. 956/1

Add.MS. 956/2   28 November 1721
Letter from Thomas Sharp (d.1758, canon of Durham), Rothbury to his brother John in Westminster, asking him for advice about marriage.
1f. 
Purchased from Miss W.A. Myers (part of a larger lot of letters to John Sharp, of which Add. MS. 956/1 was the only other purchased) (accession Misc.1971:41)
Digitised material for Letter from Thomas Sharp (d.1758, canon of Durham), Cambridge, to his brother John - Add.MS. 956/2

Add.MS. 957/1-9   [early 18th century]
Letter, 16 October 1715, from Christopher Thornton to [Gilbert?] Spearman; 8 pieces of school-children's exercises (English and Latin) etc., some signed George Spearman, ca. 1725; page of a printed alphabet book with owner's names, 1724.
9 items. [Fragile] 
Found during demolition of back wings of Cosin's Hall (formerly Archdeacon's Inn), Palace Green, 1968. (accession Misc.1968:6 )
Digitised material for Fragmentary documents from Cosin's hall - Add.MS. 957/1-9

Add.MS. 958   29 September 1716
Articles of agreement between Hildebrand Lord Allington (with John Weston) and Thomas Price, whereby the latter is to operate a water pumping house in Sandgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, for a period of three years at an annual salary of £44. Stamped but not signed; endorsed on verso “not executed”.
1f 
Acquired before 1952 (accession Misc.2001/2002:141)
Digitised material for Articles of agreement to operate a water pumping house in Sandgate, Newcastle upon Tyne - Add.MS. 958

Add.MS. 959/1-3   1721
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d.1720): account of debts due by the late Duke to shop-keepers, tradesmen & others (including £23.10.0 to Pope for Dryden's tomb); account of expenses for the Duke's funeral; printed cutting from the London Journaldescribing the Duke's funeral.
3 items. 
Found in printed book purchased from Christie's, 1978 (accession Misc.1979:2)
Digitised material for John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d.1720): account of debts due by the late Duke, and funeral - Add.MS. 959/1-3

Add.MS. 960   20 June 1723
Lease by Robert Gibson, gent. of Humbersledd, Co. Durham to Thomas Jones of Fallowfield, Co. Durham of the farm at Fallowfield, signed and sealed by parties, with witnesses' mark and signature.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:13)
Digitised material for Lease of the farm at Fallowfield - Add.MS. 960

Add.MS. 961   20 September 1725
Deed of uses by Robert Hood and Elizabeth, his wife, of Darlington, for £50 mortgage, of property in Darlington near Badell Gate alias Blackwell Gate to Thomas Sanderson of West Thickley. With marks and seals. Endorsed and witnessed.
1m. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:29)

Add.MS. 962   17 July 1725
Autograph letter signed from William Mitford, Inner Temple, to John Pye, Durham, enclosing the result of researches into the title of the Delavalls (of Seaton Delaval) to a moiety of the Rectory of Tynemouth. The work appears to have been done for Mr [Thomas?] Rudd.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1960 (accession Misc.1960:2)
Digitised material for Notes on the title of the Delavalls (of Seaton Delaval) to a moiety of the Rectory of Tynemouth - Add.MS. 962

Add.MS. 963   1725-1886
Transcripts of records of the Durham City Butchers and Fleshers Company, principally Apprentices enrolment book 1765-1839; Freemen admittance book 1765-1886; Meetings book ( “Absent book” ) 1725-1841 (2 copies).
Ms. and Ts. transcripts made by Miss M. Todd and Miss Cooper Hodgson.
157f. 
Presented by the Durham Branch of the Historical Association, 1941 (accession Misc.1941:1)
A group of records of the Company of Butchers (from which these transcripts appear to have been made), was deposited in 1966 and now forms part of the repository's Durham City Guilds Records.

Add.MS. 964/1-2   1731
Two mortgage deeds relating to lands at Stapleton (Yorkshire)
Purchased from E. & B. Sutcliffe, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:11)

Add.MS. 965   22 August 1735
Letter from William Craik, at Arbigland, [on the Solway Firth] to Homer Maxwell at Carzield, requesting the latter's presence at the funeral of Craik's father. Reverse used for later algebraic notes.
1f. 
Found in a copy of J. Kersey's Third & fourth books of ... algebra, (1674), purchased 1963 (accession Misc.1963:6)
Digitised material for Invitation to a funeral - Add.MS. 965

Add.MS. 966   [after 1758]
Legal case notes concerning lands within manor of Lanchester, 1713-58 and later, by a legal adviser of Christopher Wilkinson. jnr., asking counsel's opinion.
1f. 
Donated by Dr. M. Hughes, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:37)
Digitised material for Legal case notes concerning lands within manor of Lanchester - Add.MS. 966

Add.MS. 967   12 November 1738
Letter from Christopher Hunter (1675-1757) at Durham to Zachary Grey at Cambridge, concerning their literary and antiquarian activities and friends. Also a printed notice of a forthcoming edition of the Bowes Correspondence (this did not appear, but was published eventually by the Surtees Society).
1f. with cutting attached. 
Purchased W. Myers, 1961 (accession Misc.1961:4)
Digitised material for Letter from Christopher Hunter to Zachary Grey - Add.MS. 967

Add.MS. 968   1744
“An explanation of an ancient inscription discovered at Rutchester, the last station in England, upon the Roman Wall, 1744 ... according to the copy given me by Dr Hunter of Durham, who copied the inscription this last summer”, by John Taylor (Chancellor of Lincoln) [Roman inscription at High Rochester].
24p. and attached tag identifying the author. 
Presented by Miss W. A. Myers, 1973 (accession Misc.1973:29)
Philosophical transactions[of the Royal Society], vol. 44, no. 482 (1746-47) pp. 344-58.
Digitised material for An explanation of an ancient inscription discovered at Rutchester, the last station in England, upon the Roman Wall, 1744 - Add.MS. 968

Add.MS. 969   1730 x 1750 probably 1740s
“Bishop Chandler's account of the receipts and outgoings of the Bishopric of Durham”
A detailed account of the various sources of income, undated. Mentions Mr Whittaker's salary - he was Receiver-General until 1745. The hand is similar to that found in notes in the Receiver-General's accounts - possibly that of Christopher Johnson.
6ff, mounted. 
Purchased from Sanders of Oxford, catalogue 52, no. 1443, 1966 (accession Misc.1961:2)
Digitised material for Bishop Chandler's account of the receipts and outgoings of the Bishopric of Durham [1740s] - Add.MS. 969

Add.MS. 970   7 June 1745
Mortgage of the tolls of the Boroughbridge to Durham turnpike road by the named trustees to Gideon Philips for £100. Signed and sealed. Endorsed and witnessed.
1m. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:8)

Add.MS. 971   20 July 1747
Mortgage of the tolls of the Boroughbridge to Durham turnpike road by the named trustees to Gideon Philips for £150. Signed and sealed. Endorsed with subsequent transactions, redeemed 1826.
1m. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:9)

Add.MS. 972   18 July 1746
Bond in £100 of William Waring of Durham City, gent., to William Wallis of the same, gent., concerning the payment by Waring of a debt of £50, plus interest. Endorsed, 17 November 1757, note of repayment and £7. 8s. interest.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, ca. 1964 (accession Misc.1964:29)
Digitised material for Bond between William Waring and William Wallis - Add.MS. 972

Add.MS. 973/1-7   [18th - 20th centuries]
Records of the births and deaths of members of a family named Rippon, also one named Watson, belonging to several parishes in the Durham area, 1745-1902. Taken from family bibles owned by Miss Minto, one of which bore the 1809 ownership inscription of Thomas Rippon of Burnopfield.
7 pieces 
Donated by Miss Minto, 1970s? (accession Misc.2001/2002:66)

Add.MS. 974   [Probably later half of the 18th century]
Official proclamation for the opening of one of the three annual fairs of Durham City.
1m. 
Presented by E.H. Knight, 1935 (accession Misc.1935:1)
Digitised material for Durham City fair proclamation - Add.MS. 974

Add.MS. 975   28 July 1749
Letter from Humphrey Rawlings, Stockton-on-Tees to an unidentified recipient, largely concerning a request for advice over financial investments.
1f. 
Provenance not known (accession Misc.2001/2002:65)
Digitised material for Letter from Humphrey Rawlings, Stockton-on-Tees - Add.MS. 975

Add.MS. 976   10 September 1751
Letter from Spencer Cowper (1715-1774, Dean of Durham), Durham to his brother, Earl Cowper, about family matters and his health.
1f. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:4)
Digitised material for Letter from Spencer Cowper, Dean of Durham), Durham to his brother - Add.MS. 976

Add.MS. 977   18 August 1755
Affidavit signed by William Belasyse of Brancepeth, testifying that Dorothy Paget, daughter of Justinian Paget of Gray's Inn, was born on 10 July 1755.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:5)

Add.MS. 978/1-2   [ca. 1760 - 1777]
Account of the sums of money received of Sir Lancelot Allgood (d.1782) year to year by Thomas Philipson Senior, 1759-1777.
Printed receipt from the Greenwich Hospital Commissioners, to Lancelot Allgood, for 1s.8d., one year's fee-farm rent of Northumberland estates, signed by Nicholas Walton, 2nd October [17--].
2f. and 1 piece [fragile] 
Donated by Dr. M. Hughes, 1970/71 (accession Misc.1970:3 & 19)
Digitised material for Account relating to Greenwich Hospital land - Add.MS. 978/1-2

Add.MS. 979/1-7   1759-1766
Copy surrenders of copyholds in the manorial court (i.e. bishop of Durham's Halmote Court) of Cockerton.
7mm. tied together 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop (accession Misc.1977:12)
Digitised material for Copy surrenders of copyholds in the bishop of Durham's Halmote Court of Cockerton - Add.MS. 979/1-7

Add.MS. 980   1760
Election canvas; a census of freeholders in the south-east division of the Darlington ward, prior to the county election of 1761; voter's promises are indicated. Taken 10 Dec. 1760, on behalf of Robert Shafto, one of the candidates [the others were the Hon. Frederick Vane and Sir Thomas Clavering].
I, 51p. [fragile] 
Purchased from R. J. Scott, 1961 (accession Misc.1961:3)
Digitised material for Election canvas: census of freeholders in the south-east division of the Darlington ward, prior to the county election of 1761 - Add.MS. 980

Add.MS. 981   1 December 1760
Letter from Henry Ornsby, Darlington, to unspecified recipient, about collecting debts and other business mentioning several enclosures (none extant).
1f. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:18)

Add.MS. 982   20 June 1760
Letter from 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (Charles Watson-Wentworth) from Scarborough, to another peer and member of the Government, concerning the march of militia from Darlington to Durham.
1f. 
Donated by Miss W. Myers, 1972 (accession Misc.1972:14)

Add.MS. 983   28 May 1762
Letter from Thomas Haynes from Wick to “The Revd. Mr. Grand at Dirham” [sic], concerning a questionable demand for money made to Haynes by Benjamin Owen, apparently an ex-usher at Durham School.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:6)

Add.MS. 984   11 July 1764
Lease by the bishop of Durham to James Oliphant of a tenement on the east side of the south end of the Tyne Bridge for 21 years at a rent of 3s. Endorsed, signed.
1m. 
Purchased from Winifred Myers, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:27)

Add.MS. 985   6 May 1765
Bargain and sale by Thomas Metcalf of Stockton, mariner, George Hutton of Sedgefield, gent., John Matthews of Stokesley, gent. and Robert Preston of Stockton, gent. to William Chapman of Stockton, cartwright, concerning a stable and granary in Stockton. Signed and sealed.
1m. 
Purchased Adab Books, cat. 509., no. 67, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:5)

Add.MS. 986   17 December 1765
Bill to the bishop of Durham [Richard Trevor] for books purchased [from the S.P.C.K.], with directions for carriage.
1f. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:22)
Digitised material for Bill to Bishop Richard Trevor for books - Add.MS. 986

Add.MS. 987   22 January 1766 - 10 December 1766
Clavering family coal mining accounts
Fortnightly detailed account sheets for the Thorn Pit, Andrews House (near Marley) 1766, (later known as the Success Pit) belonging to the Claverings of Greencroft, near Lanchester
26 pieces, tied. 
Purchased 1967 (accession Misc.1967:3)

Add.MS. 988   5 November 1766
Letter from M. Dickinson, White House to Mr. George Pickering at Nunwick [N. Yorks], about a boundary dyke.
1f. [fragile] 
Donated by Dr. M. Hughes, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:12)

Add.MS. 989   10 December 1766
Letter from William Emerson (1701-1782, mathematician), at Hurworth, to his publisher [not named], concerning the contents of a forthcoming book.
1f. [fragile] 
Purchased from I. K. Fletcher, catalogue 217, no. 44, 1965 (accession Misc.1965:6)
Digitised material for Letter from William Emerson (1701-1782, mathematician), at Hurworth, to his publisher - Add.MS. 989

Add.MS. 990   4 June 1767
Letter from Thomas Lawson at Longhirst to Charles Shaftoa. He has agreed with George Davison of Linacres about Marley Coat Walls and wishes to conclude the business as cheaply as possible with “Uncle Carr”.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:7)
Digitised material for Letter from Thomas Lawson at Longhirst to Charles Shaftoe - Add.MS. 990

Add.MS. 991   18 January 1768
Bond of Nicholas Chapman of Norton, Co. Durham, to John Williamson of Elton, Co. Durham for four hundred pounds. Witnesses R. Preston, Jno. Lawson.
1f. 
Purchased from Winifred Myers, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:9)

Add.MS. 992   3 November 1768
Letter from Joseph Clark, Morpeth, to John Renton at Blackhadder House, with recipe against footrot.
1f. 
Donated by Miss Myers, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:1)

Add.MS. 993   16 September 1768
Letter from Nicholas Halhead, Auckland, to Mr. Bunn at Westminster enclosing a draft for £5 of Archdeacon Sharp's. Tipped in to a later wrapper apparently misidentifying Halhead as the orientalist Nathaniel Halhead (1751-1830).
1f. in wrapper. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:10)

Add.MS. 994   22 January 1768
Letter from Robert Harrison (1715-1802, mathematician) at Newcastle, to James Allan at Darlington about schooling and lodging Master T. Bowes.
1f. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:11)

Add.MS. 995   25 October 1769
Note written in the third person from the bishop of Durham [Richard Trevor] to William Lambton, concerning a proposal by Lambton to alter the boundaries of Lanchester Fell.
1f. 
Purchased from W. Myers, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:26)

Add.MS. 996   29 October 1769
Letter from Henry Wilkinson at Sherburn House to Mr. Thomas Hugall in Durham, about a business meeting.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:31)

Add.MS. 997   19 November 1770
Letter from William Jolliffe at New Palace Yard [Westminster], to the bishop of Durham, concerning the bishop and Sir Ralph Milbanke's rights in the nomination for the curacy of Chester-le-Street.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:33)

Add.MS. 998   4 May 1772
Lease for a year by Elizabeth Bland of Hurworth, Co. Durham, Richard Ripley of Westminster and William Snaith of Hurworth, Co. Durham, William Newsam of Yarm, Yorks. and Edward Waldy of Ingleby, Yorks. (assignees of Robert Raisbeck, of North Cowton, butcher, now bankrupt, to John Bower of Scorton, Yorks, and Loyzelure Wilkinson of Coatsmore, Durham, concerning several pieces of land at North Cowton. Signed and sealed. Endorsed.
1m. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:11)

Add.MS. 999   9 April 1774
Letter from Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington, at Badsworth in reply to unidentified correspondent, concerning the pedigrees of hounds.
1f. 
Purchased from Jantzen, catalogue 110, no. 23, 1972 (accession Misc.1972:4)

Add.MS. 1000   2 October 1774
Letter from John Rotheram (1725-89, Rector of Houghton-le-Spring) at Houghton-le-Spring, to [Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland], , expressing himself “desirous of keeping as much at a Distance from all election matters as possible”, but endorsing Lord Algernon Percy as a proper candidate to represent Northumberland in the next Parliament.
1f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:21)

Add.MS. 1001   19 January 1775
Letter from George Brook in London [to George Allan?] on behalf of Bishop of Durham in favour of Thomas Pennant (author of topographical and travel works), requesting an account of the County [of Durham] for Pennant's next publication.
1f. [fragile] 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:2)

Add.MS. 1002   18 November 1776
Agreement in manorial court of the manor of Egleston (Eggleston, Co. Durham) that the lord of the manor, Timothy Hutchinson, shall be allowed the right to inclose parts of the manor's moor or common lands by act of Parliament in recognition and recompense the effort and expense he has been put to defending the boundaries of the manor against encroachment by the neighbouring manorial lord, the Earl of Darlington. signed and sealed by the freeholders (Christopher Harrison, Lancelot Harrison, John Stephenson, Joseph Dawson, John Stephenson, John Addison, Antony Headlam, Joseph Stephenson, William Dixon, Joshua Gibson) and Timothy Hutchinson.
1m. 
Purchased from H. T. Jantzen, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:8)

Add.MS. 1003   30 July 1777
Unsigned or incomplete letter from Marmaduke Tunstall at Wycliffe (N. Yorks.), about a ledger book of Easby abbey and the estates and arms of the Tunstall family.
1f. 
Donated by Miss W. Myers, 1972 (accession Misc.1972:20)

Add.MS. 1004/1-3   1779
Deeds relating to the bishop of Durham's manor of Howden (Howdenshire).
Purchased from N. T. Leslie, list 131 nos. 139-141, 1963 (accession Misc.1963:7)

Add.MS. 1005/1-6   ca.1780
Returns to the bishop of Durham, pursuant to an inquiry in the House of Lords, giving the number of papists in certain parishes: Birtley, Bywell, Chollerton (names given) and Lucker. With two modern notes on the contents.
See also similar returns for other Northumberland parishes among the Durham Diocesan Records at DDR/BP/PAR/1.
6 pieces. 
Purchased from Steedman, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:12)

Add.MS. 1006   January 1781
Appointment by John Dale of South Shields, master & mariner of Joseph Aynsley of London, coal factor, as his attorney in a bankruptcy of Westminster coal-merchants. Signed, sealed and witnessed, 9 January 1781, with a covering letter to Aynsley by Dale, 13 January 1781.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:12)

Add.MS. 1007   13 October 1781
Letter from William Hutchinson from Barnard Castle to Farrer Wren, Binchester, on a Roman monument there (the one discussed and engraved on page 347 of vol. iii of Hutchinson's History and antiquities of ... Durham).
1f. 
Purchased from H. Bristow, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:25)

Add.MS. 1008/1-21   1782-1880
Thomas Bowes [and successors?], solicitor at Darlington: miscellaneous letters and other papers concerning various clients and cases.
21 pieces 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:10)

Add.MS. 1009/1-2   1783
Petition and commission for the bankruptcy of John Smith, draper, of Durham City, the first signed by Edward Lord Thurlow as Lord Chancellor.
2mm. tied together. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:45)

Add.MS. 1010/1-5   1784-1789
Five letters from Henry Vane, Duke of Cleveland and Earl of Darlington (1766-1842), enclosing £50 instalments of a loan to be repaid.
5 pieces 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:11)

Add.MS. 1011   7 February 1785
Letter from Thomas Jopling at Cotherstone to David Kinghorn, Bishop Burton near Beverley, containing detailed family news.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:34)

Add.MS. 1012   4 July 1786
Autograph copy of speech by Charles, the future 2nd Earl Grey, to voters for the Northumberland parliamentary election at Morpeth (his first election to Parliament).
1f. 
Purchased from Sotheby's auction, 5 July 1977, lot 137. (accession Misc.1977:22)

Add.MS. 1013/1-2   11 September 1786
Hilton manor, in parish of Staindrop. Notice of auction, with particulars of value and quit rents, and conditions of sale.
2f. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:28)

Add.MS. 1014   4 March 1786
Letter from John Sharp (1723-92, Archdeacon of Northumberland; trustee of Lord Crewe's Charity) from The College, Durham, to Edward King (antiquary, 1735?-1807, author of Observations on ancient castles(1772), etc.), thanking him for a presentation copy of his book, sending him a copy of a recent set of plans of Bamburgh Castle, and explaining in detail his forthcoming intentions for the renovation of Bamburgh Castle.
1f. 
Purchased from Charles Higham (S.P.C.K.), 1984 (accession Misc.1984:19)

Add.MS. 1015   20 November 1788
Deed of settlement for the marriage of Francis Mascall of Eppleton and Elizabeth Radcliffe of Durham, with Francis Smales of Durham and Cuthbert Eden of Houghton-le-Spring as trustees, concerning the manor of Eppleton. Endorsed, 1830, with note by Mascall on the death of his wife.
1m. 
Purchased from P. Smith (Elvet Bridge, Durham), 1982 (accession Misc.1982:6)

Add.MS. 1016   17 February 1789
Sir Henry Vane, 2nd Bart, (d.1813), from Durham to Loyd & Co., Wine Merchants, London, enclosing a cheque in settlement of their account. Loose biographical note (1016a) on Vane.
1f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:48)

Add.MS. 1017   1790
Document of purchase of legacy of £50 to James Ewbank on the death of his mother Mary Ewbank, by William Thompson, Barnard Castle.
1f. 
Purchased from A. B. Walker, Whitby, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:15)

Add.MS. 1018/1-3   ca.1790
Three letters from D[aniel] Watson, (Rector of Middleton-Tyas, Yorkshire, d.1804?), to George Allan (the antiquary, of Darlington, 1736-1800), concerning classical studies, an unidentified publication of 1790, the death of an acquaintance, and family affairs. Apparently edited for publication at some point?
3 pieces 
Purchased from Miss W. Myers, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:23)

Add.MS. 1019   2 August 1791
Letter from Rowland Burdon (1756-1838, of Castle Eden, MP etc.) from Sunderland, to Mr. Friar, Newcastle on Tyne (? John Fryer (1744/5-1825, surveyor), giving directions for surveying the roads between Newcastle and Sunderland, and from there to South Shields, in connection with the building of a new turnpike.
1f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:7)

Add.MS. 1020   10 March 1794
Letter from William Hutchinson (1732-1814) antiquary, Barnard Castle, to James Savage, bookseller and antiquary at Howden, Yorks., announcing his new publication and requesting information about antiquarian matters in Howdenshire.
Written on the back of the prospectus for Hutchinson's History of ... Cumberland.
2f. 
Purchased from R. Hatchwell, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:6)

Add.MS. 1021   27 March 1795
Recommendations (printed form completed in ms.) of Francis Stephens, Commissioner of the Victualing Office, to be a subscribing member of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Signed “S. Dunelm” (Shute Barrington, bishop of Durham).
1f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:3)

Add.MS. 1022   9 February 1796
Bill from Christopher Smith & Co., drapers and haberdashers of Stockton upon Tees, to Mr. John Chaloner for £22. 12s. 1½d, for funeral expenses.
1f. 
Purchased Jabez Elliott, cat. 14/67, no. 169, 1967 (accession Misc.1967:8)

Add.MS. 1023   1964
Typescript transcript made by R.S. Boumphrey of a letter from John Ware at Whitehaven to Mrs Dodson of Lancaster, 6 and 20 November 1796, describing his journey in the north of England: Lake District, Bishop Auckland, the nuns of St Helen Auckland, Raby Castle, etc.
Transcribed from the original, DDGa/17 of the Gresgarth muniments deposited at the Lancashire Record Office in 1958.
With (1023a) note to C.R. Hudleston from Lancashire Record Office confirming that the sketches mentioned in the letter are no longer present.
I , 10f. in card cover, and 1 piece. 
Presented by R.S. Boumphrey, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:28)

Add.MS. 1024   14 April 1797
Letter from W. Constable to “Sir” (unidentified), referring to the antiquary William Hutchinson who is considering writing a history, who wishes to see the manuscripts [?] when he comes to Holderness.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (accession Misc.2001/2002:15)

Add.MS. 1025/1-5   1797-1822
Five letters from Rev. Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846), canon of Durham, written from Matlock (24 September 1797) and Yoxall (18 November 1798; 5 June 1822; 3 & 4 September 1822), to his publisher (1797-98 Cadell & Davies, 1822 Thomas Cadell), concerning correcting plates; presentation copies; advertisement of his works; his wish to disassociate himself from a work advertised as by “W. Gisborne, D.D.” - “a man of straw, & the book a catchpenny intended to pass for mine” ; and revisions for a new edition of his Enquiry into the duties of the female sex.
5 pieces 
Purchased from Christie&s sale, 16 April 1980, lot 111 (accession Misc.1980:11)

Add.MS. 1026   March 1799
Statement of income for 1798 for I. A. Esq. (other material from Dr Hughes related to the Allgood family)
1f. 
Donated by Dr. M. Hughes (accession Misc.1970:1)

Add.MS. 1027   20 September 1798
Letter from Thomas Hopper at Durham to Mr. William Forster at Norwich, about monetary and personal affairs.
1f. 
Donated by Miss W. Myers, 1972 (accession Misc.1972:9)

Add.MS. 1028   20 January 1798
Letter from G.W. Meadley at Sunderland to James Field Stanfield at North Shields, assessing the character and public conduct of William Henry Lambton (d. 1797), late M.P. for the City of Durham.
1f. 
Purchased from Hofmann & Freeman, 1979 (accession Misc.1979:5)

Add.MS. 1029   17 March 1799
Letter from William Jameson at York to Mr. Robinson, Essex Street, London, concerning the affairs of Stephen Croft of York, deceased, and enclosing a copy of a lease of 1772 from John [Egerton] Bishop of Durham, to Croft and others, concerning an estate at Wheelhall, York.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (accession Misc.2001/2002:50)

Add.MS. 1030   3 January 1799
Letter from Granville Sharp at Wicken Park nr. Stony-Stratford, to Joseph Hill, Savile Row, London, concerning legal business of his sister Judith Sharp, and niece Ann Jemima Sharp.
1f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:23)

Add.MS. 1031/1-5   1799-1811
Five letters from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, bishop of Durham 1836-59) to various correspondents, including Joseph Hill, Thomas Leigh and the booksellers Cadell and Davies, concerning financial matters (prebendal estate), problems with posting newspapers, orders for books and other matters. Written from Buckden Vicarage [he was Vicar of Buckden, Huntingdonshire, 1794-1823] (19 and 26 March 1799, 25 August 1805, 28 February 1811) and Covent Garden (8 July 1807).
5 pieces 
Purchased from W. Myers, 1964 (accession Misc.1964::20)

Add.MS. 1032   [Early/mid 19th century]
Autograph note to the Secretary of the Carlton Club - “Lord Castlereagh will have the honor of dining ... Saturday July 16” (Possibly the statesman [1769-1822] or a later Marquess before achieving his title).
1f. 
Found in lot 518 purchased at Hodgson's 24 March 1966 (accession Misc.1966:5)

Add.MS. 1033/1-2   [Late 18th - early 19th century]
Lot 1 and 3 (2 is not present), allocated “as determined by casting the dice”. Two parcels of land, one to Mrs Nowell of farms at Healaugh and Fremington, one to Catherine Close of farms at Harkerside and Fremington, all near Reeth, N. Yorks.
Paper watermarked J. Buttanshaw.
2f. 
Purchased S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:27)

Add.MS. 1034   [ca. 1800]
Ms. viola part for Six concertos in 7 parts .. op.3, by Charles Avison (1710-1770) [published in 1751]. The first and last leaves are strengthened by being pasted onto leaves of (unidentified) contemporary printed music.
Copied ca. 1800? (Watermark in paper dated 1801). With 20th century ownership stamp of Arthur Finch. Cf. Durham Chapter Lib. Mus. C12 (Harman 389).
7f. in paper wrapper. 
Purchased ca. 1970 from unidentified source (accession Misc.1970:5)

Add.MS. 1035   [ca. 1800]
Autograph copy of “Ode to the memory of William Cowper”, by Rev. Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846), theologian.
With photocopy of the printed version from The works of Thomas Gisborne(London, 1813), vol. iv.
2 leaves folded, paper. 
Purchased S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:10)

Add.MS. 1036   15 October 1801
Letter from H. Howard at Greystoke Castle to Sir [ ] Milbanke at Seaham, concerning an election in County Durham.
1f. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:15)

Add.MS. 1037   [1804]
The performances and sums taken in the Theatre Sunderland, by Stephen Kemble Esq. Manager. Opened Tuesday October 18th 1803. Closed Monday January 9th 1804.
List naming performances (plays, interludes, farces), beneficiaries and takings.
1f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:19)

Add.MS. 1038/1-2   1803-1804
2 letters from J. Ward jr. at Durham, to Adam Clarke at Liverpool and Manchester, about papers to the Liverpool and Manchester Philological Societies, etc. 18 February 1803 and 29 December 1804
1f. each (mounted) 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:24)

Add.MS. 1039   10 December 1804
Account to the township of Darlington for payment of expenses of recruiting and discharging James Walker to the army, with a note signed “Alex. Nashe Serjt.”.
1f. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:1)

Add.MS. 1040   30 March 1804
Letter from Lord Chancellor Eldon (John Scott, 1751-1838, 1st Earl of Eldon) to R. Burden of Castle Eden, Durham, concerning financial matters relating to the settlement of the estate of Mr Surtees endorsed with a copy of Burden's reply of 2 April 1804.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:20)

Add.MS. 1041   13 July 1804
Official licence to plead, enabling James Topping to defend Jane Smith, indicted at the Durham Quarter Sessions, on a charge of larceny.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:24)

Add.MS. 1042   24 December 1805
Fragment of a letter from Shute Barrington (1734-1826, Bishop of Durham 1791-1826), preserving only the opening lines (with reference to the Boldon Book) and the final leave-taking and signature.
Accompanied by a printed engraving of Barrington by Thomson (referred to as the late bishop, so ca. 1830) that reproduces the final clause and signature from the letter.
2 pieces 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:2)

Add.MS. 1043   3 August 1805
Letter from Shute Barrington (1734-1826, Bishop of Durham 1791-1826) at Mongewell to Mr. Wilton, Attorney, Gloucester, concerning a trust and a reduced allowance to be paid to a Mr. Cook.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:4)

Add.MS. 1044   21 February 1805
Letter from John Walker at Badsley (near Lymington) to John Anstey, Kendals, Stanmore, Middlesex, mainly concerned with income tax assessments on West Indies property and annuities.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:22)

Add.MS. 1045   14 August 1806
Letter from Arthur Anstey from Bushey to his brother John Anstey at Kendalls, Middlesex, concerning the payment of a legacy (dependent on property abroad), domestic matters.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:2)

Add.MS. 1046   15 May 1806
Letter from J. Farrar of Witton-le-Wear to Mr. Charnley [i.e. Emerson Charnley, the Newcastle bookseller, 1782-1845], asking to be sent copies of a Book of Geography, and Scientific dialogues. Titles of several other books are written on the back of the letter.
1f. 
Purchased from Mrs. L. A. Leake., 1982 (accession Misc.1982:7)

Add.MS. 1047   8 November 1806
Letter from William Shields from Durham to Mr. Bell, Abbey Office, Hexham, concerning business matters including an overdue account and an order for some tea.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:11)

Add.MS. 1048   19 August 1807
Letter of condolence from Shute Barrington (bishop of Durham) from Auckland Castle to unknown recipient.
1f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:2)

Add.MSS. 1049/1-6   1808-1831
Notes from William Van Mildert, mainly relating to book purchases.
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:23)

Add.MS. 1050   17 January 1809
Printed form, with details supplied in ms., recommending William Tournay, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, for membership of the S.P.C.K., proposed by William Van Mildert.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:)

Add.MS. 1051   24 July 1809
Articles of agreement between Robert Robson and Jacob Brantingham concerning a back-kitchen erected by the former in Darlington.
1f. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:14)

Add.MS. 1052   29 January 1809
Letter from Sir John Eden (1740-1812) from Windlestone to an unidentified recipient, offering advice on the best form of appeal to make on behalf of a convicted criminal, Fletcher.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:19)

Add.MS. 1053   30 December 1809
Letter from Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846, Prebendary of Durham) from Yoxall to Cadell & Davies, London [booksellers and publishers], ordering certain books and enquiring into the progress of an edition of [Gisborne's?] sermons.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:5)

Add.MS. 1054/1-4   1810-1815
Letters from Robert Surtees, the antiquary, to John Bell the bookseller and antiquary.
Purchased from Myers - Sotheby's auction, 27 October 1981, part of lot 516. (accession Misc.1981:27)

Add.MS. 1055   12 January 1813
Letter from John Abernethy (1764-1831, surgeon) from Bedford Row [London] to Thomas Bowes Esq., Durham, concerning the latter's health; with a prescription.
1f. 
Purchased from J. Wilson, cat. 23, no. 1, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:2)

Add.MS. 1056   31 March 1813
Letter from William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale from Cottesmore to Lord Liverpool as to who had the patronage for the appointment of Postmaster at Barnard Castle.
1f. 
Purchased from Quaritch, 1973 (accession Misc.1973:14)

Add.MS. 1057 a & b   7 October 1813
Letter from Edward Maltby from Buckden to [ ] Freeling about a passage from E. Burke, and a note on his Jelf (wrongly) said to be in Maltby's own hand.
2 pieces 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:17)

Add.MS. 1058   October 1813
Postal cover with Rushyford office stamp, date stamp 14 October 1813, franked by Shute Barrington, bishop of Durham.
1 piece 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:19)

Add.MS. 1059   16 October 1813
Letter from William Van Mildert (1765-1836, bishop of Durham) from Farningham to an unidentified recipient (possibly the Revd. Philip Dodd), explaining that his appointment as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford will not mean that he will resign his position as Preacher at Lincoln's Inn.
1f. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:21)

Add.MS. 1060   17 July 1814
Letter from John Lambton (1792-1840, later 1st earl of Durham) from Lambton Hall to Thomas Thompson, subscribing to a relief fund for English prisoners of war from Sunderland, lately returned from France.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:15)

Add.MS. 1061/1-63   1813-1821; 1832
Collection of letters, notes etc., largely from Rev. Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846, canon of Durham) to the London booksellers Cadell & Davies of the Strand (1061/1-39 [1813-1821]; 1061/40-53 [undated]), but including some from other members of Gisborne's family (Mary, James, John and Thomas junior), (1061/54-61 [1814-21 and undated])
Mainly requests for copies of Gisborne's books to be sent to named individuals, but also orders for other books
Apparently unrelated to the other papers (1061/62-63): one note on two Nottingham people, undated (paper watermark 1833; letter from G.(?) Cumberland to J.H. Burn, 1832.
63 items: 1f. each (except 1061/38a: attached enclosure 38b) 
Purchased from John Wilson, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:11)
Further letter by Gisborne to Cadell and Davies (in 1817): Add.MS. 2047.

Add.MS. 1062   5 April 55 George III [1815]
Agreement in Court of Pleas at Durham, between Robert Colling & John Walton Elliot, and John & Margaret Trotter concerning tithes at St Helen Auckland, Co. Durham.
1m. 
Bought S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:3)

Add.MS. 1063   n.d. [19th century]
Letter from James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855, chemist) to [William] Jerdan, enclosing “a short outline of my paper on coal” (not now present).
1f. 
Purchased from J. Wilson, 1981 (accession Misc.1981:19)

Add.MS. 1064   15 February [early 19th century]
Letter from Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823, M.P. for York) to an unidentified recipient, concerning the Stockton Inclosures Bill.
1f 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:38)

Add.MS. 1065   22 July 1824
Letter from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, Bishop of Durham 1836-56) from Buckden to T. Cadell (Bookseller, London), concerning the progress of one of Maltby's own books, and ordering certain other titles. Also (1065a) extract from a publisher's catalogue listing Maltby's books.
1f. and 1 piece (both rather excessively mounted) 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:12)

Add.MS. 1066   1 May 1824
Letter from William Nelson from Rusheyford to Richard Wilson, solicitor, London, enclosing a cheque for £820 (collected rents) and commenting on estates and tenants at Stainton and Elstob.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:9)

Add.MS. 1067/1-6   1824-1827
Five letters from J. Ward, solicitor, from Durham to Richard Wilson, solicitor (acting for Lord Eldon), concerning negotiations over estates at Barmton, Nunstainton and Woodham, owned by Mr Lambton (for whom Ward appears to be acting).
Also one letter from Thomas Peacock junior, Bishop Auckland, to Wilson, including a copy of a letter from Ward to Peacock senior, relating to the same business.
6 items, 2f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:13 & 2001/2002:74)

Add.MS. 1068   22 August 1825
Letter from Robert Gray (1762-1834, Prebendary of Durham; Bishop of Bristol) from Bishopwearmouth to Mr. Trevelyan of Wallington, proposing a visit, with his family, on 2 September. With slip of paper identifying the correspondent in a 19th century hand.
1f. and 1 piece. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:12)

Add.MS. 1069   7 June 1825
Letter from M.J. Routh (1755-1854) from Oxford to a bookseller, concerning payment for a parcel, and the second part of his catalogue.
1f. 
Purchased from W. Myers, 1969 (accession Misc.1969:9)

Add.MS. 1070/1-3   1825-1833
Letter from William Van Mildert (1765-1836, Bishop of Durham 1826-36) sent to an autograph collector, and two other small samples of Van Mildert's hand.
1f. and 2 pieces. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:50)

Add.MS. 1071/1-27   1824-1856
Salvin family correspondence, relating to the family of Anthony Salvin (1799-1881, architect) of Finchley.
27 items 
Purchased, but provenance not recorded, before 1971 (accession Misc.2001/2002:142)

Add.MS. 1072/1-2   July-August 1816
2 letters from J.H.H. Holmes to the Hon. Washington Shirley in London, one from London including a copy of a letter from John Ross from Willington Quay concerning the dangers found in using the Davy lamp in Hebburn Colliery, the other from Bishopwearmouth concerning Ryan's alternative system of colliery ventilation and its recent endorsement by the Society of Arts.
1f. each 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:7)

Add.MS. 1073   7 December [18]16
Letter from William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834 from Brighton to Miss [Jane] Porter concerning a play by her which has been well received according to Lord Essex. He suggests she send an unsigned letter to reply to him and suspects that Essex thinks the author to have been a man.
1f. 
Purchased from Jantzen, 1972 (accession Misc.1972:6)

Add.MS. 1074/1-14   1815-1816
Letters between the government and the magistrates of South Shields relating to the suppression of a strike by seamen on the Tyne and Wear in September and October 1815.
14 items and 3 wrappers 
Purchased from Sotheby's auction, 28 March 1972, lot 397 (accession Misc.1972:18)

Add.MS. 1075   14 August 1817
Letter from Henry Phipps Mulgrave [1st Earl of Mulgrave, Master of the Ordnance, 1810-1818] from Mulgrave Castle to the bishop of Durham, confirming that he has ordered the removal of gunpowder from Hartlepool Church.
1f. badly mounted. 
Purchased from R. J. Dickinson, 1979 (accession Misc.1979:6)

Add.MS. 1076/1-2   13 September 1817 and n.d.
Letter from Shute Barrington, bishop of Durham from Auckland Castle to a bookseller, asking for a copy of the history of the Marmyon family.
Note to Mr Porter identifying a book to which he had made reference.
2 pieces, mounted separately. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:3)

Add.MS. 1077   20 May 1818
Letter from Charles Edward de Coetlogon (1746?-1820, theological writer) from London to M. D. Robinson, Strand, concerning the difficulties of finding a situation for Mr. Edkins' grand-daughter, and the possibility of placing her in a seminary in Durham.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:11)

Add.MS. 1078   5 November 1818
Letter from Charles Edward de Coetlogon (1746?-1820, theological writer) to his daughter Eliza, at Miss Simpson's Academy, Framwellgate, Durham, about domestic matters, interspersed with fatherly advice.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (accession Misc.2001/2002:14)

Add.MS. 1079   27 May 1818
Letter from Joseph Boruwlaski from Durham to Mr. Todd [& others?], bookseller[s], concerning subscriptions and an advertisement for his book.
1 piece 
Presented by A. I. Doyle (bought from Miss Myers), 1972 (accession Misc.1972:1)

Add.MS. 1080   18 April 1819
Letter from Shute Barrington (1734-1826, Bishop of Durham 1791-1826) from Cavendish Square, London to J.W. Whittaker (1791-1854, Vicar of Blackburn 1822-1854). Praises Whittaker for his recently published Historical and critical enquiry into the interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures, with remarks on Mr. Bellamy's translation.
1f. 
Purchased from E.Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:1)

Add.MS. 1081   27 April 1819
Printed notice, with some details filled out in ms., for distribution to members of the committee of management of the Bishop Auckland Savings Fund, announcing a forthcoming meeting on 6 May 1819.
1 piece. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:7)

Add.MS. 1082   24 March 1819
Petition (printed form completed in ms.) from Simpson Brown, formerly sub-curate of Shotley and Whittonstall, now of Aycliffe, for relief from the Charity for the relief of poor widows and children of clergymen. With certificate of support from neighbouring clergy, and further testimonial signed by the bishop of Durham and archdeacon of Northumberland.
1f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:6)

Add.MS. 1083   22 November 1819
Letter from J. Cayley from Durham to Charles Tennyson [D'Eyncourt, 1784-1861, M.P.] enclosing a couple of Cayley's printed tracts [not present] and suggesting their efficacy in preventing social unrest.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:3 )

Add.MS. 1084/1-8   1816-1821
8 letters to Solomon Chapman in Sunderland from fellow Quakers, including several from Ireland, containing news of family and Friends. Written and dated in the Quaker style [i.e. months numbered rather than named].
8 pieces 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1979 (accession Misc.1979:3)

Add.MS. 1085/1-12   1819-1829
12 letters from G.S. Faber (George Stanley Faber, 1774-1854: Vicar of Long Newton 1811-1832, Master of Sherburn Hospital, Durham, 1832-1854) from Long Newton, to J.W. Whittaker (1791-1854, Vicar of Blackburn 1822-1854) or Whittaker's mother, concerning Whittaker's books (he was a Hebrew scholar) and miscellaneous domestic matters.
12 pieces, 2f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:7)

Add.MS. 1086/1-3   1821-1824
3 letters from T.H. Faber (Thomas Henry Faber 1780-1833, of Bishop Auckland) from Auckland Castle to J.W. Whittaker (1791-1854, Vicar of Blackburn 1822-54) or his mother, concerning the death of a friend or relative and other family matters.
3 pieces, 2f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:8)

Add.MS. 1087/1-7   1827-1837
Material relating to Thomas Henry Faber (1780-1833, of Bishop Auckland). 4 letters (1827-1829), concerning a trusteeship and domestic matters. Letter from Faber's brother G.S. Faber to Mrs. Whittaker of Lancaster, 1 July 1829, concerning the death of T.H. Faber's wife; and a copy of T.H. Faber's record of burial from the parish registers of St Andrew Auckland, 6 April 1833 (copied 1837).
7 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:6)

Add.MS. 1088   10 January 1821
Letter from Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846) from Yoxall Lodge, to Cadell & Davies, booksellers, London, ordering a copy of Sermons on the loss of friends(published by Hatchard).
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:26)

Add.MS. 1089   23 October 1821
Letter from Henry Phillpots (1778-1869, Bishop of Exeter 1831-69; Rector of Stanhope & Prebendary of Durham) from Durham to “My dear Sir” [probably Sir John Trevelyan], proposing to visit him, with his wife and eldest daughter, at Wallington. With a well-preserved seal.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:18)

Add.MS. 1090   5 October 1824
Copy of the lease of the colliery and mining rights at Eppleton (near Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham), Francis Mascall (father & son) to the Hon. Archibald Cochrane and 11 others; for 42 years, at £1,000 p.a. plus a levy (various rates) on the coal mined.
35f. 
Purchased from P. Smith (Elvet Bridge, Durham), 1982 (accession Misc.1982:5)

Add.MS. 1091   23 July, 3 Geo. IV [1822]
Lease of Darlington bakehouse, toll booth, shambles, tolls, etc. by the bishop of Durham to George Lewis Hollingsworth, Thomas Backhouse, Edward Pease, Jonathan Backhouse jr. and Thomas Clarke. Endorsed with livery of seisin, etc.
1m. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:4)

Add.MS. 1092   13 May 1822
Letter from Shute Barrington (1734-1826, Bishop of Durham 1791-1826) written in the 3rd person to the Revd. Dr. Clarke of Kensington, thanking him for sending 2 recent publications.
1f. and wrapper. 
Purchased from E. Hall, n.d. (accession Misc.2001/2002:7)

Add.MS. 1093   16 June 1822
Letter from Reynold Gideon Bowyer (d. 1826, Prebendary of Durham 1792-1826; Archdeacon of Northumberland 1812-26) from Bamburgh Castle to an unidentified recipient, appealing for candidates for the vacant perpetual curacy of Holy Island. Sets out the difficulties of filling the post. Accompanied by typed transcript of the letter.
2f. each 
Purchased by W. Myers, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:6)

Add.MS. 1094   28 January 1822
Certified extract from the parish registers of Haughton-le-Skerne for 1805, concerning the baptism of George Byron, son of the Revd. Henry Byron. Copied for Captain R. Byron.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall before 1971 (accession Misc.2001/2002:11)

Add.MS. 1095   27 July 1826
Letter from John Banks Jenkinson (1781-1840; Canon on Durham, 1825-27; Dean of Durham, 1827-40; Bishop of St. David's, 1825-40) from the College, Durham to Mr. Marton, giving directions for moving his books left in Marton's care, and others bought recently from Rivington's bookshop (London) to Abergwili or Durham.
2f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:12)

Add.MS. 1096/1-6   1823-1832
5 letters from George Andrews (bookseller, of Durham, d. ca. 1830) to Sir H. Hardinge, and Dr. Phillpotts, requesting them to support his application for the job of Post Master [of Durham, presumably], recently fallen vacant; Oct-Nov 1823 (apparently an unsuccessful application).
Letter from Robert Surtees from Mainsforth, 23 November 1832, to Andrews' widow, promising her assistance.
2f. each. 
Presented by C.W. Gibby, n.d. (accession Misc.2001/2002:2)

Add.MS. 1097   1823
Kirklevington rental, Michaelmas 1823: no indication of parties or properties.
1 piece. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:30)

Add.MS. 1098/1-2   13 December [1823]
Letter from Shute Barrington (1734-1826, Bishop of Durham 1791-1826) from Cavendish Square to Revd. Dr. Bale, returning some (unidentified) confidential papers.
Cutting (apparently unrelated) from a newspaper (dated in ms. July 19 1792) of a satirical letter drawing parallels between two people with the same name, one a pickpocket transported to Botany Bay, another a bishop translated to Durham.
1f. each 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:7)

Add.MS. 1099   15 March 1826
Pauper's certificate for Thomas Chipehan, with his wife and 5 children, attested by Gibson Collinson (Churchwarden and Overseer) to be residents of the township of Forcett, North Yorkshire, addressed to the officials of Darlington. Printed form with names, etc., filled in.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:7)

Add.MSS. 1100-1131   1666-1801
Whiting MSS: a small collection, formed by Prof. C.E. Whiting (1871-1953), of original documents related to his own research interests in English religious and political history under the later Stuarts, and the history of the North East of England. Some items are accompanied by transcripts by Whiting.
32 items 
Bequeathed by Prof. Whiting, 1953 (accession Misc.1953:4; temporary shelf reference before full cataloguing S.R.17.H. Whiting MSS)
B.S. Benedikz, “A bibliography of the published work of Charles Edwin Whiting (1871-1953)”, Durham University Journal, 63 (1970-71), 223-227

Add.MS. 1132   7 December 1826
Letter from Sir William Chaytor (1777-1847, sometime MP for Sunderland) from Witton Castle to Mr. Lockwood, Newcastle, concerning a business transaction in his capacity as a trustee of the estate of Miss Dolly Cornforth, decd. Also press cutting obituary of Chaytor.
1f. with wrapper, and 1 piece. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:9)

Add.MS. 1133   14 April 1827
Letter from C.G. Young to [John Bowyer Nichols], , about Mr. Raine's [James Raine the elder's] “index to the Durham charter” which he believes Nichols has printed (on information from Sir Thomas Phillips).
1f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:26)

Add.MS. 1134   30 March 1829
Letter from William Nicholas Darnell (1776-1835, Prebendary of Durham) from Bamburgh Castle, to “My dear Emma”, asking her to pay certain sums to the Head Waiter and Chambermaid at Barry's [Hotel?], Edinburgh.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:9)

Add.MS. 1135   20 January 1829
Letter from William Van Mildert (1765-1836, Bishop of Durham 1826-36) from Hanover Square to “Reverend Sir” (unidentified): “I received your letter ... & will take the first opportunity of laying your communication before the National Society Committee ...”.
1f. 
Donated by B. S. Benedikz, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:20)

Add.MS. 1136   4 September 1828
Letter from William Van Mildert (1765-1836, Bishop of Durham 1826-36) from Durham Castle proposing to visit Sir John Trevelyan at Wallington. With frank and a well-preserved seal.
1f. and 1 piece. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:21)

Add.MS. 1137/1-2   2 May 1829
Order in bastardy issued in the township of Gainford, Co. Durham against John Gibson and Ann Wright. Defective, with attached bill to the father.
2 pieces sealed together. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:23)
Digitised material for Add.MS. 1137/1-2

Add.MS. 1138/1-2   1829-1831
Letters from William Stephen Gilly (1789-1855, Prebendary of Durham 1826-1855) from Durham:
to Charles Danvers, 13 December 1829, concerning a book by [Charles] Macfarlane, apparently the 2nd edition of his Constantinople in 1828(pub. 1829)
to the Revd. W. Harness, 2 March 1831, expressing the hope that Rivingtons have sent him a copy of Gilly's latest book, Waldensian Researches.
2f. each. 
Purchased from Miss W. Myers, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:13)

Add.MS. 1139   n.d. [mid 19th century]
Letter from William Stephen Gilly (1789-1855, Prebendary of Durham 1826-1855) from the College, Durham, Monday evening, to George Taylor, Esq., about books (on mourning paper).
2f. 
Bought from I.K. Fletcher, 1957 (accession Misc.1957:4)

Add.MS. 1140   17 June 1829
Letter from J.W.D. Merest from Staindrop to Clayton, Scott & Clayton, solicitors, London, regarding the overdue payment of a £25 acceptance fee.
John William Drage Merest was presented to the living of Staindrop by the Marquis of Cleveland in 1829; he was subsequently Rector of Wem, Shropshire and domestic chaplain to the Marquis.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:8)

Add.MS. 1141   22 January 1829
Copy of will of Mrs. Ann Roberts, widow, of Kelham, Notts., with attached grant of probate (proved in the Exchequer Court of York, 22 January 1829). Property left in trust to her niece Elizabeth, wife of Henry Thompson of Darlington, liquor merchant.
1m. 
Purchased from E. & B. Sutcliffe, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:10)

Add.MS. 1142   [1829 - watermark]
Fragment of a letter from Thomas Sopwith about the packing of books.
1 piece. 
Found in a Surtees Raine ms. purchased from Steedman, 1973 (accession Misc.1973:24)

Add.MS. 1143   [ca. 1829]
“Fillypotto”. An anonymous satirical poem lampooning the political meanderings of Henry Phillpotts (1778-1869, Bishop of Exeter 1831-1869; Rector of Stanhope and Prebendary of Durham), in the late 1820's, from anti-catholicism to toleration, in the interest of career advancement. Refers to him as Dean of Chester; probably dated 1829-30.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1960 (accession Misc.1960:4)

Add.MS. 1144   30 October 1830
Printed indenture with ms. additions between Diana Beaumont of Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, William George Hawdon, cast iron founder, of Bladon [Blaydon] in Winlaton, Co. Durham, and Thomas Emerson, also of Bladon (as trustee), selling Hawdon for £115.9s.8d. two houses, land, and a cast iron foundry at Blaydon. Signed and sealed by Beaumont. Endorsed, with plan.
1m. 
Purchased from Peter Eaton, 1979 (accession Misc.1979:1)

Add.MS. 1145   21 July 1846
Indenture between the above parties, reciting earlier agreements relating to marriage settlements, for the purchase by (3) for £500 of land [abutting that purchased by Hawdon in Add.MS. 1144 to the north-east] at Blaydon for an iron foundry.
Signed and sealed (1) and (2).
With schedule of earlier deeds, endorsed receipts, plan drawn by Thomas Bell & Sons.
3mm. 
Purchased from P. Eaton, 1969 (accession Misc.1969:1)

Add.MS. 1146   ca. 1830
Letter from W.H. Brockett (William Henry Brockett (d. ca. 1867, general merchant and antiquary, of Gateshead) from Gateshead to Mr. Charnley (Emerson Charnley, the Newcastle bookseller, (1782-1845) prepared a catalogue of the Thomlinson Library of Newcastle in 1829) requesting the loan of a copy of Dr. Thomlinson's catalogue.
1f. 
Purchased from Mrs. L. A. Leake, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:2)

Add.MS. 1147   Wednesday 7 May [1828/1834]
Letter from Durham (John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, 1792-1840) to “Dear Sir” (?pencilled in: “Dr. Kenealy” ), acknowledging receipt of a petition.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:16)

Add.MS. 1148   13 November 1830
Letter from H. Hildyard from Stokesley to Clayton, Scott & Clayton, London, concerning a financial business which appears to have got into difficulties, largely blamed by Hildyard on the Bishop of Durham and his agents. Refers to the Clarence Rail Road Committee, chaired by Hildyard.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:15)

Add.MS. 1149   9 August 1830
Letter from Eden Greville from Weston Favel, to Mr. Wrightson at Darlington as executor of Mrs. Garth, asking if he has a survey of land at Butsfield now owned by Greville but formerly by Mrs Garth. With certificate of production in 1843 in a Chancery case added.
2f. 
Purchased from H. T. Jantzen, 1969 (accession Misc.1969:6)
There are extensive records relating to the estate of Mrs Nanny Garth in the DUL South Durham Deeds collection.

Add.MS. 1150   18 March 1830
Letter from Vane Londonderry (Charles William Vane Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, 1778-1854) from Belvoir Castle to an unidentified correspondent re-arranging a meeting.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, before 1971 (accession Misc.2001/2002:56)

Add.MS. 1151/1-9   [ca. 1830]
Partial ms. pedigrees, mainly of Co. Durham families: Surtees, Eden, Wrenn, Lambton, Baliol, Lyon, Liddell, Williamson, Clavering, Vane Stewart.
9 pieces 
Found in a copy of Flower's Visitation of Durham(1575), (no information as to when) (accession Misc.2001/2002:63)

Add.MS. 1152   28th May [ca. 1830]
Letter from Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellesley (1770-1848, Prebendary of Durham) from Apsley House, to [Robert] Bowyer, 80 Pall Mall (1758-1834, painter) returning a print sent on approval and declining to subscribe to the series to which it belongs.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:23)

Add.MS. 1153/1-3   1831-1851
3 letters from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, Bishop of Chichester 1831-1836, Bishop of Durham 1836-56) to various correspondents, concerning dining arrangements, clergy moves and an unsolicited book.
3 pieces, 1f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:32)

Add.MS. 1154/1-7   ca. 1835-1845
Letters from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, Bishop of Chichester 1831-1836, Bishop of Durham 1836-56), two signed as Chichester to Jonathan Matchett at Lakenham mentioning his translation to Durham, a subscription of 25 guineas to Revd Lonsdale for King's College Hospital, to Mr Laing about the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, ordering books (on mourning paper), a note to Sir John Trevelyan about his new chapel and an engraving of Maltby from a drawing by J.S. Corman.
7 pieces 
Purchased from E. Hall (accession Misc.1962:17)

Add.MS. 1155/1-3   [ca. 1840]
3 letters from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, Bishop of Durham 1836-56) from Auckland Castle or Curzon St., no years given to booksellers: two to R. Buckmann and one to the executors of T. Cadell (d. 1836), concerning various orders for books, and nominations [for a place in a charity school, see 1159 below].
3 pieces 1f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:38)

Add.MS. 1156/1-2   28 October 1841
Note from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, Bishop of Durham 1836-56) from Auckland Castle to Mr. Dalton, acknowledging receipt of a book. Accompanied by a photograph of Beechey's portrait of Maltby.
2 pieces 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:30)

Add.MS. 1157   1 May [1843]
Letter from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, Bishop of Durham 1836-56) from London to Mr. Buckmann in London, regarding distribution of presentation copies of his Two sermons ... [and] a charge ...(1843).
2f. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. (London), 1981 (accession Misc.1981:22)

Add.MS. 1158   31 December [1835] - 5 January 1836
Letter from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, Bishop of Chichester 1831-1836, Bishop of Durham 1836-56) from the Palace, Chichester to the publisher Thomas Cadell, directing him to send presentation copies of certain of his books, “elegantly and classically bound”, to the Revd. W. F. Raymond and to the Dean of Chichester. Endorsed with a copy of Cadell's reply.
2f. 
Purchased from Charles Higham (S.P.C.K.), 1984 (accession Misc.1984:14)

Add.MS. 1159/1-2   27 September 1841 & 16 July 1843
2 letters from Edward Maltby (1770-1859, Bishop of Durham 1836-56) from Auckland Castle to Mrs. Percy, concerning the candidature of John Ingham and Susannah Maxwell for the St. Ann's Society Schools (not successful by 1843), see also 1155/1 above.
2 pieces. 
Purchased from Charles Higham (S.P.C.K.), 1982 (accession Misc.1982:18)

Add.MS. 1160   15 October 1831
Letter from William Van Mildert (1765-1836, Bishop of Durham 1826-36) from Auckland Castle to C. Holehouse, replying to a request to sponsor Thomas Hill for a vacant situation at Charterhouse.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:23)

Add.MS. 1161   15 June 1831
Letter from William Van Mildert (1765-1836, Bishop of Durham 1826-36) from Hanover Square to Mr Lupton concerning some framed prints to be sent by Mr. Colnaghi.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, no date (accession Misc.2001/2002:72)

Add.MS. 1162   20 Oct. [1832?]
Letter from Thomas Burgess (1756-1837, Prebendary of Durham & Bishop of Salisbury) from Salisbury to “Revd. Sir” (unidentified), apparently concerned with a forthcoming edition of a Greek text, and enclosing a half-sheet of copy [not present].
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:6)

Add.MS. 1163/1-2   9 September 1832
Letter from Lord Falkland from Windsor to his agent in Co. Durham about Hardwicke Hall and other properties, with draft of agent's reply.
2f. each. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:18)

Add.MS. 1164   5 April 1833
Letter from F. Burdett (1770-1844, politician) from London to John Bell of Gateshead, replying to his request for a frank.
2f. 
Purchased via Myers from Sotheby's auction, 27 October 1981, lot 516. (accession Misc.1981:2)

Add.MS. 1165   29 July 1833
Letter from W. Vane (1st Duke of Cleveland, 1766-1842) from Paris to Lady Shelley [Mary Shelley, 1797-1851], containing travel news from Paris.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:49)

Add.MS. 1166   17 December 1834
“The angel's song & Judgement”. A large display of penmanship, executed by Henry Allerston.
1f. 
Purchased from Miss Minto, with graphic items, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:2)

Add.MS. 1167   14 March 1834
Letter from F. Charnock [?] from Bishopton Close to “My dear Sir” (unidentified), apparently providing a reference for a past pupil (un-named) now “so eligibly placed at Durham”.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:6)

Add.MS. 1168   3 December 1834
Notes on Bishop Cosin's Library, Durham, comprising an account of the charter of foundation, taken from the Mickleton & Spearman MSS, and the revised regulations of 1798. Endorsed in another hand “Mr. [C.T.] Whitley's report respecting Bp. Cosin's Library at Durham, Decr. 3d. 1834”.
2f. 
Presented by the Revd. B.A. Smith, 1951 (accession Misc.1951:1)

Add.MS. 1169   16 August 1834
Letter from Thomas Penswick (1772-1836, Roman Catholic Bishop for the North of England 1824-36) from Durham to Charles Stanley, Dennah House, West Chester. Property and family matters.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:10)

Add.MS. 1170   1835
Letter from Le Blanc, Oliver & Cook, solicitors, London, to W.H. Lea, Henley-in-Arden, enclosing a copy of a letter from J. Burrell (solicitor, of Durham) dated 11 Nov. 1835, reporting on the difficulty of selling an estate at Newfield, property of Branfoot deceased, and the possibility of the See of Durham purchasing it.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:1)

Add.MS. 1171   23 March 1835
Terms of apprenticeship for boys and girls taken on by the Middlesbrough Pottery Co.
2f. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:6)

Add.MS. 1172   22 July 1837
Satirical anonymous poem written at Sunderland concerning Chaytor as a politician. Sir William Chaytor (1777-1847, M.P. for Sunderland 1832-35, when he was defeated; he stood for election as M.P. for North Durham in 1837, but was again unsuccessful).
2f. 
Provenance not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:12)

Add.MS. 1173   7 November 1837
Letter from Henry Ellis from the British Museum to John Bell of Gateshead thanking him for a gift of a box of fossil reeds from Gateshead to the Museum.
2f. 
Purchased via Myers from Sotheby's auction, 27 October 1981, lot 516 (accession Misc.1981:15)

Add.MS. 1174   2 April 1837
Letter from Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby from Knowsley to an unknown recipient concerning autograph collecting.
2f. 
Purchased via Myers - Sotheby's auction, 27 October 1981, lot 516 (accession Misc.1981:26)

Add.MS. 1175   13 April 1837
Letter from George Townsend (1788-1857, author, Prebendary of Durham) from Northallerton to John Raine, Blythe, Bantry, concerning an edition of Foxe's Acts & monuments, for which Townsend is to write a preface, and other literary and domestic matters.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:19)

Add.MS. 1176/1-5   September 1837 - October 1841
5 letters from George Townsend (1788-1857, author, Prebendary of Durham) from Northallerton or The College, Durham to J.W. Whittaker (1791-1854, Vicar of Blackburn 1822-54), praising Whittaker's literary and evangelical activities and incorporating miscellaneous domestic news etc.
5 pieces, 2f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:14)

Add.MS. 1177/1-3   1837 and 1860
3 letters from Henry Montague Villiers (1813-61, Bishop of Durham 1860-61): to the Lord Chancellor's secretary (18 July 1837) concerning the level of insurance on Kenilworth Vicarage (a living then held by Villiers); to J. Barlow (31 July 1837) on the same; and to J. C. Bruce (28 September 1860) about an invitation to chair a meeting.
3 pieces, 2f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:51)

Add.MS. 1178   12 March 1837
Printed form of apprenticeship indenture, completed in ms. for Thomas Walton of Bishop Auckland with J. Angus & T. Wilson, Woolen Drapers of Newcastle upon Tyne.
1m. 
Donated via Collingwood College, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:4)

Add.MS. 1179/1-11   1838-1868
10 letters from Charles Thomas Longley (1794-1868, Bishop of Ripon, 1836-1856; Bishop of Durham 1856-60; Archbishop of Canterbury 1862-68) to miscellaneous correspondents, concerning subscriptions to appeals, clergy preferment, etc. Accompanied by a contemporary printed portrait of Longley from the Illustrated London News.
11 pieces. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:36)

Add.MS. 1180   April 6 1838
Letter from Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854) from Magdalen College, Oxford to Mr. Lumley, bookseller, 50 Chancery Lane ordering a list of books from his catalogue.
2f. 
Presented by Miss Winifred Myers, 1963 (accession Misc.1963:13)

Add.MS. 1181   14 January 1839
Prospectus for the creation of a subscription news room within the Central Exchange at Newcastle (on the corner of Grey Street and Market Street), with a plan, artist's impression and description. Printed large format document, with ms. additions, addressed to S. Rowlandson of Durham and signed by R. Grainger.
2f. 
Donated by Miss I. Rowlandson, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:34)

Add.MS. 1182   [1840s]
Letter from William Henry Vane (1st Marquess of Cleveland, 1766-1842) from Newton House to an unidentified correspondent thanking him for a gift
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:10)

Add.MS. 1183/1-2   [ca 1840s]
Two impromptu verses by William Crighton (mid-19th century solicitor, of North Shields and Newcastle) occasioned by the marriage of three of his Durham acquaintances (Griffith to Tilly; Wilkinson to White; Burrell to Reed). Accompanied by an obituary notice of Crighton from an undated and unidentified magazine.
2 pieces. 
Purchased from E.Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:3)

Add.MS. 1184/1-2   27 January 1840
Letter from J.A. Dixon to William Crighton (19th century solicitor, of North Shields and Newcastle) concerning reminiscences of schooldays spent together in Durham, and including a lengthy set of comic verses by Dixon on the same theme.
2 pieces, 2f. each. 
Purchased from E.Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:4)

Add.MS. 1185/1-2   1840-1841
2 letters from T.C. Grainger to an unidentified recipient, one (17 November 1840) from Grange, near Sunderland, the other (11 January 1841) from Morley's Hotel, Charing Cross, about archaeological finds made during his father' development work in Newcastle.
2 pieces, 2f. and 1f. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:9)

Add.MS. 1186   29 January 1840
Letter from William Stephen Gilly (1789-1855, Prebendary of Durham 1826-1855) from Durham to Mr. Clark, concerning a candidate for a nomination, and political and other matters.
2f. 
Purchased from I.K. Fletcher, 1957 (accession Misc.1957:5)

Add.MS. 1187   10 April 1843
Letter from William Stephen Gilly (1789-1855, Prebendary of Durham 1826-1855) from Norham to [ ] Wigram, concerning acquaintances of theirs and the prospect of a future meeting.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:25)

Add.MS. 1188   24 Ma[y?] 1842
Letter from James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855, reader in Chemistry at Durham, 1833-55) from Durham to John Purdie, junior, thanking him for his offer of an engraving of a fossil, which he is asked to leave with D. Nutt, foreign bookseller, the Strand, London.
2f. 
Purchased from Miss W. Myers, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:12)

Add.MS. 1189   23 October 1840
Letter from James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855, reader in Chemistry at Durham, 1833-55) from Durham to the Philosophical Society, Kilmarnock, thanking the Society for making him an honorary member, on Durham Observatory paper (with Bouet's picture of the Observatory engraved as a headpiece).
2f. 
Presented by Miss S. C. Leisk, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:13)

Add.MS. 1190   13 July 1840
Note signed “J.R.” and endorsed “July 13 1840 Lord J. Russell”, concerning the management in the Lords of the Chapters Bill [i.e. the Bill to carry into effect, with certain modifications, the 4th report of the Commissioners of ecclesiastical duties and revenues; enacted as 3 & 4 Vict., c.113, 1840], the annual sum to be allowed the Dean of Durham, and the view of the Bishop of Durham.
2f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:22)

Add.MS. 1191   8 December 1840
Letter from Lady Anne Elizabeth Williamson (b. 1801, wife of Sir H. Williamson, M. P. for Durham) to Mr. Crowe, Wheat Sheaf, Monkwearmouth, ordering a pair of horses.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:53)

Add.MS. 1192   15 March 1841
Letter from J.H. Lowther (M.P. for York) to unidentified recipient, concerning the Medical Profession Bill, then laid before Parliament, and its disadvantageous implications for the pharmaceutical profession. With slip identifying correspondent.
2f. and 1 piece. 
Provenance not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:58)

Add.MS. 1193   15 June 1837
Letter from R. Caldcleugh from Durham to J.& W. Kimberley, manufacturers, Birmingham, asking for further time in which to pay a debt, for the reclaiming of which legal proceedings have been started.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:2)

Add.MS. 1194/1-2   ca. 1840s
Copies of 4 testimonial letters for John Atkinson of Kendal, dated 1841 (2 from J. Backhouse & Co.), and an undated letter to him from J. Brantingham, Darlington (in the Quaker style).
2f. each 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:2)

Add.MS. 1195   [1] May 1841
Letter from Edward Pease (1767-1858) from Darlington to Thomas Richardson in London about money. With a portrait of Pease from the Illustrated London Newsmounted at a later date.
1f. 
Purchased from Jantzen, cat. 50, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:21)

Add.MS. 1196   4 May 1841
Letter from W. Ogilvie Porter (1774-1850) from Bristol to an unidentified recipient, replying to a letter asking for information about setting up in medicine at Norwich.
2f. 
Provenance not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:64)

Add.MS. 1197   16 April 1841
Letter from John Scott, 2nd Earl Eldon from London to John Bell of Gateshead concerning gifts by the latter, relating to Lord Eldon, his grandfather.
2f. 
Purchased via Myers at Sotheby's auction, 27 October 1981, lot 516 (accession Misc.1981:25)

Add.MS. 1198/1-10   1841-1875
Darlington Society of Friends: account for the Darlington Meeting, 1841; 4 certificates recommending Friends from other Meetings; letter from Thomas Smith to Mr Backhouse (28 June 1849) about Society funds; part letter (28 November 1866) of news of family and friends; part letter from Southend, Darlington (11 April 1871) giving detailed account of an Elder of the Darlington Meeting (identified as J.P. ?); letter from Birmingham to James Backhouse (18 October 1875) about travel arrangements; historical notes.
10 pieces 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:16)

Add.MS. 1199   18 October 1842
Letter from William Benn (coin collector) from Scarborough to Mr. S. Purdue jun., in reply to a letter offering a collection of Roman coins.
2f. 
Provenance not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:8)

Add.MS. 1200   13 June 1842
Printed form of apprenticeship indenture, completed in ms. for John Coates with William Clark, tailor.
2f. [fragile] 
Donated via Collingwood College, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:5)

Add.MS. 1201   18 February 1842
Letter from R. Hansell from Easington to William Lloyd Wharton, his landlord, asking for leniency over rent arrears due for a farm and offering to pay by instalments. Sent on by Wharton to his agent, J.K. Watson, Hull, and endorsed by him accordingly.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:13)

Add.MS. 1202/1-2   1 June 1842
Letter from George Townsend (1788-1857, Prebendary of Durham) to an unidentified recipient, fixing an appointment to visit a library. Accompanied by a contemporary steel engraved portrait of Townsend, engraved by A.W. Warren after a drawing by H. Smith and published by B. Wetheim.
2 pieces, mounted. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:18)

Add.MS. 1203   11 July 1843
Letter from Richard William Jelf (1798-1871, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford; Principal of King's College, London, 1844-68) from Christ Church, Oxford to an unidentified lady, apologising to her that he is unable to help her candidate in a forthcoming election at Magdalen College, Oxford, but suggesting that Durham may offer an opening instead.
2f. 
Purchased from Miss W. Myers, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:11)

Add.MS. 1204   7 April 1843
Letter from [Stephen ?] Temple from Durham to John Saul, solicitor, Carlisle, discussing a client's case (Francis Story) involving the recovery of loaned money.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:12)

Add.MS. 1205/1-13   1843-1848
Letters relating to the election of John Bright (1813-1889) as M.P. for Durham City in 1843, mainly from Bright in London (at the address of either the National Anti-Corn-Law League or the League Club) to John Henderson in Durham.
12 pieces and some envelopes. 
Purchased from Sotheby's auction, 25 July 1972, lot 345 (accession Misc.1972:3)

Add.MS. 1206   21 August 1844
Letter from Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847, bibliographer) from London [?], to M.J. Routh, replying to a letter from Routh. Refers to Macaulay's article on Addison, and the hope of a visit to the coast.
2f. 
Purchased from Winifred Myers, 1967 (accession Misc.1967:4)

Add.MS. 1207/1-3   1844-1857
3 letters from Henry Vane (1788-1864, 2nd Marquess of Cleveland) to various correspondents, sending an autograph, commenting on a sample of madeira and declining a subscription.
3 pieces and 1 envelope. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:9)

Add.MS. 1208   4 February 1845
Indenture binding William Cooper of Bishopwearmouth as an apprentice and clerk to Bilton and Wasserman of Sunderland.
2f. 
Presented by Dr. A.I. Doyle, 1981 (accession Misc.1981:5)

Add.MS. 1209   1 December 1845
Standard printed letter sent by the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company to landowners concerned in the proposed construction of a branch line from the Leeds and Thirsk Railway to Hartlepool, together with a schedule, completed in ms., detailing the land required near Stockton. Sent to the Trustees under the will of William Haswill.
2 sheets. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:31)

Add.MS. 1210   1845-1856
2 letters from J. Ward from Durham, one to Mrs. R. Smith, Stoke Newington (1 October 1845) about her book on their mutual friend [ The Life of the Rev. H. Moore ... Including the Autobiography, and the continuation, written from his own papers, by Mrs. R. Smith(London, 1844)] with observations about other Methodist acquaintances, the other to an unidentified lady (24 October 1856) replying to her questions about his children and his differences with the Methodist Conference. Mounted with this, a picture of a cricket match on the racecourse at Durham, probably from the Illustrated London News.
2f. each and cropped, mounted engraving. 
Purchased from Miss W. Myers, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:20)

Add.MS. 1211   7 May 1846
Letter from John Bowes (1811-1885, M.P. for South Durham 1811-85) from London to an unidentified correspondent, enclosing two House of Commons papers [not present].
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:4)

Add.MS. 1212   29 January 1847
Letter to the Wear & Derwent Junction Railway Co., from the Weardale Iron Company, Tow Law Ironworks, asking for assistance in building a school there.
1f. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:42)

Add.MS. 1213/1-21   ca. 1848-1930s
Small collection of mainly printed ephemera relating to Darlington, largely magazine/news cuttings ca. 1900-30, also including a list of Darlington Book Society members (late 19th century), a notice of the Darlington Farmer's Club, 1848 (with ms. notes of a meeting of the Mechanic's Institute, 1848 on the back) and a carte-de-visite photograph of Francis Mewburn (1785-1867, Chief Bailiff of Darlington) from his widow.
21 pieces 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:13)

Add.MS. 1214   1 June 1849
Copy of a lease, of a farm of 41 acres at Darlington and rent charges in Darlington, archdeacon Newton, Blackwell and Cockerton, by Henry, Duke of Cleveland to Robert Thornton of Stapleton, for 1 year and thence from year to year at £550 p.a. With schedule of fields
7f. 
Purchased from E. & B. Sutcliffe, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:2)

Add.MS. 1215   8 March 1849
Lease of 2 acres of land at Haughton-le-Skerne, the Revd. J. Newsam of Soham, Robert Colling of Haughton-le-Skerne and John Richmond of Stockton to Thomas and John Stabler, of Haughton-le-Skerne, for 21 years at £19 p.a. Signed and sealed by all parties. Endorsed by witnesses, and with memorandum of agreement of 14 February 1870 by Thomas Stabler with Robert Thornton of Stapleton.
1m. 
Purchased from E. & B. Sutcliffe, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:3)

Add.MS. 1216   18 April [ca. 1850s]
Letter from J.G. Dundas to “The Rt. Honble. The Lord Mayor” on behalf of the Lords of the Treasury about an application by the York Temperance Society.
2f. 
Provenance not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:18)

Add.MS. 1217   28 January [ca. 1850s]
Letter from William George Henderson (d. 1905, Principal of Hatfield Hall, University of Durham, Secretary of the Surtees Society) from Magdalen College, Oxford, to unspecified recipient, enclosing particulars of the Surtees Society.
2f. 
Purchased from P. Eaton, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:28)

Add.MS. 1218   [ca. 1850s]
Letter from Warren (?) Metcalfe to John Fothergill, surgeon, Darlington, apparently declining an invitation to address the Darlington Temperance Society.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:39)

Add.MS. 1219   [Later 19th century]
Photocopied pages from memoirs by John Mitchinson (1833-1918, bishop of Barbados) of life in Durham in the mid-19th century - includes biographical details of cathedral clergy, his education at Durham School etc. Sections entitled “Childhood recollections”, “School reminiscences”.
58f. 
Supplied by owners, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:15)
Copied from original in Pembroke College Archives, Oxford (ref: 60/15/83) from whom copies, permission for publication etc. must be obtained.

Add.MS. 1220   [n.d. mid 19th century]
Letter from Margaret Rippon to an unidentified correspondent concerning a Shakespeare portrait purchased at a sale at Lumley Castle by her husband, when young.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:16)

Add.MS. 1221/1-4   [1850s]
2 undated letters from Henry Montague Villiers (1813-61, Bishop of Durham 1860-61) to unidentified correspondents (one signed Dunelm) concerning agreements to preach.
Engraved (by D.J. Pound) portrait of Villiers and a printed biography, both dating from his time as Bishop of Carlisle [1856-60].
4 pieces 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:41)

Add.MS. 1222   15 March [18]53
Letter from Ignatius Bonomi from Durham to J. Church Backhouse, Blackwell, Darlington, about arrangements for publishing a pamphlet [unidentified] for some beneficial cause, discussing particularly the illustrations which may involve payment of large customs duty.
1f. and envelope 
Presented, via the British Library Dept. of MSS, by Mr. Sunderland, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:5)

Add.MS. 1223   23 March 1853
Letter from Thomas Crofton Croker from London to W.B. Scott concerning Scott's gift of his Antiquarian gleanings in the north of England(1851).
2f. 
Purchased via Myers from Sotheby's auction, 27 October 1981, lot 516 (accession Misc.1981:6)

Add.MS. 1224/1-2   14 March 1853
Minutes of a meeting of the Wolsingham Angler's Association, held at Wolsingham, concerned with arranging a lease of Lumley Lock in order to ensure a free passage through it for salmon in the River Wear, accompanied by a related document (in William Henderson's hand) entitled “Proposed data for a sub-lease”. These appear to be the enclosures referred to in Add.MS. 1225/4.
1f. and 2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:32)

Add.MS. 1225/1-6   19 February 1853 - 5 September 1853
6 letters from William Henderson from Durham to Douglas Gresley, concerning legal and business matters, including the Lumley Lock dispute and fishing rights in the River Wear.
6 pieces, 1f. or 2f. 
Provenance not recorded (presumably E. Hall) (accession Misc.2001/2002:46)

Add.MS. 1226/1-2   1854 & 1866
Railway documents
£20 share certificate of William Nicholson of Clerkenwell in the Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway, 10 October 1854.
Incomplete page onto which bills paid by the Stockton and Darlington section of the North Eastern Railway Company and their receipts have been pasted (numbered 369-371 & 374-376). These include purchase of grease, a locomotive (no. 185) from Robert Stephenson & Co., building works on the Skinningrove Branch, parcel and telegraph bills.
1226/1 - 1 piece. 1226/2 - 369: 1 piece (no receipt); 370: 2 pieces; 371: 2 pieces; 374: 2 pieces; 375: 7 pieces;376: 2 pieces. 
Donated by T.W. Robinson, 1967 (accession Misc.1967:7)

Add.MS. 1227/1-47   1850-1857
Letters addressed to the directors and officers of the Stockton & Darlington Railway Company on a variety of minor matters.
47 items 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:12)
See separate catalogue

Add.MS. 1228   14 February 1855
Letter from John Collingwood Bruce from Newcastle to C. Roach Smith about the Roman station of Chester-le-Street and altars found there.
2f. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:3)

Add.MS. 1229   23 February 1855
Letter from William Stephen Gilly (1789-1855, Prebendary of Durham 1826-1855) from Durham to James Cunningham, concerning the Vaudois and Waldensian Church.
2f. 
Purchased from P. Eaton, 1969 (accession Misc.1969:5)

Add.MS. 1230   28 December 1855
Letter from Francis Lyne from London to Francis Mewburn at Darlington, concerning a dispute over legal practice and Lyne's intention to publish some correspondence on the issue.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:37)

Add.MS. 1231/1-3   1858
3 letters from Jeremiah William Summers (historian of Sunderland).
3 items. 
Purchased from Adab Books, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:13)

Add.MS. 1232   17 November 1855
Letter from Henry Montague Villiers (1813-1861, Bishop of Durham 1860-61) from Bloomsbury Rectory, to an unidentified recipient, asking him to give a lecture at our School Room on the Microscope. With a small photograph of a portrait of Villiers pasted on the blank half of the sheet at a later date.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall ca. 1970 (accession Misc.2001/2002:73)

Add.MS. 1233/1-4   1856-1881
4 letters from John Prideaux Lightfoot, from Exeter College, Oxford to various correspondents, concerning various college and business matters.
4 pieces. 
Purchased from E. Hall, ca. 1970 (accession Misc.2001/2002:53)

Add.MS. 1234   11 November 1857
Copy of offer of purchase of land (re. railway) by the Darlington Land Company to Mr. Barningham.
1 piece. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:15)

Add.MS. 1235   12 March 1855
Letter from Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886, author) from “The Uplands” to Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892, naturalist) concerning the removal of some trees.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall before 1971 (accession Misc.2001/2002:68)

Add.MS. 1236   17 August 1880
Letter from Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886, author) from Bournemouth to R.F. Charles giving some proof corrections.
2f. 
Purchased from I.K. Fletcher, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:46)

Add.MS. 1237   5 September 1856
Letter from James Raine junior from York to his father concerning a curate and the Northumberland survey of 1597. With a sketch of a Saxon cross at Wensley.
2f. 
Presented by the Librarian of Magdalen College, Oxford, from a volume once owned by James Raine senior.(accession Misc.1969:8)

Add.MS. 1238/1-8   1880s
2 letters from James Raine the younger (d.1896, Librarian of York Minster) from York to Dr. Henry Holden (1814-1909, Headmaster of Durham School 1853-82), December 1880 and June 1881, concerning the history of Durham School; letter from Bryant Burgess, Latimer, December 1881, to Holden, with verses; contemporary news cuttings, mainly about the school, and an Old Dunelmian's Club dinner menu, September 1881.
8 items 
Acquired with printed items purchased from Howes Bookshop, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:22)

Add.MS. 1239/1-8   8 April 1857 - 26 March 1858
7 letters to Henry Pease (1807-1881, M.P. for Durham South 1857-1865), and one to Mr. Cowburn, from 6 correspondents, about subscriptions, patronage etc.
8 items (mainly 2f. each) 
Purchased from S.P.C.K. Bookshop, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:35)

Add.MS. 1240/1-4   1858-1876
3 letters from Charles Baring (1807-79, Bishop of Durham, 1861-79) to various correspondents - agreements to meet, renewal of subscriptions, resignation of trusteeships - and a fragment of another letter.
4 pieces. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:2)

Add.MS. 1241   19 March 1868
Letter from Charles Baring (1807-79, Bishop of Durham 1861-79) to an unidentified recipient, concerning a proposed scheme put to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, early 1970s ? (accession Misc.2001:6)

Add.MS. 1242/1-7   1870s
Letters from Charles Baring (1807-79, Bishop of Durham 1861-79) to miscellaneous correspondents and one to Baring, dealing with everyday matters of business. Accompanied by a contemporary mounted photograph of Baring (from a Bristol photographer).
7 pieces. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:5)

Add.MS. 1243   2 January 1858
Letter from John Ruskin to Margaret Raine [daughter of James Raine, the future Mrs A.W. Hunt] concerning a proposed visit to Durham and mentioning his work arranging Turner sketches at the National Gallery.
2 f. 
Purchased from C.J. Sawyer, one of two letters sold at Sotheby's auction, 1967 (lot 223) as the property of Mrs R. Van Buren Emmons (accession Misc.1969:10)

Add.MS. 1244   2 April 1859
Letter from Charles Thorp (1783-1862, Archdeacon of Durham; first Warden of Durham University) from University College, Durham, to an unidentified recipient asking him to complete, as soon as possible, the legal requirements attached to the recent grant of a piece of burial ground for St. Mary le Bow, St. Mary the Less and the Cathedral and Castle precincts [Elvet Hill graveyard].
2f. 
Presented by Dr. C. W. Gibby, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:20)

Add.MS. 1245/1-2   24 January & 7 February 1859
Two letters from Thomas Wood from Coxhoe Hall to Francis Mewburn, concerning business transactions and disputes over West Dock collieries, involving Messrs. Jackson and Coleman.
2f. & 1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:15)

Add.MS. 1246   [ca. 1860s]
Genealogical notes concerning the Brackenbury family of Durham, from the middle ages to the beginning of the 19th century, extracted from 18th century writings of “Mr. Cradock of Durham”, and other sources.
32p. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:4)

Add.MS. 1247   26 February 1860
Letter from Henry Vane (5th Duke of Cleveland, 1788-1864) from Raby Castle to an unidentified recipient about the non-availability of an adjutancy in the South Durham militia.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:7)

Add.MS. 1248   11 July 1860
Letter from Henry Grey (3rd Earl Grey) to Sir Charles J. MacCarthy, congratulating him on his appointment as Governor of Ceylon (reply to a letter in Earl Grey Papers - GRE/B114/3).
2f. 
Purchased from Myers, 1981 (accession Misc.1981:17)

Add.MS. 1249   23 December 1860
Letter in third person from Henry Thomas Liddell (Earl of Ravensworth) from Ravensworth Castle to Robert White concerning White's gift of antiquarian reprints.
2f. 
Purchased via Myers from Sotheby's auction 27 October 1981, part of lot 516 (accession Misc.1981:20)

Add.MS. 1250   13 July 1861
Letter from Henry Phillpotts (1778-1869, Bishop of Exeter 1830-69; Rector of Stanhope; Prebendary of Durham) to B.J.P. Barton concerning the problems of finding a priest for the benefice of Buckland (Diocese of Exeter), then joined with another parish.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:37)

Add.MS. 1251   20 March 1862
Letter from William Candlish (b. 1816 M.P. for Sunderland) from Sunderland to William Dixon, declining an invitation to Seaham.
1f. mounted 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:8)

Add.MS. 1252/1-2   25 April 1862 & 11 April 1864
2 letters from Rev. H. Jenkyns from Durham to the editor and to the publisher of Men of the time, complaining about inaccuracies.
1f. each 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:32)

Add.MS. 1253   13 August 1863
Letter from Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867, naturalist) from Chat-Hill to an unidentified recipient concerning the habits of partridges, and the means of establishing a heronry.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:17)

Add.MS. 1254   1 February 1864
Letter from John Henry Blunt (1823-84) from Spennymoor to Canon J. Fowler, looking for a reply to an earlier letter and exchanging news etc.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:2)

Add.MS. 1255   2 July 1864
Letter from William John Frederick Vane (3rd Marquess of Cleveland, 1792-1864) from Bath, agreeing to subscribe to the North Wales Natural History Society.
1f. mounted. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:10)

Add.MS. 1256   5 August 1864
Letter from George Waddington (1793-1869, Dean of Durham 1840-69) from Durham to an unidentified recipient, in reply to a request to help a candidate for a scholarship at Durham University, mentioning crisis there.
2f. mounted 
Purchased from Miss W. Myers, 1984 (accession Misc.1984:22)

Add.MS. 1257   15 March 1865
Letter from Robert Ingham (1793-1875, M.P. for South Shields) from London to Mr. Salmon' (Thomas Salmon, friend from their time together at Durham School), acknowledging receipt of a cheque. With late 19th century biographical note.
2f. and 1 piece. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:31)

Add.MS. 1258/1-8   1865-1876
Letters from miscellaneous correspondents to Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906, Prebendary of Durham 1873-1906).
8 items 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:70)

Add.MS. 1259   20 July 1866
Letter from R.L. Pemberton from The Barnes, Sunderland (incomplete or unsigned), to J. Gough Nichols, about the history of the Pemberton family.
2f. 
Donated by Miss W. Myers, 1972 (accession Misc.1972:13)

Add.MS. 1260/1-7   1867-1877
7 letters from William Charles Lake (1817-97: Dean of Durham, 1869-94) to a Mr. Kempe and various others, concerning invitations to preach, testimonials, etc.
7 items: 1 or 2f. each. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:35)

Add.MS. 1261   27 August 1889
Letter from William Charles Lake (1817-97: Dean of Durham, 1869-94) from Homburg, to the President of the British Association, sending apologies for absence from a forthcoming meeting of the Association.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:10)

Add.MS. 1262   25 October [ca. 1890?]
Letter from William Charles Lake (1817-97: Dean of Durham, 1869-94) to Mr. Fowler, inviting him to meet the Archbishop the following day.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:10)

Add.MS. 1263   5 February 1868
Letter from Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) from the Education Department, London, to Miss [Dora] Greenwell, concerning a book of hers [an anthology?].
2f. 
Purchased from R. Steedman, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:6)

Add.MS. 1264   2 May 1868
Official form of inquiry (printed, completed in ms.), from Mrs. Charlotte Furness of Billy Row, Crook, Co. Durham, to discover the whereabouts of John Johnson, her brother, a soldier in the 2nd European Light Infantry, last seen when sailing for Calcutta in 1860. . Endorsed “Reply No. 3129 26th May 1868. Dis[charged] with the sanction of govt.... 14 July 1859.”
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, n.d. (accession Misc.2001/2002:42)

Add.MS. 1265   29 December 1869
Letter from George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton (2nd Earl of Durham, 1828-79) from Lambton Castle to “My dear Baldwin”, thanking him for a set of rules for bezique.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:13)

Add.MS. 1266   19 June 1869
Letter from Adam Storey Farrar (1826-1905, Prebendary of Durham) from Durham to “Dear Rowden”, concerning the sponsorship of a Mrs. Robinson at elections held by the Friends of the Clergy Society.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:19)

Add.MS. 1267   22 November 1869
Letter from John Fielder Mackarness (1820-89, Bishop of Oxford 1869-1888) from Honiton to an unidentified recipient, concerning ordination requirements for Durham graduates in the Diocese of Oxford.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:16)

Add.MS. 1268   24 November [1870s]
Letter from Henry Holden (Headmaster of Durham Cathedral School, 1853-1882), from Durham to “My dear Clarke” commending the University of Durham.
1f. 
Purchased from W.A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:14)

Add.MS. 1269   23 August 1870
Letter from C. Maurice Davies (1828-1910, author, Durham graduate) from Bayswater to Shirley Brooke, enclosing a list of work and commenting on his writing for Punch, etc.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:12)

Add.MS. 1270   28 April 1873
Letter of introduction from A. S. Farrar (1826-1905, Prebendary of Durham) from Durham, for R. L. Johnson, visiting Oxford.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:23)

Add.MS. 1271/1-2   4 January 1872
Letter from John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876, hymn writer) from Durham to H. K. Morley concerning chants. With carte-de-visite photograph.
2f. and photograph 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:6)

Add.MS. 1272   1 August 1871
Letter from William Greenwell (1820-1918, antiquarian and canon of Durham) to “My dear Sir” (unidentified), offering an opinion on the date of a stone pot, considered to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, and declining to purchase it.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:6)

Add.MS. 1273   29 January 1871
Postcard written in Latin, from an unidentified correspondent, postmarked Guildford, to J.T. Fowler, Hatfield Hall, Durham, concerning W.J. Tait's need for a curate at Long Benton.
1 piece. 
Found in a book in the Winterbottom collection, 1960 (accession Misc.1960:3)

Add.MS. 1274   19 December 1873
Letter from Joseph Thomas Fowler (1833-1924, Durham University Librarian 1873-1901) from Hatfield Hall, Durham, to Mr. Evans, concerning a tract by the latter on alphabets, diagrams of coins, and Fowler's appointment as Librarian at Durham. Also describing his discovery of a manuscript Latin psalter with English gloss at St Nicholas's, Newcastle (now Newcastle Public Library TH.1678, see Ker, MMBL, III, p.492).
2f. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:39)

Add.MS. 1275   9 February 1873
Letter from Edward Prest (Archdeacon of Durham; Rector of Gateshead) to an unidentified correspondent contributing towards the cost of music books for the morning service of the University.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:42)

Add.MS. 1276   28 June 1873
Agreement of apprenticeship for James Walton of Gateshead with Thomas Carrick Watson of Newcastle, grocer.
1f. 
Donated via Collingwood College, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:3)

Add.MS. 1277   1874
Bill from Thomas Heaviside, Queen Street, Durham (photographer), to Mrs. Pearce, Palace Green, for 12 cartes de visite, Christmas 1874.
1 piece. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:44)

Add.MS. 1278   27 November 1868
Letter from Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906, Prebendary of Durham 1873-1906) to B. S. Lowne, written from Greatham Vicarage, Stockton-on-Tees, , concerning plants and botanical matters. Endorsed by Lowne on blank verso: "My dear Stevens, Do send my plants ... in haste yours sincerely Benjn. S. Lowne".
2f. 
Purchased H.T. Jantzen, 1961 (accession Misc.1961:5)

Add.MS. 1279   18 November 1874
Letter from Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906, Prebendary of Durham 1873-1906) to George Setton (?), thanking him for a flattering reference to his work.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:39)

Add.MS. 1280   8 May 1882
Letter from Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906, Prebendary of Durham 1873-1906) to Mr Watkins, declining an invitation.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:22)

Add.MS. 1281   3 January [18]76
Letter from James Barmby (Principal of Hatfield Hall; Vicar of Pittington) from Hatf[ield] Hall to "My dear Johnson", thanking him for his congratulations on Barmby's appointment as Vicar of Pittington.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:1)

Add.MS. 1282   7 September 1881
Letter from Sir George Elliot (1814-93, MP for North Durham) from Houghton Hall, to [Judge] Gainsford Bruce, thanking him for his congratulations on Elliot's recent election success.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:21)

Add.MS. 1283   14 February 1874
Letter from George Henry Robert Charles William, 5th Marquess of Londonderry (1821-84) from Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees, to an unidentified correspondent, concerning political trouble in Co. Durham, and "organized mobs of drunken pitmen". On mourning paper, and signed V[ane]-L[ondonderry?].
2p. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:57)

Add.MS. 1284   [19th century]
Letter from T.W.U. Robinson from Hardwicke Hall, Sedgefield, dated Sunday evening, to Hodges about local and farming matters.
2f. 
Purchased from Steedman (in copy of catalogue of Robinson's library), 1973 (accession Misc.1973:20)

Add.MS. 1285/1-4   [Mid/late-19th century]
2 charcoal drawings (female heads) and 2 small watercolours (aqueduct near Rome) attributed to Clement Burlison (d.1899).
4 pieces 
Donated by F. Rutherford Esq., July 1964 (accession Misc.1964:7)

Add.MS. 1286/1-6   1873-1884
6 letters from Joseph Barber Lightfoot, (1828-89, Bishop of Durham 1879-89) to various correspondents, concerning subscriptions to appeals, thanks for help, invitations to preach, etc.
6 pieces. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:29))

Add.MS. 1287/1-11   1876-1889
11 letters from Joseph Barber Lightfoot, (1828-89, Bishop of Durham 1879-89) to various correspondents, on miscellaneous small matters - borrowing books, invitations to preach, purchase of pictures, invitations to preach or subscribe to charities etc.
11 pieces with 2 envelopes. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:54))

Add.MS. 1288   1889
Corrected printer's copy for Lightfoot's (1828-89, Bishop of Durham 1879-89) edition of the (spurious) epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians, printed in The Apostolic fathers(1st edn. 1885, 2nd edn. 1889). Accompanied by a compliments slip from Lightfoot dated May 1889 and a modern note on the two editions by G.R. Treloar.
10 pages foliated 48 - 57 and 2 pieces (a & b). 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:55)

Add.MS. 1289   3 May 1881
Letter from H.B. Hyde, (Private Secretary to Bishop Lightfoot) to F. Gale, explaining that the reserve price of 100 guineas placed on a picture of Durham Cathedral, in which Lightfoot had expressed an interest, made it too expensive for him to consider further.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:8)

Add.MS. 1290/1-4   November 1878
Four postcards from J.T. Fowler (1833-1924, Durham University Librarian, 1873-1901) to R. Blair, South Shields, concerning variant readings of the tombstone of Regina set up by Barates the Palmyrian (from Arbeia at South Shields).
4 pieces. 
Found in volumes of local archaeological pamphlets at Ushaw College, and donated in 1957 (accession Misc.1957:3)

Add.MS. 1291   [Late 19th century, not before 1883.]
Notes by J.T. Fowler (1833-1924, Durham University Librarian, 1873-1901) on his relations William Fowler (the engraver, 1761-1832) and Joseph Fowler (d. 1882).
2f. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:40)

Add.MS. 1292   27 March 1899
Letter from Joseph Thomas Fowler (1833-1924, Durham University Librarian, 1873-1901) from Winterton, Doncaster, to "Dear Jobson" (almost certainly Frederick W. B. Jobson, B.A. Hatfield Hall 1898, curate of Mohill, Co. Leitrim from 1899), containing advice on sermons.
2f. 
Purchased from I. K. Fletcher, 1969 (accession Misc.1969:4)

Add.MS. 1293   17 February 1879
Letter from George William Kitchin (1827-1912, Dean of Durham 1894-1912) to unidentified correspondent, supplying information on residence requirements, examinations, etc., at Oxford.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:9)

Add.MS. 1294/1-2   1886 & 1897
2 letters from George William Kitchin (1827-1912, Dean of Durham 1894-1912) to Mr. Matthews and another, unidentified correspondent, concerning invitations to attend ceremonies etc.
2f. and 1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:27)

Add.MS. 1295   25 May 1889
Letter from George William Kitchin (1827-1912, Dean of Winchester 1883-94; Dean of Durham 1894-1912) to Miss Evans, Friary Cottage, Winchester, concerning her offer to restore a memorial in Winchester Cathedral.
2f. with envelope. 
Purchased from E. Hall (before 1971) (accession Misc.2001/2002:51)

Add.MS. 1296   14 May 1883
Letter from William Greenwell (1820-1918) to "My dear Hooppell", inviting him to "come over some day" to meet Mr. Franks.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:20)

Add.MS. 1297/1-2   16 February 1886 and 7 October 1887
2 letters from William Greenwell (1820-1918) to G. H. Haydon, Bethlem Hospital, London, concerning fishing flies and Roman antiquities.
2f. each with one envelope. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:24)

Add.MS. 1298   24 March 1915
Postcard from William Greenwell (1820-1918) to Miss Brewis (?), thanking her for remembering his 96th birthday.
1 piece. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:27)

Add.MS. 1299/1-2   13 May 1878
Letter from William Walsham How (1823-97, Bishop of Wakefield 1888-97) from Whittington Rectory to Mr. Trimble (?), thanking him for a book and cheque. Certain words referring to another person are obliterated. Accompanied by a contemporary printed photograph of How.
2f. mounted. 
Purchased by E. Hall, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:17)

Add.MS. 1300-1305   ca.1825 - 20th century
Album largely of portrait drawings of people with Durham connections, by Joseph Bouet (Joseph Sebastien Victor François Bouet, sometimes called Nicolas Bouet, 1791-1856, artist, of Durham City), together with an 1857 auction sale description of the album's contents, and late 19th/early 20th century notes on the identities of some of the people portrayed.
1 box. 
Presented by Charles Wallace, 1985 (accession Misc.1985:1). The album descended to the donor through his mother's family, the Pembertons, having probably been purchased by his great-grandfather, Richard Laurence Pemberton (1831-1901). The notes are probably by members of the Pemberton family.
Cross, David A., The art of Joseph Bouet (1795-1856) : a catalogue of two albums in Palace Green Library (Special Collections) Durham University with reference to other works located in Durham and elsewhere(Durham, 2003)

Add.MS. 1306/1-12   1875-1948
Miscellaneous collection of 12 autograph letters (1 typescript) signed from deans and canons of Durham in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. H.B. Tristram (17 April 1875) to Middleton about specimens and n.d. to Ella about a meeting; G.W. Kitchin (4 June 1897) autograph request; H.H. Henson (20 April 1917) about the Deanery; J.E.C. Welldon (22 August 1919) about the Deanery; A.H. Cruickshank (23 March 1921) about H. Jenkyns; D. Walker (3 November 1921) about same; A. Lillingston (9 December 1921) about Australia; H.D. Watkins (31 August 1922) about Archdeaconry of Durham; A.E.J. Rawlinson (12 February 1935) about Archdeaconry of Auckland; J. Dykes Bower (26 January 1935) about the Father Smith organ in the cathedral; C. Alington (11 February 1948) autograph request. Several are written to a Mr. B. Osborne of Bournemouth answering architectural questions.
12 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1959 (accession Misc.1959:4)

Add.MS. 1307/1-6   1876-1896
3 letters and one postcard from Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901, Bishop of Durham, 1890-1901) to various correspondents, concerning work in progress, arrangements for letting a house, etc. Accompanied by a contemporary printed photograph of Westcott.
6 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:43)

Add.MS. 1308/1-8   1877-1898
7 letters from Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901, Bishop of Durham, 1890-1901) to various correspondents, largely concerning invitations to preach or social engagements. Accompanied by a printed photograph of Westcott taken from the Universal Portrait Gallery.
8 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:77)

Add.MS. 1309   24 December 1895
Letter from Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901, Bishop of Durham, 1890-1901), from Auckland Castle, to [J.F.] Hodgson, thanking him for a copy of his essay on St. Cuthbert's and St. Hild's.
2f. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:78)

Add.MS. 1310   [ca.1900]
Anonymous sketches of Durham Cathedral incorporating verses ("Saint Cuthbert chose his lordly seat at last, etc.) and an autograph signature of Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901, Bishop of Durham, 1890-1901), cut from the end of a letter.
1 piece. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:43)

Add.MS. 1311/1-8   August - December 1879
7 letters from Captain Richard J. Kay, from the Grove, Birtley (mostly carbon copies), concerning shipping transactions, particularly a voyage of the ship "Tirante" which stranded near Copenhagen and had to be salvaged, and was caught in ice at Ochakoff. Bill from Kay to A.B. Wilbraham re loss of the SS Bayard.
8 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:9)

Add.MS. 1312   1 March 1881
Lease of mining rights at Washington, Co. Durham (mainly to the S.E. of the town) by Wenman Musgrave of Barnsley Park, Gloucs., to William Stobart of Norton Conyers, Yorks., for 21 years at a minimum rent of £260 p.a. With plan.
Parchment   6 mm.
Purchased from R. D. Steedman, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:30)

Add.MS. 1313/1-2   26 June 1882
Letter from Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-92) from Germany to A. J. Mason, offering advice on finding biographical details of Erasmus. Accompanied by a letter from Mason to Canon Moor, the autograph collector.
2ff & 1f. mounted. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:29)

Add.MS. 1314   3 October 1883
Letter from Thomas Simpson Evans (b.1816, Prebendary of Durham) to Revd. W. R. Nicholl, Kelso, supplying autobiographical information.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:5)

Add.MS. 1315   8 May 1884
Letter from A.H. Pennington to Dr. Swanwick, requesting his presence at a demonstration or lecture to be given in Hartlepool.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:36)

Add.MS. 1316   [1884]
Poem by Richard Watson (called the Teesdale poet) called “Middleton-in-Teesdale fair”, starting "I sing the customs of our dale to show ...". Typescript, dated Woodlands, Nov. 1884.
14f. 
Purchased from A. B. Walker, Whitby, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:34)

Add.MS. 1317/1-5   1884-1886
3 letters, from the Earl of Durham, J. Priestman J.P., and W. Kearney J.P., to Arthur Bootle Wilbraham (1842-1897), and 2 letters from Wilbraham to the earl and to J. Trotter, concerning Wilbraham's appointment as a magistrate (1884) and as a Deputy Lieutenant for Co. Durham (1886).
5 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:15)

Add.MS. 1318   29 September 1886
Letter from Rev. William Vincent Ryan, from Stanhope Rectory, to the chaplain of the prison at Northallerton concerning a woman parishioner.
1f. 
Purchased from W. A. Myers, 1974 (accession Misc.1974:21)

Add.MS. 1319/1-2   1887
Note recording the planting of a tree in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's jubilee) by Arthur Beanlands (d. 1898, Lecturer in Astronomy and Treasurer, University of Durham). Found in a bottle buried in the garden of the former Divinity House, Palace Green. With letter (1965) of donation.
2 pieces. 
Donated by the Archaeology Dept., 1965 (accession Misc.1965:1)
Digitised material for Note recording the planting of a tree in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's jubilee - Add.MS. 1319/1-2

Add.MS. 1320/1-3   1886-1940
Cover and part of The Undergrad, February 1886 (lacking pp. 1-10), with a ms. key on a postcard to the caricatures in the "Don Dunelmo" sketch (key figures in the University at the time). Accompanied by a letter to the Dean of Durham from L. Stirling-Wilkinson, from Manfield Vicarage, Darlington, April 1940.
3 items 
Source not recorded but probably given by the Dean of Durham, April 1940 (accession Misc.2001/2002:25)

Add.MS. 1321   30 December 1889
Letter from R. Appleton from Trinity College, Cambridge, to Canon Moor [the autograph collector], thanking him for a donation to the College Mission Buildings and commenting on the recent funeral of Bishop Lightfoot of Durham.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:3)

Add.MS. 1322   6 September 1889
Duplicated letter from the secretary R. J. Richardson) to the governors of the North Eastern County School, concerning a special governors' meeting to be held at Darlington, September 1889. Addressed to Prof. R. J. Pearce of Durham.
1 piece. 
Found by Dr. S. Holgate in a physics textbook previously owned by Pearce (date not recorded). (accession Misc.2001/2002:23)

Add.MS. 1323   12 March [ca. 1890]
Letter from Katherine Frances, Viscountess Boyne, from Brancepeth Castle, to Dr. Canney, requesting his visit as one of the servants is ill.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:11)

Add.MS. 1324   29 August [ca. 1890]
Letter from Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina, 4th Marchioness of Cleveland, (1819-1901), from Battle Abbey, to Mr. Bruce, inviting him to stay at Raby Castle.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:8)

Add.MS. 1325   26 December [ca. 1890]
Letter from Henry George Liddell, 2nd Earl of Ravensworth (1821-1903), from Ravensworth Castle, to unidentified correspondent, regretting that he will be unable to attend the next meeting of the Archaeological Society.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:43)

Add.MS. 1326/1-2   1890 & 1892
Certificate of licensing as assistant stipendiary curate in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Monkwearmouth, 21 September 1890 and ordination certificate, 12 June 1892, for Albert Edward Gunn (B.A. Dunelm). Signed and sealed by Brooke Foss Westcott [Bishop of Durham, 1890-1901].
2 pieces. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:43)

Add.MS. 1327/1-7   ca. 1890-1921
6 letters from James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854-1937, Dean of Durham 1918-33) to miscellaneous correspondents, dealing with small business matters from various stages of his career as Headmaster of Harrow, Dean of Manchester, etc. Accompanied by a late-19th century printed photograph of Welldon from the Universal Portrait Gallery.
7 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:52)

Add.MS. 1328   14 October 1918
Typescript letter from James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854-1937, Dean of Durham 1918-33) from the Deanery, to H. Yates Thompson [collector of mss., 1838-1928], thanking him for the gift of a book for the Cathedral Library [possibly a volume of Illustrations from 100 manuscripts in the Library of H. Yates Thompson].
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:75)

Add.MS. 1329   6 November 1926
Letter from James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854-1937, Dean of Durham 1918-33) from the Deanery, to unidentified correspondent, offering to subscribe five guineas to a memorial for Lord Curzon.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:76)

Add.MS. 1330   29 August 1930
Typescript letter from James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854-1937, Dean of Durham 1918-33) from the Deanery, to Mrs. Ross Clyne: "It is not difficult to answer your question. The offence which it is hardest to forgive is, I think, treachery...".
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:25)

Add.MS. 1331   1 April 1891
Letter from George Borly, from The College, Durham, to Mr. Adderley, accepting an invitation to preach.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:3)

Add.MS. 1332   16 September 1893
Letter from Herbert Kynaston (1835-1910, Prebendary of Durham), from Paris, to Mr. Sullivan, declining an invitation to preach.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:28)

Add.MS. 1333   11 January 1894
Letter from Lt.-Col. J. H. Robinson, Private Secretary to the 3rd Earl of Durham, from Streatham, to an unidentified correspondent - "I beg to inform you that Lord Durham is yachting in the Mediterranean and...there is no chance of my getting an answer to your request by the 24th inst...".
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971. (accession Misc.1971:39)

Add.MS. 1334/1-2   1899 & 1901
2 letters from John George Lambton, 3rd earl of Durham, (1855-1928): from London, 20 October 1899, to Colonel Robinson, ordering 10 cases of port; from Lambton Castle, 4 August 1901, "Gentlemen, I have read Mr. Becnor's pamphlet, and am of opinion that it is not of practical use to the Lord's Committee on Betting".
2 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:17)

Add.MS. 1335/1-3   1889-1907
3 letters from John George Lambton, 3rd earl of Durham, (1855-1928): from Wooler, 28 December 1889, to Mr. Scoones, concerning a visit by the Earl's brother Francis; from Lambton Castle, 30 December 1899, to an unidentified correspondent, thanking him for a monetary donation (? towards raising troops); from Lambton Castle, 8 November 1907, to Colonel Drummond, apologising that his name was omitted from the list of those who attended a preliminary meeting of the Durham County Association.
3 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:18)

Add.MS. 1336/1-4   1899-1913
4 letters from John George Lambton, 3rd earl of Durham, (1855-1928): to various correspondents, concerning arrangements for meetings, invitations, social engagements, including a royal visit to Co. Durham.
4 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:14)

Add.MS. 1337/1-47   1891-1895
43 letters from Joseph Foster (1844-1905, genealogist) from London to Thomas W. Backhouse. Foster wrote Pease of Darlington... 1665-1719(London, 1891), Wills and administrations of the various Backhouse families registered in the Archdeaconry Court of Richmond(London, 1894), and The descendants of John Backhouse, yeoman, of Moss Side, near Yealand Redman, Lancashire(London, 1894) and this correspondence relates to his work on these books.
Also a genealogical note, two letters from Jonathan E. Backhouse to Thomas [Backhouse], and a sheet of portraits (damaged copy of p.31 of The descendants of John Backhouse ...without text).
47 items. 
Purchased from S.P.C.K., 1977 (accession Misc.1977:20)

Add.MS. 1338   20 January [18]99
Letter from Miss G.E. Mitton (?-1955, author), from Sherburn House, Durham, to an unidentified correspondent, informing him of the forthcoming publication of her new novel, Fire and Tow.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:31)

Add.MS. 1339/1-3   1886-1898
2 postcards and 1 letter from Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841-1920, Bishop of Durham 1901-20) to various correspondents, concerning meetings and travel.
3 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:40)

Add.MS. 1340/1-5   1888-1901
2 letters from Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841-1920, Bishop of Durham 1901-20) to "My dear Lee", concerning researches in Slaithwaite, and a postcard from Moule to Dr. Symes Thompson, thanking him for his congratulations on Moule's elevation to the episcopate.
Also by a picture postcard of the Bishop (1908) and a printed photograph of his father and mother, cut from a magazine.
5 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:32)

Add.MS. 1341   6 February 1908
Letter from Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841-1920, Bishop of Durham 1901-20) to "My dear Mrs. Ames(?) in Cambridge" who has requested his autograph.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:59)

Add.MS. 1342   12 September 1910
Letter from Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841-1920, Bishop of Durham 1901-20), from Auckland Castle to "My dear Stewart" who has declined a post offered him by Moule.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:13)

Add.MS. 1343/1-6   1889-1911
4 letters from Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841-1920, Bishop of Durham 1901-20): from Auckland Castle (14 September 1904) to the editor of The Sunday Strand; from Auckland Castle (28 January 1911) to an unidentified correspondent, enclosing as requested a short (3 page) account of "the main crises of my spiritual history"; from Auckland Castle (15 May 1911) to A.B. Cooper about preaching.
Also 2 other miscellaneous letters from Moule, a page from The fireside news(25 October 1889) about Moule, and a photograph cut from a magazine.
6 items & 1 envelope. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:33)

Add.MS. 1344   19 November 1918
Letter-card, from Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841-1920, Bishop of Durham 1901-20) to H. Berkley Score, thanking him for his book of fables [ Sparks of light from a fabulist's diamond mine(Ormskirk, 1894)], and for his praise of 2 books of verse by Moule and his brother [?A. E. Moule], but rejecting Score's suggestion of a collected edition of the Moule family's verse.
1 item. 
Presented by Miss Myers, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:15)

Add.MS. 1345/1-25   1809-1907
Collection of miscellaneous letters from Anglican dignitaries, mostly bishops and deans, to various correspondents. Mainly matters of church or episcopal business.
John Fisher, bishop of Salisbury (1809); bishop of Capetown (1826); Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Oxford etc. (1845, 1866) with portrait print; Benjamin Harrison (archdeacon of Maidstone, canon of Canterbury etc.) to Moor (1847, 1883); bishop of Madras (1853); bishop of Winchester (1856); Henry Alford, dean of Canterbury (1868); H. Goodwin, dean of Ely (1868); dean of Chichester (1869); John Jackson, bishop of London (1871); Robert Bickersteth, bishop of Ripon (1871); James Woodford, bishop of Ely (1874); Rev. E.H. Plumptre (1875); Rev. J.H. Blunt (1880); George Bradley, dean of Westminster, 2 letters regarding the Prince of Wales' objection to a monument at Westminster being copied at Rugby (1882); Benjamin Smith (archdeacon of Maidstone, canon of Canterbury etc.) to Moor (1888); Arthur Hervey, bishop of Bath & Wells (1889); dean of Hereford (1890); archdeacon of Madras (1891); H. Wace, dean of Canterbury (1906); bishop of Guiana (1907).
Possibly formed by the autograph collector Canon A. P. Moor of St. Clement, Truro, who is the addressee of several of the letters.
25 items (with 1 envelope). 
Bought from P. Eaton, 1966 (accession Misc.2001/2002:13)

Add.MS. 1346/1-9   1892-1925
7 letters (1 typescript) from George Rodney Eden (1853-1940, Bishop of Wakefield, 1897-1928), to various correspondents, concerning miscellaneous domestic and business matters - invitations to preach, recommendations for hotels, etc. 1892-1925. Also, 2 letters from Constance, his wife, 1899-1902.
9 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:16)

Add.MS. 1347   [n.d. ca. 1900]
Letter from Violet Hunt (authoress, 1866-1942) from Wolsingham, to W. M. Meredith of the publishing firm Constable, about her as yet unwritten novel.
2f. 
Purchased from Quaritch, 1973 (accession Misc.1973:12)

Add.MS. 1348/1-2   [n.d. ca. 1900]
2 letters from Margaret Hunt (1831-1912, author; daughter of James Raine the elder) to [Mr. or Mrs.] Oliver, concerning social invitations.
2 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:25)

Add.MS. 1349/1-4   [n.d. ca. 1900]
3 pedigrees recording various branches of the Greenwell family of Co. Durham, from William the Priest of Wolsingham (in Boldon Book, 1183). Envelope addressed to Miss Greenwell of Durham, containing galley proof of entry for Greenwell of Greenwell Ford in Burke's Landed gentry.
4 items and 1 envelope. 
Bequest of George Nicholas Greenwell Smith (Vice-Principal of the College of the Venerable Bede, 1961-74), 1981 (accession Misc.1981:16)

Add.MS. 1350   21 February 1900
Letter from Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland (1846-1918), from Albury Park, to S. S. Carr [secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1924-27], thanking the latter for a copy of his paper on the heraldry of Seaton Delaval.
2f. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:60)

Add.MS. 1351/1-4   n.d. & 1902
4 letters from Hon. Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (1846-1923, MP for Durham, 1898-1906, editor of the Edinburgh review) to various correspondents, concerning journal contributions, etc.
4 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:17)

Add.MS. 1352/1-2   January 1904
Letter from 4th Earl Grey, from Howick, to H. H. Fox, dated 3 January [19]04, enclosing a duplicated letter from Randall Thomas Davidson (archbishop of Canterbury) signed Randall Cantuar, from Lambeth Palace, to Lord Grey asking him to participate in a Committee on education in the African colonies, dated 1st January 1904.
1f. and 2f. 
Purchased from Brandon, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:14 & 10)

Add.MS. 1353   25 April 1904
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915, lexicographer), from Oxford, to Dr. R. Steele (bibliographer and editor, 1860-1944), concerning the etymology of the word "parody", and its occurrence in the Secretum secretorum[edited by Steele for the Early English Text Society].
1f. 
Found in copy of edition of Secretum secretorumpresented by G. W. Steele Esq., 1965 (accession Misc.1965:10)

Add.MS. 1354   5 June 1905
Letter from H.R. Leighton from East Boldon, to Canon W. Greenwell, sending two pamphlets for the Chapter Library and enquiring about genealogy etc.
2f. 
Found in a copy of Leighton's The first Town Council of Sunderland(1903) purchased from Steedman, 1976. (accession Misc.1976:15)

Add.MS. 1355/1-24   1903-1923
Letters to Alice Edelston, of Gainford, Co. Durham: from Harper Gaythorpe, from Barrow-in-Furness, about the Rev. John Cranke (d.1816) and his research on the Cranke family, and letter from his wife enclosing notice of Gaythorpe's death (1-10:- 1903-10); from Mary Anna Calvert from Gainford about the Clark and Cradock families and her reminiscences, with a badly faded photograph (of a painting?) of Edward Huntingdon (11-18:- undated); letter to Mrs Calvert from Elizabeth M. Watson about their Huntingdon ancestors (1908); letter to Alice Edelston from Elizabeth M. Watson about family pictures (1909); letter from Edward Dibdin about James Cranke (1923).
24 pieces. 
Purchased from Steedman (from Surtees Raine material?), 1974 (accession Misc.1974:7)
Digitised material for Letters to Alice Edelston from Harper Gaythorpe - Add.MS. 1355/1-24

Add.MS. 1356   28 June 1907
Letter from Spencer Leigh Hughes, from South Shields, to "Dear Mr. Strauss", apparently concerning a motor car race.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:30)

Add.MS. 1357/1-4   1909-1914
3 letters from Joseph Thomas Fowler (1833-1924, Durham University Librarian 1873-1901) to E. V. Stocks (University Librarian, 1901-34), concerning University Library history, a picture of Routh, accompanying a gift from Fowler of a collection of Durham Palatinate coins, and other matters.
4 items, 2f. each. 
Library correspondence (accession Misc.2001/2002:42)
Digitised material for Letters from J T Fowler to E. V. Stocks - Add.MS. 1357/1-4

Add.MS. 1358   13 October [19]10
Letter from Edward Jepson, MD, from Durham, to Mr. Cane, concerning normal practice relating to eye surgery, and the activities of Jepson's daughter Ermyntrude, in Paris.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:19)

Add.MS. 1359   [ca. 1911]
Typescript copies of 12 letters from Charles de Sousy Ricketts (1866-1931, painter, writer, printer), mostly addressed from Egypt and Greece; undated but apparently written ca. 1911-12, when on a Mediterranean tour. Two are to Gordon Bottomley (poet, 1874-1948), the others to "My dear poet" (internal evidence suggests that these are not to Bottomley). Also a manuscript note on these letters.
Parts of some of the letters are printed in Self portrait ... of Charles Ricketts, ed. C. Lewis, 1939.
62f. in cover, and 1f. 
Donated by G. W. Steele Esq., 1965 (accession Misc.1965:12)

Add.MS. 1360/1-6   [ca. 1910]
Photocopies of pages from the Commonplace Book of W.D. Lowe (d.1922, Censor and Bursar of University College, Durham), including verses by Dr. J. Barmby and annotated extracts from Prof. J. H. How's Nugae(as printed in the DUJ, 1910).
6f. 
Presented by R. P. Wright Esq., 1984 who had received them from Prof. J.H. How (accession Misc.1984:13)

Add.MS. 1361/1-2   1912 & 1919
University College, Durham.
Printed programme for a University College concert, 14 December 1912, signed by people present.
Printed menu for a Durham Colleges Services Dinner, held in the Castle Hall, 17 May 1919, signed by people present.
2 items. 
Donated by B. C. Gregson Esq. (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:36)

Add.MS. 1362   22 July 1912
Autograph note from Henry Gee (Master of University College) authorising R. C. Wilkinson & his wife to sketch in the Castle, Durham.
1 piece. 
Purchased by E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:24)

Add.MS. 1363   10 January 1914
Letter from Llewellyn Arthur Atherley-Jones (1851-1929, Judge; M.P. for Durham N.W. 1885-1914) from Kensington, to "Dear Metzler", thanking the latter for his congratulations on Atherley-Jones' appointment as Judge of the City of London Court.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:5)

Add.MS. 1364   26 August 1914
Letter from James Joicey (1st Baron Joicey, 1846-?) from London, to Mrs. Stewart Brown, concerning the plight of members of their respective families trapped in Germany at the outbreak of the First World War.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:26)

Add.MS. 1365   18 July 1916
Letter from Philip James Stanfield, 1st Baron Weardale, (1847-1923), from London, to H. Simmonds, providing a reference for a Miss G. Wilson.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:24)

Add.MS. 1366   15 February 1915
Letter from Herbert Hensley Henson (1863-1947, Bishop of Durham 1920-39), from Durham, to W. J. Hardy, concerning a proposal by the Dean & Chapter of Durham to devote funds to the cataloguing of documents then housed in the Treasury, the project to be supervised by Hardy.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:22)

Add.MS. 1367/1-2   1917 & 1921
2 letters from Herbert Hensley Henson (1863-1947, Bishop of Durham 1920-39): from Durham, to the Speaker of the House of Commons, concerning the career of Sir William Anson, 9 March 1917; typescript, from Auckland Castle, to the Bishop of Sheffield, agreeing reluctantly to be Vice President of a Church Congress, 3 December 1921.
2 items. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:16)

Add.MS. 1368   24 December 1934
Letter from Herbert Hensley Henson (1863-1947, Bishop of Durham 1920-39), from Auckland Castle, to Sir Ian Malcolm comprising a reference for the Revd. Austin Lee, then stipendiary curate of Usworth, Co. Durham.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall (date not recorded) (accession Misc.2001/2002:47)

Add.MS. 1369   5 June 1937
Letter from Herbert Hensley Henson (1863-1947, Bishop of Durham 1920-39), from Auckland Castle, to the Bishop of Guildford, replying guardedly to a request from the latter that Henson propose a motion in the Church Assembly.
2f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:21)

Add.MS. 1370/1-4   6 September 1922
Typescript letter from John Meade Falkner (1858-1932), from London, to Mrs. [Kate] Watkins, widow of Archdeacon H. Watkins of Durham, sending commiserations on the latter's death.
4p. 
Purchased from B. Rota, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:22)

Add.MS. 1371   18 August 1922
Letter from Alfred M. Palmer, from Walworth Castle, to Mr. Walters, thanking him for some books.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1966 (accession Misc.1966:41)

Add.MS. 1372/1-8   1924-1927
6 typescript and 2 manuscript letters from Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland (1880-1930), from Alnwick Castle, Albury Park and Princes Gate, London, to S.S. Carr, secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne, concerning the Duke's Presidency or Vice-Presidency of the Society and attendance at meetings, etc.
8 items. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:61)

Add.MS. 1373   1924
Todd, Mary “Civic government of Durham, 1780-1835”(1924).
Manuscript of thesis submitted for Liverpool University M.A.
90f. 
Presented by Miss M. Todd, 1964 (accession Misc.1964:25)

Add.MS. 1374   26 May 1925
Menu for a dinner of a University dining club, with initials S.C.C. [Slow Coach Club?]. Autographed by diners, including [Sir] Irvine Masson (Professor of Chemistry, 1924-38), J. L. Burchnall (Professor of Mathematics, 1939-58) and A. A. Macfarlane Grieve (Master of University College, 1939-53).
1 piece. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:26)

Add.MS. 1375/1-11   [ca. 1926]
Humorous verses on scientific topics by Hildyard John Eglinton Dobson (1902-1927, Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Durham): ms and typescript copies. ca. 1926. Accompanied by an obituary notice for Dobson by I.M[asson]. (offprint from Journal of the Chemical Society, Dec. 1927).
8 items. 
Presented by Dr. C.W. Gibby, 1956 (accession Misc.1956:5)

Add.MS. 1376   24 February 1926
Typescript carbon copy list of the names of the Grand Jurors for the assizes at Durham, signed by G. H. Stobart, Sheriff.
1f. 
Purchased from Steedman, 1973 (accession Misc.1973:6)

Add.MS. 1377/1-10   [ca. 1895-1929]
Cartoons of Durham personalities by S.M. Rowlandson.
Archdeacon Hamilton; Mr Jackson (Cathedral choir); [ ] Bagshaw; Dr Farrar; Rev. Bothamley; Prof. Heawood etc.
Also a poor quality photocopy of a page of caricatures presented to Durham County Club and page of notes on people in the drawings, by Miss S. Rowlandson.
10f. 
Donated by Miss I. E. Rowlandson, 1977 (accession Misc.1977:37)

Add.MS. 1378   15 September 1931
Letter from Andrew George Little (1863-1945, Historian, particularly of the Franciscan order), from Sevenoaks, to Dr. R. Steele (bibliographer and editor, 1860-1944), concerning various points relating to manuscript studies.
1f. 
Found in book presented by G. W. Steele Esq., 1965 (accession Misc.1965:8)

Add.MS. 1379   16 April 1934
Letter from George Grey Butler (1852-1935, author, magistrate), from Ewart Park, Wooler, to B. R. Leftwich, thanking him for information about the 18th century statesman Robert St. Paul, and sending him a copy of his book on the subject.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:7)

Add.MS. 1380/1-2   1937-1946
Typescript copy of verses by Eric Birley parodying the Dewey Decimal Classification system, written ca. 1937. Accompanied by a letter from Birley to David Ramage (Durham University Librarian), 5 June 1946, explaining that they were written when the Library adopted the Dewey scheme.
2 items. 
Presented by Eric Birley, 1946 (accession Misc.1946:1)

Add.MS. 1381/1-13   1937-1962
Small collection of material relating to Sir Irvine Masson (1887-1962, Professor of Chemistry, University of Durham, 1924-38; Vice Chancellor, University of Sheffield, 1938-52), collected by Dr. C. W. Gibby after Masson's death. Letter from Masson to Gibby, concerning Chemistry Dept. courses, April 1937; typescript letter from Lady Bassett, Masson's sister, to Gibby, ca. 1962; 2 letters between Gibby and Dr. A. H. Lamberton of Sheffield University; 2 offprints and a photocopy of obituaries of Masson.
7 items. 
Donated by Dr. C. W. Gibby, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:19)

Add.MS. 1382   17 February 1941
Report by Prof. Wilhelm Levison on items in Cosin's Library of use for modern research on continental history.
3f. 
Presented by Newcastle City Libraries, 1978 (accession Misc.1978:4)

Add.MS. 1383/1-2   23 August 1944
Typescript letter from [?] Felton, from Ulverston, to Sir Henry Havelock-Allen, concerning a plant.
Letter from Laura Smithson (1885-1963, actress) to Havelock-Allen, from Stockton-on-Tees, requesting information on the regimental colours of Sir Henry Havelock.
1f. each. 
Found loose in Add. MS 731, 1963 (accession Misc.1963:8 & 14)

Add.MS. 1384/1-3   1929-1949
Letter from Thomas Mann (1875-1955, author), from California to Prof. Wilhelm Levison, 3 October 1946, concerning the possibility of Mann's being reinstated in his doctorate from the University of Bonn. Accompanied by a circular letter of the Bonn Faculty of Philosophy, concerning a reading by Mann, 22 Nov. 1929, and a newspaper cutting of 26 July 1949 concerning Mann's receipt of Goethe awards.
3 items & 1 envelope. 
Found in the copy of Buddenbrooksin the Levison bequest (accession Misc.2001/2002:140)

Add.MS. 1385   7 October 1947
Letter from Cyril Argentine Alington (1872-1955, Dean of Durham), from Durham to John [?], in Leicester, about a memorial in the cathedral. Accompanied by a photograph of Alington cut from a newspaper.
2 pieces & 1 envelope. 
Donated by B. S. Benedikz, 1962 (accession Misc.1962:1)

Add.MS. 1386   [ca. 1950?]
Hardwick Hall, Blackhall, Co. Durham [home of the Maire family]. Drawing of supposed priests' hiding place in the attic (apparently drawn by the National Coal Board).
1f. 
Donated by T. Westgarth, via Miss M. Johnson, 1969 (accession Misc.1969:7)

Add.MS. 1387   22 August 1951
Letter from T. A. Meade Falkner (nephew of John Meade Falkner) to Mr Bramley, from Salisbury, explaining that he is unable to send him a specimen of John Meade Falkner's handwriting, but enclosing a privately published anthology of his poems.
1f. 
Purchased from E. Hall, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:18)

Add.MS. 1388   July 1952
Typescript schedule of names, dates and particulars on tombstones in the closed burial ground of St Margaret's, Durham, prepared in July 1952 under the direction of the town clerk (D.S. Martin-Jones), further to the Open Spaces Act, 1906.
25f. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.1952:1)

Add.MS. 1389/1-3   [1960s]
Two diaries and the introduction to a third relating the voyages of the Boumphrey family in 1887 to America on the Cunard ships Servia and Etruria, visiting New York, Boston and Buffalo, and (introduction only) in 1899 to Norway. Diary of Thomas Boumphrey and account of the journey written by his daughter Alice in 1893, typed by R.S. Boumphrey. Introduction to 1899 diary by R.S. Boumphrey.
19f.; 15f.; 4f. 
Presented by R. S. Boumphrey, 1963 & 1965 (accession Misc.1963:3 & 1965:2)

Add.MS. 1390/1-3   1963-1975
Typescript extract from the memoirs of Miss M.E. Heawood (sister of P. J. Heawood, Professor of Maths, at Durham, 1911-39), mainly concerning her life in Durham at the end of the nineteenth-century (ca. 1963: 2 copies, variously corrected).
Typescript copy of Dr. C.W. Gibby's memoir of P. J. Heawood (1975; added later?).
7f.; 7f. & 11f. 
Donated by Dr. C. W. Gibby, 1963 (accession Misc.1963:10)

Add.MS. 1391/1-2   1964 & 1970
Typescript letter from Jon Silkin (b.1930, English poet), in his capacity as editor of the literary magazine Stand, 21 June 1964, to D. Ramage [Durham University Librarian], concerning the latter's order for a back set of the journal.
Typescript letter, 22 March 1970, to D. Sowerbutts, Durham University Library, concerning an invoice for "Northern House Pamphlet Poets".
1f. each 
From Library correspondence (accession Misc.1964:23 & 1970:29)

Add.MS. 1392/1-4   1966
Reminiscence by Eric Frank Baxter of Professor C.F. Herdener of Durham. Typescript transcript dated September 1966 with notes by Dr. C.W. Gibby.
4f. 
Presented by Dr. C.W. Gibby, 1981 (accession Misc.1981:1)

Add.MS. 1393/1-4   15 September 1966
Typescript letter with corrections and emendations from Bertram Colgrave to Professor D.F.S. Scott, concerning Professor C.F. Herdener.
4f. 
Presented by Dr. C. W. Gibby, 1981 (accession Misc.1981:3)

Add.MS. 1394/1-16   1939-1952
Collection of miscellaneous letters etc., assembled by Mrs. E.F. Hall , concerning the history of Count Boruwlaski. Includes letters from J.R. Edis (photographer, Durham) and Alfred Smith (accountant, Durham), a copy of the article in The Timeson Boruwlaski [presumably written by Hall based upon these notes], notes and British Museum borrowing tickets for books used in her research.
15 items. 
Given by Mrs. L.A. Leake, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:1)

Add.MS. 1395/1-3   1968
Copy of Hanna Swiderska's article on Boruwlaski, in Polish, from Wiadomosci, 21 July 1968, together with a typescript English translation; also microfilm of letters from Boruwlaski to Emma George in the Czartoryski collection, National Museum, Cracow, Poland.
1 piece; 21f.; 11 frames. 
Presented by Miss H. Swiderska, 1968 (accession Misc.2001/2002:9)

Add.MS. 1396   December 1970
Autograph reminiscences by J.L. Burchnall of Durham University and Cathedral personalities (called Durham 1919 and after). With typed transcript.
13f. & 3f. 
Donated by the author, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:6)

Add.MS. 1397   31 May 1971
“The Royal Commission of 1933: some recollections & reflections”: memoir by J.L. Burchnall of the circumstances leading up to and surrounding this phase in Durham University's development.
9f. 
Donated by the author, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:6)

Add.MS. 1398   January 1971
Typescript note by E.F. Baxter on the beginning and building of the Durham Colleges' Science Department in 1924.
1f. 
Donated by the author, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:4)

Add.MS. 1399   [ca. 1976]
Clifton William Gibby's memoirs of Durham in the early 20th century (mainly concerning Durham University and Cathedral personalities). Typed from Dictaphone with corrections by Gibby.
13f. 
Donated by Dr. Gibby, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:11)

Add.MS. 1400   1976
Clifton William Gibby's reminiscences of Durham, spoken by the author and typed up, with manuscript addenda. Subsequently corrected and expurgated by Gibby in 1986, the document was closed until 2000.
37ff, 10f. 
Dictated and checked by the author, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:12)

Add.MS. 1401/1-3   [1971]
Prof. Francis Campbell Hood: autograph reminiscences of the University of Durham, 1922-55.
With additional notes that were closed until 1985.
Also order of memorial service for Hood.
27f.; 2f. and 1 piece. 
Donated by the author, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:23 & 24)

Add.MS. 1402/1-2   [1972]
Durham reminiscences of Mrs. Muriel Hood (widow of Prof. F.C. Hood): about characters at Durham from ca. 1929-1939. With letter explaining the writing of the memoir.
34f., 1f. 
Donated by the author, 1972 (accession Misc.1972:8)

Add.MS. 1403   1974
Reminiscences of Durham life in the middle part of the 20th century (mainly notes about local people) by Jack Holloway and Fred Dennison (Durham city tradesmen and councillors) recorded by L. A. Leake in 1974.
4f. 
Donated by Mrs. L. A. Leake, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:15)

Add.MS. 1404   8 January 1976
Funeral address for Mrs. Muriel S. Cassels (d.1976), written and delivered by the Revd. Stuart Jackson. Ms. and typescript versions. Accompanied by a letter from Jackson to Miss [M.] Johnson.
9f., 2f., 1f. 
Donated by Miss Johnson, 1976 (accession Misc.1976:9)

Add.MS. 1405/1-3   [1970s]
Notes and transcripts, made by L.A. Leake, from the correspondence of John Adamson (1787-1855, antiquary) 1814-50 (particularly letters to him by Mary Cockle, and letters concerning the publications of the Newcastle Typographical Society); transcript of printed verses by Adamson; notes on entries concerning the Newcastle Typographical Society's publications in a catalogue of books, etc., belonging to Adamson at the time of a fire in 1846 which destroyed some of them.
28f.; 1f.; 28f. 
Presented by L.A. Leake, who had copied the correspondence then in the possession of Mrs E. Adamson, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:1)

Add.MS. 1406   1982
Recollections by David Goudie Ramage of Durham and the University Library, 1930's onwards. Recorded in 1982 and typed from 2 C60 tapes.
28f. & 2 cassettes. 
Recorded for the University Library, 1982 (accession Misc.1984:3)

Add.MS. 1407/1-4   [1940s-1970s]
Some notes on the history and use of the Library buildings of Durham University, compiled by David Goudie Ramage and including notes from other staff members about the various buildings and locations.
Offprints of 3 articles by Ramage: “The library buildings on Palace Green, Durham”“Bishop Cosin's Library: restoration 1958”; “Portrait heads for Cosin's Library”.
43f. & 3 offprints. 
From the residue of Mr Ramage's estate, 1989 (accession Misc.1989:3)

Add.MS. 1408   1983
Reminiscences of Geoffrey Ainsworth Williams, of University College, Durham (B.A. 1938, M.A. 1941). Life in Durham Castle for a student there, 1935-39.
42f., 1f. 
Presented by Canon Williams, 1983 (accession Misc.1983:5)

Add.MS. 1409   14 October 1838
Reply, in third person, with autograph signature and red wax seal, of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, (d.1843) as Grand Master, to invitation of Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham [Freemasons], Raby Castle.
2f. mounted. 
Purchased from P. Eaton, cat. Mss. 20, item 155, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:1)

Add.MS. 1410   [9 September 1693]
Signature and seal of Lady Ann Duck, of Durham (1635-1695).
1 piece. 
Found in one of the books belonging to W.R.H. Gray presented to the University after his death in 1937 (accession Misc.2002/2003:10)

Add.MS. 1411   10 February 2001
Memorial address about Sir Derman Christopherson, successively Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, delivered by Rev. Prof. S.W. Sykes at a memorial service for Sir Derman at Magdalene College.
1f. 
Presented by Prof. Sykes, 2001 (accession Misc.2000/2001:16)

Add.MS. 1412   September 1789
Letter in doggerel rhyming couplets, addressed to "Dear Cousin" (and on verso of p.[3] to Nathan Dearman Jun[ior]), signed M.W., Staindrop, [17]89 [rest of date illegible]. Gives an account of a visit to "Sledwick well" to collect healing waters and moss, and asks for a quilt to be sent to him, and for a piece of vellum to be bought for him from Appleton or Heaviside, both booksellers in Stockton at the time.
2f. 
Bought from Alex Fotheringham, bookseller, 2000 (accession Misc.200/2001:17)

Add.MS. 1413/1-5   1555-1700
5 stray documents from the Durham Bishopric Estates Halmote Court Records.
5 items. 
Bought from J.L.M. Gulley, 2000 (accession Misc.200/2001:19)

Add.MS. 1414   18 April 1868
Letter from the painter and designer Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), to Mr Miller [John Miller (1786-1876), wealthy Liverpool merchant and patron of the arts, and father-in-law of Peter Paul Marshall, whom Brown mentions in the letter, and who, like Brown, was a founding member of the decorating firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co]. The letter comments on a number of Brown's own paintings, including "The entombment of Christ", "Elijah and the widow's son" and "The traveller", and on recent work by Mark Anthony (1817-1886), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Holman Hunt. Also refers to William Morris and his wife, James Pelham, George Rae, Frederick Leyland, and Charles Augustus Howell.
10p. on 3 sheets. 
Presented by Mrs Virginia Surtees, 2000 (accession Misc.2000/2001:14)

Add.MS. 1415/1-2   [Late 19th - 20th century]
Note headed "Who wrote “A Tour in Teesdale”" with later typed transcript (bearing later corrections).
A memorandum on the author of this work, printed in several editions at York and Barnard Castle in the first half of the 19th century. The writer has misread an inscription and believes the author to be called Garlaw (he is thought to have been an R. Garland).
1f. each. 
Removed from printed Local sequence April 2003 (not clearly associated with any copy of the work held) (accession Misc.2002/2003:33)

Add.MS. 1416/1-2   1882-1937
Student lecture notes and sermons of Canon Herbert Gouldsmith 1882-1937
3 boxes. 
Herbert Gouldsmith (c1867-1940) was the second son of Henry Gouldsmith of Richmond, Surrey, gent. He matriculated at Oxford University as a non-collegiate student on 14 Oct 1886 aged 19. He transferred to Exeter College there, from which he graduated BA in 1886 with a third in Theology. He was ordained deacon in the same year and priest in 1887 in Rochester.
Gouldsmith was one of the early theology students at Oxford University where it had only been established as a separate school in 1870. It did not have the status of the Classics or Mathematics schools and attracted generally candidates of lesser ability, many of whom only attained thirds, as Gouldsmith did, in exams which tested factual knowledge rather than critical ability. Gouldsmith's books date from the time when the school was beginning to be regarded as a vocational qualification, with the numbers of ordinands taking the other non-theology schools in decline. Theology students learnt the Pauline epistles, the Gospels and Acts and four books of the Old Testament, as reflected here in Gouldsmith's notebooks, along with dogmatics, the history of the early Church, apologetics, liturgy and textual criticism.
He began his ecclesiastical career as curate at St James Hatcham 1886-1890 before spending 10 years in India as incumbent of the Old Missionary Church, Calcutta. He returned to England to spend the rest of his days in Co. Durham, first as rector of St Paul Hendon in 1900, then vicar of Auckland St Andrew with St Anne and St Philip in 1904, then rector of Bishopwearmouth in 1908 and finally as rector of Haughton-le-Skerne in 1923, of which he published a brief history in 1929. He retired to Hurworth in 1937. In addition, he served as rural dean for first Auckland 1904-1908, then Wearmouth 1910-1923 and finally Darlington 1935-1937. He was also chaplain to the Bishop of Durham 1908-1920 and was appointed an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral in 1910. He acted as proctor to Convocation from first Durham Archdeaconry 1921-1922 and then from Auckland Archdeaconry 1924-1935. He served as the clerical secretary to the Durham Diocesan Conference 1916-1930, and was also Commissary Niger from 1922.
He was connected with the University of Durham insomuch as he served as a member of the Council of St John's College from 1922 to 1937.
Deposited by St John's College, Durham, on 24 Jan 2003 (accession Misc.2002/2003:25)

Add.MS. 1417/1-4   1828
Printers manuscript copy of a pamphlet, The Hiltons, and 2 letters from Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), the Co. Durham antiquary to [John] Sykes the printer in Newcastle concerning the printing of the work (an excerpt from Surtees' The history and antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham ...[vol. 2, p. 36] which was in turn based upon Sharp's A history of Hartlepool).
Bound in a volume that contains the successive proofs of the work, corrected by Sharp.
2f., 1f & 1f. each. 
Bound with book (location: XL929.2 SUR).
Book acquired in 2002.

Add.MS. 1418/1-2   1840 & 1907
2 letters in copy of The diaries of Edward Pease, ed. Sir Alfred E. Pease (London, 1907) owned by David Richardson of Newcastle.
Two items. 
Bound with book (location: XL920 P4 PEA; inside front cover and after p.66).
Book acquired in 1944.

Add.MS. 1419/1-14   1886-1887
The development of the Athenian democracy(London, [1886], by F. B. Jevons, with 13 letters from contemporary classicists loose or tipped in.
Correspondents: J. C. James, Gateshead School; A. H. Sayce, Queen's College, Oxford; W. G. Rutherford, Westminster; P. G. Matheson, New College, Oxford; B. Jowett, Oxford; Henry Maine, London; F. A. Paley, Bournemouth; J. Gow, Nottingham; W. Ridgway, Queen's College, Cork; W. Wayte, London.
13 letters & 1 pamphlet. 
Purchased from Miss W. A. Myers, November 1982 (accession Misc.1982:16)

Add.MS. 1420   [mid 19th century]
Ground plan of the buildings and gardens comprising 30-32 Old Elvet, Durham City, showing interior of 32 and some information about surrounding property.
scale: Scale: 1 inch - 8 feet.
Paper (repaired).
Size: 45 x 67 cm.
Planfile
Source of acquisition not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:20)

Add.MS. 1421/1-5   1950 & 1954
Architect's blueprints showing the existing structure and proposed alterations (for Durham Colleges) of Jevons House, 7 North Bailey, Durham City, by Charles Elgey, architect, of 7A North Bailey.
scale: Scale: various.
Paper.   5 sheets.
Size: various, up to 85 x 64 cm.
Planfile
Deposited by the Northumberland & Durham Archaeological and Architectural Society; date of acquisition not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:19)

Add.MS. 1422-1424   Later 18th century
Maps of northern waterways.
3 files 
Planfile
Purchased from T. & L. Hannas, 1975; no. 354 in their catalogue Grub Street Journal48 (accession Misc.1975:21, 19 & 20).

Add.MS. 1425/1-8   [18th century]
7 maps relating to coal mines and land boundaries around the Bishop Auckland area of Co. Durham, in part arising from disputes following enclosure and mining encroachment.
7 items. 
Planfile
Purchased from Steedman, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:38)

Add.MS. 1426   1926
“Report of action in Northumberland August and September 1926”.
9 letters from J. T. Nesbit to William Sanderson giving an account of his actions at Broomhill Colliery, Morpeth, during the 1926 miners strike. Nesbit led a small group of men who mined coal during the strike to keep the boilers supplied to pump the water out of the pit. Typescript with introduction by Sanderson; bound.
1 vol.; 21p. 
Purchased from Galloway & Porter, 1971 (accession Misc.1971:33).

Add.MS. 1427   1981
“The University of Durham - some recollections and reflections by Sir Kingsley Dunham, Emeritus Professor of Geology, recorded in January, 1981”
Account of life at Durham, as an undergraduate at Hatfield 1927-30, transferring from chemistry to geology, then taking a Ph.D. in 1932. Teaching at Harvard and then with Geological Survey of Great Britain covered briefly, then return to Durham as Professor in 1950. Developments, especially new buildings at the University and the evolution of the geology department are described in detail.
Three C60 cassettes containing the recording from which the memoir was typed.
56p. and 3 cassettes. 
Recorded by Sir Kingsley on tapes supplied and transcribed by the University Library, 1981 (accession Misc.1981:8).

Add.MS. 1428   1960
“Coal nationalisation. What happened?”, by Hubert Tunney (Thornley, Durham). Typescript account of the mining industry in the North East, especially during the period of nationalisation between 1947 and 1955.
1 vol. 1, 144p. 
Donated by the author via Sid Chaplin, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:31)

Add.MS. 1429   1896
“On the study and teaching of history”. Lecture by George Body (?), read before Bede College Literary Society, 5 March 1896. With end of letter from George Body stuck on cover (presumably to identify author).
1 vol. notebook. 52 p. of text. 
Donated by Dr. C. W. Gibby, 1973 (accession Misc.1973:2)

Add.MS. 1430   [c. 1900]
“Durham: original drawings”, by John Shirley-Fox (artist; 1860-1939). Card-covered album in handmade wrapper bearing Shirley-Fox's bookplate, dated 1914, containing 26 tipped-in charcoal drawings of Durham City (mainly antiquities and architectural details of the castle and cathedral).
1 vol. 26 drawings 
Purchased from Henry Bristow, cat. 275, no. 158 (accession Misc.1982:24).

Add.MS. 1431/1-5   [c. 1950]
C. H. Beaglehole, “The life and times of Dr Isaac Basire chaplain to H.M. King Charles I Chaplain to Bishop Cosin Archdeacon of Northumberland”(unpublished typescript). Typescripts “Constitutional episcopacy”and “A neglected page of history”by Beaglehole (notes on the role of the episcopacy, and an essay on the role of the country house retreat in 17th century Anglicanism respectively).
3 vols. (199p.), 1, 10p.; 1, 11p. 
Presented by Mrs. Beaglehole, September 1961 (accession Misc.1961:1).

Add.MS. 1432   1843-1912
Annual accounts of the Trustees of Holwick Chapel (Primitive Methodist chapel at Holwick, N. Yorkshire [Teesdale]). Expenditure and income from the building costs of the chapel in 1843 to 1911. With other notes and (from the back of the book) some brief minutes of meetings of the Trustees 1843-1888 & 1911.
1 vol. 151p. 
Purchased from A. B. Walker, Whitby, 1970 (accession Misc.1970:20).

Add.MS. 1433   1786-1791 [20th century transcription]
Typescript copy of “Journal of a tour in England, 1786-1791”by Anna Francesca Cradock (wife of Joseph Cradock of Gumley, Leicestershire). Account of a series of journeys including visits to Bristol; Bath; Portsmouth; Isle of Wight; Poole; Salisbury; Wistow; Gumley; Monmouth; London. A good deal of information about travelling especially the accommodation in inns, and Mrs Cradock's social life (including visits to the theatre).
This is presumably another part of the manuscript published in Paris in 1896 as Journal de Madame Cradock. Voyage en France, 1783-1786, traduit d'après le manuscrit original et inédit par Mme O. Delphin Balleyguier.
1 vol. 42p. 
From a copy of the text in the possession of Monsieur André Balleyguier, presented by Professor J. Lough 30th March 1957 (accession Misc.1957:2).

Add.MS. 1434   1866-1868
Journal of Henry Brumell Finch of Durham School, (1849-1899, son of Rev. T. Finch, the chaplain to Northumberland Gaol, Morpeth; left Durham School July 1869). Detailed daily account of life at school and home. Also (at back) three tables of marks for each pupil in form for each subject.
1 vol. 112p. 
Purchased from H. Bristow Ltd., 1973 (accession Misc.1973:9).
Digitised material for Journal of Henry Brumell Finch, 1866-68 - Add.MS. 1434

Add.MS. 1435   [mid 19th century]
“Dr. Wilcolkes's & Messrs. Fryer & Sons' system of arithmetic and mental calculations”. A manuscript copy of Doctor Willcolkes's new and much admired system of arithmetic and mental calculations : never before printed, being the result of many years' study : the manuscript copy of which was bequeathed by Dr. Willcolkes to the present publishers of it, Thomas Fryer and son(Derby, 1832) (and many subsequent editions). With a table of contents. The writer is not identified, but the book is a manual of practical mathematics of particular use to a tradesman or shopkeeper.
1 vol. 12, 176 p. 
Donated by C. R. Hudleston, 1961 (accession Misc.1961:7)

Add.MS. 1436   [1880s?]
Notebook containing material for William Octavius Blunt's A thousand years of the church in Chester-le-Street(1883). Memoranda and notes collected by the author for the book, bound in the same binding as the published book (many pages blank).
1 vol. 194p. & 4 loose pieces. 
Purchased (with a copy of the printed book) from Garsdale, 1975 (accession Misc.1975:3).

Add.MS. 1437   1879-1880; 1883
“Diary from 1842 ad libitum”of Arthur Bootle Wilbraham (1842-1897: JP in Durham and elsewhere, with a residence at Shotley Bridge, Co. Durham) [labelled Diary from 1842-1895, and pages ruled and headed for that period, but only filled for 1879-80, and January - February 1883]. Single line entries for most days recording activities - travel, business, shooting and gardening etc.
1 vol. (only 24p. of text). 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2002:143)

Add.MS. 1438   1852
“Diary for 1852”. A detailed daily journal (attributed in a much later hand to Mr Thwaites) written by a colliery surveyor working at collieries owned by the Pease family, in the Shildon and Bishop Auckland area of Co. Durham, especially the Adelaide and St Helens Auckland . The author is 20, from Maryport, Cumberland and is a Quaker. In addition to daily accounts (weather, work and social life - the journal contains plenty of information about mining and the activities of local Quakers) he writes a weekly summary which becomes an account of the daily whereabouts of a colleague (he mistrusts several of his colleagues, especially John Graham senior and junior).
1 vol. 266p. (217p. text, 5p. calculations) 
Source not recorded, but purchased before 1971 (accession Misc.2001/2002:69).

Add.MS. 1439   [ca.1890-1960]
Language:  German, some later material in English.
“Haushallungs-Buch für Mathilde Elkan”. Recipe book for a wide range of dishes, started in the late 19th century in German (inscription "Maud Elkan Surichstrasse 62"), with later additions and slips of paper in English.
1 vol. 144p., 13 loose pieces. 
Donated by Miss J. Elkan, ca. 1970 (accession Misc.1970:14).

Add.MS. 1440   Dated at the beginning, August 1967
Ledger used as a commonplace book containing extracts of miscellaneous local interest from various Durham and Newcastle newspapers, 1780-1940. Compiled by L. A. Leake, with alphabetical index at front and ca. 100 pages of text.
1 vol. (mainly blank) 
Donated by Mrs. L. A. Leake, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:17).

Add.MS. 1441   1958-1962
Rough minute book for meetings of the Council of the Durham City Rotary Club, taken by L. A. Leake, October 1958 - September 1962, with other miscellaneous notes.
1 vol. 104p. 
Donated by Mrs. L. A. Leake, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:4).

Add.MS. 1442   1912-1913
Overman's journal, 23 November 1912 - 3 May 1913 for Hamsteels Colliery, Co Durham. Lists details of averages and shifts worked (for each coal seam), giving miners' names and pay received.
1 vol. 290p. 
Purchased from Dunelme Coins & Medals, list 2, 1982 (accession Misc.1982:13).

Add.MS. 1443   [20th century]
Notebook of Ralph Allen Sampson (1866-1939: Professor of Mathematics [1896-1910] and Astronomy [1908-10] at Durham, Astronomer-Royal of Scotland 1910-37) used to record odd mathematical jottings and notes on Italian renaissance art.
1 vol. 278p. 
Source not recorded (accession Misc.2001/2:67).

Add.MS. 1444   1845-1846
Turnpike toll record book (double printed pages completed in manuscript) for two toll bars in Durham City (near the Elvet Colliery and afterwards University science site) . Butterby Lane toll bar, 13 May - 21 September 1845, then Potters Bank toll bar, 22 September 1845-13 May 1846, recording each horse drawn vehicle or animal passing through. Toll keeper Matthew Stephenson, accounts countersigned by John Forster.
With two sheets in a modern hand calculating totals.
1 vol. 28 sheets [1 blank]. 
Purchased from L. A. Leake, 1980 (accession Misc.1980:10).

Add.MS. 1445   February 1960
“The story of Bishop Middleham”, by Doris I. Chatt, Dorothy Turner and Jessie Wilkinson.
1. A typescript history of the village of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham and its institutions, illustrated with 35 photographs or postcards of buildings or local events (ca. 1900-1960), and 4 plans. Also includes a programme for the village Women's Institute (1960), service sheet for dedication of war memorial (1949) and 4 paintings by children.
2. Photocopy of the printed edition, printed by Coronation Pressm Trimdon Station, Darlington.
1 ringbinder file. Tables of contents, 37p. & photographs & maps. Paper file of 22p 
1 Presented by Bishop Middleham Women's Institute, 1960 (accession Misc.1960:1).
2 Donated by William Wallach, 2017 (

Add.MS. 1446/1-3   1967
2 albums presented to Miss P. M. Derry (d.1982) on her retirement as headmistress of The Acorn School, Durham City (also referred to as The Acorns). Both albums are covered in an acorn motif binding. The first contains photographs of nearly all her pupils and the second details of their schooling and subsequent lives. Some loose material in the photograph volume has been stored in an envelope.
The Acorn School was based in Poole House, part of Durham School, and appears to have been a nursery school or kindergarten. Miss Derry had run it between 1937 and 1966.
2 ringbinders, 88p. & 119p.; 1 envelope of 16 loose items. 
Presented by Miss P. M. Derry, through Mrs Ella Wright, 1981. (accession Misc.1981:9)

Add.MS. 1447/1-3   [ca. 1890-1910]
Heyden ( van der) Three notebooks, containing mainly mathematical exercises and notes, and some chemistry and physics notes, compiled by Alexander Frederick van der Heyden, (d. ca. 1954) who graduated B.A. at University of Durham in 1898 and held a University Fellowship 1898-1906.
3 vols. 3, 457p.; 363p.; 185p. 
Presented from the estate of A.F. van der Heyden, 1954 (accession Misc.1954:1).

Add.MS. 1448/1-3   [ca.1860-1890]
3 notebooks of Edwin George Sones (1847-89, Baptist Minister). Commonplace book (half filled mixed prose and verse); notebook (theological material, with alphabetical index at front) with fragment of journal (29 August - 28 November 1869) at back; notebook containing lecture notes (also biography of Sones from Baptist Union handbook, 1890).
3 vols. 215p.; 120p. 
Donated by the executors of Miss E. J. Sones, 1967 (accession Misc.1967:9).