Transcript of conversation between Mabel Weiss (grand daughter of Elizabeth and Robert Spence Watson, daughter of Evelyn Spence Watson and Ernest Weiss) and Ann Craven. Concerning family reminiscences/anecdotes. Including memories of Bensham Grove, Elizabeth Spence Watson's funeral, Nansen's visitis to Bensham Grove, the first meeting of Evelyn SW and FE Weiss while skiing, unorthodox Quakerism, ESW's abstinence, Evelyn SW's Temperance activity, Evelyn SW and FEW's attendance at theatre, Prince Kroptkin's imprisonment in St. Petersburg and escape, Elizabeth SW's WWI pacifism - she protects a German butcher in Newcastle or Gateshead, RSW nearly shot as a spy when working for the Friends Relief Service during the Franco Prussian War.

Consists mainly of letters to Robert Spence Watson. Topics include, but are not limited to, British politics and the Liberal party, contemporary Europe, Armstrong College (later Newcastle University), the Peace Society, lectures at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, and contemporary literary and scientific achievements. Other regular recipients of letters include Elizabeth Spence Watson, Frederick Weiss, and Charles Prestwich Scott.

The Spence Watson's wide-ranging public activism, make their correspondence a valuable source of opinions on the social and political matters of the day from a wide range of prominent persons.

Signatures only. Includes signatures of H. E. B. Stowe. 9 October 1856; H.B. Stowe, Andover, Massachusetts, USA; Eliza Stowe, Andover, Massachusetts, USA; M.F.B.Perkins, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Miss H.B.Stowe, Andover, Massachusetts, USA.

Fragment of letter addressed to J P Jackson. Marked as the handwriting of Sims Reeves.

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings on Russian Freedom, including RSW's activities with the Frieds of Russian Freedom, Volkhovsky, Stepniak, etc. Annotated thoughout, with MS copy of Wilfrid Lawson's poem 'On the Russian Circular'.

Collection of six prints of scanned photographs.

Concerning Watson's pamphlet on “The Limits of Obedience to the Law”.

Black and white portrait print of Josephine E. Butler

Black and white reproduction of an oil on canvas portrait of Edward Whymper