Draft letters and notes by Walter and Sir John Trevelyan
- WCT/1/1/5
- File
- c.1838-1877
Subjects include education, Newcastle races, palaeontology, locations in Shakespeare plays, surnames and temperance.
Draft letters and notes by Walter and Sir John Trevelyan
Subjects include education, Newcastle races, palaeontology, locations in Shakespeare plays, surnames and temperance.
Correspondents include John Adamson, Thomas Leman, W H F Talbot, Emma Trevelyan, A Anderson Feldborg and C Innes. Includes discussion of botany, archaeology, antiquities, the Antiquarian Society of Newcastle upon Tyne and the death of George 5th Early of Winton. Also includes a letter attributed to Napoleon, with later notes suggesting this is innaccurate.
Receipts of dividends and other financial transactions. Includes reference to Elizabeth Trevelyan, Robert Hawdon and Joseph Snowball.
Folder of material relating a memorial to the passing of the 1832 Scottish Reform Act
Includes letters and drafts, press cuttings and ephemera regarding celebration and memorial of the passing of the 1832 Reform Act. Some documents are printed by the Reform Jubilee Institution, Edinburgh. Correspondents include William Wemyss Anderson and
from David and Maria Brewster to Walter and Lady Pauline
Includes personal news, reference to religious matters, botany, arrangements to meet and reference to Maria's poetry and David's work. Also includes cuttings regarding spiritual manifestations and the invention of the stereoscope, and a pamphlet entitled
From James Scott Bowerbank to Walter
Regarding the Palaeontolographical Society and the 'Mrs Johnston affair'
Regarding 'lunacy' legislation and mental health institutions
Drawings sketches and prints, including landmarks, floral patterns and geological features. Also includes plans for balustrades and three pages of a diary by Lady Pauline.
Incomplete letter from Agnes Spofford