- WCT/1/2/6
- File
- undated [1820-1880]
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.
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.
Regarding 'lunacy' legislation and mental health institutions
From James Scott Bowerbank to Walter
Regarding the Palaeontolographical Society and the 'Mrs Johnston affair'
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
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
Receipts of dividends and other financial transactions. Includes reference to Elizabeth Trevelyan, Robert Hawdon and Joseph Snowball.
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.
Draft letters and notes by Walter and Sir John Trevelyan
Subjects include education, Newcastle races, palaeontology, locations in Shakespeare plays, surnames and temperance.
Documents relating to William Bell Scott's work at Wallington
Mostly receipts, but includes letters and instructions to workmen, colour samples, a list of visiters to Wallington from Newcastle School of Art (1860) and a sketch for the painting 'The Building of the Castle'. Also includes a letters from Scott to Charles Edward Trevelyan from 1879, listing sitters for the paintings in the Hall, describing the planned work and proposing additions to the decoration.
Documents relating to the estate of General Willoughby Trevelyan
Relates to the suit between Colonel Harrington Trevelyan and Elizabeth Lethridge Trevelyan regarding the General's estate. Includes letters from both parties to Walter and two legal documents, including a manuscript of the 'decisions of court'.