Regarding 'lunacy' legislation and mental health institutions

Regarding the Palaeontolographical Society and the 'Mrs Johnston affair'

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

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.

Files of correspondence between Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Lady Pauline Trevelyan and members of their family. Also personal papers, sketch books and illustrations created by and relating to the family.

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.

Subjects include education, Newcastle races, palaeontology, locations in Shakespeare plays, surnames and temperance.

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 and correspondence accumulated during the preparation of the publication 'The Trevelyan Papers'.