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Early letters to Walter

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.

Travel journals

Describing journeys in England, Scotland, the Channel Islands, France, Belgium and Italy. Includes some sketches, and maps and other documents pasted in.
For related correspondence see WCT/6/5 and WCT/6/6.

Diary

Consists of the diary of William Brewis.

Includes a detailed account of the agricultural conditions in the year 1837 and a documentation of the poor weather conditions experienced. It also documents the death of William IV.

Diary

Consists of the diary of William Brewis.

Includes detailed agricultural accounts for the year 1838, and an account of Queen Victoria's coronation and country-wide celebrations. The diary also documents Lord Durham's expedition to Canada to settle the ongoing unrest regarding Independence and his subsequent trial in Parliament.

Diary

Consists of the diary of William Brewis.

Includes notes on the 'Corn Laws' and a detailed account of the Chartist riots across the country, describes the increasing poverty and decline in agriculture. There are also weather accounts for the whole year.

Kepier Grammar School Collection

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  • Book Collection
  • 1602 - 1840

Kepier Grammar School was opened by Queen Elizabeth I in 1574 and closed in 1933. The books from its library consist mainly of seventeenth and eighteenth-century works on classics and theology. As well as the classical authors (Euclid, Homer, Cicero, Tacitus, Plutarch, Xenophon et al.), many of the stock authors of the Eighteenth Century are represented: David Hume, Tobias Smollett, Joseph Addison, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Lyttleton, Jonathan Swift, Matthew Prior, Alexander Pope and (from the Seventeenth Century) John Locke. Several volumes bear the bookplate of Thomas Griffith, whilst one of the school's governors, Ralph Robinson, presented sixty six volumes to the school in 1742. Valerius Maximus' Cum commento Oliuerii Arzignanensis Vicentini (1500) contains the inscriptions of several former pupils with the dictum: “when you see this remember me“.

Kepier Grammar School

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