Concerning the Russian Revolution and his family’s plans to return to home.

The Mediaeval Manuscripts number just nine but include Petrus Lombardus' Sententi

The 17th Century Collection is a small but expanding collection of books printed 1600-1699. The books it contains are a good reflection of this period as a time of rebellions, intrigues and conspiracies; hierarchical power; and strong religious views. Sermons and speeches were commonly printed.

This small collection comprises books which were produced in the infancy of the art of printing, and specifically before 1500. The collection includes such works as the Epistolae of St. Jerome, printed in Palma in 1480, Opus de peste, a tract on plague printed in Bologna in 1478, and the first printed book on architecture, Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (1485).

The Post-incunabula collection does not strictly comply with the prescribed date range which often defines 'post-incunabula' but does contain English and foreign books printed 1501-1640. It includes works by John Stow, John Speed, Torquato Tasso and William Tynedale, as well as Robert Burton's The anatomy of melancholy, 4th ed. (1632), Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), Reginald Scot's The discouerie of witchcraft (1584), Palladio's architectural work I qvattro libri dell'architettvra (1581), Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene (1590-96) and Thomas Heywood's The hierarchie of the blessed angells (1635).

1 page letter from Mary Charmers on family matters. 1 page note included from her husband, probably Mr M. Moir.

Indenture for the apprenticeship of Nicholas Charlton, son of John Charlton late of Newcastle upon Tyne, to John Nicholson, also of Newcastle upon Tyne, barber surgeon, wax and tallow chandler and periwig maker. Witnessed by Francis Potts and John Bryan.