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Backhouse and Mounsey collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 13
Abstract:

The collection comprises etchings, lithographs, and drawings by Edward Backhouse, Edward Backhouse Mounsey, and other members of the Backhouse and Mounsey families of Darlington (County Durham) in the early 19th century.

Dates: 1819-1856

Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 8
Abstract:

The collection comprises travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material concerning the Carr family of Northumberland, England.

Dates: 1699-1981, bulk 1811-1899

Collection of designs for Worcester porcelain

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 88
Scope and Contents:

The collection comprises eight volumes of designs for the painting of Worcester porcelain and one account book, the work of Henry Taylor (1825-1888), his father James Taylor (1790-1852), and his grandfather William Taylor.

Dates: ca. 1770-ca. 1880

Ellen Fenton Diaries of Travels to Boulogne-sur-Mer

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 28
Abstract:

The collection comprises illustrated manuscript diaries of Ellen Fenton of Haven Green House, Ealing, which chronicle her summer family vacations to Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1854-1862, in nine volumes.

Dates: 1854-1862

James Forbes archive: A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 66
Scope and Contents: The collection comprises thirteen manuscript volumes, each of which contains numerous illustrations as well as transcriptions of letters originally composed while Forbes was in India, with a particular concentration on the natural history of India. The manuscript was finished in 1800, although most of the drawings are those done at the time of the voyage, circa 1765-1776. Volume 1 includes a presentation page, dated 11 April 1800, in which Forbes gives the set to his daughter, Elizabeth...
Dates: circa 1765-1800

Mary Leighton Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 16
Abstract:

The collection comprises ten original sketchbooks, albums, and scrapbooks compiled by Mary Leighton and her children, 1824-1860.

Dates: 1824-1860

Charles Robert Leslie Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 15
Abstract:

The collection comprises sketchbooks, writings, and correspondence by Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) and his family.

Dates: circa 1812-1900

Robert Provo Norris Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 11
Abstract:

The collection comprises personal diaries, watercolors, and drawings by Robert Provo Norris, most of which were created while he was a soldier stationed on the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa during the Frontier ("Kaffir") Wars of the 1840s and 1850s.

Dates: 1846-1854

Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books

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Call Number: MSS 6
Abstract:

The collection comprises sketchbooks and exercise books belonging to the Pease family of Durham and Yorkshire Counties, England. The Peases were part of an important network of Quaker industrialists in the northeast of England, and established the nation's first railroad in 1825. Items in the collection date from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1814-1909

Edwin Augustus Porcher Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 38
Abstract:

The collection comprises the drawings, diary, and log books of Edwin Augustus Porcher, from tours of duty to South and East Asia (1849-1853) aboard the HMS Cleopatra and the Mediterranean and North Africa (1857-60) aboard the HMS Hibernia, HMS Kertch and HMS Boxer.

Dates: 1849-1861

Rowe collection of botanical specimens

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 35
Abstract:

The collection comprises over 500 pressed plant specimens from the area around Liverpool, assembled by a "Miss Rowe" of 2 Elizabeth Street, in 1861.

Dates: 1861-1862

Sam Smith Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 14
Abstract:

The collection comprises original work by Sam Smith including ink drawings, mock-ups, hand-carved wooden boats, paper model sets, typescripts, and correspondence.

Dates: 1972-1996, bulk 1972-1979