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Backhouse and Mounsey collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 13
Overview:
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
Overview:
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
Overview:
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 Rosée...
Dates:
circa 1765-1800
Mary Leighton Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 16
Overview:
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
Overview:
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
Overview:
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
Collection
Call Number: MSS 6
Overview:
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
Overview:
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
Overview:
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
Overview:
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