Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 094 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Charles Eden Wagstaff of Durham city, engraver, and Andrews & Co., booksellers (part 1)
Covering Dates: 1840-1917
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- Miscellaneous documents
- Correspondence of Charles Eden Wagstaff, engraver (Ref: D/X 94/1-9)
- Correspondence of Mrs. A.R. Wagstaff (Ref: D/X 94/10-26)
- Financial and Legal Affairs of the Wagstaff Family (Ref: D/X 94/39-76)
- Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly on orders for engravings (Ref: D/X 94/77-92)
- Papers concerning Andrews (Ref: D/X 94/93-99)
- Assented engravings and photographs (Ref: D/X 94/100-103)
- Series of engravings and sketches - mostly attributable to J.H. Le Keux (Ref: D/X 94/104-157)
- Papers concerning Le Keux's Gum (Ref: D/X 94/158-168)
Catalogue Description
Acc: 118(D) 15 December 1964Acc: 1958(D) 25 October 1990
Introductory Note
Most of the correspondence concerns the financial problems of Charles Eden Wagstaff, engraver, and his family and insolvent fellow artists. Letters from the children of Mrs Wagstaff's first marriage to Mr Clint also appear. Disputes over property after Mr Wagstaff's death involved a Mr Le Keux who was a tenant in one of the homes involved. Le Keux later moved to Durham where his name first appears in 1864 Durham Directory and his profession is described as artist. His son J.H. Le Keux set up as an engraver in the late 19th century in Durham and appears to have taken over the firm of Andrews & Co. Frances Andrews married John Henry Le Keux [c.1861 - c.1871]. In the 1894 Directory he is listed as 'Le Keux, John Hy. (bookseller) (Andrews & Co.)'. However, there is another possible connection in that a Joseph Andrews appears in the Wagstaff correspondence, which includes a letter from him to Wagstaff, when both were in America.
Catalogue Contents
Correspondence of Charles Eden Wagstaff, engraver (Ref: D/X 94/1-9)Ref: D/X 94/1
Letter from James McClure and Son, Glasgow, to Charles Eden Wagstaff regarding two copies of the plate of the Marquis of Douglas, 25 December 1850
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/2Correspondence between Charles Eden Wagstaff, 30 Argyll Place, New Road, and the Secretary of the Artists Annuity Fund regarding Wagstaff's treasurership of the said Fund, 14 - 31 May 1850
(1 file)
Ref: D/X 94/3Letter from John Murtin, Philadelphia, to Charles Eden Wagstaff, London, regarding the engraving of a portrait of William White, late Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and its Latin inscription, 16 March 1840
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/4Letter from John Murtin, Philadelphia, to Charles Eden Wagstaff, London, asking for proofs of portrait plate, 22 April 1840
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/5Letter from J. Brown to Charles Eden Wagstaff enclosing cheque for £45, 10 March n.y.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/6Letter from Alexander Scougull to Charles Eden Wagstaff begging for money, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/7Letter from John Murtin, Philadelphia, to Charles Eden Wagstaff, London, regarding alterations to the engraving of Bishop White's portrait, 20 March 1841
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/8Letter from John Laughton, written aboard ship in the Dams, to Charles Eden Wagstaff, 30 Argyle Street, Kings Cross, London, applying for 'the amount due to me from the Artists Fund', 9 December 1848
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/9Letter from Joseph Andrews, Boston, to Charles Eden Wagstaff, New York, promising him $50 on his New York bankers, 18 February 1851
(1 paper)
Correspondence of Mrs. A.R. Wagstaff (Ref: D/X 94/10-26)Ref: D/X 94/10Note in Mrs. Wagstaff's hand of leases and annuities, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/11Letter from I.R. Stodart, 2 Drummond Place, Edinburgh, to Mrs. Wagstaff, London, informing her that Messrs. Blackie of Glasgow had not received the plate of Earl Douglas's portrait, 4 April 1857
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/12Letter from George Taylor, 33 Gloucester Place, to Mrs. Wagstaff on plans for the children, 5 March 1854
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/13Letter from Paulina Dance to Mrs. Wagstaff notifying her arrival in London, 11 September 1854
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/14Letter from Eden and Towsey, Quality Court, to Mrs. Wagstaff, 29 Argyll Street, Kings Cross, requesting the probate of will and marriage certificates of the late Mr. Wagstaff, 8 April 1856
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/15Letter from Eden and Towsey, Quality Court, to Mrs. Wagstaff, 29 Argyll Street, Kings Cross, on the estate of Mr. Hinch, 21 April 1856
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/16Letter from Towsey and Lett, Quality Court, to Mrs. Wagstaff, arranging appointment, 15 April 1857
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/17-19Letters from I.G. Dobinson, 57 Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Mrs. Wagstaff, 29 Argyll Street, declining interviews, 25 March - 21 May 1857
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 94/20Letter from Towsey and Lett, Quality Court, to Mrs. Wagstaff on dispute with J.W. Le Keux, 18 May 1857
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/21Letter from [Mrs] A.R. Wagstaff, 29 Argyll Street, Kings Cross, to I.G. Dobinson asking him to persuade Towsey and Lett to lend her some money, 1 June 1857
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/22Letter from Mrs. Ann R. Wagstaff, 29 Argyll Street, Kings Cross, to J.L. Donaldson asking for help 'to dispose of my little property for an income for life', 1 June 1857
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/23Draft letter from Mrs. Wagstaff, 29 Argyll Street, to Towsey and Lett on dispute with Le Keux over a piece of property, 2 June 1857
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/24Letter from Towsey and Lett, Quality Court, to Mrs. Wagstaff on Le Keux dispute, 8 June 1857
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/25Letter from I.G. Dobinson, 57 Lincolns Inn Fields, to Mrs. Wagstaff, 29 Argyle Street, Kings Cross, on her case, 15 October 1857
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/26Draft letter from Mrs. A.R. Wagstaff to Lord Dudley Coutts Stewart seeking his assistance in gaining a position in Her Majesty's Customs for her son by a previous marriage to Scipio Clint, n.d.
(1 paper)
Wagstaff Family Correspondence
(Ref: D/X 94/28-38)Ref No. D/X 94/27
Letter from Alfred J. Wagstaff [Brook Street, Holborn, London] to his mother, Mrs. A.R. Wagstaff, regarding his moving into the Clint household, 3 June 1842
(1 paper)
Letter from Alfred J. Wagstaff [Boston] to his mother asking her to join him, 16 April 1854
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/29Letter from Eliza Wagstaff to her mother, 4 July 1853
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/30Letter from Eliza Wagstaff to her mother, 5 November n . y.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/31Letter from George Michael Clint, Cape of Good Hope, to his mother, Mrs. Clint, Brook Street, Holborn, London, on his voyage to Sydney, May 1849
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/32Letter from George Michael Clint, Cape of Good Hope, to Mrs. Eliza Mary, his cousin, 15 Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn, London, being 'an account of the fun the sailors had on the day we crossed the line', May 1849
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/33Letter from John L. Laughton, off Deal, to Mrs. Clint on his passage to Jamaica and sending regards to Wagstaff, 23 November 1848
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/34Letter from John L. Laughton, Kingston, Jamaica, to Mrs. Clint, 40 Brook street, Holborn, London, concerning his settlement on Jamaica and refers to Wagstaff and the 'squabbles of the Artists Fund', 1849
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/35Letter from George Michael Clint, 8 James Street, New York, to his mother - 'the last farewell from your broken hearted son' - asking for money, 2 September 1852
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/36Letter, incomplete, unsigned [from C.E. Wagstaff?] to Mr. Sands on writers present: illness, 25 November 1852
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/37Letter [from C.E. Wagstaff] concerning the operation of credit in the U.S.A. - 'they conclude that a man who brings his family and talent, without money, does not come to swindle' - and the state of engraving there, includes pasted in newspaper advertisement for engravers, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/38Autobiographical fragments, probably by Charles Eden Wagstaff, n.d.
(1 paper)
Financial and Legal Affairs of the Wagstaff Family (Ref: D/X 94/39-76)Ref: D/X 94/39-72Bills, receipts and notes of sums owed by Charles Eden Wagstaff and his wife, including bill for tuition and board of their son Eustace with report attached, n.d.
(34 papers)
Ref: D/X 94/73Letter [from Mrs. A.R. Wagstaff] to unidentified correspondent regarding certain houses, one of which is let to Mr. Le Keux and seeking "the disposing of my interest in the houses for an income for the rest of my life", n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/74Letter from Gustavus Clint, Fishmongers' Hall, to his mother - an appointment with Mr. Towse, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/75Chancery Court interrogation on property dispute between James and Mary Hind, plaintiffs, and George Selby, Charles Eden Wagstaff and William Akhurst, defendants, to H.S. Langham, 10 Bartlett Buildings, Holborn, [1851]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/76Letter from James Hind to unidentified correspondence regarding progress on suit with Mr. Selby reported by 'our solicitor' Mr. Langham, 28 January 1851
see D/X 94/75
(1 paper)
Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly on orders for engravings (Ref: D/X 94/77-92)Ref: D/X 94/77Letter from F. Wilkinson, St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, concerning reprinting of college prospectus with modifications, 8 October 1842
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/78Letter from Nicholas Hodges, 25 Old Elvet, concerning order for memorial cards, 30 September 1867
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/79Receipt from William Bradley, 54 Upper Charlotte Street, to Mr. Forde for 'four lots of engravings' 12 September 1840
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/80Inventory of engravings, and furniture, endorsed 'Bradley', [c.1840]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/81Letter from Butterworth and Heath, 356 Strand, London, to Rev. J.T. Hodgson enclosing specimens of their work, 10 November 1871
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/82Letter from L. and G. Nicholls, Aldine Chambers, to Rev J T Hodgson enclosing specimens of their engravings, 9 November 1871
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/83Letter from R.A. Sturling, 9 Cornwall Crescent, Camden Town, to J.M. Le Keux, regarding proofs dispatched, 18 August 1869
(1 paper
Ref: D/X 94/84Receipt stamp, endorsed 'Charles Sterrart', 1853
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/85Letter from H.J. Backer, 2 Clements Lane, Lombard Street, to Joseph D. Brown, 29 Arlington Street, Camden Town, informing him of a dishonoured bill presented to G.P. Harding, 11 October 1847
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/86Letter from John Humphreys, Gecuwen Slate Works, to unidentified correspondent threatening legal action, 31 August 1848
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/87Estimate of school room intended to be built at Plea-Peice, with estimate of master's house and privies, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/88Jotting adding up column of figures, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/89Jotting adding up column of figures, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/90Column of names and figures, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/91Inland Revenue legacy duty form for estate of Obediah Smail, 11 June 1875
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/92Inland Revenue succession duty form for inheritance of George Smail from his mother, 17 July 1875
(1 paper)
Papers concerning Andrews (Ref: D/X 94/93-99)Ref: D/X 94/93Financial statement [G. Andrews] including 'stock worth from £2,000 to £2,500', a 'share in Durham Library Building' and the accounts of local notable figures including R. Surtees, Thos. Bowes, 1825
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/94Catalogue of the valuable stock-in-trade of G. Andrews, bookseller, Durham, to be sold by auction, 20 March 1826
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 94/95'Catalogue of Books in Various Languages now on sale by Frances Andrews, bookseller, binder and stationer, Durham', 1835
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 94/96Journal of casual sales [Andrews] of stationery, books and photographs, 28 March 1879 - 11 September 1879
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 94/97Partial list of investments torn from account book, including Mrs. Andrews' bill, 3 March 1835
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/98Bill for the freight of forty-four packages of household furniture from Liverpool to Boston, to be delivered to Joseph Andrew, 7 December 1854 (2 papers)
Ref: D/X 94/99Durham University Book Club, accounts and list of members, 1883 - 1917
(1 volume, card bound)
Assented engravings and photographs (Ref: D/X 94/100-103)Ref: D/X 94/100Photograph of riverside scene, [mid-19th century?]
(1 card)
Ref: D/X 94/101Photograph of riverside scenes [mid-19th century?]
(1 card)
Ref: D/X 94/102Pen and wash rural scene, n.d.
(1 card)
Ref: D/X 94/103Pen and wash rural scene, n.d.
(1 card)
Series of engravings and sketches - mostly attributable to J.H. Le Keux (Ref: D/X 94/104-157)Ref: D/X 94/104Book plate for William Boyd
(1 card)
Ref: D/X 94/105Book plate for William Boyd
(1 card)
Ref: D/X 94/106Archiepiscopal seal
(1 card)
Ref: D/X 94/107Invitation card [blank]
(1 card)
Ref: D/X 94/108Llandevenree Abbey
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/109Tomb in Pen-y-gwrd Church
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/110Glancych Antiquities
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/111Glancych Antiquities
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/112Calvary at Plougastell
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/113Powis Castle Antiquities
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/114Drawing of Sedilia, signed J.M. Le Keux
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/115Drawing of Sedilia
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/116Llandilo Church
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/117Powis Castle Antiquities
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/118Cartwheel ornaments
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/119Effigies from Llanarman Church
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/120Bactrian Coins
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/121Llantwit Major Bones
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/122Tomb of Saint Nonne
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/123Llandilo Church
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/124Morlais Castle
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/125Morlais Castle
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/126Caves of Brevil
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/127Niche from Llantwit Major
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/128Westminster Abbey Charter House
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/129St. David's Cathedral
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/130Coleme Roman Villa
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/131Tiafirth Stones, Monkwearmouth
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/132Tiafirth Stones, Monkwearmouth
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/133Pen and wash sketch of side of Acca's Cross
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/134Pen and wash sketch of another side of Acca's Cross
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/135Cross at Dilston
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/136Cross at Dilston
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/137Cross at Dilston, photograph of pen and ink sketch
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/138Cross at Dilston, pen and ink sketch
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/139Angels in Bradford upon Avon Church
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/140Pen and ink sketch of Prior Lechman of Hexham
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/141[Prior Lechman of Hexham]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/142Pen and ink sketch of Spital Cross near Hexham
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/143Spital Cross near Hexham
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/144Spital Cross near Hexham
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/145[Great Hall]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/146Durham City - copy of seventeenth century woodcut
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/147Sketch of stone pier
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/148Archiepiscopal seal
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/149Seal
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/150Pen and ink sketch of carved head, attributed to Wm. Purdie
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/151Notes on seal inscription
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/152Leaflet announcing visit of Durham Architectural and Archaeological Society to Finchale Abbey, 24 April 1864
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/153Photograph of cyclist, c.1900 [J.H. Le Keux]
(1 photograph, 22.5 cm. x 16 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 94/154Photograph of cyclist, c.1900 [J.H. Le Keux]
(1 photograph)
Ref: D/X 94/155Photograph of Charles Eden Wagstaff from a painting by Budd, n.d. [c.1840]
(1 photograph, 11.5 cm. x 16.5 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 94/156Photograph of the window of the House of Andrews, Saddler Street, displaying copies of A Man's Life by Jack Lawson, M.P., n.d. [c.1932]
(1 photograph, 14.5 cm. x 20.5 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 94/157Fragment of verse, signed William Boyd Smith, n.d.
(1 paper)
Papers concerning Le Keux's Gum (Ref: D/X 94/158-168)Ref: D/X 94/158Leaflet advertising Le Keux's Sweet Gum, 'most useful for mounting Photographs' and 'Sold by all stationers in bottles for 1s. each, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/159Letter from J. Mitchinson, Cathedral Gardens, Gloucester, [to Andrews] requesting bill for the sweet gum, 27 September 1907
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/160Postcard from J. Mitchinson, Pembroke College, Oxford, to Andrews and Co., Saddlergate, Durham, requesting bill for sweet gum and praising its qualities, 27 October 1907
(1 postcard)
Ref: D/X 94/161Postcard from J. Mitchinson, Pembroke College, Oxford to Andrews and Co., Saddlergate, Durham, requesting bill for sweet gum, 7 November 1907
(1 postcard)
Ref: D/X 94/162Letter from J. Mitchinson, Cathedral Gardens, Gloucester [to Andrews] acknowledging receipt of sweet gum, 10 December 1909
(1 letter)
Ref: D/X 94/163Letter from J. Mitchinson, Pembroke College, Oxford [to Andrews] requesting more gum for his photographs, 7 October 1909
(1 letter)
Ref: D/X 94/164Letter from J. Mitchinson, Pembroke College, Oxford [to Andrews] seeking recipe or substitute for sweet gum as supplies are exhausted, 27 October 1906
(1 letter)
Ref: D/X 94/165Letter from J. Mitchinson, Cathedral Gardens, Gloucester [to Andrews] requesting 2 bottles of Le Keux's Sweet Gum, 13 September 1907
(1 letter)
Ref: D/X 94/166Note for Rev. V.G. Ryne, Mansfield Vicarage, enclosing 18s. payment to Andrews for repair of two volumes, 2 May 1910
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/167Letter from J. Mitchinson, Pembroke College, Oxford [to Andrews] acknowledging receipt of sweet gum and asking for bill, 3 March 1917
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 94/168Card advertising Le Keux's Sweet Gum to mount photographs, manufactured by Andrews and Co., Durham, n.d.
(1 card)
