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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1667 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Quaker records: 8. Pease Family

Covering Dates: 1785-1952

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Catalogue Description

These archives were offered at auction by Tennants of Leyburn, North Yorkshire, in the autumn of 2008. The collection had been split up by the auctioneers into lots and, as a consequence, Durham County Record Office was not able to secure the complete collection of papers offered for sale at that time. The collection was purchased in 5 lots on 29 September 2008 and in 3 lots on 10 December 2008, with the assistance of grant aid from the Friends of Durham County Record Office.

A further 30 lots were sold to other bidders on 29 September 2008, the most significant of which was described as railway ephemera, but which also contained correspondence. Most of the other lots included scrapbooks, photographs and histories of the families which constituted the Quaker network in the North of England. These items may have made it easier to establish the interconnection of the individuals represented in these papers.

By cataloguing the items in detail, knowledge of the inter-marriages of the Quaker families of the North of England was established, to explain the presence of this particular set of papers which had belonged to the Backhouse, Coates, Fell, Fox, Fryer, Hodgkin, Lloyd, Mounsey and Pease families.

The most significant papers are those belonging to Henry Pease (1807-1881), son of Edward Pease (1767-1858), as these include an album of letters received by Henry Pease from the eminent men of the 19th century [Ref: D/X 1667/8/129], 12 letters from John Bright (1811-1889) [ref: D/X 1667/8/134-145] and 47 letters from his father, Edward [ref: D/X 1667/8/182-229].

The latter letters include discussions of railway and wool business, a description of the death of Edward's wife Rachel nee Whitwell [ref: D/X 1667/8/189], the decline in health and death of his elder son, Edward [ref: D/X 1667/8/214-219] and the decline in health and death of Anna Fell Pease [ref: D/X 1667/8/208-822]. Henry Pease's papers also include 17 letters from his brother, Joseph (1799-1872) including discussions of railway business, the death of his brother, Edward [ref: D/X 1667/8/243] and a description of scenes in London on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Victoria [ref: D/X 1667/8/242].

The papers described in this catalogue represent varying numbers of the papers of:
* Henry Pease's second son, Edward Lloyd Pease (1861-1934);
* Edward Lloyd Pease's wife, Helen Blanche Pease (1865-1951);
* Helen Blanche Pease's father, Joseph Whitwell Pease (1828-1903)

Edward and Blanche's daughter, Mary Cecilia Pease married Reginald J. Mounsey in 1921 and a few records of them and their children are in the papers under consideration. Because of the marriage of Mary Ceclia and Reginald, the collection includes papers of the Backhouse, Mounsey and Coates families. Reginald was the son of Edward Backhouse Mounsey and Rachel Anne Fryer.

The Backhouse papers include records of the ownership of Belmont Colliery [ref: D/X 1667/1/26 - 1/35]; Fatfield Colliery [ref: D/X 1667/1/36 - 1/38]; Shincliffe Colliery [ref: D/X 1667/1/39].

The Mounsey papers include records of North Bitchburn Colliery [ref: D/X 1667/7/138 - 143] and of Hetton Colliery [ref: D/X 1667/7/144 - 162], among the papers of John Mounsey, father of Edward Backhouse Mounsey.

The Mounsey papers also include photographs of places in the North East of England, Ireland and Scotland, taken by Edward Backhouse Mounsey in the 1860s to 1880s [ref: D/X 1667/7/15 - 7/64]. The Wallis Collection, also held in the Durham County Record Office, contains photographs taken by Edward Backhouse Mounsey [ref: D/Wa 3/6/1 - 59].

Edward Backhouse Mounsey married Rachel Anne Fryer of Smelt House, the daughter of Joseph Jowitt Fryer and Rachel, nee Coates. The Coates and Fryer records in the collection consist almost completely of early ambrotype portraits of members of those families taken in the 1850s and 1860s at Smelt House, Howden le Wear, the ancestral home of the Coates family and at Toothill Grove, Rastrick, near Brighouse, Leeds, Yorkshire, the ancestral home of the Fryer family.

Two short diaries kept by children in the early years of the nineteenth century are of interest. Thomas James Backhouse (1807-1857) kept, or, rather, had kept on his behalf, 'A Journal' of a 'Tour from Sunniside to Burrows by North Shields etc' on two days, 11 and 12 July 1817 [ref: D/X 1667/1/56]. Mary Pease, nee Lloyd (1826-1909), the second wife of Henry Pease (1807-1881) kept a journal between 1 January and 19 July 1840, when she was aged 14, describing life at Wood Green, Wednesby, Staffordshire with her 9 siblings, mother and father, Samuel and Sarah Lloyd, grandparents Samuel and Rachel Lloyd, at The farm; and various cousins and uncles [ref: D/X 1667/8/349]. The daily round of a Quaker household is described, as is a summer holiday in Aberdovey, Merionethshire, Wales. The diary is dated by the ½ day holiday the winter enjoyed on the occasion of the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert on 10 February 1840.

Although it is possible to determine the family connections which explain the presence of the documents in the collection, their original archival arrangement had been disturbed by their being divided into lots, reflecting only the need to make each lot attractive to a potential buyer, and it was impossible to return the documents to that original arrangement. It was therefore decided to list the documents according to the individual who possessed them. As an example, letters written by Edward Pease are listed as the papers of their recipients, Henry Pease, not those of their originator, Edward Pease.

The individuals are then listed alphabetically by family and then alphabetically within each family group.

Items which cannot be attributed with any confidence to an individual have been listed at the end of the catalogue. Two letters have been listed as Miscellaneous family items [ref: D/X 1667/10/1- 2].

All the other items which cannot be attributed with confidence to individuals in the 10 family groups identified in the catalogue, have been divided topographically into records relating to Darlington [ref: D/X 1667/11/1-50]; records relating to places in County Durham [ref: D/X 1667/12/1-19]; records relating to places out of county [ref: D/X 1667/13/1-51]. Finally unidentified photographs have been put in the final Miscellaneous section [ref: D/X 1667/14/1-15].

The section containing papers relating to Darlington includes a plan of Rev. Mr. Sisson's estate in Darlington, 1776 [ref: D/X 1667/14/1] and a series of plans of property in Darlington belonging to members of the Society of Friends in 1848 [ref: D/X 1667/11/4-22]. The plans are numbered and it is evident that nos. 4-6, 16-18, are missing.

Also included in this section are the records of the Darlington Society of Friends' Book Society, 1851-1905 [ref: D/X 1667/11/26-28].

The papers relating to places out-county include polemics concerning the beliefs of Quakers [ref: D/X 1667/13/1 and 13/8]. Also of interest is a description of Richard Trevethick driving a steam carriage along roads in Cornwall and Devon in 1802 [ref: D/X 1667/13/3] and a broadside recounting the activities of Mary, wife of Henry Gurney, of Norfolk, who eloped with her footman [ref: D/X 1667/13/20]. Agitation against the slave trade is reflected in an envelope depicting the mistreatment of slaves [ref: D/X 1667/13/26] and a cutting from a newspaper published in Washington D.C., U.S.A., advertising 'negroes' for sale [ref: D/X 1667/13/51].

Catalogue Contents

Pease family (Ref: D/X 1667/8/1-373)Alfred Edward Pease (1857 - 1939) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/1-4)

son of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease and Mary (nee Fox)
2nd Bt. Hutton Lowcross
married Helen Ann Fowler


Election card, issued by Alfred Edward Pease, giving details of his career and including a photograph of himself and his wife, Helen, nee Fowler, during his campaign in the Liberal interest in the Cleveland Division of Yorkshire, 1900 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 card)


Of Love, Life, Death and Immortality Inscribed by Her Husband To The Memory of Helen Lady Pease In Grateful Remembrance of the Comfort, Joy, Courage, and Hope She Received and Gave Through Love Divine, Christmas 1910 Includes: A Christmas Message Wishing You a Happy Christmas from Helen A Pease, Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire, 1906 A Christmas Message For Children From Lady Pease A Christmas Message Sent from Lady Pease to the children at Barberton, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa, Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire, Christmas 1906 Lady Pease's Favourite Passage: from Hebrews and from The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis Order of Service for her burial at St. Oswald's Church, Newton-under-Roseberry, Yorkshire, 7 November 1910 Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood, by William Wordsworth
(1 paper, printed)


Description of the Lady Pease Memorial Window in the Baptistry of Guisborough Parish Church [Yorkshire], by Alfred E. Pease, October 1911
(1 paper, printed)


Newspaper cutting of a photograph, showing Sir Alfred Pease, standing on the right of the picture, in a doorway, with a table between him and Colonel W.H.A. Wharton, with another elderly man and woman behind them inside the building; Sir Alfred Pease is making a presentation to Colonel Wharton to mark the 50th anniversary of the latter's becoming 'Master of the Hunt', n.d. [1920s-1930s]
(1 paper, printed)

Arthur Pease (1837 - 1898) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/5)

son of Joseph Pease and Emma (nee Gurney)
married Mary Lecky Pike


Notice entitled: Arrangements for Funeral of Mr. Arthur Pease, Thursday, 1st September, 1898, giving details of a special train for relatives and personal friends; train times for other mourners; and details of the funeral cortege and refreshments afterwards at Marske, Yorkshire, 1898 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 paper, printed)

Charles Pease (1843 - 1873) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/6)

son of Joseph and Emma (nee Gurney)
married Sarah Elizabeth Bewley


Verse entitled 'In Memory of the late Mr. Charles Pease, Who Died July 9th 1873, Aged 30 Years' by J. Horsley, Darlington, 12 July 1873
(1 paper, 12 cm. x 20 cm., printed)

Claud Edward Pease (1874 - 1952) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/7)

son of Arthur and Mary Lecky (nee Pike)
married Lucy Victoria Browne-Clayton


Order of service for a service in St. Mary's Church, Gainford, In Memoriam, Claud Edward Pease (d. 22 March 1952), 26 March 1952 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/101
(1 booklet, printed)

Edward Pease (1767 - 1858) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/8-12)

son of Joseph Pease and Mary (nee Richardson)
married Rachel Whitwell


Album, 1830 Contains: verse entitled 'Farewell to the Year 1829, by M.T. verse concerning life after death, by E.P. verse entitled 'Stanzas', concerning friends who have died, by J.H. verse entitled 'Lines Suggested on Re-perusing the Life of Henry Martyn', by S.S. verse entitled 'Dispair of the Unregenerate', by J.C. verse entitled 'In Reply to the Dispair of the Unregenerate', by E.P. verse concerning a conspiracy of Count de Fresco against the government of Genoa,[Italy], by W.A. verse entitled 'The Martyr', by J.M.S. verse entitled 'Eight Lines', by R.R. verse entitled 'On Star-gazing', by E.D. verse entitled 'On Bachelors', by 'Mary' verse entitled 'Reply to Mary', by R.C. verse entitled 'On Friends' Burial Grounds', by M.H. verse entitled 'Lines Suggested by Seeing a Print of the 'Death of General Wolfe'', unattributed verse entitled 'Reminiscences', by J.S. verse entitled 'Stanzas suggested by Sentiments expressed at the Anti-Slavery Meeting held at Darlington, 10 Mo. 1830', by J.S. verse entitled 'Home', unattributed verse entitled 'To Two Absent Friends' taking the Gospel Abroad, unattributed verse entitled 'Forget Me Not', unattributed verse entitled 'Memory', unattributed
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Verse discussing the fact that reason, without the wisdom of God, misleads mankind, n.d. [early 19th century] A later note in pencil identifies the hand as that of Edward Pease
(1 paper)


Part letter from Joseph Pease, Darlington, to his father, Edward Pease, London, 7 May 1836 Discussing the behaviour of 'some public characters connected with our district': 'Sir M.W. Ridley has not dared to oppose us but he is most treacherous, and Mewburn complains bitterly of his personally insulting conduct - to do us a mischief secretly seems his great object and upon the DSW Junction he is bitter against us - favourable to the So. Durham and I dare say prepared to vote altho' precious little of the evidence he has heard. - Rippon - gives me the most shocking accounts of the meanness of the bids of York - the promoters of the So. Durham measure and still he seems perfectly cordial with them and ready to support them - he is supposed to have promised his Coals to them - and they are spoken of as necessarily going down their way whilst I know he has made an Agreement with the Stanhope and Tyne Co. to carry them - Ingham always seems friendly and must have been convinced one would think how very unfair it is to put a solvent respectable company against Bankrupt Beggars and still he seems determined to support the Durham So. West Junction because we do not at once submit to be trampled upon by the Clarence and reducing our dues to Simpasture - Bowes puts the most disgusting questions - for instance to Forster 'Do the Landowners and do the Coal Owners in the district consider the Gentlemen of the Stockton & Darlington Railway a Company of highly public spirited and disinterested individuals - Answer - Yes, I think they are!!'; As regards the Tees Nav: Co's proceedings I trust they will progress with the Jettees - tomorrow I shall see Storey upon the proposed alterations at the Ballast Staithes'
(1 paper)


Plans of food set out on tables to be eaten as a buffet, with, on one side of the plans: 'Desert Course - at E P s - 16/8 mo 1838', 16 August 1838
(1 paper)


Panegyric on Edward Pease and his role as the originator of passenger railways, and, in collaboration with with George and Robert Stephenson, steam locomotives, copied from Fraser's magazine, p.504, May 1844
(1 paper)

Edward Lloyd Pease (1861 - 1934) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/13-62)

son of Henry Pease and Mary (nee Lloyd)
married Helen Blanche Pease

Correspondence on local events (Ref: D/X 1667/8/13-15)

Circular letter from A..M.. Whitaker, Hon. Secretary, The Zetland Hunt, Manfield Grange, Darlington, addressed to Members of the Hunt, discussing the fact that H.M. Government requires hunting to continue during the war to keep down foxes, referring to the fact that some expenses will continue to be incurred, to the likelihood that numbers of subscriptions will decline and requesting that members continue to subscribe to the Hunt, 5 September 1914
(1 paper, printed)


Official programme for the Hurworth Hunt Point-to-Point Steeplechase, to be held between Salutation and Deighton, on 16 April 1921
(1 card, printed)


Invitation, issued by the Mayor of Darlington to Mr. E.L.L. Pease, to attend the Opening of the Public Library, Darlington, by the Viscountess Lymington, on Friday 23 October 1885 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 card, 15.5 cm. x 10.4 cm., printed)

Correspondence concerning Civil Defence (Ref: D/X 1667/8/16-46)

Circular issued by the General Staff, Northern Command Headquarters, York, setting out the duties of the Central Organisation Committee; the composition and duties of the Local Emergency Committee; military and civil cooperation; the transmission of orders; all concerned with civil defence during the First World War, Northern Command, GRINO 40016, 17 November 1914
(1 paper, printed)


Letter from W.R. Hodgson, Hurworth on Tees, to C.E. Joliffe, Newbus Grange, discussing the forming of 'the citizens' Army Corps' and assuring the latter that he could call on 25 to 50 men, 29 November 1914
(1 paper)


List of men, spades, shovels and picks, available in Blackwell and District, signed by G.W. Thompson, Blackwell, Darlington, 29 November 1914
(1 paper)


Letter from Arthur Faber, Hurworth Rectory, to Mr. Joliffe, assuring the latter that he will assist in any capacity he can, 'much better to be prepared' 1 December 1914 Arthur Travis Faber, Rector of Hurworth on Tees, 1905 - 1939
(1 paper)


List of cattle, sheep, pigs, tractors, motor cars, bicycles, potato piles, picks, spades, shovels, haystacks, corn stacks, carts, motor cycles, hammers, saws, horses and harness, with the names, addresses and occupations of their owners, in Hurworth Beat, compiled by P.C. Race, no. 639, c. 1914 Attached: list giving totals of horses, ponies, cattle, carts, rolleys, traps, haystacks and corn stacks, signed by R.H. Humphrey, Neasham Grange, Darlington, 24 December 1914
(4 papers)


List of cattle sheep, pigs, tractors, cars, motor cycles, bicycles, horses, picks, spades, shovels, haystacks, corn stacks, carts and hammers, with the names, addresses, and occupations of their owners, available for the use of military or Special Constables, in Haughton-le-Skerne District, 1914
(3 papers)


List of cattle, sheep, pigs, tractors, motor cars, bicycles, potato piles, picks, spades, shovels, haystacks, corn stacks, carts, motor cycles, hammers, saws, horses and harness, with the names, addresses and occupations of their owners, in Sadberge Beat, compiled by P.C. Percival, no. 364, 1914
(2 papers)


List of cattle, sheep, pigs, tractors, motor cars, bicycles, potato piles, picks, spades, shovels, haystacks, corn stacks, carts, motor cycles, hammers, saws, horses and harness, with the names, addresses and occupations of their owners, in Croft Beat, compiled by P.C. Clark, 1914
(2 papers)


List of cattle, sheep, pigs, tractors, motor cars, bicycles, potato piles, picks, spades, shovels, haystacks, corn stacks, carts, motor cycles, hammers, saws, horses and harness, with the names, addresses and occupations of their owners, in Middleton St. George Beat, compiled by P.C. Brunskill, no. 798, 1914
(2 papers)


List of tandem wagons, double horse wagons, horses and rolleys, giving the names and address of their owners, 1914
(2 papers)


Report of C.H. Joliffe, Newbus Grange, Darlington, on the provision of 35 Special Constables in Hurworth District and Fighting Cocks District: listing names of men, their place of abode, the tools and equipment each can provide and the duties of each, 1914 Attached: list of totals of picks, spits, spades and shovels and men at Middleton St. George
(1 paper, typescript; 1 paper, printed)


Rough notes concerning the organisation of, and duties of, Special Constables compiled by E. Lloyd Pease, and list of names for various duties; list of duties and lists of tools, 1914
(9 papers)


Instructions for Special Constables in the event of air raids, issued by the North Riding Constabulary, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, [Yorkshire], 15 March 1916
(3 papers, typescript)


Letter from Will Pease, Mowden, Darlington, to E. Lloyd Pease, making suggestions concerning the organisation of, and duties of, Special Constables during air raids, 13 April 1916
(3 papers)


Copy instructions concerning the duties of Special Constables in the case of an air raid, issued by the Durham County Constabulary, sent by H. Dryden, Superintendent, Darlington Police Station, to E.Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Grange, 19 May 1916 Attached: blank form to be completed showing the number of Special Constables in each district in Darlington Division, 1916
(2 papers)


Letter to E. Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, from Will Pease, Mowden, Darlington, enclosing 'letters from Chief Constable', concerning Special Constables, 21 May 1916
(1 paper, and envelope)


Instructions for Emergency Committees, in the event of a hostile landing, issued by the Home Office, 16 August 1916
(7 papers, typescript and duplicated)


Amended Instruction in the Event of Invasion, n.d. [1916]
(1 paper, typescript)


Draft memorandum of Special Constables' Duties in County District by E. Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, September 1916
(2 papers)


List, and draft, of duties of Special Constables, issued by E. Lloyd Pease, Group Leader, Hurworth District, n.d. [1916]
(2 papers, typescript)


Letter from H. Dryden, Divisional Superintendent's Office, Darlington, to E.Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, giving details of the lights on military cars, 24 October 1916
(1 paper, typescript)


Letter from H. Dryden, Divisional Superintendent's Office, Darlington, to E.Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, concerning regulations concerning lights on cars during an air raid, 26 October 1916
(1 paper, typescript)


Instructions to Special Constables, issued by E. Lloyd Pease, concerning lights on cars during air raids, as in D/X 1667/8/37, 1916
(2 papers, typescript)


Letter from Will Pease, Mowden, Darlington, to E. Lloyd Pease describing arrangements for dealing with the wounded in the event of an air raid, 2 November 1916
(1 paper)


Letter from Alfred Turswell, Little Burdon, Darlington, to E. Lloyd Pease, informing the latter that the writer has distributed the traffic instructions to the Special Constables, 11 November 1916
(1 paper)


Letter from A. Feetham, Clayhills, Son & Feetham, solicitors, 1 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, to E. Lloyd Pease, confirming that the writer has become a Special Constable for the Haughton-le-Skerne District in place of his brother, 15 January 1917
(1 paper, typescript)


Poster, addressed to 'Householders and the Civilian Population of the County of Durham', concerning procedures in the event of an air raid, issued by Lord Durham, Lord Lieutenant of Durham, Lambton Castle, 24 August 1917
(1 paper, 29 cm. x 44.5 cm., printed)


Letter from Will Pease, Mowden, Darlington, to E. Lloyd Pease, mentioning crossroads patrols, feeding operations, pick and shovel men, and the fact that the writer will be away for some days, 'I hope the blasted Hun won't do it while I am away', 3 July 1918
(1 paper)


Letter from E. Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, Darlington, to Sergeant Fremewan, concerning the number of men who may be supplied, by eight named individuals, for civil defence, 11 July 1918 Attached: draft lists of men
(3 papers)


Letter from Will [Pease] Mowden, Darlington, to Lloyd [E. Lloyd Pease], congratulating the latter on the quality of his instructions, remarking that they are more appropriate than a meeting in a district of scattered inhabitants, and describing his hearing 'guns this morning at 7.50 - probably a submarine hunt', 27 July 1918
(1 paper)


Circular issued, probably by the General Staff, Northern Command Headquarters, York, addressed 'To the Chairman and every Member of the Local Emergency Committee', giving general instructions, describing Duties of Emergency Committees; Live Stock and Foodstuffs; Compensation for Property Destroyed; Roads; Railways; Sounds and Signals; Assistance by Civil Population; Ambulance and Nurses; Proceeding on Hostile Landing, Threatened or Actual; Channels of Communication of Orders; Action on the Above Orders; Zones; Duty after 'Emergency.' Special Constables; Relief System; Refugees; Shepherds, Distribution of Food; Transport; Co-ordination between Committees; Points to be Remembered; List of Emergency Committees; Y.P.C. 500, 18 October 1918 Attached: list of Local Emergency Committees in Durham and of adjoining Local Emergency Committees in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1918
(2 papers)

Correspondence concerning Shares in the Baku Oilfields (Ref: D/X 1667/8/47-49)

Certificate for 108 B Ordinary Shares of One Pound each in Baku Consolidated Oilfields Limited, in the name of Edward Lloyd Pease, 24 November 1919 Endorsed: 'Valueless'
(1 paper, 37 cm. x 27.5 cm.)


Certificate for 96 A Preferred Ordinary Shares of One Pound each, in Baku Consolidated Oilfields Limited, in the name of Edward Lloyd Pease, later Michael L. Pease, the executor of his estate, 1 December 1918 Endorsed: Baku Consolidated Oilfields Ltd., on Compulsory Liquidation Repaid First Return of Capital of 3s. 3d. per share, 5 February 1946
(1 paper, 37 cm. x 27.5 cm.)


Report of the proceedings of the 16th Ordinary General Meeting of Baku Consolidated Oilfields Ltd. at Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London, reporting, inter alia, the Chairman, Richard R. Tweed's comments on the property of the company, valued at £4,000,000, which has been confiscated by the Soviet Government, and on the lilelihood of the British government's pressing for compensation, 13 November 1935
(1 paper, printed)

Literary Works (Ref: D/X 1667/8/50-53)

Notes concerning hunting, made by 'Fiddle-de-dee', on paper headed Pierremont, Darlington, n.d. [c.1900] Includes: list, with sketches of whips, spurs and top hat, with faces added, entitled 'Hunting (Dis)appointment', giving the days in the week, and places, at which Lord Zetland's Hounds and the Hurworth Hunt have been out in the preceding week, descriptions of extreme weather conditions of heavy snow, thaw and frost that have interrupted Fiddle-de-dee's sport Edward Lloyd Pease was a keen horseman and huntsman
(1 paper)


Account, written on paper headed Pierremont, Darlington, of 'Fiddle-de-dee's' trip to London, his attendance at the Yearly Meeting, the contrast between an old-style Friend and more modern members, and an account of an outing by the younger members to Hampton Court, Middlesex, n.d. [c.1900] Includes: sketch of the old-style Friend sitting in meeting, and sketch of young Friends rowing up river to Hampton Court
(1 file)


'An Empire's Call', verse by E.L.P. [Edward Lloyd Pease], 7 December 1915; reprinted from Friends' Quarterly Examiner: A Religious, Social & Miscellaneous Review, T. Booth, Excelsior Printing Works, Sheffield, Yorkshire, n.d. [c.1915]
(1 booklet, paper, printed)


Volume containing notes and calculations concerning 'The Steel Plate Radiator', gas coolers, refractors, station condensers, gas works in the North East, and the East Midlands, fertilisers, potassium nitrate, potassium phosphates, 1921 and 1932 The volume is entitled 'Precedents in Conveyancing' and is covered in paper bearing the name Isaac Pease written thereon and, in another hand, 'Died 1825, uncle of E.L.P.' The volume possibly belonged to Edward Lloyd Pease, who was employed in gas making
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Photographs (Ref: D/X 1667/8/54-62)

Photograph of a man wearing a bowler hat and hunting clothes, standing and holding the head of a saddled horse, with the house at Hurworth Moor behind them, n.d. [1890s - 1900s] Endorsed: 'Lloyd [Edward Lloyd Pease] and Waterlily
(1 paper, 8 cm. x 8.2 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph showing 2 cars which have sustained a head-on collision with 4 men, wearing coats and mackintoshes, standing in a row at the side looking at the vehicles, with bare-branched trees behind them, captioned: 'Nov. 28.1911 The Morning After', 28 November 1911 On the reverse of the card: 'R.I.P. In Memory of the Calthorpe car which after an ill-fated and short life departed into atoms on Monday Nov 27. at 4.20 p.m. From the debris rose 5 bruised shaken but triumphant and grateful mortals', The men involved may include Edward Lloyd Pease
(1 card, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the exterior of a farmhouse and of a row of cottages with four cow sheds and an outhouse in front, the buildings on the site of Hurworth Moor, built by Edward Lloyd Pease in the 1890s, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 photograph, 27 cm. x 17 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Photograph of 2 trees in a field covered in snow, with a hedge in the distance, most likely in the grounds of Hurworth Moor, n.d. [1890s] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 photograph, 9 cm. x 8.7 cm., sepia)


Photograph, taken from the side, of an open carriage, drawn by 2 horses, and with a coachman sitting at the front, standing on a path between the lawns of a garden with a field with trees behind it, possibly at Hurworth Moor, 1890s See: D/X 1667/8/100
(1 photograph, 15.2 cm. x 10.8 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Photograph of a four-wheeled carriage, drawn by 2 horses, with a coachman sitting at the front and a woman wearing an elaborate hat sitting in it, photographed standing on a path between the lawns of a garden and in front of the doorway of a large house, possibly Hurworth Moor, 1890s
(1 photograph, 15.2 cm. x 9.5 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Photograph of a pond surrounded by mown lawns with mature trees behind it and with the gable of a house and the top of a balustrade in front of it, endorsed 'Hurworth Moor Pond 1930'
(1 photograph, 14.6 cm. x 20 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Photograph of the façade of a cottage with 2 windows either side of a porch and 2 dormer windows; with 3 men, 2 women, and a boy standing against a rustic fence before the cottage; 2 girls sitting on bundles in front of the fence; a boy sitting on a horse; and a dog, in front of the 8 men; captioned on the reverse: 'Corndavin 1870' Corndavon Lodge was a property in Aberdeenshire, Scotland Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/101
(1 photograph, 19.5 cm. x 14.5 cm., sepia)


Photograph showing four men and four women sitting on rocks near a cliff on a beach, having a picnic, captioned: 'Nr. Sligo', [Ireland], n.d. [1890s - 1900s] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 photograph, 10.2 cm. x 9.3 cm., black and white)

George Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/63)

perhaps George Pease (1755-1823) son of Edward and Elizabeth (nee Coates)


Income and expenditure accounts of personal expenses, kept by George Pease, 24 November 1785 - 23 November 1796
(1 volume, paper bound)

Gurney Pease (1839 - 1872) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/64)

son of Joseph and Emma (nee Gurney)
married Katherine Wilson


Photograph showing approximately 50 people grouped round a bride and groom, with bushes and a tree immediately behind them, and, behind the tree, the façade of an impressive Regency or Early Victorian terrace of houses; on the right, is what appears to be a garden shed; the photograph bears a printed description: 'Wedding Group - Kent Terrace, Kendal [Westmorland], April 23, 1863 No. 26 J. Garnett, Photographer, Windermere, Westmorland', and a note in a later hand: 'taken on the wedding day of Gurney Pease and Katherine Wilson', 23 April 1863
(1 photograph, 17 cm. x 10.5 cm., sepia, mounted on card)

Helen Pease (1901 - 1929) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/65)

Helen Maud Pease, daughter of Edward Lloyd Pease and Helen Blanche (nee Pease)


A pair of white hand-knitted cotton bootees for a small baby, in a box, which originally contained soap with a label reading: 'Rosee Printaniere L. Eelckelaan, Brussels, Belgium, imported by John Morgan Richards, 46 High Holborn, London, n.d. [1900] Enclosed: note reading: 'To my beloved Child Miss Pease, May the blessing of God rest on thee and all thy ways and when the Lord has need of thee that you may be ready to meet him is the longing desire of your loving Nannie, 28 September 1900'
(2 bootees, 1 box, 1 paper)

Helen Ann Pease (1858 - 1910) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/66-69)

Helen Ann (nee Fowler), wife of Sir Edward Alfred Pease


A Christmas Message For Children from Lady Pease, by Helen A. Pease, Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire, Includes: the words and music of a carol, the first line of which is 'O Little Child, be still and sleep', by Anna Warner; 'A Christmas Message sent from Lady Pease to the children at Barberton, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa'; a copy notice of the death of Lady Pease, wife of Sir Alfred Edward Pease of Pinchinthorpe House, Guisborough, Yorkshire, 1910 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 paper, printed)


Newspaper cutting of a notice of the death of Lady Pease, wife of Sir Alfred Edward Pease of Pinchinthorpe House, Guisborough, Yorkshire, 1910 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 paper, printed)


Order of service for the burial of Dame Helen Ann Pease of Pinchinthorpe, [Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire], who died 4 November 1910, at St. Oswald's Church, Newton-under-Roseberry, [Yorkshire], 7 November 1910 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 paper, printed)


Order of service for the Dedication Service at the Unveiling of the Lady Pease Memorial Window, at Guisborough Parish Church, Yorkshire, 14 November 1911 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 booklet, printed)

Helen Blanche Pease (1865 - 1951) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/70-101)

daughter of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, and wife of Edward Lloyd Pease

Correspondence (Ref: D/X 1667/8/70-81)

Christmas card, with the printed dedication 'To My Little Cousin', and a filigree representation of a church and a cherub with a dog, against a blue background, and, stuck on top of the filigree, a coloured print of a man in breeches, a hat with a feather and a cloak around his arm; the card is an envelope, addressed to Miss Blanche Pease, Woodland, Darlington, and postmarked Darlington, 25 December 1865 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 card, 7 cm. x 5 cm., colour; 1 envelope, 10.4 cm. x 5.5 cm.)


Christmas card, entitled 'Greeting from Bambrough',[Northumberland], showing a drawing of a Norman doorway, addressed to Blanche Lloyd Pease, Christmas 1894 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 card, printed)


Letter from Mary Pease, 7 Rue Scheffer, Passy, Paris, France, to 'Dear Mother', enquiring after Helen's broken leg, describing the school the writer is attending, the teachers, and outings in Paris, 10 November 1909 Mary Cecilia Pease, daughter of E.L. and H.B. Pease
(2 papers)


Letter from Mary Pease, 7 rue Scheffer, Passy, Paris, France, to 'Dear Mother', discussing problems with her eyes and teeth, possible cookery lessons, postcards of the Seine in flood, and a visit to the Musee du Louvre in Paris, 20 February 1910
(1 paper)


Letter from Joseph A. Pease, Duchy of Lancaster Office, London, to Blanche Lloyd Pease, enclosing tickets and discussing arrangements for the writer's guests to witness, from a stand opposite the church of St. Margaret, Westminster, the coronation procession during the coronation of King George V, 14 June 1911 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(2 papers; 1 envelope)


Greetings Telegram, addressed to Mrs. Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, Darlington, from Margaret Greener, Witton-le-Wear, wishing the addressee a Happy Birthday, 18 November n.y. [early 20th century]
(1 paper; 1 envelope)


Letter from John Bell, Hill House, Welbury, Northallerton, Yorkshire, to Mrs. Pease, enclosing a typescript account of a hunt in 1911, 11 April 1925 Enclosed: 2 typescript copies of an article describing a hunt with the Hurworth Hounds, written by John Bell for Horse and Hound of 28 January 1911
(3 papers)


Invitation, issued by Major and Mrs. Edmond Hills, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Miss Spencer Bell to Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, 21 April n.y. [1902] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100 [Helen Johanna Spencer-Bell married Louis Hilary S Nightingale in 1902 in Westminster]
(1 paper, printed)


Invitation, issued by Mrs. Arthur Pease, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of her daughter, Winifred, to Roger Buliver Jenyns at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, London, 23 April n.y. [1903]
(1 card, printed)


Invitation, issued by Sir Joseph and Lady Pease, to Mr. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Blanche, to Edward Lloyd Pease, Friends' Meeting House, Guisborough, Yorkshire, 15 January n.y. [1890]
(1 paper, printed)


Invitation, issued by Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Anna Deborah, to Allan Tangye at the Friends' Meeting House, Bull Street, Birmingham, 5 December 1907 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 paper, printed)


Invitation, issued by Sir Thomas and Lady Wrightson, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Grace, to Frederic Gascoyne at All Saints' Church, Hurworth-on-Tees, 18 July n.y. [1906] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 card, printed)

Verse (Ref: D/X 1667/8/82-88)

Poesie, a volume of verse, inscribed H. Blanche Pease, 1877 Contains: 'A Year and a Life', addressed to Blanche, Hutton Hall, 3 March 1877 Glendurgan, [Cornwall] by H.B., B.M., and L.E. Pease, Glendurgan, 11 May 1882 'The Gull Rock', by H. Blanche Pease, n.d. [c.1880] 'In the S.S. Roseberry on the way to Fowey [Cornwall]', 3 July 1882 'To Alfred & Nellie Pease on the birth of Edward Pease Dec. 16th 1881', by Robert Barbour 'Te Deum', by Robert Barclay Fox 'Letter to Ethel & Claudia Pease', by J.W. Pease, 18 Princess Gardens, [ London], 17 March 1872 Verse, written by Joseph Whitwell Pease to his youngest daughter, Agnes Claudia Pease, who is recovering from scarlet fever at Marske, Yorkshire, describing a visit by himself, his wife, and Sarah, to London, 11 September 1881 'Until the Day Break and the Shadows Flee Away', by B.M. Pease, Corndavon, [Aberdeenshire], August 1883 'for S.S.' 'Son of an Exile on revisiting his Old Home', by H.B.M. Pease, Corndavon, 1883', 'for S.S.' 'The Eclipse 1884', by H.B.P., Hutton Hall 'Corndavon 1885', by H.B.P. 'New Year Wishes copied from Violet Hodgkin's M.S. book by S.C.P.', signed Mrs. A. Waterhouse 'For my darling Blanche', Jan[uary] 15 [18]90', by Mary Pease 'found in Golden Treasury of Song at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, 19 January 1890 'Found among mother's papers and I remember it as a favourite of Grannie's'
(1 volume, velvet bound)


Verse entitled 'The Desire', concerning a child of 4 years, by Katharine Tymins, n.d. [c.1890] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/82
(1 paper)


'A Comforter', verse written to 'Little Effie', with a small sketch of an ornamental garden, n.d. [c.1890] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/82
(2 papers, colour-wash)


Verse about baby Effie, inscribed 'M.W. Pease' 'copied' '7/55' 'after Effie was born', n.d. [c.1890] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/82 Helen's elder sister Emma Josephine Pease was born in 1855
(1 paper)


Verse entitled 'King Winter', by W. Lea[ ], written on paper headed, Woodlands, Darlington, n.d. [c.1890] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/82
(1 paper, printed)


Verse beginning 'welcome...little dimpled stranger', addressed to a newly born baby boy 'Thought to be by S.A.F.', n.d. [c.1890] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/82 Perhaps refers to Susanna Ann Fry, wife of Thomas Pease
(1 paper)


Verse entitled 'Little Michael to his wooden horse Dapple', n.d. [c.1895] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/82 Michael Pease born 1891 to Edward Lloyd Pease and Helen Blanche Pease
(1 paper)

Records concerning the Sale of Hutton Hall (Ref: D/X 1667/8/89-96)

Catalogue of Valuable, Modern, and Antique Furniture, Sterling Silver, Wines, etc., the contents of Hutton Hall, near Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, to be sold by Willman and Douglas, auctioneers and valuers, 26 Albert Road, Middlesbrough, 16, 17, 20 - 24 July, 1903 Hutton Hall was the residence of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease. It was sold after his bankruptcy and death.
(1 volume, paper bound, printed)


Catalogue of a Choice Library of about 5,500 vols. of Rare and Costly Books, Also of a Large and Valuable Collection of Prints, Engravings, Etchings, Oil Paintings and Water Colors [sic] Extremely Fine Collection of Old China Costly Bed & Table Linen, etc. Removed for convenience of sale from Hutton Hall, recently occupied by the late Sir J.W. Pease, bart., to be sold at the Town Hall, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, by Willman & Douglas, auctioneers and valuers, 26 Albert Road, Middlesbrough, 27 - 31 July 1903
(1 volume, paper bound, printed)


Lists of books and items of furniture required by Mrs. Howard Hodgkin, 38 Palace Gardens Terrace, London; Mrs. Alfred Wilson, 12 Woodbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham; and by Mrs. Lloyd Pease; at the sale of the books and contents of Hutton Hall, n.d. [1903] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/89 Mrs. Howard Hodgkin, nee Sarah Pease; Mrs. Alfred Wilson, nee Claudia Pease; Mrs. Lloyd Pease, nee Blanche Helen Pease, daughters of Sir J.W. Pease
(3 papers)


Lists of items required at the sale of the contents of Hutton Hall, written on paper headed Hurworth Moor, Darlington, n.d. [1903] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/89 Hurworth Moor is the residence of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Lloyd Pease
(2 papers)


Notes, possibly to guide R. Bradley, listing items required, and prices to be paid for items, in the sale of the contents of Hutton Hall, n.d. [1903] The individuals writing the instructions are possibly Mrs. Howard Hodgkin, Mrs. Alfred Wilson, Mrs. Gerald Buxton and Mrs. Thomas Hodgkin, daughters of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease
(4 papers)


Letter from Mrs. Thomas Hodgkin, Barmoor Castle, Beal, Northumberland, addressed to Mrs. Bradley, R. Bradley, Dealer in Modern and Antique Furniture, refusing to purchase the more expensive items in the Hutton sale, 17 July 1903 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/89
(1 paper)


Letter addressed to 'Dear Blanche, [Mrs. Edward Lloyd Pease], from Claudia', Wilson, nee Pease, Woodcroft, 22 July 1903, and 2 part letters addressed to 'Darling Blanche' from Maud Pease, Birch Hall, Theydon Bois, Essex, the residence of Ethel Buxton, nee Pease, wife of Gerald Buxton, concerning purchases at the Hutton Hall sale, n.d. [1903] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/89 Gerald Buxton purchased Birch Hall from Robert Westall in 1901; he died in 1928 and was succeeded by his son, Lt. Col. Edward North Buxton
(4 papers)


Lists of items purchased, with prices, at the sale of the books and contents of Hutton Hall by R. Bradley, 94 Bondgate, Darlington, on behalf of clients, 25 July 1903 One client is possibly Helen Blanche Pease, wife of Edward Lloyd Pease, of Hurworth Moor, as the initials H.B.P. are marked against a number of the items Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/89
(6 papers)

Armistice, 1918 (Ref: D/X 1667/8/97)

Circular letter, headed Hurworth Moor, Darlington, describing how the writer experienced the Armistice being celebrated in Darlington, written on 12 November 1918 The writer who appears to be female and who is most likely Helen Blanche Pease, wife of Edward Lloyd Pease, attends a meeting of the Board of Guardians, St. Cuthbert's Church, the Albert Road Maternity Centre and the Training College Committee
(2 papers, typescript)

Holiday albums (Ref: D/X 1667/8/98-99)

Album recording a visit to Italy, possibly by Helen Blanche Pease, 1889
(1 volume, leather bound)


Photograph of part of a wall painting showing 2 men, with, below them, an urn with birds perched on it and 2 whales blowing spouts of water, possibly at Pompeii, Naples, Italy, taken c.1888


Photograph of a wall painting showing a group of 6 men and a group of 7 men wearing togas on either side of a man, also wearing a toga, sitting in a high-backed chair, possibly a throne, possibly in Pompeii, Naples, Italy, taken c.1888


Photograph of a wall painting showing a man fishing, and another man possibly splashing water on a child, possibly in Pompeii, Naples, Italy, taken c.1888


Photograph of the exterior of an Italian villa surrounded by terraced gardens, captioned: 'La Mortola', a famous botanic garden begun by Sir Thomas Hanbury, a Quaker, who purchased the former Palazzo Orengo in 1867, Ventimiglia, Italy, January 1888


Photograph showing the remains of columns, pavements and other masonry with hills behind it, with printed description '1253 Pompeii Foro Civile. G. Sommer, Napoli', [Forum, Pompeii, Naples, Italy] February 1888


Photograph of the exterior of a Greek Doric temple with the printed description '1176 Pesto Tempio di Nettuno', [the Temple of Neptune at Paestum, Campania, Italy], February 1888


Photograph of a Greek bronze statue of a naked youth sitting on a rock and wearing Mercury's winged sandals, with the printed description '5272 Napol-Museo Naz-Mercurio in riposo, statua greca in bronze (Ercolano, 1758) Naples [Italy], National Museum - Mercury in repose, Greek statue in bronze [found at] Herculaneum, 1758, photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of a bronze statue of a naked young man sitting on a rock, with the printed description '5183 Napoli Museo Nazionale Fauno dormiente (Bronze Ercolano, 1756), Naples National Museum, Sleeping Fawn [Bronze [found at Herculaneum, 1756] photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of a statue of a woman standing with her right arm raised and wearing a chiton, with the printed description '5099 Napoli Museo Nazionale Giunone una della piu belle statue di questa Deita (Farnese), Naples National Museum - Juno, one of the most beautiful statues of this goddess (Farnese), photograph taken, possibly by Giacomo Brogi (1822 - 1881), 1870s


Photograph of a statue of Pan, half goat and half man, sitting on a rock with one hand on the shoulder and one hand on the right hand of a naked youth who is holding Pan's pipes; with a printed description '5166 Napoli Museo Nazionale Il Dio Pane e Apollo (Farnese)'; Naples National Museum The God Pan and Apollo (Farnese), photograph taken, possibly by Giacomo Brogi (1822 - 1881), 1870s


Photograph of a statue of a woman falling dying from the back of a rearing horse; with the printed description: '5175 Napoli Museo Nazionale Amazzone morente a cavallo (Farnese); Naples National Museum An Amazon dying on a horse; photograph taken, possibly by Giacomo Brogi (1822 - 1881), 1870s


Photograph of the interior of a ruined house with walls, pillars and floor remaining, with printed description: 'No. 5317 Casa del Poeta (Pompeii), House of the Poet, Pompeii; photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of a stone frieze depicting eighteen men carrying away the Ark of the Covenant with the printed description 'No. 6461 Roma Le Spoglie di Gerusalemme Bassorilievo nell' Interno Dell' Arco di Tito' 'Rome: The Sack of Jerusalem Bas-Relief in the interior of the Arch of Titus', photograph taken, c.1870s - 1880s


Photograph showing an extensive area, surrounded by ruins of the Roman era, with a church and, possibly, part of the wall of the Colosseum; with a printed description: '71B Casa della Vestali'; House of the Vestal Virgins, Rome, photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph showing extensive ruins of the Roman era with buildings of a more recent century behind them; with the printed description: '298A Foro Romano'; [Roman Forum]; photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of a statue of an unclothed young man standing on a plinth bearing the number 13; with a printed description: '1646A - the rest illegible'; photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of a statue of a naked man sitting on the ground and leaning on his right arm and bleeding from a gash in the right side of his chest; photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of the statue of a naked young man with a pole in his left hand resting on the ground, captioned: 'Athlete in Diocletian Baths', Rome, Italy'; photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of the statue of a naked man with bandages on his hands and wrists sitting on a rock, captioned: 'Gladiator Diocletian Baths', Rome Italy; photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of a painting, depicting a Madonna and Child, surrounded by cherubs, and being worshipped from below by Saint John the Baptist, St. Francis, St. Jerome, and the commissioner of the painting, Sigismondo de Conti, Secretary of Pope Julius II; the painting is known as the Madonna di Foligno by Raphael, painted in 1511 - 1512, and is in the Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy; with the printed description: '357 Madonna di Foligno Di Raffaele (Vaticano)'; photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of a painting of a Madonna standing holding the Christ Child, with the printed description: '2832 Firenze-Galleria Pitti-La Madonna detta del Granduca; Raffaelo Sanzio'; Florence - the Pitti Gallery - The Madonna of the Grand Duke - Raphael'; the painting was produced in 1505 and originally belonged to Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and is now in the Pitti Gallery in Florence, Italy; photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of a painting of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 - 1231) by Giotto (Giotto di Bondone, c.1267 - 8 January 1337) in the Basilica of the Holy Cross, Florence Italy; with the printed description 'No. 6843 Chiesa di S. Croce - S. Elisabetta d' Ungheria (Giotto); photograph taken, 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of an angel blowing a trumpet, with the printed description: '6204 Firenze-Galleria Uffizi - Un Angelico, dettaglio del gran tabernacolo; Beato Angelico (Edizioni Brogi); Florence-Uffizi Gallery - An Angel, detail of the great altarpiece, Blessed Angelico [known in Great Britain as Fra Angelico]', 1870s - 1880s


Photograph of the west end of the cathedral, Milan, Italy, showing part of the square in front of it, part of the buildings surrounding the square and individuals and horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses in the spare, with the printed title '3817 Milano La Cattedrale', c.1888


Photograph showing the west end, in detail, of the cathedral at Amiens, France, c.1888


Photograph of the exterior of Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, from the south-east, August 1889


Photograph of the interior of Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, from part-way along the nave looking towards the altar, August 1887


Photograph of the exterior of a small church taken from the north-east, captioned: 'Saxon Church, 500 A.D., Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, August 1889


Notes concerning the architecture of Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, c.1889 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/98
(2 papers)


Album of a journey to Italy, France, and Switzerland, by Helen Blanche Pease and her father, Joseph Whitwell Pease, 1899
(1 volume, leather bound)


Photograph of a tree and bushes in the foreground, with an indistinct view of the sea with, possibly, a village at the water's edge, with hills behind it, at Cap Martin, France, February and March 1899


Photograph of a hillside of rock and vegetation with an indistinct view of the sea and an indistinct village at the water's edge, at Cap Martin, France, February and March 1899


Photograph showing the ruins of the Maritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph showing ruins of, possibly, the large baths at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph showing a wall on the left with columns, an open space, trees and hills in the distance, possibly the Praetorium at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph showing vegetation on the left, 2 columns in the distance on the left, high masonry in the distance, cypress trees, the remains of a low wall on the right, possibly in the Piazza d'Oro, at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph of 2 men walking along a road running from left to right in the middle distance, with a field, a row of trees and a wall, possibly of Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, in the distance, February and March 1899


Photograph showing a view through an arch, with columns on the left, possibly the corridor leading to the Piazza d'Oro, at Hadrian's Villa, Lazio, Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph, showing an elderly man, with white hair and moustache, sitting in a chair in a boat sideways to the camera and wearing a dark jacket and hat; a woman wearing an elaborate hat bearing a large bow; and a man, also with white hair, dark suit and dark bowler hat, are sitting facing the camera; behind them a man is standing wearing dark garments and a hat with a pompom and carrying a punting pole, captioned: 'Sir J[oseph] W[hitwell] P[ease] and H[elen] B[lanche] P[ease] Meyer Bonivento' [possibly Benevento, Campania, Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph showing the same scene as (9)


Photograph showing the surface of a canal in Venice, Italy, with buildings on the farther side and five gondolas on its surface, captioned: 'From the 'Grand Hotel', Venice', Italy, February and March 1895


Photograph showing the prow of a gondola, the surface of a canal and imposing buildings lining the canal, captioned: 'The Grand Canal, Venice', Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph of the façade of an imposing building, with pillars, on a canal, captioned: 'Browning's Palace, Venice', [the Palazzo Rezzonico on the Grand Canal, owned by Robert Browning's son, where the poet died on 12 December 1889 and where there is a memorial plaque to him erected by his son], February and March 1899


Photograph looking along the surface of a canal, showing the buildings on either side, captioned: 'The Grand Canal, Venice', Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph showing the campanile and St. Mark's Square across water, captioned: 'From San Georgio Maggiore', one of the islands of Venice, Italy, February and March 1899


Photograph, taken from above, showing the façade of St. Mark's Cathedral in St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, with indistinct ranks of people drawn up before the cathedral, captioned: 'Piazza San Marco, the King's birthday', 14 March 1899 [Umberto, King of Italy, 1878 - 1900; born, 14 March 1844; and assassinated, 29 July 1900]


Photograph, taken from above, of St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, showing buildings on 2 sides, and the base of the campanile, with ranks of people drawn up in the square, and others standing at the edge of the square, captioned: 'Piazza San Marco, the King's Birthday', 14 March 1899


Photograph, taken from above, of St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, showing buildings on 2 sides and the base of the campanile, with ranks of people drawn up in the square, and others standing at the edge of the square, captioned: 'Piazza San Marco, the King's Birthday', 14 March 1899


Photograph, taken from above, showing the façade of St. Mark's Cathedral in St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, with indistinct ranks of people drawn up before the cathedral captioned: 'Piazza San Marco, the King's Birthday', 14 March 1899


Photograph, taken from above, of St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, showing the base of the campanile and buildings on 2 sides behind it, with ranks of people drawn up in the square, people at the edges of the square, and many figures running in the square, captioned: 'Piazza San Marco the King's Birthday', 14 March 1899


Photograph, taken from above, showing the façade of St. Mark's Cathedral, Venice, Italy, with a densely packed crowd in front of it, captioned: 'Piazza San Marco, the King's Birthday', 14 March 1899


Photograph, taken from above, showing the façade of St. Mark's Cathedral, Venice, Italy, with a densely packed crowd in front of it, captioned: 'Piazza San Marco, the King's Birthday', 14 March 1899


Photograph, taken from a boat, showing a stretch of water, a wall with 2 buildings at its far end, cypresses immediately behind it and the roof of a low building behind them, captioned: 'The Cemetery, Venice', March 1899


Photograph, taken from a boat, showing an expanse of water with a wall and a campanile, possibly that of the church of San Giorgio Maggiore on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy, captioned: 'On the way to Torcello', 1899


Photograph, taken from a boat, showing a gondola and a small boat with a large square sail in the sea, in the distance, captioned: 'On the way to Torcello', Venice, Italy, March 1899


Photograph, taken from a boat, showing a boat with a square sail, in the middle distance on the sea, with a number of gondolas behind it and, in the foreground, part of the boat from which the photograph is being taken, captioned: 'On the way to Torcello', Venice, Italy, March 1899


Photograph, taken from a boat, showing a boat with a square sail, in the middle distance on the sea, with a number of gondolas behind it and in the foreground, part of the boat from which the photograph is being taken, captioned: 'On the way to Torcello', Venice, Italy, March 1899


Photograph showing a stretch of water with, beyond it, a beach, vegetation and a ruined building with a creeper on it, possibly the island of Torcello, Venice, Italy, captioned: 'On the way to Torcello', March 1899


Photograph showing the prow of a gondola with, beyond it, a bridge, of a single arch, spanning a waterway and, beyond it, a campanile, captioned: 'Torcello landing place', Venice, Italy, March 1899


Photograph showing the façade of a church with a campanile at the left and a pillared arcade surrounding it, captioned: 'Santa Fosca, Torcello', Venice, Italy, March 1899


Photograph, showing, in the foreground, three rounded pillars, and beyond and below, possibly the waters of the lagoon in Venice, Italy, captioned: 'From the Campanile, Torcello', March 1899


Photograph, showing, in the foreground, a sleeve and cuff, with beyond them, a gondola, in the middle distance, and, in the far distance, a shoreline with an imposing building in the middle of it, captioned: 'Venice', Italy, March 1899


Photograph showing the cabin of a boat with a pointed prow, a steam funnel, with a boatman standing beyond the cabin, and a boatman standing behind the cabin, talking to an elderly man wearing a suit and Trilby hat; beyond them on the right is a shoreline of beach and scrub, with a house in the distance, captioned: 'Torcello', Venice, Italy, March 1899


Photograph showing a close-up of the boatman, who is standing behind the cabin of the boat in (33) ,wearing a dark uniform and hat with a brim; he is standing on the side of the boat near the cabin, captioned: 'Torcello', Venice, Italy, March 1899


Photograph looking along a narrow street with, in the distance, a campanile and the façade of a church, captioned: 'Verona', Veneto, Italy, March 1899


Photograph of 3 sides of a square, the Piazza delle Erbe, looking towards the Palazzo Maffei, with stalls with canvas coverings in the square, and with a woman wearing a long apron, carrying a covered basket, walking towards the camera, captioned: 'Verona', Veneto, Italy, March 1899


Photograph of an elaborate Gothic tomb, [one of five built in the 14th century to house the remains of members of the Della Scala or Scalinger family, rulers of Verona, between 1260 and 1387]; the tombs are in the churchyard of the church of Santa Maria Antica, captioned: 'Tombs of the Scalingers Verona', March 1899


Photograph of an elaborate Gothic tomb, [one of five built in the 14th century to house the remains of members of the Della Scala or Scalinger family, rulers of Verona, between 1260 and 1387]; the tombs are in the churchyard of the church of Santa Maria Antica, captioned: 'Tombs of the Scalingers Verona', March 1899


Photograph of the rear of an elderly man wearing a coat and hat and leaning on a stick, looking towards a wall, built in the style of the Renaissance with 2 niches containing figures; the wall is faced with stone, has a wrought iron gateway, also faced with stone, and stone obelisks; beyond the wall the tops of cypresses may be seen; captioned: 'Giusti Gardens, Verona', March 1899


Photograph showing 2 cypresses framing a view over Verona taken from the Giusti Gardens [laid out in the 16th century, surrounding the Giusti Palace, former residence of Agostino Giusti, 'Knight of the Venetian Republic' and which include a balcony in the garden, designed as a look-out point over Verona], captioned: 'Giusti Gardens, Verona', March 1899


Photograph showing the exterior of the Cathedrale di Santa Maria Matricolare in Verona, showing the 2-storey porch, said to be the work of the 12th century sculptor, Nicholaus, captioned: 'The Cathedral, Verona', March 1899


Photograph showing the cloister at the Cathedrale di Santa Maria Matricolare in Verona, captioned: 'The Cathedral, Verona', March 1899


Photograph showing, in the distance, three arches of a bridge, adjoining a fortified wall, possibly the 'Scaligero Bridge constructed over the river Adige on the orders of Cangrande II delle Scala in 1384', captioned: 'Old Gothic Bridge, Verona', March 1899


Photograph showing, in the distance, a river running across the picture, captioned: 'The Adige, Verona', March 1899


Photograph showing the west end and bell tower of the church of San Zeno, Verona, in the distance [ the church, which was built in 967 A.D., is dedicated to San Zeno, who died in 380 A.D.]; the photograph is taken across the square in front of the church, captioned: 'San Zeno, Verona', March 1899


Photograph showing the cloister of the church of San Zeno, Verona, captioned: 'San Zeno, Verona', March 1899


Photograph of the exterior of the west end of the church of San Zeno, showing the central, nave, portion with bronze doors, and rose window, and aisle portions either side, with sloping roofs; and steps leading up to the bronze doors; captioned: 'Doorway San Zeno, Verona, March 1899'


Photograph showing, close up, one of the lions at the top of the steps leading to the bronze doors of the church of San Zeno, Verona, and part of the panels of bas reliefs either side of the door, portraying scenes from the New and Old Testaments, and from the life of Theodoric The Great, King of the Ostrogoths who built a church on this spot, captioned: 'Doorway San Zeno, Verona', March 1899


Photograph showing, on the right, part of the west wall and doorway of the church of Santa Anastasia in Verona; the small figure of a man can be seen at the top of the shallow flight of steps in front of the church; in the middle of the photograph is a sarcophagus, The Arca di Castelbargo, the tomb of Guglielmo di Castelbargo, Podesta of Verona, on a wall, covered by a canopy, captioned: 'Santa Anastasia, Verona', March 1899


Photograph looking down on an upland valley with high slopes on either side, captioned: 'Over the St. Gothard [Pass, Switzerland, in the Alps, linking Switzerland with Italy] from the train, S', March 1899


Photograph, taken from a train, showing, on the right, the train curving to the left with a steep slope on the left, possibly taken on the train journey from Italy to Switzerland, March 1899

Family albums (Ref: D/X 1667/8/100-101)

Scrapbook, compiled by Helen Blanche Pease, c. 1910
(1 Volume)


Photograph showing a path running away from the camera, with a lawn on either side and a low garden wall on the left; the façade of a house can be seen on the right, captioned: 'CIR 1893', A.C.F.P., 1893


Photograph showing a raised walkway in a garden, with a balustrade running away from the camera, captioned: '1897', 'EWP', 1897


Photograph of three small children, aged between approximately three and six years, standing with rose bushes and the raised walkway behind them, captioned: 'A.C.F.P.', 1894


Photograph of an expanse of grass, with trees surrounding it, in the distance, captioned: '1897'


Photograph of a path running away from the camera, with bushes on the left and right, and the façade of a house at the end of the path and with a woman, three small children and two men, standing in front of the house, captioned: 'A.C.F.P.', 1896


Photograph showing a path running away from the camera past a wall, in the style of the balustrade in (2) and (3), and into a wood, beyond the balustrade, captioned: '1897'


Photograph of the exterior of a house with a path and lawn in front of it, captioned: '1897'


Photograph of a path running away from the camera, with the elevated walkway and balustrade on the left, and lawn, bushes and trees on the right, captioned: '1897'


Photograph of the façade of a house, with a horse and man standing in front of it, with bushes and lawns in the foreground, captioned: '1898'


Photograph of four small children, aged between approximately two and six years, standing in front of a mock half-timbered porch, captioned: '1897'


Photograph of an expanse of grass, with trees surrounding it, in the distance, possibly the same area as in (4); captioned: '1897'


Photograph of one woman sitting on the sand and one woman sitting in a deckchair and holding an umbrella, with a small boy, aged approximately seven years, standing between them; three small children, aged between approximately three and five years, are sitting on the sand, with hills behind them, and people sitting on the sand in the distance, captioned: 'M.M.P.' and '1899'


Newspaper cutting from the Northern Review, describing the marriage of Helen Blanche Pease and Edward Lloyd Pease, including sketches of 'The Bride', 'The Bridegroom', 'Hutton Hall', 'Some of the Presents', 'Decorations at the Hall' [in the garden], 'The Ceremony' [scene inside Quaker Meeting House in Guisborough, Yorkshire], n.d. [1890]


Cutting, from an unidentified newspaper, reporting the marriage of Miss Helen Blanche Pease, daughter of Sir Joseph Pease of Hutton Hall, [Yorkshire], to Edward Lloyd Pease, son of Henry Pease, 15 January 1890


Photograph of a small boy, aged approximately six years, standing outside a French window leading into a sitting room, captioned: '1896'


Photograph of four small boys, standing with the wall and window of a house behind them, captioned: '1898'


Photograph showing a path running along the front of a house with a large porch, possibly that in (10), captioned: 'A.C.F.P., '1896'


Cutting, from an unidentified newspaper, reporting the marriage of Helen Blanche Pease and Edward Lloyd Pease, including a list of the wedding presents and their donors, n.d. [1890]


Blank card of invitation, issued by Sir Joseph and Lady Pease, to tea in the Hutton School Room on 17 January 1890, on the occasion of the marriage of Helen Blanche Pease to Edward Lloyd Pease, including a programme of entertainments, January 1890


Cutting, from an unidentified newspaper, reporting the marriage of Helen Blanche Pease to Edward Lloyd Pease, n.d. [January 1890]


Cutting, from an unidentified newspaper, reporting a supper given by Edward Lloyd Pease at the Trevelyan Hotel, Darlington, to all the workmen who have been involved in building his new house at Hurworth Moor, 1892


Photograph of the exterior of a farmhouse with two barns, and another being dismantled, captioned: 'Hurworth Moor House built about 1750, showing buildings in course of demolition January 1890'


Photograph showing the exterior of Bonchurch Hotel Bonchurch Isle of Wight Ribbards Proprietor Nicholson Photo. Ventnor captioned: 'January 1890'


Newspaper cutting reporting a humorous remark, concerning women's eloquence, made by Herbert Gladstone at a suffrage meeting, 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting the properties of the limpet, January 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting on the best self-opening gates, n.d. [c.1890]


Newspaper cutting reporting on water-divining, January 1890


Newspaper cutting, from the Cornhill Magazine, describing how a rat was used to pay out a wire through a subterranean pipe, March 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting the fact that the Dundee Free Presbytery, Dundee, Scotland, has resolved that the Tay Bridge disaster is divine punishment for the practice of travelling on Sunday, December 1879


Newspaper cutting discussing changes in the nineteenth century in the number of people in the world speaking different languages, July 1890


Newspaper cutting, from The Daily Telegraph, giving the text of letter from Russian students studying in Moscow, Russia, describing their motives for undertaking university study and conditions in the university and in Russia, 21 March 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting 'The House of Commons Point-to-Point Race', 29 March 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting that a carriage from the Tay Bridge disaster has been discovered floating in the sea off the coast of Norway, December 1879


Photograph of the interior of a building showing widely spaced beams across the interior and the skirt and part of the bodice of a woman on a ladder propped against a beam, captioned: 'Marion [Marion Pease, sister of Edward Lloyd Pease] on ladder Hurworth Moor May 1890'


Photograph of part of the exterior of a building, with a horse standing in front of it, appearing to be pushing a broom with its mouth, c.1878


Photograph of a stream with trees either side 'photo taken about 1878 wet plate photos by E.L.P.' c. 1878


Newspaper cutting reporting the sale of a collection of works of art, amassed by 'Mr. Wells of Redleaf', 15 May 1890


Photograph showing the surface of a lake, in the foreground, and buildings on its shore in the distance, captioned: 'Bowness Windermere [Westmorland] May 26th 1890'


Photograph of a man holding the head of a horse in harness, standing before the open floor-length windows of a conservatory, n.d. [late 19th century]


Photograph of an expanse of grass with trees surrounding it in the distance, n.d. [late 19th century]


Newspaper cutting reporting on 'Popular Concerts' in Manchester, Lancashire, and including sketches of Louis Ries, Mme. Norma-Neruda, Ludwig Straus, Alfred Piatti and Sir Charles Halle, May 1890


Newspaper cartoon entitled 'A Cup of Coffee', showing a waiter pouring coffee and milk all over a table, n.d. [late 19th century]


Newspaper cutting, from the Daily News, discussing Benjamin Disraeli's use of alliteration, 1874 - 1880


Card, issued by the South Durham and North Yorkshire Horse & Dog Show, awarding Second Prize in Class 28, Ponies Not Exceeding 12 Hands, 29 July 1870


Programme for an amateur performance at Pierremont, Darlington, of the plays,'Sweethearts' and 'Done on Both Sides', 3 March 1890


Newspaper cutting, from The Northern Echo, containing 2 letters on 'Records of a Quaker Family', 18 July 1890


Newspaper cutting, entitled 'Calculations in a Granary', containing ruminations on how looking at grains of wheat enables one to envisage large numbers of people and years, n.d. [late 19th century]


Newspaper cutting concerning clouds, August 1890


Newspaper cutting describing the will of John Grubb Richardson, founder of the Bessbrook Spinning Company, Bessbrook, County Armagh, Ireland, September 1890


Newspaper cutting concerning the 'Velocity of Fall of Vertically-Fired Shots', 1890


Newspaper cutting describing an outing with the Devon and Somerset staghounds, 30 August 1890


Photograph showing the exterior of a large house with a path, lawn and trees in front of it, captioned: 'Farm Birmingham [Warwickshire], 1890'


Newspaper cartoon, entitled 'Time's Changes', showing 2 elderly men greeting each other, n.d. [late 19th century]


Newspaper cutting reporting on the survivor of the storming, in 1790, of Ismail, a Turkish fortress on the Danube, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787 - 1791, n.d. late [19th century]


Newspaper cutting reporting a meeting of the British Association, where the settlement by European people of other parts of the world was discussed, September 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting how a girl navigated a ship when its crew was suffering from yellow fever, 1890


Programme for an amateur performance at Pierremont, Darlington, of 'The Mouse Trap', by Howells, 6 January 1891


Printed Post Office cover at the rate of two pence postage, n.d. [late 19th century]


Printed Post office cover at the rate of one penny postage, addressed to Henry Pease, Darlington, stamped 22 January 1841


Printed Post office cover at the rate of one penny postage, addressed to Messrs. Henry Pease & Coy., Darlington, 15 July 1840


Unfranked Penny Red postage stamp with letters in all 4 corners, the letters being I and J, issued between 1864 and 1880, n.d,. 1864 - 1880


Share certificate, no. 640, in the Darlington Gas and Water Company, issued to Henry Pease, of Darlington, merchant, 17 November 1849


Newspaper cutting, entitled 'Life in a Lighthouse', n.d. [late 19th century]


Newspaper cutting, describing the destruction by fire of the mansion at Hurstbourne Park, Micheldever, Hampshire, the residence of Lord Lymington, M.P., 1891


Newspaper cutting describing the stoppage of the Bank of the Cape of Good Hope, 1890


Newspaper cutting describing the practice, prevalent in Finland, of selling the indigent and aged by auction, 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting the death, in 1880, of a woman, aged 106, in Pitney, Langport, Somerset, July 1890


Newspaper cutting concerning the disputed will of Mrs. Lamb, aged 100, July 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting the death of Mary Francis, aged 110, in Connelly Pile, Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, n.d. [1890]


Newspaper cutting reporting the funeral of James Jones, aged 102, at Clynnog, Caernarvon, Wales, September 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting a woman, aged 110, in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, April 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting a woman, aged 110, in Bergerac, France, September 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting the celebration of the birthday of Mrs. Thring, who married in 1811, at Alford, Somerset, 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting the death, aged 111, of Ann Telford of Torpenhow, Cumberland, 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting the statistics concerning the population of Japan, revealed by a census of 1889, n.d. [c.1891]


Newspaper cutting reporting the 100th birthday of Thomas Ironsides of Kibblesworth, 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting the death of Lieutenant-Colonel William Hewlett one of the last survivors of the Battle of Waterloo, 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting the funeral of Admiral Sir Provo W.P. Wallis, aged 101, in Sussex, 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting the death in Russia of a peasant, aged 120, n.d. [c.1891]


Newspaper cutting reporting the fact that the Society of Friends publishes each year a list of members who have died during the year; and that this year these include Frederick Clark of Newcastle, Sarah E. Fox of Shotley Bridge, Thomas Willis of Carperbey [possibly, Carperby, Yorkshire], Anna Richardson of Newcastle, 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting the death, at 111, of Mme. Dubose in Normandy, France, 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting the names of the famous who have recently died, 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting the death, aged 100, of Thomas Morgan of Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, Wales, 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting unusual behaviour in dogs, August 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting on the adoption, by a cat, of broods of ducks and chickens, August 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting on a hen's looking after litters of kittens, August 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting on a dog's apparent stratagem in killing rats, 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting on an experiment apparently showing that wasps are insensible to pain, 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting on a cockatoo's sense of humour, 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting on the ability of elephants, in a zoo at Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, Lancashire, to procure biscuits by putting money in a slot machine, 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting on the habits of, and beliefs about, the robin, 1892


Newspaper cutting containing a letter describing the fact that a terrier alerted its owner to an imminent burglary, 24 March 1892


Newspaper cutting containing a letter concerning the relative speeds of horses and greyhounds, 1892


Newspaper cutting containing a letter concerning the relative speeds of horses and greyhounds, 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting the picking and eating by rats of gooseberries, 1892


Newspaper cutting containing a letter asserting that hedgehogs are resistant to many poisons, 1892


Newspaper cutting concerning the fact that lobsters appear to be terrified by loud noises, n.d. [c.1892]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, captioned: 'Female Dentistry', depicting the female dentist as being too weak to extract a tooth, n.d. [1890s]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, captioned: 'De Minimis', concerning the purchase of a small amount of wood, n.d. [1890s]


Cartoon, captioned: 'Punch's Fancy Portraits - No. 36' 'As Bold as Brassey, M.P., Who Went Round the World on a Sunbeam', n.d. [1881] Thomas Brassey (1836-1918) Lib MP, sailed round world in his yacht Sunbeam


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, captioned: 'An Infantile Sell', showing a small child sitting on a mantelpiece with a smartly dressed young woman in front of her, n.d. [1890s]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, showing an old woman and a young woman discussing the older woman's uncompromising religious views, n.d. [1890s]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, captioned: 'When We Were Boys Together', showing two elderly smartly-dressed men speaking deprecatingly about contemporary toys in comparison with those of their youth, n.d. [1890s]


Newspaper cutting reporting the effects, in various parts of the north-east of England, of a severe gale and snowstorm, November 1875


Newspaper cuttings concerning flooding, caused by a severe thunderstorm, in the south of England, 19 July 1890


Newspaper cuttings concerning flooding caused by a severe thunderstorm in the south of England, 19 July 1890


Newspaper cutting containing a letter from Sidney T. Klein, Stanmore Observatory, Great Stanmore, Middlesex, describing the amount of rain which fell in 12 hours the previous night and asking for help in determining whether seismic shocks occurred, 18 July 1890


Newspaper cutting containing a verse by Darwin on the signs indicating that rain is about to fall, April 1890


Newspaper cutting containing a letter describing the thicknesses of ice which will bear different weights, 9 January 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting on severe weather, November 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting on unprecedentedly low temperatures in Sweden, 1893


Newspaper cutting reporting on the severe weather and comparing it with weather in earlier years, 1891


Newspaper cutting reporting on snow in Newcastle and intense cold in north-west Durham, and on the fact that corn was harvested, for the first time in 32 years, on Sunday in Winlaton, October 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting on severe weather in the Baltic, and on the conditions experienced there by the S.S. Highland of Hartlepool, January 1893


Invitation, issued by the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Invitation, issued by the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Ticket admitting the bearer to Guydyr House, Whitehall, London, during the Diamond Jubilee of. Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Ticket admitting the bearer to Guydyr House, Whitehall, London, during the Diamond Jubilee of. Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Cutting from a magazine, containing a comment on Christian Science; six humorous stanzas on clergymen, and on people who have died by accident, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph showing crowds of people, in the distance, in Horse Guards Parade, London, on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Photograph of a cruiser, dressed overall, during the Naval Review at Spithead, Portsmouth, Hampshire, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 26 June 1897


Photograph of a carriage, possibly containing Queen Victoria, in the distance, processing before soldiers of a Highland regiment, crowds lining the route and a building with people at the windows; the photograph shows, in the foreground, the back of the head and shoulders of a man and a woman, 22 June 1897


Photograph of a cruiser, dressed overall, in the distance, during the Naval Review at Spithead, Portsmouth, Hampshire, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 26 June 1897


Photograph showing smaller ships and cruisers, in the distance, the back of the head of a man wearing a bowler hat, and the side of a man watching the ships, during the Naval Review at Spithead, Portsmouth, Hampshire, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 26 June 1897


Photograph of ships on the horizon dressed overall, during the Naval Review at Spithead, Portsmouth, Hampshire, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 26 June 1897


Photograph of the back of a crowd of people, looking to the left, with buildings, decorated with bunting and crowded with people, in the distance, on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 22 June 1897


Photograph of the backs of people spread across a street, with buildings on either side, looking at a decoration surmounted by a crown, with the roof of what may be a railway station behind it, taken on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 22 June 1897


Photograph of an American cruiser, dressed overall, taken at the Naval Review, at Spithead, Portsmouth, Hampshire, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Photograph of ships on the horizon, dressed overall, taken possibly from a ship, part of which can be seen on the right of the photograph, taken at the Naval Review, Spithead, Portsmouth, Hampshire, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Photograph of the same scene, as 125, possibly in Whitehall, showing a military band, and people standing in groups at the side of the road, taken on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 22 June 1897


Photograph of the same scene as 125, showing the back of the head and shoulders of a man wearing a top hat, and a boy wearing a straw boater, and, beyond them, a military band and people lining the streets, taken on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 22 June 1897


Photograph of three ships dressed overall taken from the deck of a ship, during the Naval Review, Spithead, Portsmouth, Hampshire, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Photograph of crowds of people, and stands containing people, in, possibly, Trafalgar Square, London, on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 22 June 1897


Photograph of the Royal Yacht, Victoria and Albert, in which the Prince of Wales represents the Queen; four ships, dressed overall, and two ships steaming towards the camera, during the Naval Review, Spithead, Portsmouth, Hampshire, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897


Photograph of the same scene, as 125, showing the back of the heads and shoulders of soldiers lining the road, soldiers lining the other side of the road, and an indistinct person on a horse in the road, taken on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 22 June 1897


Engraving of the head and torso of Edward Pease, as an old man, with a facsimile of his signature beneath, by William Miller, n.d. [c.1859]


Envelope, addressed to Henry Pease, Darlington, with Joseph Pease's seal, and, on the reverse, franked London, 15 May 1844


Newspaper cutting describing the first journey, in 1825, of the Stockton Darlington Railway, August 1890


Newspaper cutting discussing the number of ancestors owned by each individual, August 1890


Newspaper cutting discussing remarkable trees, as follows: butter tree in Africa; marine tree in Italy; tallow tree in Malabar; guava tree in the Indies; tree in Flevo in the Canaries, which generates water; camphor tree in Japan; tree in Jamaica that can be destroyed only by fire, n.d. [19th century]


Timetable for the Stockton and Darlington, Bishop-Auckland, and Middlesbro' and Redcar, Railways, May 1847


Telegram from Mr. Hutchinson, London, to Joseph Whitwell Pease, Darlington, reading: Darlington and Barnard Castle won in a Canter hard held', 20 June 1854


Telegram from Samuel Fox, London, to John Pease, East Mount, Darlington, informing the latter that the Meeting encourages Henry Pease to be one of the deputation, with 2 other Quakers, to St. Petersburg [Russia] to attempt to avert the Crimean War, 18 January 1854


'Programme of Arrangements for the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway', 27-28 September 1875


Newspaper cutting reporting a lecture by Sir John Lubbock in which he points out that many of the manufacturing inventions have been made by workmen, August 1890


Telegram from Henry Pease, Normanton, to Edward Lloyd Pease, Pierremont, Darlington, reading: 'Thomas is to meet ten past 10 from York this morning and bring a black coat dress', 11 October 1871


Ticket for Seat no. 51 at the Middlesbrough Jubilee Banquet in the Royal Exchange, 6 October 1881


Newspaper cutting describing an extremely sensitive balance, in use in the United States Assay Office, made by Henry Toemer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., August 1890


Newspaper cutting concerning an unusual orchid, n.d. [c.1890]


Programme of the Jubilee Procession of Her Majesty The Queen to the Thanksgiving Service at Westminster Abbey, 21 June 1887


Newspaper cutting containing a translation of a letter, sent by the Prime Minister of Uganda to the King and Regents of Uganda, describing his reception by King Edward [VII], 1901 - 1910


Caricature of a tennis tournament in 1884 and a tennis tournament in 1784, entitled 'Scenes from the Darlington Quaker Tournaments of the years 1884 and 1784' by 'Fiddle-de-dee', identified as E. Lloyd Pease, 1880s


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, showing a scene in a butcher's shop in France between an Englishman and the shop's proprietor, entitled 'The Decimal System', n.d. [late 19th - early 20th c]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, showing a customer and a purveyor of spectacles, entitled: 'The Last Resource', n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century]


'Punch's Fancy Portraits - No. 44': caricature of Rt. Hon. G. Joachim Goschen, M.P., as a parrot, n.d. [c.1890]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, showing a workman bemused by a telephone, entitled 'The Wonder of Science', n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century]


Newspaper cutting concerning The Royal Aquarium, Westminster, and a sale of fine wines, 1893


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, showing a School-Board Inquisitor and a coachman, entitled 'Sold!', n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century]


Newspaper cutting discussing the origin of the term 'Halcyon Days', n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, showing two small children, their mother and their grandfather, on whose head one of the children has painted a spider's web, entitled: 'A Predestinate R.A.', n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, showing a man in a top hat, and a workman with a saw, both in a railway carriage, entitled 'Retort Courteous', n.d. [late 19th - 20th century]


Cartoon, possibly from Punch, showing two middle-class men talking to each other, entitled 'An Aggravating Teuton', n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century]


Newspaper cutting concerning the Quaker descent of Ven. R.W. Church, late Dean of St. Paul's, n.d. [1890]


Newspaper cutting showing line drawings of Henry Pease, 1807 - 1881; Edward Pease, 1765 - 1858; Joseph Pease, 1799 - 1872; Gurney Pease, 1839 - 1872; J.W. Pease, 1828 - 1903; Edward Pease, 1834 - 1880; Arthur Pease, 1837 - 1898; Henry Fell Pease, 1838 - 1896, n.d. [c.1890]


Circular, issued by members of the Society of Friends of the Provinces of Leinster, Ulster and Munster, Ireland, asking members of the Society in the rest of Great Britain to resist the 'Government of Ireland Bill', which they believe will result in the persecution of the Quakers, and other Protestant minorities, by an Irish legislature, dominated by Roman Catholics, March 1893


Newspaper cutting describing a dispute in the High Court concerning the ownership of the Raby Estate, 1893


Newspaper cutting recounting the success of Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co., in a dispute with a Manchester firm, concerning an innovation, developed by E. Lloyd Pease, in the operation of gasholders, 30 May 1893


Newspaper cutting giving part of a report on a lecture on astronomy, 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting the death of Cardinal Newman, August 1890


Newspaper cutting concerning Charles Bradlaugh, and his refusal to take the oath of allegiance on his election to the House of Commons, 1891


Leaflet announcing the publication of Pictures from Punch, a selection of cartoons published during the 50 years of its existence, 1894


Photograph of a group of twelve men and women, posed outside the entrance of a house, captioned: 'Corndavon, August 1891'


Photograph of a house and farmhouse, with woods and hills in the distance, photographed from above, and at a distance, captioned: 'Corndavon', August 1891


Photograph of eight men and women and a dog, taken in a doorway of a house, captioned: 'Corndavon', August 1891


Photograph of an elderly man, wearing a shirt and hat, with grass, a wall and a slope behind him, captioned: 'Cockfield 1891'


Photograph of four men and a woman in shooting clothes, with three of the men holding shot guns, captioned: 'Corndavon, 1891'


Photograph of a door, decorated with the drawings of a poodle and a spaniel and, above them, the drawings of 2 dead rabbits, captioned: 'The Schoolroom Corndavon', 1891


Photograph of an expanse of grass on which a dog is sitting, a tree, a pond, and a hillside, 1893


Photograph of an expanse of grass, with trees and a slope in the distance, with a bull standing on the grass, 1893


Photograph of a boy, aged approximately six years, wearing a shirt and bow tie and carrying a golliwog doll, n.d. [19th century]


Photograph showing the exterior of the cathedral, surrounded with scaffolding,, rising above trees and the roofs of the town, entitled: 'Truro[Cornwall], from N,. 7348 J.V.' and captioned,: August 1890


Photograph of the interior of the cathedral, Truro, Cornwall, entitled: 'Truro Cathedral N. Aisle 9511 J.V.', captioned 'August 1890'


Photograph of the town taken from a distance, entitled '23758 Launceston [Cornwall] from St. Stephen's, 1890


Photograph of a path running away from the camera, between garden beds and with ruins on the brow of the slope in the garden, entitled: '3763 Launceston Castle [Cornwall] from S.W.', 1890


Photograph showing a flight of steps running away from the camera, between ruined masonry, entitled 'Launceston Castle 23766, Cornwall, 1890


Photograph showing a path round grass, with ivy-covered ruined masonry behind, entitled '23762 Launceston Castle from...', 1890


Photograph of 2 large cliff-like rocks, the left one of which has a path going up its side and crenellations on its top, stamped 'Hayman's Series', captioned: Tintagel, [Cornwall], 1890


Photograph showing three sides of the interior of a ruined stone building with a hillside beyond it, stamped 'Hayman's Series' and captioned 'Tintagel 1890'


Photograph showing a harbour at low tide, with a cliff-side beyond it, captioned: 'Boscastle Harbour [Cornwall]1890'


Photograph of the exterior of a church and its graveyard, no. 24483, captioned: 'Bodmin Church [Cornwall]1890'


Photograph showing a road, lined with shops and with people on the pavements, no. 24482, captioned 'Higher Bore Street, Bodmin, [Cornwall], 1890


Newspaper cutting describing a case of catalepsy in a miner in Silesia, Poland, 1890


Newspaper cutting reporting the marriage of Miss Lucy Ethel Pease of Hutton Hall and Gerald Buxton of Knighton, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, at Guisborough Church, Yorkshire, including the names of the guests and lists of presents and their donors, 3 December 1890


Newspaper cutting concerning an urchin who begged successfully in the streets of Paris, France, by displaying a comprehensive knowledge of the history of France, 1892


Newspaper cutting recounting a veterans' race at Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, 1892


Engraving of a Red Coat, n.d. [19th century]


Photograph of the announcement, in The Times, of the birth of a son to Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease on 10 January 1891, 14 January 1891


Photograph of a nursemaid nursing a small baby, captioned '[Michael] W.[Pease]', February 1891


Photograph of a woman holding a small baby in a Christening robe, captioned 'M[ichael] W.P[ease]', 1891


Photograph of a woman holding a baby on her lap, captioned 'M[ichael] W.P[ease]', July 1891


Photograph of a woman, possibly sitting in a conservatory, with her right arm round a baby and her left arm round a small child aged approximately one year, captioned 1892


Photograph of 2 steps leading to a mock Gothic doorway, with 2 small boys and one small girl standing at the top of the steps, with a small child in a wheeled chair and the head of a woman above the parapet on the left, captioned 'L. Bassett 1895'


Newspaper cutting containing a report of the House of Commons Point-to-Point Steeplechase, accompanied by a line drawing of some of the participants, including A[lfred] E[dward] P[ease], the winner; Lord Henry Bentinck; W.H. Long; Lord Carmarthen; Earl Spencer, 1891


Photograph of a child, aged approximately five years, sitting on the back of a pony, with a man standing beside the pony with his hands on the animal's back, behind the child, 1896


Photograph of 2 small boys and one small girl, sitting with their backs to a wire fence, in a garden, with an expanse of grass and trees behind them, 1896


Photograph of a small boy sitting on the back of a light-coloured pony with a small girl in a pannier and a second small boy standing on the road; a woman is at the pony's head and the head of another small girl in a pannier on the pony's far side can be seen, 1896


Photograph of a woman dressed in a jacket and skirt, accompanied by 2 small boys and a small girl looking at the ground, with the façade of a house behind them, captioned 'L. Bassett 1895'


Programme for Zetland Point-to-Point Races, 18 March 1891


Photograph of 4 small children, between the ages of three and six, standing in the entrance of a half-timbered porch, 1897


Newspaper cutting describing the Zetland Hunt Point-to-Point Steeplechase written by 'Silvio', 1891


Verse entitled 'Christmas 1891' by E. Lloyd Pease, expressing the feelings and thoughts provoked by the birth of his sons, accompanied by a drawing of the farm at Hurworth Moor, December 1891


Letter card, addressed to Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, Darlington, with the message 'With a Husband's Love', franked 16 February 1892


Photograph of a nursemaid nursing a small baby, captioned 'C[yril] P[ease] and Mrs. Robson', January 1892


Photograph of the announcement, in The Times, of the birth of Cyril Pease to Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, on 11 December 1891, 16 December 1891


Drawing of farm buildings, entitled 'The Old Farm A Memory Oct 1891', captioned 'Looking West' and 'the oak on the west lawn N.W. Corner', showing part of the buildings at Hurworth Moor that were demolished to allow E. Lloyd Pease's house to be built, 1891


Photograph of hills in the distance, beyond an arm of the sea or a lake, with scrub in the foreground, captioned: 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, 1891


Photograph of an expanse of water, with hills beyond, and trees in the foreground, captioned: 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, 1891


Photograph of a small girl and a woman building a sand castle, with another small girl and a woman in the distance, on a beach with the sea behind them, captioned '1897'


Photograph of two small children in the shallows of the sea, n.d. [1897]


Photograph of two small girls, wearing sun bonnets, jackets, skirts, socks and shoes, standing on a sandy beach, n.d. [1897]


Photograph of a large house, with bushes and trees and an expanse of lawn before it, captioned 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, September 1891


Photograph of a large house, with trees, bushes and an expanse of lawn in front, captioned 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, September 1891


Photograph of a small girl holding a bucket, and of a small boy behind her holding a bucket, with sand, sea, hills and bathing machines in the distance, captioned 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, September 1891


Photograph of four small children and a woman standing in the shallows of the sea, captioned 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, September 1891


Photograph of a river running away from the camera with heavily wooded banks or hills in the distance, captioned 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, September 1891


Photograph of three small children, with buckets, building a sandcastle, captioned 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, September 1891


Photograph of two small boys standing on a sandy beach, wearing suits and hats with wide brims, one of whom is carrying a bucket and spade and the other a basket of balls, captioned 'Parknasilla', County Kerry, Ireland, September 1891


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Photograph, taken from a height, showing 2 rows of cottages, a church, and a substantial house, with wooded hills behind, captioned 'Hutton Village [Yorkshire] 1891'


Photograph of the façade of a substantial house, with a tree and expanse of grass before it, captioned 'Hurworth Moor 1892'


Photograph of an elderly woman, wearing a cap and knitting a baby's bootee, standing against a brick wall with an espaliered tree on it, captioned 'S.M. Wilson 1893'


Photograph of two young women, wearing formal dresses, standing in a garden against a creeper-covered fence and a tree, with a large house behind, captioned 'A[gnes] C[laudia] F.P[ease], 1892'


Printed circular with, on one side, a photograph of a square surrounded by buildings, including Darlington Town Hall, with a tram and cabs and pedestrians, captioned 'Darlington Town Clock Dressers, Printers', 1890s; on the reverse is a programme of Grand Concerts to be given by The Band of the 1st V[olunteer] B[attalion] Durham Light Infantry, in Darlington, n.d. [1890s]


Leaflet, issued by the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, St. Stephen's Chambers, Westminster, London, entitled 'The Radicals and The Land', N.U. No. 1056, post 1907


Newspaper cutting, entitled 'The Norwegian Licensing System', 1892


Newspaper cutting reporting Lord Dufferin's address to the students of St. Andrew's University, Scotland, 1892


Newspaper cutting, from The Daily News, reporting a speech made by W.E. Gladstone to the tenants at Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, on the theme of 50 years of progress, 16 January 1891


Two pencil drawings of Helen Blanche Pease as a child playing the violin, 11 May 1876


Photograph of a woman sitting leaning against a tree in a wood, with a book, a vacuum flask, a tea cup and, possibly some garments to be sewn, 1899


Newspaper cutting containing line drawings of Members of Parliament, elected at the General Election of 1892, as follows: James Mellor Paulton, Bishop Auckland; H.F. Pease, Cleveland, Yorkshire; Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, Barnard Castle; J.A. Pease, Tyneside, Northumberland; July 1892


Photograph of a man sitting on a horse on a drive in front of the house at Hurworth Moor, possibly E. Lloyd Pease, 1899


Envelope addressed to E. Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, Darlington, England, from D. Wood & Co., Philadelphia, U.S.A., franked 20 January 1892; and envelope addressed to E. Lloyd Pease, marked 'On Her Majesty's Service', stamped 'Saved from wreck of S.S. Eider', franked 16 February 1892


Photograph showing the exterior, and graveyard, of a cathedral, entitled 'St. Magnus Cathl. Kirkwall [Orkney, Scotland] from S.E. 553 G.W.W.', August 1892


Polling card soliciting votes for Henry Pease, pre 1865


Newspaper cutting recounting amusing classified advertisements featuring in newspapers, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of the interior of 'St. Magnus Cathedral Nave [Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland], 10073 J.V.', August 1892


Photograph of a large stone lying on moorland, with a hillside beyond it, entitled '550 G.W.W. The Dwarfie Stone, Hoy, Orkney [Scotland], August 1892


Election card, depicting the head and shoulders of a young man and of a middle-aged man, with the words: 'Split for Pease and Lockwood', n.d. [1885-1892]


Photograph of an elderly man, Joseph Whitwell Pease, dressed in a suit with waistcoat, holding a bowler hat, accompanied by a young woman, wearing a coat, skirt and hat, possibly his daughter, standing on his right with her arm in his; behind them is an ivy-covered fence and the façade of a mansion, possibly Hutton Hall, the residence of J.W. Pease, captioned: 'A.C.F.P., 1892


Photograph of nine standing stones in moorland, with a hill in the distance, and a man leaning, with his back to the camera, against one of the stones, entitled: 'The Stones of Stennis, Orkney [Scotland] 5518 G.W.W.', August 1892


Photograph showing a narrow path leading to a low hill in the middle of the base of which there appears to be the door, possibly to a cave in the hill; two men are standing to one side of the doorway, entitled 'Maeshowe, Orkney [Scotland] 552 G.W.W.', August 1892


Newspaper cutting, from The Northern Echo, describing the destruction by fire of the large spinning mill owned by Henry Pease & Co Successors, in Priestgate, Darlington, 27 February 1894


Drawing of a low house on a mound, with steps down to a lower level of the garden, described thus: 'The house is plastered over and whitewashed or painted without the slightest creeper or relief and very ugly and stands four square the back running into a mound. The near lead in dining other drawing room on this side second drawing room on other side bedroom front door in middle with disagreeable sea beach in front called terrace', n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a group of seven people sitting and lying on grass with a picnic between them; beyond them are what may be tall grass, a strip of water and, beyond that, a hillside, captioned '1893 near Classibawn [Classybaun], Co. Sligo, Ireland], 1893


Photograph of two men, on the back of 2 horses, standing on a drive, with plants and trees behind them, captioned 'A.C.F.P.', 1897


Photograph of a bird bath, surrounded by large birds feeding on the ground, with bird pens, a lawn and trees beyond them, 1897


Photograph of a garden with a lawn, bushes cut into conical shapes, trees and a hillside, 1897


Newspaper cutting, describing trade, agriculture and industrial relations in the year coming to an end, December 1892


Newspaper cutting discussing a paper published in a volume of the Vale of Derwent Naturalists' Field Club Proceedings concerning waggonways and wages in County Durham 140 years previously, 1893


Newspaper cutting describing a paper read by E.H. Sainter of Wigan, Lancashire, to the Cleveland Institute of Engineers, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, on the desulphuring of iron and steel by the calcium oxychloride process, which might revolutionise steel making in Cleveland, 1892


Programme for the Zetland Hunt Point-to-Point Races, 16 April 1892


Drawing of the exterior of the Houses of Parliament, possibly cut from the top of a card, 4 February 1897


Programme for the Zetland Hunt Point-to-Point Races, 5 April 1893


Caricature showing Mr. Courtney and Mr. [Joseph] Chamberlain sitting next to each other on one of the benches in the House of Commons, captioned: 'Not Quite In Touch with One Another (Mr. Courtney and Mr. Chamberlain), n.d. [1890s]


Caricature showing the speaker of the House of Commons in his official robes and sitting in his chair drawing the caricature of a face, captioned: 'Hard on the Other Caricaturists (Sir F. Lockwood as speaker), n.d. [1890s] Frank Lockwood, barrister, was York MP 1885-1897


Examples of envelopes bearing confused addresses, sent to Edward Lloyd Pease at Hurworth, n.d. [late 19th - early 20th century] as follows: 'Edward L. Pease Esq., Hurworth, Skinnergate, Darlington'; 'Edward Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, Ashmore, c/o Benson Pease & Co., Stockton'; 'Herdworth on Tees'; 'Hurworthon Lees'; 'E.L. Pease, Esqre., Worth on Tees, Durham'


Order of service, for the marriage, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, London, of Maud Rendel and Harry Gladstone, 30 January 1890


Leaflet advertising a volume entitled Phil May's Pictures, a selection of his cartoons in Punch, 1908


Order of service, for the marriage of 'Ethel[Pease] & Gerald[Buxton]', at St. Nicholas's Church, Guisborough, Yorkshire, 3 December 1890


Order of service, for the marriage of 'Mabel and Reggie', at the Chapel, Benwell Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne, 18 November 1891


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Lilian, daughter of Mrs. Gurney Pease, Woodside, Darlington, to Charles Leslie Fox, at St. Cuthbert's Church, Darlington, 12 October [1892]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Lilian, daughter of Theodore Crewdson of Norcliffe Hall, Handforth, Cheshire, to Seymour Benson, at Fulshaw Chapel, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 24 April [1895]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Marion, the sister of Mark Grigg of Cann House, Crown Hall, Devon, to Philip Debell Tuckett, at Tamerton Foliot Church, Devon, 5 April [1894]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Alice Mortimer, the daughter of the Dean of Lichfield [Staffordshire] to Herbert Pike Pease at Lichfield Cathedral, 5 June [1894]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Caroline Joanna, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Fowler of 43 Grosvenor Square, London, to Wilson Pease, at St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street, London, 6 December [1894]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Margaret Percie, daughter of J.B. Chirnside, Old Hall, Clifton, Rugby, Warwickshire, to William Henry Lloyd, at the Friends' Meeting House, 52 St. Martin's Lane, Westminster, London, 24 September [1895]


Invitation, issued to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Beatrice, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Fox, Seascale, Cumberland, to Louis C. Wrigley, at Holy Trinity Church, Richmond, Surrey, 22 July 1896


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Beatrice, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John W. Pease, Pendower, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Montague F. Maclean, at Benwell Church, Newcastle, 22 July 1896


Invitation, issued by Rev. Edward and Mrs. Philips, The Close, Hollington, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the marriage of their daughter Margaret Ellen, to Samuel J. Lloyd, 17 November 1896


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Millicent Evelyn, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Backhouse, Trebah, Falmouth, Cornwall, to William F.C. Rogers, at St. Michael's Church, Mawnan, Cornwall, 19 November 1896


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Gwendolen Margaret, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Butler, Ayton Hall, Great Ayton, Yorkshire, to Harold Gurney Pease, at Christ Church, Great Ayton, 31 December [1896]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Sarah Charlotte, daughter of Sir Joseph W. Pease, Hutton Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire, to Howard Hodgkin, at the Friends' Meeting House, Guisborough, 17 February [1897]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Janet, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Whitwell, Overdene, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, to Dr. Leonard T. Giles, at the Church of Emmanuel, Saltburn, 9 June [1898]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Beatrix, daughter of Mrs. Forsyth Grant, Ecclesgreig, Montrose, Angus, Scotland, to Reginald Pease, at St. Mary's Church, Montrose, 15 June [1898]


Invitation, issued to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Claudia, daughter of Sir Joseph W. Pease, Hutton Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire, to Alfred Wilson, at the Friends' Meeting House, Guisborough, 29 November 1898


Newspaper cutting describing the wedding of Sarah Charlotte Pease to Howard Hodgkin, n.d. [1897]


Newspaper cutting describing the wedding of Claudia Pease and Alfred Wilson, 30 November 1898


Photograph showing a woman wearing a long dark skirt, a white blouse and a boater riding a bicycle along a road with terraced houses with bay windows lining the road; behind her a small boy, also riding a bicycle, can be seen, captioned: 'C.P. & H.B.P. M.R.P. [Cyril Pease, Helen Blanche Pease, Michael.R.Pease].', 1899


Photograph of a small child, aged approximately 3 years, sitting astride a pony, in front of the half-timbered porch at Hurworth Moor, captioned 'H[enry Alfred Pease]', 1897


Photograph of a small boy riding a pony with a small girl in a pannier on either side of the pony; a woman is standing at the head of the pony, with a fence and a field behind her, 1896


Photograph of three small girls, two small boys, two young women, and two older women, sitting in an open carriage in front of a house, captioned A.E.P., 1896


Photograph of three small children, aged between approximately 2 and 5 years, standing at the entrance to the half-timbered porch at Hurworth Moor, with a man standing behind them and a woman sitting on the steps between two of the children [Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease and their children], 1897


Photograph of a baby sitting in a perambulator, with bushes behind him, captioned 'R.P.' [Robert Pease], 1899


Photograph of four small children, standing in a row in an arcade in a garden, each holding a doll or other toy in his or her hand, 1898


Photograph of a woman, standing in a room holding a baby in her arms, 1899


Photograph of the heads of three small girls and of two small boys in an open carriage, possibly taken on the same occasion as (277), captioned 'A.E.P.', 1896


Photograph of two small boys and 2 small girls, aged between approximately five and seven years, 1898


Programme of a concert of songs and music performed by, among others, Mrs. Lloyd Pease, Miss C[laudia] Pease, Miss M[aud] Pease, Mr. Edward Pease, 11 September 1894


Programme of a concert and of a farce, at the Temperance Hall, Hurworth, in aid of Hurworth Brass Band, performed by, among others, Mrs. Lloyd Pease, 25 February 1895


Programme of music at Ellergreen, performed by, among others, Esther Fell, Claudia Pease, Mrs. Lloyd Pease, 9 November 1894


Programme of a 'Musical Evening. A Selection of Music and Readings', at Darlington Training College, 'In Aid of the Families of the Unemployed' performed by, among others, Mrs. Lloyd Pease and Claudia Pease, 1 March 1895


Programme for a 'Concert at Riggs' Retreat in Aid of Theydon Bois Book Club',[Theydon Bois, Essex] performed by, among others, Mrs. Lloyd Pease, Claudia Pease, Gerald Buxton, Clare, Theresa, and Maud Buxton, 27 May n.y. [c.1895]


Programme for a concert at Ivy Chimneys Mission Room, performed by, among others, Mrs. H.N. Gladstone, Mrs. Lloyd Pease, Claudia Pease, Gerald and Theresa Buxton, 16 May 1896


Programme for a performance of Sunset, by Jerome K. Jerome, and of Highwayman, by J. Huntly McCarthy, performed by, among others, Ruth, Clare and Theresa Buxton, and with music provided by Mrs. Lloyd Pease, Claudia Pease, and Clare Buxton at Riggs' Retreat [Theydon Bois, Essex], 21 May n.y. [c.1895]


Newspaper cutting describing a concert held at The Temperance Hall, Hurworth, in aid of the funds of Neasham School, n.d. [c.1895]


Programme of a 'Grand Amateur Concert in Aid of the Two Darlington Cots in Her Majesty's Hospital (Dr. Barnado's Homes)', performed in the Mechanics' Hall, Darlington, describing the 'artistes' including Mrs. Lloyd Pease, the programme and the performers, 17 October 1899


Programme of a 'Concert in Aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children' in the Mechanics' Hall, Darlington, with Mrs. Lloyd Pease in the 'Band', 9 February 1899


'Hunting': The Best Run I Ever Saw' by A[lfred]E[dward] Pease, written for the Northern Echo, 14 December 1896


Newspaper cutting describing the fact that Alfred Pease has been adopted as parliamentary candidate, in the Radical interest, for the Cleveland Division of Yorkshire, in his absence in Somaliland, Africa, n.d. [1897]


Telegram, sent from Ackland, Saffron Walden, Essex, to Mrs. Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, Darlington, reading: 'Pease 3994 Gray 3202', 1 July [1897]


Election card with the message: 'Should auld acquaintance be forgot?' Split only for Lockwood and Pease, The Old Pair And we shall win!!', accompanied by a photograph of a young and middle-aged man, n.d. [1897]


Drawing of a huntsman riding a horse over a gate, the top rung of which bears the words 'Top of the Poll'; under the picture are the words: 'With Sir Frank Lockwood's Compliments', and 'Begging Your Kind Support for an Old and Valued Colleague', n.d. [1897]


Newspaper cutting, from The Westminster Gazette, describing the fact that Alfred Pease has been elected, with an increased majority, for the Cleveland Division of Yorkshire, despite the fact that he had been away 'shooting lions in Somaliland', during the election, n.d. [1897]


Invitation, issued by Sir Joseph W. Pease, Hutton Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire, to Mr.and Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend a luncheon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his entering into business in Northgate, Darlington, on 23 September 1845, 19 September 1895


Order of service for the funeral of Arthur Pease, (12 September 1837 - 27 August 1898), 1 September 1898


In Memoriam card of Emma Gurney Pease, who died at Southend, aged 65 years, 3 July 1895


Order of service for the funeral of Rosa Pease, 28 September 1896


Newspaper cutting describing the will of Emma Gurney Pease, 20 February 1896


Newspaper cutting containing a verse entitled 'Birthday Present', by Alfred Austin, n.d. [c.1896]


Newspaper cutting describing the Friends' Foreign Missionary Conference at Darlington, accompanied by an engraving, from a photograph, of Sir Theodore Fry, n.d. [c.1896]


In Memoriam card for Wilson Sturge (1833 - 1895) who died on 4 October 1899 during a voyage home from Cyprus and was buried at Malta, 4 October 1899


Article in a newspaper entitled 'Lady Fry of Darlington' by Eliza Orme, n.d. [c.1900]


In Memoriam card for Caleb Stansfield Wilson, who died at his residence, Tavistock Place, Sunderland, aged nearly 81, 23 January 1902


Newspaper cutting reporting the death of Samuel Hare, aged 79, at his residence, 10, Cleveland Parade, Darlington, 12 May 1900


Newspaper cutting reporting the funeral of Henry Fell Pease, M.P., 1896


Newspaper cutting reporting the death of Henry Fell Pease, M.P., 1896


Newspaper cutting reporting the death of Henry Fell Pease, M.P., 1896


Newspaper cutting reporting the funeral, at Budock, Cornwall, of Anna Maria Fox of Penjerric, Falmouth, Cornwall, who died on 18 November 1897, aged 81, 26 November 1897


Cover of the Illustrated Mail, Vol. 1, no. 21, War Number, featuring a drawing, by H.A. Hogg, of a young woman with three small children, accompanied by The Absent-Minded Beggar, verse by Rudyard Kipling,urging that it is the duty of the country to support the dependents of British soldiers fighting in South Africa, 4 March 1899


Election card, featuring a photograph of Mr. Pease, with a picture of the Union Flag and the Royal Standard behind the photograph and the words 'Empire, Justice and Reform. Pease for Saffron Walden [Essex] Division; on reverse is alist a list of 'Seven Reasons Why You Should Vote For Pease The Liberal Candidate', n.d. [1901] Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford


Verse, written in an unidentified hand, entitled 'Aug 15 1903', as follows: 'Lloydie came from an old Quaker stock/So it gave him a horrible shock/When his wife danced and sprung/And comic songs sung/At Quaker traditions made mock', 1903


Photograph of a woman, wearing a skirt, jacket and boater, standing near a wire fence, caressing the head of a horse, which is looking over the fence, 1897


Photograph of a man sitting on a horse, in front of the porch at Hurworth Moor, 1898


Photograph of a man, a small boy and 2 small girls standing near the same fence as that in (318), accompanied by 2 horses, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a saddled horse being held by a man who can just be seen at the left of the photograph, captioned 'Leader 1899'


Photograph, taken from a distance, of a house with 2 gables, in front of which a horse is standing with a man, captioned: 'Sir Hugo 1898'


Photograph of a horse standing in front of the same house as in (322), captioned 'Leader 1899'


Photograph of a man, wearing a bowler hat a jacket, breeches, and boots, sitting on a dappled horse, identified as 'Patricia'; and of a man, wearing a top hat and hunting clothes, sitting on a dark horse, identified as 'Sir Hugo'; both in front of the porch at Hurworth Moor, 1897


Photograph of a man, wearing a top hat and hunting clothes, riding a horse, identified as 'Sir Hugo', accompanied by the porch at Hurworth Moor, in which the rear view of a woman can be seen, 1897


Photograph of a small girl on a dark-coloured horse, captioned 'Mary on Claribel', 1897


Supplement to the Northern Weekly Gazette, containing a drawing of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, the 'Harbinger of Peace'; 4 groups of people and animals, symbolizing the continents of Europe, America, Asia and Africa; a quotation from Isaiah ch. 2, v. 4, concerning universal peace; and a quotation from the Tsar, recommending a conference to promote peace in the new century, 7 January 1899


Newspaper cutting concerning a comic incident in the Cromwell Road, London, where an inebriated old gentleman attempted to post letters in the mouth of an inebriated soldier in a red coat, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a man, holding a horse by its bridle, before a brick building, as in (322), captioned: 'Quakeress, 1897'


Photograph of a horse being held by its bridle by a man accompanied by a small girl, with a brick building as in 322, beyond them, captioned: 'Claribel 1897'


Photograph of 2 horses standing in a field, captioned: 'Claribel' and 'Sir Hugo', 1897


Newspaper cutting citing humorous mistakes made in the printing of articles in newspapers, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a woman, sitting on the steps leading to an elevated walkway at Hurworth Moor, captioned: 'L.E.P., 1896'


Photograph of 2 horses in a field, with a man and a woman, possibly Blanche and Edward Lloyd Pease, captioned: 'Claribel' and 'Boniface, 1897'


Text of the National Anthem, printed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, by Eld & Blackham, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, 1897


Photograph of a horse and a foal, grazing in a field, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of the exterior of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, entitled 'Salisbury Cathedral 3414 F.G.O.S., captioned: 'October 1898'


Photograph of Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, with a man with a penny farthing bicycle and a man with a conventional bicycle and horse, standing near the stones, c.1898


'A Plea for a Peaceable Spirit addressed by the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, held in London, 5 Month 1901, to its members and to the Christian Churches', concerning the Boer War, May 1901


Photograph of Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, showing the opposite view from that in (338), with the heads of three individuals beyond a stone lying on the ground, and a man standing on the right near a stone lying on the ground, n.d. [1898]


Photograph of the exterior of the east end and chapter house of York Minster, York, 1886


Photograph of the exterior of Bamburgh Castle, taken from Bamburgh Village, Northumberland, 1896


Photograph of the exterior of Hurstbourne Park, Hurstbourne, Hampshire, taken from a distance across an expanse of grass, October 1898


Photograph of the exterior of Hurstbourne Park, Hurstbourne, Hampshire, taken from a distance across an expanse of grass, n.d. [c.1898]


Photograph of Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, taken from a distance, n.d. [c.1898]


Photograph of the interior of the High Chapel, the Rose Window of La Sainte Chapelle, Paris, France, entitled '584 Paris La Chapelle haute de la Sainte Chapelle (triezieme siecle), la rosace (quinzieme siecle) Ed.H), n.d. [1890s]


Number not used


Photographs of 26 Renaissance paintings, captioned: 'Rome March 1899'


Photograph of the exterior of Hutton Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire, n.d. [1890s]


Card, printed with a picture of High Row, Darlington, bearing the following message: 'Nancy & Rhoda Backhouse will be very glad if Mrs. Pease can come to a 'schoolroom sale' for the Indian Orphans on Sat. Dec. 16th at 2.30 - 5.30. Afternoon tea. Hurworth Grange', n.d. [1890s]


Telegram, handed in at 'Stanmore Road, Birmingham, Warwickshire, addressed to Mrs. Pease, Hurworth Moor, Darlington, with the message 'Son arrived this morning 5.30 both doing very well come as soon as you like Nan is here and stays till you arrive Alfred', n.d. [1899]


Photograph showing the exterior of the 'Armenian Convent' in Venice, Italy, with a gondola and gondolier on the canal in the foreground, 1899


Photograph of the interior of the cloisters at the Armenian Convent, Venice, Italy, with a monk standing and a monk sitting, 1899


Photograph showing a view across bushes in a garden, with fields in the distance, and the end of the balustrade of the elevated walkway, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph showing figures on a path, between a ruined castle wall above and a wooded precipice below, captioned, in a later hand, 'Richmond May 1900'


Photograph of a group of approximately 36 men and women, taken outside the doorway of a stone building, with the men in frock coats and the women in crinolines, captioned, in a later hand, 'Marriage of Elizabeth Richardson ... Hutchinson of Langbaugh, [Yorkshire], (John and Sophia Pease)', n.d. [1850s - 1860s]


Photograph of six people in shooting clothes, standing in a field in front of trees, holding shotguns, captioned: 'Miss Meeting E. Crawley G.B. H.B.P. F. Maclean & Montie Maclean. An impersonation of 'Mrs. B. & Gerald', n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the surface of a lake, with trees running down to the water's edge, captioned, 'Glen Affric', Inverness-shire, Scotland, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a lake, with trees running down to the water's edge and hills beyond, captioned, in a later hand, 'Loch Affric', Inverness-shire, Scotland, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a cairn of stones on the top of a hill, with a woman sitting near it with a dog, two women standing with a man, also standing; one of the women is looking through a telescope at the view, captioned 'Norah Buxton Clare Audrey Gurney & E.W.P.', n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the exterior of a country house, with turrets, and with indistinct people in the distance sitting on the lawn, captioned 'Corrimony', a country seat at the head of Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, 1897


Photograph of three young women, sitting in armchairs in a spacious drawing room, captioned 'Miss Meeting L.E.B. & Flo', with, in a later hand, 'Corrimony', Inverness-shire, Scotland, c.1897


Photograph of two men, three women, two small girls and a dog, standing, with their backs to a hedge and with a lawn before them, and holding croquet mallets, c.1897


Photograph of the surface of a lake, in the distance, with wooded slopes on either side, captioned, in a later hand, 'Glen Affric', Inverness-shire, c.1897


Photograph of the surface of a lake, with hills in the distance, and trees running down to the water, captioned, in a later hand, 'Loch Affric', Inverness-shire, c.1897


Photograph of the head and shoulders of a small child in a pushchair, wearing an elaborate cap and coat, captioned 'E.W. Buxton, 1895'


Photograph of four women, wearing jackets and long skirts, and a dog, standing near a cairn of stones on a summit, as in (362), n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of an elderly woman, in a black dress and white cap, standing in a garden, captioned, A.C.F.P., n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the head and torso of a young woman, wearing an outdoor jacket with mutton leg sleeves, holding a straw boater and with a hillside in the background, captioned 'Audrey Gurney', n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a small boy, dressed in a frilled shirt and knickerbockers, standing in front of a doorway, captioned 'M.W.P., 1896' and 'J.E.B.', 1896


Photograph of a large house, with bands of light-coloured brick across it, a marquee in front of trees with what appears to be a cricket field laid out in front of the marquee, and eight women and one man standing on the cricket field, 1892


Photograph of the head and shoulders of a small child, wearing a coat and elaborate hat, standing next to the pushchair, as in (368), captioned 'B.E. Buxton 1895'


Photograph of four women and a dog near a cairn of stones, as in (362) and (369), n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a young girl, aged approximately 12 years, wearing a dress with mutton chop sleeves and a dark apron, standing against the side of a house with creeper up its side, captioned 'Lily Nardirch' and 'A.C.F.P.', n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of 2 small boys, aged approximately three and four years, and a small girl, aged approximately 2 years, standing on a gravel drive in front of a house with a Gothic doorway, accompanied by a woman in a dress with mutton chop sleeves, captioned 'L. Bassett, 1895'


Photograph of two small girls and two small boys, aged between approximately four and six years, standing and sitting on small wheelbarrows on a drive, with trees behind and a field to the right, 1897


Photograph of a man, sitting in a two-wheeled vehicle with two horses harnessed to it, standing on gravel, with trees behind them, captioned 'Broadbrim' and 'Quakeress, 1899'


Photograph of a man sitting at a desk with a fireplace and bookshelves behind him, 1898


Photograph of a small girl in a pushchair with, behind her, a woman carrying a baby, accompanied by another small girl; they are all on a lawn with bushes at its edge, captioned 'A.C.F.P., 1896'


Photograph showing the back of a cart, to which a trailer bearing a large pot containing a tree is attached; a man is standing between the trailer and the cart; another man is standing beside the wheel of the cart and a third is at the head of the horse; behind the men in the distance is the façade of a house, captioned 'Trotter, Bailey & Meggeson 1898'


Photograph of three small boys, wearing suits with wide collars, and caps, sitting in the doorway of a house; another person is standing in the doorway of the house, which has high wooden doors, 1898


Photograph of a nursemaid, standing beside a perambulator containing a baby sitting up, as in (279), with flowers and trees behind them, 1899


Photograph of a man sitting in a two-wheeler, pulled by 2 horses, 1899


Photograph of 2 small boys and 2 small girls, aged between 4 and 7 years, lying on grass at the top of a cliff with the sea on the left and the cliffs of a bay behind them, captioned: 'Saltburn [Yorkshire],1899'


Photograph of the steps leading to the terrace at Hurworth Moor, showing the balustrade and the lawn below, under snow, n.d. [1890]


Photograph of the porch and façade of Hurworth Moor, and the ground before it, in deep snow, n.d. [c.1890]


Photograph showing the frame of window, and the view beyond it of bushes and trees in a garden and fields beyond, captioned 'From my bedroom window 1899'


Photograph of the façade of Hurworth Moor, photographed with the branches of trees and bushes in front of it covered in deep snow, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a road with a metal fence, fields and trees, covered in snow, near Hurworth Moor, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a garden with trees and bushes, and the façade of a house in the distance, under deep snow, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph showing open ground, a small building, tall trees, and a hedge, possibly part of the grounds of Hurworth Moor, under deep snow, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a woman, as in (377), with 2 small boys, in jackets, trousers and broad-brimmed hats, and a small girl, all standing round a second small girl who is sitting in a pushchair in front of the Gothic doorway of a house, as in (377), captioned 'L. Basset', 1895


Photograph showing a woman, standing at the top of a flight of stairs and leaning against the balustrade of a terrace, with the elaborate façade of a building behind her; 2 other women can be seen standing near the doorway of the building, captioned: M. Gladstone at Chateaux [sic] Thorene, Cannes', [France], 'L.E.B.', 1897


Photograph of a narrow road, overhung by trees, running away from the camera, captioned: 'Cap Martin', [France], 1899


Photograph of three small girls and three small boys, standing in a garden, with a hedge and trees behind them, 1899


Photograph of the front of the house at Hurworth Moor, showing the terrace and balustrade, and a woman, wearing a blouse, skirt and boater, captioned: 'A.C.F.P.', 1894


Photograph of a man, wearing a suit and cap, standing in front of the balustrade of the terrace at Hurworth Moor, captioned: 'W.E. Pease', 1897


Photograph of a group of 8 dolls on a stand, 1898


Photograph showing a woman and two small children standing, in the distance, on a lawn, with bushes and leafless trees beyond them, 1897


Photograph of the exterior of a small house, beyond a garden of trees and bushes, captioned: 'Rock House', County Mayo', [Ireland], 1896


Photograph showing the side view of a man, with a dog at his feet, holding a horse, also seen from the side, in snow, captioned, in a later hand, 'Boniface' 3' 1" 1900'


Photograph of a man standing at the head of a horse, showing the side view of each, with a dog watching, captioned, in a later hand, 'Prince Rupert 1900', 'Nettle', 1900


Photograph of a boy, aged approximately 10 years, sitting on a pony, with a leading rein attached, captioned, in a later hand, 'M.L.P. Zachy', c.1900


Photograph showing an open 5-barred gate, leading into a wood, under deep snow, captioned, in a later hand, 'March 1900'


Photograph showing the façade of a house and the balustrade of its terrace, taken from the lawn in front, in heavy snow, captioned, in a later hand, 'H.M. South Side',[that is the south side of Hurworth Moor], c.1900


Photograph of a man, in riding clothes and bowler, riding a horse and leading a pony on a leading rein, on a lawn, with bushes and trees behind, captioned, in a later hand, Zacchaeus and Broadbrim', c.1900


Photograph of a man, wearing riding clothes and a bowler hat, on a horse, and of a man, wearing hunting clothes and a top hat, on a horse, in a field with a fence, trees and a further field behind them, captioned, in a later hand, 'Dunkerry Skipper 1900'


Photograph of a man, wearing a Norfolk jacket and a Tam o' Shanter, leaning against the balustrade at Hurworth Moor, with three small boys, wearing suits and hats, behind him, and one small girl sitting on the balustrade, captioned, in a later hand, C.P. [Cyril Pease], M.C.P. [Mary C. Pease], E.L.P. [Edward Lloyd Pease], H.A.P [Henry Alfred Pease]., M.L.P., [Michael L. Pease], Change of Hats!', c.1901


Photograph showing a small boy, aged approximately six years, sitting on a pony, with a leading rein attached, captioned, in a later hand, 'C.P. on Zacky' [Cyril Pease on Zaccaeus], n.d. [c.1901]


Photograph showing open ground in the foreground, with beyond it, on the left, a large piece of masonry, surrounded by a fence, against which three indistinct individuals are leaning; beyond, on the right is the exterior of a classical, possibly 18th century church, with trees obscuring much of its walls; also on the right, in front of the trees, is a child's swing, entitled '16 The Tower & St. Mary's Bridgenorth', Shropshire, 1881


Photograph showing a narrow flight of shallow steps, running upwards away from the camera between high walls of brick and stone, which are kept in place by metal braces above the steps, entitled '12 Stoneway Steps, Bridgenorth, Shropshire', 1881


Postcard photograph of a large open square, surrounded by substantial buildings, with tramlines and a statue in the foreground, and indistinct figures on the pavements, entitled 'C 207 Bayreuth Marktplatz' [Bayreuth Market Place], Germany, 1895


Postcard photograph showing an expanse of water, with hills on the far side and a large wind-swept tree, and grass on the near side, entitled '43 Tregothnan', [Cornwall] and endorsed 'W.M. Harrison, Falmouth', [Cornwall], 1886


Photograph, showing a path running away from the camera, in a municipal garden, with bushes on either side, and with ruined masonry and trees in the distance, in an unspecified location, 1891


Photograph showing a town in the distance on the brow of a hill, a substantial house at the bottom of the hill, an open space before it, and a scrubby area ,containing a decrepit cart and piles of stones, in the foreground, entitled: 'Woodlane, Falmouth', [Cornwall], 1896


Photograph of Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland, taken from a distance, below a rocky slope, on which the distant figure of a woman is sitting, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Postcard photograph, taken from the distance across fields, of a conical hill, entitled '14993 Roseberry Topping'[ Guisborough, Yorkshire], n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph showing, in the foreground, the surface of a river with high steep banks, and Warkworth Castle, Northumberland, in the distance, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the ruin of, possibly, the east end of a large ecclesiastical building, entitled '14557 Guisborough Abbey', Yorkshire, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a man sitting on the ground, with a picnic basket, under the spreading branches of a tree, accompanied by a woman, holding the head of a horse, also standing under the branches of the tree, captioned: 'E.L.P. and A.L.P. Exmoor', [Devon], 1899


Photograph showing the surface of a wide street, running away from the camera ,with buildings on either side, and, in the middle of the road,a market cross, against which a carriage and a man are standing; a carriage can be seen facing towards the camera on the right of the photograph, captioned: 'Dunster', [Somerset], 1899


Photograph showing the rear and side of a coach with the words 'Lynton', 'Minehead' and 'Red Dee' painted on it; the coach is drawn by six horses and a man can be seen sitting on the top of the coach looking at the camera; the coach is travelling along a narrow road, bordered by gorse-like plants; the photograph is captioned: 'Porlock Hill', Somerset, 1899


Photograph showing the same view as (423), but taken from a greater distance from the market cross, and closer to the right of the road, showing the houses on the right in greater detail, captioned 'Dunster.[Somerset]W.1899'


Photograph showing the surface of a wide road with pebbles in the foreground and an imposing building of 3 storeys with a curved corner, in the distance, captioned: 'The Beach Hotel', Minehead, [Somerset], 1899


Photograph showing, on the left, a gateway through which fields and the distant end of houses and trees can be seen; on the right is the end of a house with a thatched roof and a wooden balcony, captioned: 'Lodge of Cottage Hotel, Lynton', [Devon], 1899


Photograph showing a tall tree with spreading branches, with rough grass before it, and water and hillsides beyond, captioned: 'Exmoor'[Devon], 1899


Photograph showing the surface of a wide road, with buildings on the left, and half-timbered buildings on the right; part of a castle may be seen in the distance, captioned 'Dunster'[Somerset], 1899


Photograph showing the front left side of a coach with Lynton written on it, pulled by six horses, as in (424), and with a coach, with four people sitting on top of it, approaching; the back of a woman, walking parallel with the road containing the coaches, can be seen, n.d. [1899]


Photograph showing a flat, possibly shingle, beach, with a hill with fields on it in the distance beyond the beach; the sea can be seen on the extreme right, captioned: 'North Hill', Minehead, [Somerset], 1899


Photograph of the interior of a room with half-panelling and 2 windows; a long table, covered with a white cloth, is in the foreground, n.d. [1890s] The date '1990' has been added in a later hand, possibly in error for 1890


Photograph of the interior of a corridor, with a round archway at the end, leading to a room, containing a doorway with panelling below and 4 glass panes above, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of bracken, with a glimpse, beyond it, of a hillside, captioned: 'Exmoor',[Devon], 1899


Photograph of the interior of a drawing room showing the end of a piano on the left; a wall with patterned wallpaper, adorned with 4 pictures; the inside of a bay window; 2 occasional tables; a cabinet against the wall; a patterned carpet; and three armchairs, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of the interior of an entrance hall, with a polished wood floor, rugs, panelling on the walls, the balustrade of a staircase, the side of a table and the side of a chair, probably standing against a wall, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a bay of the sea, with a promontory in the distance, and part of the cliffs, on the other side of the bay, in the foreground, captioned: 'Lynmouth', [Northumberland], n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of the interior of a room, with an arched embrasure containing a window with a seat in front of it; a fireplace is to the right of the embrasure; polished wood and a rug are on the floor, [this may be part of the same room as (436)], n.d. [1890s]


Photograph showing an arched entrance to a corridor; the bottom two steps of a flight of stairs; a table and chair against the wall; 2 stags' heads and a painting on the walls; [this is part of the same room as (436)], n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of hills, receding from the camera, with a glimpse of water between the hills, on the right of the picture, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of 2 women sitting, and 2 men standing, dressed in tweeds and hats against the weather, on a hillside before hills receding into the distance, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph showing a drystone wall running through a field, with 2 hills in the distance, and a woman standing leaning against a haystack, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a woman, in a checked jacket and skirt and boater, standing on a bank of rough grass and holding a fishing rod over a stream, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph showing a man kneeling on the ground with a gun cocked; behind him are three women with walking sticks and a man; behind the group are a rapid stream and hills; in the foreground is rough grass strewn with boulders, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of the same scene as (444), with the two men standing and one woman standing, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph showing a roofless cottage, with hills behind, and rough grass and a hedge before it, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph showing the back of the head, and shoulders, of a woman wearing a checked coat and skirt, and straw boater, possibly photographing the hills to which she is facing, n.d. [1890s]


Photograph showing water, with rocks, and hills in the background, n.d. [1890s]


Invitation, issued to Mr. and Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, by Sir Raylton and Lady Dixon to attend the wedding of their daughter, Ada Beatrice Averil, to Percival Dacres Williams, at St. Cuthbert's Church,, Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, 19 April [1899]


Invitation, issued to Mr. and Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, by Mr.and Mrs. Wilson to attend the wedding of their daughter, Catharine, and Thomas Edward Hodgkin, at the Friends' Meeting House, Bull Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, 29 August [1899]


Invitation, issued by Mr. Lewis Fry, to Mr. & Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease to attend the wedding of his daughter, Millicent Mary, and William L. McCandlish at Clifton Parish Church, Bristol, 13 April [1899]


Invitation, issued by Lord & Lady Rendel, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Grace Daphne, to Captain Marten Dunne, at St. Margaret's Westminster, London, 24 October [1899]


Invitation, issued by Sir Lowthian Bell, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to visit Rounton Grange, Northallerton, [Yorkshire], on the occasion of the wedding of his grand-daughter, Dorothea Johnson, to Harald Dixon, 1 August n.y. [1899]


Invitation, issued by Mr. & Mrs. George E. Fox, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Charlotte Wakefield, to John Francis Pease, at the Friends' Meeting House, Plymouth, Devon, 20 December [1899]


Invitation, issued by Mr. & Mrs. Whitwell, to Mr. & Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease to attend the wedding of their daughter, Marion, with Claude Basil Fry at the Friends' Meeting House, Saltburn, [Yorkshire], 17 January 1900


Invitation, issued by Mr. & Mrs. Somerville A. Gurney, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Ruth, to Joseph Fry Whitwell, at North Runcton Church, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 10 October 1901


Invitation, issued by Mrs. Augustus Davies, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Clare, to Ernest Pease, at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London, 7 January 1902


Invitation, issued by Mr. & Mrs. Huntriss, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Violet Madeline, to Owen Beaumont Pease, at St. George's Church, Doncaster, Yorkshire, 29 January 1902


Invitation, issued by Mr. & Mrs. E.B. Mounsey, to Mr. & Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Lucy, to Edward Backhouse at the Friends' Meeting House, Skinnergate, Darlington, 8 April 1902


Invitation, issued by Mr. & Mrs. Hodgkin, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Ellen Sophie, to Robert Carr Bosanquet at the parish church, Lowick, Northumberland, 8 July 1902


Invitation, issued by James E. Backhouse, to Mr. & Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of Elspeth Lilian to J. Edward Hodgkin, at the Friends' Meeting House, Skinnergate, Darlington, 15 July 1902


Invitation, issued by Mr. & Mrs. Francis J. Fry, to Mr. & Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, [Anna] Gertrude, to Edward George Wills, at the Parish Church, Cricket Street, Chard, Somerset, 14 July [1904]


Notice reading as follows: 'North Star Office, Tuesday, Feb. 27th, 10.30 a.m. Official Telegram, General Cronje and all his Force has Capitulated. Unconditionally. Press Association', 1900


'Golden Souvenir of the Royal Proclamation of King Edward VII; reporting the text of the proclamation of Edward VII's accession to the throne, 23 January 1901


Certificate, issued by the American Institute of Mining Engineers, to Edward Lloyd Pease, recording its thanks for his courtesy during the 91st meeting of the Institute held in the City of London in July 1906, September 1906


Photograph of part of a mock-Gothic, crenellated house with Tudor chimneys, n.d. [1900s]


Card, issued by Mrs. Alfred Wilson of Woodcroft, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, on the occasion of the birth of her daughter, Catharine Claudia, 9 June 1901


Photograph of the head and shoulders of William McKinley, [1843 - 1901] President of the United States, 1897 - 1901, shot on 6 September 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York State, United States of America, and died on 14 September 1901


Newspaper cutting of a verse entitled: 'In Memoriam', concerning the assassination of President McKinley, written by Charles W. Stubbs, Deanery, Ely, Cambridgeshire, 16 September 1901


Newspaper cutting entitled: 'Death of a Centenarian', describing the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Hanbury, a Quaker, born 9 June 1793, who died at Richmond Hill, Surrey, n.d. [1901]


Card, issued by Mrs. Alfred Wilson, announcing the birth of her daughter, Marjorie Mary, 7 December 1903


Card with the name Mrs. Lloyd Pease written on it, with, in a later hand,, 'R.A. Pease Nov. 18 1911'


Card displaying a photograph of the head and shoulders of George V and the text of his pledge to follow in his father's footsteps as King, May 1910


Card displaying a photograph of the head and shoulders of Edward VII; his date of birth, 9 November 1841, the date of his accession to the throne, 22 January 1901, and the date of his death, 6 May 1910; the phrase 'Blessed are the Peace Makers'; and a verse, by Fred E. Weatherly, entitled 'In Memoriam', 1910


Verse entitled 'O God, Who, In the Days of Old', written by H.B.P. to commemorate Coronation Day, 22 July 1911


Christmas card, sent by Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Pease, 6, Hutton Street, London, incorporating a photograph of Joseph A. Pease and of Elsie Pease, Christmas 1901


Christmas card, sent by George & Rachel Fox, featuring a photograph of the house and of the grounds of Glendurgan, Cornwall, taken in October 1901, Christmas 1901


Election card, issued by Joseph Pease to the electors of Rotherham, Yorkshire, asking for their support in the General Election to ensure the passing of the Parliament Bill, December 1910


Invitation to luncheon, at Hutton Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire, issued by Sir Joseph Pease and Miss Pease, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, 14 September 1901


Dance card for a dance at Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire, New Year's Eve, 31 December 1901


Dance card for a dance at Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire, New Year's Eve, 31 December 1901


Invitation, issued by Sir Jonathan & Lady Backhouse, Uplands, Darlington, to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Harriet Jane, to Mr. Findlay, at St. Cuthbert's Church, Darlington, 9 July [1901]


Photograph showing a man, in the distance, walking across a suspension bridge over a rushing stream, with hills behind him, captioned, in a later hand, 'Ben More' 'Oykell R[iver], Sutherland, Scotland, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a field, with horses grazing in the distance, with a hedge, trees and the roof of a house, behind them, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of 2 small girls and 4 small boys, aged between approximately three and six years, standing in a group, possibly on the terrace at Hurworth Moor, with trees behind them, captioned, in a later hand, 'H[enry]A[lfred] P[ease], B[lanch]E[mily] Buxton, M[ichael]L[loyd]P[ease], M[ary]C[ecilia]P[ease], Edwy Buxton, G.P.', 1890


Photograph of a man, wearing a raincoat, a suit and a checked cap, with a cigarette in his mouth, standing facing the camera on a railway platform in the country, with hills on the opposite side of the rails, and luggage and other passengers behind him, captioned: 'W.E. Pease', n.d. [1890s-1900s] Possibly William Edwin Pease (1865-1926), son of Edwin Lucas Pease, son of John Beaumont Pease


Photograph of hills, with a stretch of water below them, with a road running alongside it, and a wooded hillside in the foreground, captioned: 'Ben More', Sutherland, Scotland, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a foal standing in a field, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the surface of a river, with the farther bank and hills in the distance, captioned: 'Ben More', Sutherland, Scotland, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a foal standing in a field near a tree, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph showing 2 small girls and 4 small boys standing in a line before Hurworth Moor, probably on the same occasion as (487), captioned: E[dward] N[orth] B[uxton], H[enry] A[lfred] P[ease], M[ary] C[ecilia] P[ease], C[hristopher] P[ease], B[lanche] E[mily] B[uxton], M[ichael] L[loyd] Pease], n.d. [1890s]


Photograph of a small boy, standing on a beach with a retaining wall at the left, with hills behind; on the right behind him is a canvas beach shelter against which a small girl and a woman are sitting; captioned, in a later hand, 'Robert Mary', possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1901]


Photograph of the small boy, as in (494), sitting on the sand with the same woman, as in (494), behind him, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1901]


Photograph of a small boy, aged approximately six years, standing on a beach, with the sea behind him, accompanied by the same woman and girl, as in (494), captioned, in a later hand, 'Harry Robt. Mary' [ Henry Alfred, Robert, and Mary Cecilia, Pease], possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1901]


Photograph of three people on horses, riding across a beach, away from the sea ,with hills on the left, accompanied by a pack of hounds, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1901]


Photograph showing 2 small children, from the rear, carrying a deckchair across a beach towards the sea, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1901]


Photograph of a woman, sitting inside a canvas beach shelter, feeding a baby on her lap with a bottle; an empty cradle is on the floor by her side; the photograph is captioned, in a later hand, 'Lee & Helen', possibly at Saltburn, n.d. [1901] [Miss Amelia Lee was nanny to Helen Blanche Pease's children; Helen Maud born 1901]


Photograph of a small boy, as in (494), in the distance, walking across a beach, with the sea behind him, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1901]


Photograph of the woman, as in (499), and the small boy, as in (494), sitting in the canvas beach shelter with the retaining wall of the promenade, and the shops, behind them, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1901]


Photograph of a woman, bending over and talking to 3 small children, near the sea, with the sea on the right and the hills on the left, and 2 indistinct figures in the distance, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1901]


Photograph of a woman, wearing a smart skirt, jacket and hat, sitting on a wall with a small child, aged approximately 3 years, with a grass slope behind them, beyond which the top storey of a terrace of houses can be seen, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a small boy, aged approximately 10 years, and a small girl aged approximately 8 years, standing with a small child, aged approximately 3 years, with the sea behind and below them, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a small child, walking across a beach, with six bathing machines and indistinct figures, with hills beyond them, behind him, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of an elderly man, wearing a suit and a bowler hat, and carrying an umbrella, riding on a donkey, accompanied by a figure in a smock; behind them are the sands, indistinct figures on the sand, a row of bathing machines, a slope with houses at the top, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of three children, as in (504), standing with the sea and cliffs in the distance, behind them, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a horse and foal, grazing in a field, with trees along the horizon, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a small boy, aged approximately 10 years, as in (504) and (507), standing in bare feet, holding a pail with the beach and sea behind him, possibly at Saltburn, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a boy, aged approximately 10 years, wearing a suit, standing on an expanse of grass, with a hedge and fields behind him, captioned, in a later hand, 'Michael', n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a path running away from the camera, with trees on either side, possibly the terrace at Hurworth Moor, covered in snow; on the right of the path are three children, aged between approximately 10 and 4 years, playing in the snow, captioned, in a later hand, 'Mch 1903'


Photograph showing part of the façade of Hurworth Moor, with a small boy, aged approximately 10 years, a small girl, aged approximately 8 years, and a small child, aged approximately 4 years, standing in snow,near an open French window, n.d. [c.1903]


Photograph of five small children, aged between approximately 3 and 10 years, sitting on a beach round a sandcastle in which 2 flags are stuck; behind them are the beach, indistinct figures, and the promenade, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [c.1901]


Photograph of small children, as in (512), taken at a spot nearer to the children, n.d. [c.1903]


Photograph of the front of Hurworth Moor, with its half-timbered porch, under snow, n.d. [c.1903]


Photograph, as in (513), of children grouped round a sandcastle; four of the children, as in (513) can still be seen and have been joined by another boy in a suit, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [c.1901]


Photograph of the 3 small children, as in (511), (512) and (514), standing on the path on the balustrade at Hurworth Moor, playing in the snow, with the indistinct figure of a man on the left, n.d. [c.1903]


Photograph of the 3 small children, as in (511), (512), (514) and (517), standing with their backs to the camera, on a path cleared in front of the French window at Hurworth Moor, n.d. [c.1903]


Photograph of a woman, in a blouse, skirt and elaborate hat, standing on a beach with a girl, aged approximately 8 years, wearing a blouse and skirt, and a boy, aged approximately 10 years, wearing a suit, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [c.1901]


Photograph of a path, leading down through woodland, with the sun coming through the branches of the trees, and dappling the paths, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of approximately 10 horses and riders, a pack of hounds, and a man, standing with his back to the camera, gathered in a field, captioned, in a later hand 'Cladshall[?]', n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph, showing an beach, empty but for a small child standing near the water line, with the sea, and a hill on the left, captioned, in a later hand, 'North Hill, Mounsey [Minehead], Somerset, n.d. [1901]


Photograph showing the rear of a boy, aged approximately ten years, standing near a bank, covered in bracken, in woodland, captioned, in a later hand, C[yril] P[ease] and shirt', n.d. [1901]


Photograph of a house and cottage, with fields behind them, n.d. [1890s - 1900s]


Photograph of a path, running away from the camera, in woodland, leading to the end of a cottage, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a woman, in a dark skirt, light blouse and elaborate hat, walking along a path in woodland, as in (520), n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of horses, riders, hounds and pedestrians, gathering in a field, as in (521), n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the east end of a church, and part of its graveyard, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a woman holding a baby, standing near a beach shelter, as in (499), possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, n.d. [c.1901]


Photograph of the exterior of an ancient, possibly ecclesiastical building, with low roofs and high chimneys, and with an indistinct group standing in the angle between 2 wings of the building, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the exterior of a tiled building, at right-angles to a thatched building, in front of which there is a gate and a garden wall, running at right angles to the building, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a girl, aged approximately ten years, dressed in a light frock and hat, standing in a wooded area, with a rustic fence above and behind her, obscured by bracken and other plants, n.d. [1890-1900]


Photograph of the exterior of the nave of a church, with Gothic windows, and another building at right angles to it, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the side and front of a low thatched building, with tall trees on the left, and low hills in the distance on the right; a road is running away from the camera is before the building, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a small child, aged approximately 3 years, squatting, with his hands in the sand, with the sea behind him, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, c.1901


Photograph of the side of the church, as in (533), n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of two boys aged, approximately 10 and 8 years, wearing suits, and leaning against the glassless Gothic arch of a building with ivy-clad walls, captioned, in a later hand, M.C.P. and C.P., possibly Michael Lloyd Pease and Cyril Pease, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of four boys, aged between 3 and 12 years, a girl, aged approximately 10 years, and a baby, all sitting in the doorway of a house, possibly Hurworth Moor, 1900s


Photograph of 2 small children playing with a rake, raking up grass, near a wheelbarrow containing grass, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a child, aged approximately 3 years, holding a doll, captioned, in a later hand, 'R[obert] P[ease], n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a girl, aged approximately 8 years, a boy, aged 10 years, 2 children, aged approximately 3 years, and a boy, aged approximately 9 years, captioned, in a later hand, M[ichael] L[loyd] P[ease], Mary C[ecilia] P[ease], J.E. H[odgkin], R[obert] P[ease], C[yril] P[ease], n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of 2 small children, as in (539), sitting on a wheelbarrow full of grass cuttings, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of children, aged between 10 and 1 year, sitting in the doorway of a French window, probably at Hurworth Moor, captioned, in a later hand, 'H[arry] A. P[ease], C[yril] P[ease], H[elen]M[aud]P[ease], M[ary] C[ecilia] P[ease], R[obert] P[ease], M[ichael] L[loyd] P[ease], n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a woman, wearing a coat and skirt, standing with 2 children, aged approximately 2 and 3 years, outside the half-timbered porch at Hurworth Moor, captioned, in a later hand, ' "Lottie" [Sarah Charlotte Hodgkin], R[obert] P[ease] and A[ndrew] J[ohn] Hodgkin', n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a girl, aged approximately ten years, sitting side-saddle on a horse, with trees beyond her, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of 2 horses, harnessed to a sleigh, in which there are 3 indistinct individuals, standing before the porch at Hurworth Moor, in snow, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of the side of a horse, standing with a man at its head, before the archway of a brick building, in snow, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a coach, drawn by 2 horses, with a man in formal clothes, standing in front of the porch at Hurworth Moor, captioned, in a later hand, 'Ed Hodgkins Wedday [sic], n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of 7 children and a baby, with its perambulator, grouped outside a window of the house at Hurworth Moor; the children include those of Edward and Blanche Pease, including Michael, Cyril, Robert, and Mary, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of the side of a horse, with a man at its head, standing in a field, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph showing an area of cleared ground, with the end of a building and a high wall surrounding it, with a man digging a trench, watched by another man, a woman and a dog, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of 7 children, between the ages of approximately 3 and 12 years, as in (549), standing in a row, with a window of Hurworth Moor behind them, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a 4-wheeled Hansom carriage, pulled by 2 horses, standing in front of the porch at Hurworth Moor, with 2 children, aged approximately 7 and 8 years, and a maid, standing near it, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of the same area, as in (551), looking in the opposite direction, with 2 indistinct men working against the wall, smoke from a small fire, and debris lying on the ground, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of 3 boys, aged between approximately 10 and 12 years, dressed in suits, with a boy, aged approximately 4 years, standing on a sandcastle, surrounded by water, with a slope and houses in the distance, possibly at Seascale, Cumberland, c.1901


Photograph of 3 indistinct figures, in bathing costumes, standing in the sea, possibly at Seascale, Cumberland, c.1901


Photograph of three girls, aged between 12 and 14 years, wearing identical blouses, calf-length checked skirts, and hats, standing before 2 women, who are sitting on the ground, captioned, in a later hand, ''Braylin Beg', Rock House, County Mayo, Ireland, and 'Molly, Dot, Betty Pease 1903'


Photograph of 7 children, aged between 4 and 12 years, standing on a sandcastle on a beach, as in (555), with a hill and 2 houses behind them, captioned, in a later hand, 'Sea Scale [Cumberland] 1903'


Photograph of the façade of a 2-storey house, with six windows and one gable, with two flower beds, a path, a lawn, and part of a marquee in front of it, captioned: 'Rock House, County Mayo, Ireland', n.d. [1903]


Photograph of a man, wearing a suit and cap, standing on the shore of a stretch of water, with hills behind, captioned, in a later hand, 'E[dward] L[loyd] P[ease], Braylin Bay; Rock House, County Mayo, Ireland, 1903


Photograph of six children standing on a sandcastle, as in (558), with a train running along the top of the cliffs before the buildings below the church at Seascale, Cumberland, 1903


Photograph of 4 indistinct figures in the sea in bathing costumes, as in (5560, at Seascale, Cumberland, 1903


Photograph showing the marquee, as in (559), and 2 of the girls, as (557) and the man, as in (560), in front of the marquee, with woods behind them, at Rock House, County Mayo, Ireland, 1903


Photograph of a group of approximately 76 people, posed before the exterior of a bay window in a large mock - Gothic house, to mark the occasion of the marriage of Edward Wilson and H.R. Pease, n.d. [1884] The photograph includes the following: J.F. Pease; G. Wilson; S.C. Pease; E.B. Pease; Jane Pease; T. Fry; Sophia Fry; Ella Pease; Theo Wilson; Henry Lloyd; T.M.


Photograph of Lavender and Sandy Medlicott, standing on a lawn, with the Best Man and three bridesmaids, identified as: J.F.Y.P., B.E.B., M.B.P., and Bruce Chaloner, 1910


Photograph of the interior of a room, showing a wall, with a dresser against it and with 10 stags' heads above it, a doorway, on the right of the dresser, is flanked either side by 2 tusks curving over the top of the door, captioned, in a later hand, 'Pinchinthorpe' [Guisborough, Yorkshire], n.d. [c.1910]


Photograph of the exterior of an imposing stone building of 2 storeys, with 6 bay windows and a garden of lawns and flowering shrubs in front of it, possibly Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire, n.d [c.1910]


Order of service for the marriage of Lavender M. Pease and W[illiam] S[andfield] Medlicott, at St. Nicholas' Church, Guisborough, Yorkshire, 5 October 1910


Photograph of a woman, in a blouse and skirt, holding a child, aged approximately 2 years, standing on the terrace of a house, the wall of which is covered in creeper; a child, aged approximately 4 years, is sitting on a wooden seat against the wall; a figure can be seen peering from, possibly a door of house; to the left of the woman are lawns and trees; the photograph is captioned, in a later hand 'H[elen] M[aud] P[ease], M[aud]M.P[ease], R[obert] Pease, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a small boy, aged approximately 4 years, wearing a large hat, standing near the waterline on a beach, with his back to the camera, captioned, in a later hand, 'R[obert] P[ease], Falmouth, Cornwall, n.d. [1900s]


Duplicate of 501


Photograph showing 4 men, with their backs to the camera, standing on a boulder-strewn fellside, with fells in the distance, looking at 2 horses which are grazing and at approximately 10 dogs which are sitting and standing near the men and horses, n.d. [1890s - 1900s]


Photograph of a fellside, with other fells in the distance, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a baby wearing an elaborate bonnet, in front of the fabric of a beach shelter and with a bucket in front of her, captioned, in a later hand, 'H[elen]M[aud] P[ease], 1902'


Photograph showing a man, sitting in a deckchair behind 2 women, before whom is a boy, aged approximately 4 years, before the terrace and façade of Hurworth Moor, captioned: H[oward]Hodgkin], R[obert] P[ease], 'Lottie'[Sarah Charlotte Hodgkin, nee Pease], n.d. [1900s] Howard and Lottie's son Andrew was born in 1899


Photograph of a young woman and a young girl, wearing jackets and caps, sitting before a drystone wall, with a field and hills behind them, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a horse, standing in a field, with part of a lighthouse visible behind it, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a horse grazing in a field, with trees in the distance, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a horse grazing in a field, with a hedge and a house in the distance, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a light-coloured horse suckling a foal, standing in a field, n.d. [1890s-1900s]


Photograph of a boy, aged approximately 4 years, sitting on a horse with a girl, aged approximately 12 years, standing at its head, with part of a brick building and part of a wooden building behind them, 1900s


Photograph, as in (581), taken closer up, and captioned: 'M[ary] C[ecilia] P[ease] and R[obert] P[ease]', 1900s


Photograph of 2 horses, standing in a field, with a house, as in (579), in the distance, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph, close up, of a horse standing in a field, with a house, as in (579) and (583) behind it, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph, close up, of the face of a horse, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of the funeral procession, most likely of King Edward VII, showing the coffin, on the left of the picture, drawn by 8 horses, with mourners walking either side of the horses and coffin; the procession is passing a large unidentified building, possibly in Whitehall, London, with spectators at its windows; a stand full of spectators is built beside it, other spectators are standing, lining the route, 1910


Photograph, as in (586), with the coffin in the centre of the picture, 1910


Photograph of part of Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, with a man in each standing in front of the stones, captioned: 'Lord Ludlow B. In. Portsmouth and H.B.P., October 1898'


Cartoon purporting to illustrate Pax Britannica, a poem by Alfred Austin, previously published in The Times, describing the fact that other nations of the world are seen as being jealous of British might; the cartoon shows jealous martial figures, representing Germany, Russia and France; the British Lion is shown stirring and crisping her mane [assisted by Kitchener] and, as a fierce lion, confronting her foes [or clothes according to the cartoon], 24 November 1898


Scrapbook entitled 'Cuttings', headed 'Begun Sunday 4 January 1925', 1925-1930
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Photograph of the ruins of Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, captioned: From Mary, [Mary Cecilia Pease, daughter of Edward and Helen Blanche Lloyd Pease] Saltburn, Yorkshire 1923


Photograph of the interior of the Sainte Chapelle, Paris, France, captioned 'From Mary, Paris, 1909'


Photograph entitled: The Bridge, Drumnadrochit, [Glen Urqhart, Inverness[Scotland], captioned: 'From Mary, Glen Affric Hotel, 1924


Photograph captioned: 'School and Fisherman's Room built by Father [at] Durgan, [Constantine, Cornwall], from Lottie (S.C.H.), [Sarah Charlotte Hodgkin, nee Pease] 1924


Photograph of a man in hunting clothes, sitting on a horse, which is standing on a drive, with trees in the background, entitled 'Lloyd and Patricia', n.d. [c.1920]


Photograph of two elderly ladies in long dresses, entitled 'Aunt Helen and Aunt Lucy, Tremorgan, Cornwall', 1920


Photograph of elderly man in plus-fours standing on a gravel path, with a tree behind him, entitled 'Howard Fox, Rosehill, Falmouth, Cornwall, with birds', n.d. [c.1920] Howard Fox (1836-1922)


Three photographs of a small boy, practising hockey and cricket on a field, with trees behind, entitled 'Michael [Pease, son of Edward and Helen Blanche Lloyd Pease] 1903 - 1904, St. Peter's Court' 1903-1904


Photograph of a small boy standing in a field, with a house, trees, and people, in the distance, entitled 'Henry, [Henry Alfred Pease, son of Edward and Helen Blanche Lloyd Pease] St. Peter's Court, 1904'


Photograph of a corner of a room, with 3 pictures on the wall, a bookcase, and a cupboard, entitled 'Michael's Study' Marlborough', [Marlborough School, Wiltshire], n.d. [1904 - 1909]


Photograph of three men, bending over on a path, with lawns, flower beds and trees on either side, entitled 'Gardens at Hurworth Moor', n.d. [c.1910]


Photograph of 'Michael Robert Mary Cyril Helen Henry' [children of Edward and Helen Blanche Lloyd Pease] sitting under a tree, 1915


Photograph of 5 young men, in suits, sitting in front of woodland, entitled 'A failure of John Hodgkin', n.d. [c.1915]


Photograph showing 2 men and a woman, with spades, and with woodland behind them, entitled 'Mary', n.d. [c.1915]


Photograph entitled 'Michael Robert Cyril Helen Mary Harry Lloyd 1915' [Edward Lloyd Pease and his children] showing 7 people, seated in front of woodland, 1915


Photograph of four girls playing with a penny-farthing bicycle in front of woodland, entitled 'Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Molly', n.d. [c.1915]


Postcard photograph of the exterior of a country house, in the distance, and a ruin, in the foreground, entitled 'Hawarden Castle' [Flintshire, North Wales], 1924


Photograph of a full-length portrait of an army officer, with the following words inscribed on it: 'Hn Gladstone 1915'


Postcard photograph, entitled: The Royal Gallery at Windsor November 17 th 1907, showing H.M.King Edward VII and H.M. Queen Alexandra, surrounded by 22 members of European Royal Families, all of whom are named, 1907


Photograph of a young woman playing the violin, signed 'Maud E. Gladstone', 1922


Photograph of a young man standing in front of, and a woman standing behind, a garden gate, with a tree and a house behind, entitled 'Harry & L. Bassett' [Henry Alfred Pease], n.d. [c.1920]


Photograph of the exterior of a house, with lawns and trees in front, entitled 'H.M.W.' 'Park Hall, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, 1920


Photograph of the exterior of part of a house, with a path and lawn in front entitled 'H.E.B.', 'Strathmashire'[?], 1922'


Photograph of the exterior of a house, behind trees, entitled: 'St. Michael's Cottage 1918'


Postcard photograph, showing the exterior of a castellated house, entitled Barmoor 1899 - 1913, inscribed: 'From Aunt Lucy & Violet Jan 1 1914'


Photograph of a young boy, standing at the bottom of slope, outside a building, entitled: 'Harry, [Henry Alfred Pease] St. Peter's Court 1906'


Photograph of a portrait of Edward Pease, in frock coat, depicted before a locomotive and train on the Stockton-Darlington Railway, n.d. [1830s-1840s]


4 photographs of drawings of the First Railway Ticket Office - Goods Warehouse; Millbank Corner - Tubwell Row; Northgate, Darlington - duplicates of D/X 1667/11/35, 36; photographs taken, n.d. [20th century]


Photograph of a prospectus for the Darlington-Stockton Railway, 1821


Engraving of the exterior of the British and Foreign School Society's North of England Training College for Mistresses, Vane Terrace, Darlington, erected 1875; engraving made, n.d. [19th century]


Photograph of 'Lighthouse Rocks, Arranmore, County Donegal, Ireland, n.d. [c.1920]


Photograph of cliffs at Arranmore, County Donegal, Ireland, n.d. [c.1920]


Photograph of the exterior of Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, in the distance, n.d. [c.1920]


Photograph of the interior of the ruins of Lindisfarne Abbey, Holy Island, Northumberland, n.d. [c.1920]


Invitation, addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, by Lady Wrightson, Neasham Hall, Darlington, to attend an At Home on the occasion of the marriage of her daughter, Hope, to Major Alexander Wise, 21 February 1923


Invitation, addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease & Family, by Lady Annabel Dodds on the marriage of her daughter, Sibyl, to Major Edward North Buxton at Holy Trinity, Brompton, London, 6 June 1924


Invitation, addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease, by Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Wilson, on the marriage of their daughter, Catharine Claudia, to John Charles Newport Epstein, at the Oratory, Hayley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 27 July 1923


Invitation, addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease & Miss Helen Pease, by Lord and Lady Gainford, to attend the marriage of their daughter, Faith, to Michael Wentworth Beaumont, 29 February 1924


Invitation, addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Pease by Mr. & Mrs. Creswell-Ward, on the marriage of their daughter, Mona Georgina, to Ernest Anthony Meek, M.C., at All Saints' Church, Hurworth, 22 October 1924


Cast list of, and list of scenes for, a production of The Pink Elephant, by Henry A. Pease, all of the actors being members of the Pease family, n.d. [20th century]


Postcard photograph of a part of a trug, containing mistletoe, taken by A. Haller, and addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Pease, by Elizabeth Leighton-[Lee], School of Horticulture, Ambler, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 16 December 1920


Verse referring to a recently deceased woman,[Helen Ann Pease, wife of Alfred Edward Pease of Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire,who died on 4 November 1910], headed 'Christmas Day, Pisa, [Italy] 1910 with best wishes for the coming year 1911', with the initials, G.M., at the end of the verse, 1910


Christmas card, including a photograph of H.M.S. Malaya, sent from that ship by Simon Barrett, n.d. [c. 1920]


Christmas card, sent from H.M.S. Vampire, by Simon Barrett, n.d. [c.1920-1930]


Christmas card, including a sketch of H.M.S. Victory and a sketch of a larger ship, sent from the Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth, Hampshire, by Simon Barrett, n.d. [c.1920-1930]


Watercolour of hills, with a plain and sheep in the foreground, n.d. [20th century]


Postcard, addressed to Mrs. Lloyd Pease, Hurworth Moor, Darlington, from E., Grand Hotel, Florence, Italy, wishing the addressee a Happy Easter and commenting that the 'Perugini Madonna' on the front of the card was described '20 years ago' by a member of the Hodgkin family as 'mother's portrait', [possibly Sarah Charlotte Hodgkin, nee Pease],16 April 1924


Photograph of a woman, holding a baby, with countryside in the background, entitled 'M.C.M[ Mary Cecilia Mounsey, nee Pease] & Dorothy 1923'


Photograph of two children, each sitting on a donkey, with a woman between them, on a beach with houses behind, entitled 'Dorothy Nurse Priscilla' [the children of Reginald and Mary Cecilia Mounsey], n.d. [1920s]


Photograph of a man, sitting on a wicker chair in an open wooden building, holding a baby, entitled 'R.J.M. & Dorothy [Reginald J. Mounsey and his daughter] 1923', 1923


Photograph of three small children, playing on a beach near the sea ,with a woman, standing in the distance near the sea wall, entitled 'Sandsend 1924 Priscilla Dorothy' [Priscilla and Dorothy, children of Reginald and Mary Cecilia Mounsey], 1924


Photograph of a bride, four bridesmaids, a matron of honour, and a bridegroom, posed against the exterior of a house, identified, as follows: back row, from left to right, at back: R[eginald] J.M[ounsey]; middle row, from left to right: Rachel H. Pease, M[ary]C[ecilia]M[ounsey], Barbara Jeffreys, Sheila Mounsey; front row, from left to right: Rachel Wallis, Violet Wilson, 14 September 1921


Photograph of Reginald and Mary's wedding showing a group posed against the exterior of a house, identified as: back row, left to right: M[ichael] L[loyd] P[ease], R[eginald] J. P[ease], H[elen] B[lanche]P[ease], E[dward] L[loyd] P[ease], Sheila Mounsey; middle row, left to right: Rachel Pease, Mary [Cecilia Mounsey, nee Pease], Barbara Jefferys; front row, left to right: Rachel Wallis, Violet Wilson, 1921


Photograph of the bride, the bridegroom, 4 bridesmaids, and a maid of honour, posed against the exterior of a house, 14 September 1921


Photograph of 4 men, in wedding clothes, posed against trees; identified, right to left as: H[enry] A[lfred] P[ease], M[ichael] L[loyd] P[ease], R[obert] P[ease], C[yril]P[ease], 14 September 1921


Photograph of the bride and bridegroom, posed against the exterior of a house,[most likely Hurworth Moor],14 September 1921


Photograph of wedding guests, walking in a garden, 14 September 1921


Photograph of wedding guests, and cars parked in a field, 14 September 1921


Photograph of a bridegroom, identified as Sandy Medlicott and his bride, identified as Lavender [Pease, daughter of Alfred Edawrd Pease of Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire], standing in front of a bench on a lawn, with trees in the background, October 1910


Photograph of, possibly, the best man, 3 bridesmaids, the bride and groom, identified, from left to right, as C[hristopher] Y[ork] P[ease], Blanche Buxton, S.W.M. & Lavender, Miriam B.P[ease], the Hon. Bruce Chaloner, October 1910


Photograph of 3 bridesmaids, posed in a garden with a greenhouse in the distance, identified as, from left to right: M[iriam]B[lance] P[ease], B[ruce]C[haloner], B[lanche] E[mily] B[uxton], October 1910


Photograph of three young men in wedding clothes, posed on a bench in a garden, with trees in the background, identified as, from left to right: Cyril [Pease], Joseph [Pease, later 2nd Baron Gainford], Christopher [York Pease, brother of the bride] October 1910


Photograph of four young people sitting on the steps of a house, with a spaniel, identified as follows: from left to right: Edwy, Becky, Joey, Rosie (dog), Blanche Buxton, 1913


Photograph of a boy, sitting on a stool, on a drive, in front of part of a house, holding a spaniel which is standing on its hind legs, identified as Joey and Rosy, 1913


Photograph of a close-up of a baby wearing a bonnet, identified as Helen, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a small child holding a doll, sitting on a toy cart in a doorway, with a woman sitting behind her and with a small boy on the right, identified as: 'Helen in "Billy Cart", H[elen] B[lanche] P[ease] and Robert, n.d. [1900s]


Photograph of a girl sitting in what appears to be a doorway to a garage, possibly, holding the dog, Rosy, with a maid in uniform on the right, identified as H[elen] M[aud] P[ease], n.d. [c.1913]


Photograph of the head and shoulders of a middle-aged man and woman, identified as 'Claudia & Alfred [Wilson], Silver Wedding, n.d. [1923]


Photograph of a wedding group, posed on a lawn, against a background of trees, identified as Alfred, Claudia, Joey, Kitty, John Epstein, Cecilie, Tangy, Marjory, Mr. Epstein, Mrs. Epstein, 27 July 1923


Photograph of the exterior of a brick house, with long sash windows, showing people emerging from 2 of the windows, and a woman, standing on a lawn and holding a paper, captioned: 'Haughton-le-Skerne W.I. Sale 1923'


Page of the Northern Echo, showing scenes of visitors and exhibitions at the Railway Centenary Exhibition, Darlington, 2 July 1925


Photograph of a timetable, in the possession of Harrison and Son, 'The County Goldsmiths', Darlington, for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Summer 1837


Postcard photograph of Engine No. 1 [Stephenson's Locomotion] at Darlington Station, n.d. [c.1910]


Newspaper cutting, entitled 'Merrie England Again', by Wilson K. Midgley, n.d. [20th century]


Newspaper cutting, from The Times, entitled 'Mr. E[dward] N[orth] Buxton. The Saving of Epping Forest', n.d. [20th century]


Newspaper cutting, from the Darlington and Stockton Times, entitled 'Women's Institutes. County Gathering at Darlington', n.d. [20th century]


Newspaper cutting, from The Newcastle [ .], entitled: 'Women's Institutes Movement. Spirit of Vitality. County of Durham Federation', n.d. [20th century]


Invitation card, issued by the Chairman and Directors of the London & North Eastern Railway Company, to Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, to attend the opening of the Historical Railway Exhibition in the Faverdale Wagon Works, Darlington,1 July 1925


Ticket admitting Mrs. E.L. Pease to the Opening of the Exhibition in Faverdale Wagon Works, Darlington, 1 July 1925


Invitation, issued by the Chairman and Directors of the London & North Eastern Railway Company, to Mrs. E.L. Pease, to attend the Commemoration of the Railway Centenary at Stockton and Darlington, 2 July 1925


Ticket, issued to Mrs. E.L. Pease, to attend the Historic Procession of Locomotives and Rolling Stock over the Route of the Old Stockton and Darlington Railway, 2 July 1925


Newspaper cutting, entitled 'Gale Wrecks Train on a Viaduct. Four People Killed. Ten Others Injured. Hurled 40 feet Over A Parapet in County Donegal, Ireland', n.d. [1925] [Owencarrow Disaster]


Blank invitation card, issued by the Chairman and Members of the Education and Maternity and Child Welfare Committees of the Hartlepool Corporation, on the occasion of the opening of the School Clinic and Child Welfare Centre, Frederic Street, 2 September 1925


Newspaper cutting containing light verse, demonstrating the influence of 'Mrs. Grundy', n.d. [20th century]


Photograph of Cyril, Harry and Mary, [children of Edward and Helen Blanche Lloyd Pease], n.d. [20th century]


Order of Proceedings, of a Special Meeting of the Town Council of the County Borough of Darlington, for the purpose of conferring the Honorary Freedom of the Borough upon Alderman T.E.B. Bates, O.B.E., J.P., 2 March 1925


Invitation, issued to Mrs. Lloyd Pease to attend the Special Meeting of the Town Council, 2 May 1925


Newspaper cutting, entitled 'The Cradle of Railways. How Shildon was Transformed from a Weaving to an Industrial Centre. Life's Work of Timothy Hackworth', n.d. [20th century]


Newspaper cutting, from The Northern Echo, entitled 'Duke of York Inaugurates The Railway Celebrations', 2 July 1925


Newspaper cutting of a photograph of a man, dressed in the costume of the 1820s, riding a horse along the railway, followed by Locomotion, 1925


Photograph of Hetton Colliery Loco 0.4.0, 'Built 1822 by George Stephenson & Nicholas Wood at Hetton Colliery Workshops. Engine rebuilt 1859 & 1882 when present link motion was fitted', n.d. [late 19th-early 20th century]


Photograph of 'The Derwent 1845 Mineral Engine, Timothy Hackworth design made by W. & A. Kitching, Hopetown Works', n.d. [20th century]


Photograph of a locomotive, no. 2395 'Garrat Type', n.d. [c.1925] [the most powerful steam locomotive to run in Britain]


Photograph of 'Pacific LNER H. Gresley', n.d. [20th century] [the Sir Nigel Gresley 1863 was built in 1937]


Newspaper cutting, from The Northern Echo, entitled: 'Royal Visitors at Stockton' 'Six Miles Long Pageant of Century's Railway Progress, Railways Then and Now', 3 July 1925


Newspaper cutting, from The Northern Echo, entitled 'Scenes in Railway Celebration', 3 July 1925


Photograph of a bride and groom, leaving a church, with huntsmen holding their whips over them, and crowds on either side, described as the 'Wedding of Sybil Fitzroy & Major Beattie', Croft, Yorkshire, 1925


Photograph of Sybil Fitzroy, and her father, walking between crowds to the church for her wedding, Croft, 1925


Newspaper cutting, from the Darlington and Stockton Times, entitled 'Lumley Castle Fete', 'Bishop's Stirring Appeal', 'Durham's Burden of Sickness', 1924


Newspaper cutting of a portrait of the head and shoulders of King George V, entitled 'A New Picture', 'King George. This is What is Known as a Pastel Portrait', n.d. [c.1920]


Newspaper cutting, containing a drawing of the buildings of the Darlington Memorial Hospital as it is to be when completed; a description of the proposed hospital; a description of hospital provision in Darlington; and an appeal for subscriptions, 1925


Postcard photograph of the interior of the King's Hall, Bamburgh, Northumberland, 1925


Photograph of the exterior of Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland, from the south-west, 1925


Photograph of the 'East Procession Door and Arcade', at Melrose Abbey, 1925


Photograph of the 'North Side of [the interior of] Presby[tery]', Melrose Abbey, 1925


Photograph of the 'E[ast End] of Presb[ytery], Melrose Abbey, 1925


Photograph of the interior of the south transept, Melrose Abbey, 1925


Photograph of a group of six adults, and one standing alone,against a wall, on the exterior of Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, identified, from left to right, as 'Henry Glaizyer, H[elen]B[lanche]P[ease], E.W.P., Marion Fox, Anita Glaizyer, Pocock, Fox, July 1925


Photograph of a 'gargoyle at Melrose Pig Playing Bagpipes' [Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland], 1925


Photograph of 2 small girls, each on a donkey, entitled: 'Dorothy & Priscilla' [children of Reginald and Mary Mounsey], Sandsend, Whitby, Yorkshire, 1924


Photograph of 2 small girls, each on a donkey, entitled 'Dorothy & Priscilla, Sandsend, 1924


Photograph of 2 small girls, standing on sand, with a bridge in the background, entitled: 'Dorothy and Priscilla, Sandsend, 1924'


Photograph of 2 small girls, sitting on a tree stump, with a tree trunk behind them, entitled: 'Dorothy & Priscilla, August 1925'


Photograph of a middle-aged woman, holding a small child on her knee, with another small girl immediately behind her; an elderly man and woman and 2 young men, trees and masonry are also behind her, 1926


Photograph of a small child, standing in a field, entitled: 'Anthony E. Mounsey,[ son of Reginald and Mary Mounsey] 1926'


Photograph of a small girl standing on a tree trunk, entitled 'Dorothy, 1925'


Photograph of a group of 8 adults, and 4 children, sitting on a lawn in front of a house, September 1926


Photograph of 4 men, seated one behind the other on a lawn with a house behind them , entitled: 'M[ichael] L[loyd] P[ease], [Robert] P[ease], H[enry] A[lfred] P[ease], E[dward]P[ease], September 1926


Photograph, close-up, of a baby, held by unidentified hands, the baby is identified as 'R.D.M.', n.d. [c.1926] [David Reginald Mounsey was born 1925 to Reginald Joseph and Mary Cecilia (nee Pease)]


Photograph of the head and torso of a small girl, standing near trees, with a perambulator in the background, identified as 'D[orothy ] H[elen] M[ounsey]', n.d. [c.1926] [Dorothy Helen born 1922 to Reginald and Mary Cecilia Mounsey]


Photograph of the head and torso of a small girl, standing in front of a bush and part of a brick wall, identified as 'P[riscilla] M[ary] M[ounsey]', n.d. [c.1926] [Priscilla Mary born 1923 to Reginald and Mary Cecilia Mounsey]


Photograph, full-length, of a small girl standing on a lawn, identified as 'P[riscilla] M[ary] M[ounsey]', n.d. [c.1926]


Photograph of a small boy, holding the handle of a toy, or trolley, on a lawn, identified as 'A[nthony] E[dward]M[ounsey]', n.d. [c.1926] [Anthony Edward born 1924 to Reginald and Mary Cecilia Mounsey]


Photograph of a middle-aged woman, 2 small boys and 2 small girls, standing, with a hedge behind them, and houses in the distance, identified as, from left to right, Dorothy, Anthony, Priscilla, 'Grannie', David, [the children of Reginald and Mary Mounsey, and Helen Blanche Pease, the children's grandmother], in a wind at High Linhams, Darlington, n.d. [1926]


Photograph of a group of 10 adults and 4 children, sitting on a lawn in front of a house, n.d. [c.1926]


Newspaper cutting, from Modern Transport, showing a picture of, and, biography of, Lord Gainford, who has just been elected President of the Federation of British Industries, 2 April 1927


Newspaper cutting, from the Radio Times, containing a message from Lord Gainford, assuring continuity of services, as the British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation; containing photographs of the head and shoulders of the Directors of the British Broadcasting Company, from 1922 to 1926, as follows: left to right: Major Basil Binyon; Rt. Hon. Sir William Bell, bt., M.P. (Vice-Chairman); Rt. Hon. Lord Gainford (Chairman); J.C.W. Reith (Managing Director); Mr. G.W. Burnham; Mr. John Gray; Rt. Hon. F.G. Kellaway; Mr. A. McKinstry; Sir William Noble; Mr. H.M. Pease, 24 December 1926


Newspaper cutting, from the Evening Despatch, reporting the funeral of the late Alderman W.E. Pease, M.P., 27 January 1926


Newspaper cutting, reporting the death of Alderman W.E. Pease, M.P., 25 January 1926


Order of service for the memorial service of William Edwin Pease, M.P. (3 June 1865 - 23 January 1926) in the church of Darlington, St. Cuthbert, 27 January 1926


Newspaper cutting, describing the cremation of J[onathan]B[ackhouse] Hodgkin of Elm Ridge, Darlington, 30 April 1926


In Memoriam card for Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin of Elm Ridge, Darlington, who died 26 April 1926


Photograph of a path, running away from the camera, with a profusion of trees and vegetation on either side, n.d. [c.1930]


Photograph of a path, running away from the camera, with a profusion of trees and vegetation on either side, n.d. [c.1930]


Photograph of an elderly woman, sitting, on a terrace, with a tiled floor, next to tub containing a shrub, and with the walls of a building behind her, n.d. [c.1930]


Postcard photograph showing the exterior of a building, identified as Nether Grange Alnmouth (6548) Northumberland, with the words 'Aunt Helen's Home', written beside it in pencil, n.d. [c.1930]


Description of the functions and benefits of the Organization For the Maintenance of Supplies, Darlington Rural District, n.d. [c.1939]


Description of the functions and benefits of the Organization For the Maintenance of Supplies, issued centrally, n.d. [c.1939]


Form E.F.1, explaining the objects of the Organization For the Maintenance of Supplies and how to enrol, n.d. [c.1939]


Note, indicating that, at the meeting of the local Committee of the Organisation For the Maintenance of Supplies, it was agreed to ask members of Darlington Rural District Council to do their utmost to encourage enrolment in the Organization, n.d. [c.1939]


Order of Proceedings for the Foundation Stone-Laying Ceremony of the Darlington Memorial Hospital by The Rt. Hon. Lord Daryngton, P.C., D.L., at The 'Elms', Hollyhurst Road, Darlington, 26 June 1926


Ticket, issued to Mrs. E. Lloyd Pease, for the Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of Darlington Memorial Hospital, 26 June 1926


Newspaper cutting, containing a caricature of those taking part in the stone-laying ceremony for Darlington Memorial Hospital, as follows: Lord Daryngton; The Chairman, Mr. Reginald Pease, J.P.; The Mayor, Councillor A.J. Best; Alderman T. Bates, Chairman of the War Memorial Committee; Rev. Canon Cosgrave, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Darlington; Rev. R.F. Drury, Vicar of Darlington; Mr. A. Shepherd, M.P.; Mr. M.G. Steavenson, former Town Clerk of Darlington, 28 June 1926


Cartoon, in water-colour, purporting to show the cook, at Farncombe, the worse for drink; the caption reads as follows: 'Dear Blanche - Thank you for telling me of what is going on at Farncombe It is grievous that Claudia should witness these things but she will not have realised it - A EP', n.d. [c.1930]


Photograph of 3 children on ponies, and one on a horse, standing in front of stables, identified as, from left to right: 'Rachel H. Pease, Ingram S. Pease [the children of Christopher York Pease] and Dionysia Medlicott, Helen V. Medlicott [the children of Lavender Medlicott, nee Pease]', n.d. [c.1930]


Photograph of the exterior of a building, with a gable, bearing the date 1895, 4 windows and 4 doors, at one of which a woman is standing; the building is identified as 'Mary Pease Almshouses', Darlington, n.d. [20th century]


Photograph, close-up, of a woman, identified as Mrs. Hutchinson, in a dark dress with a light-coloured apron, standing at a door of the Mary Pease Almshouses, Darlington, n.d. [c.1930]


Newspaper photograph of the head and shoulders of Lord Gainford printed in the Times Trade Supplement published to mark his election as President of the Federation of British Industries, 1 April 1927


Newspaper cutting containing a letter from A.E. McNay, Eryholme, Yorkshire, to the editor of the Darlington & Stockton Times, concerning the Foundation Charter of Neasham Priory, 11 August 1926


Newspaper cutting, concerning the observation of Royal Oak Day at Durham Cathedral, n.d. [c.1930]


Strip of 3 photographs, showing a middle-aged woman walking down a street towards the camera, captioned: 'Maud M. Pease, Folkstone, Kent, 1928'


Christmas card, addressed to Mrs. Lloyd Pease from the Women of the United Service Club, 1915


Photograph of the head and torso of Edward North Buxton, in the uniform of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1914


Newspaper cutting, recording the death of Mrs. Helen Maria Pease of Nether Grange, Alnmouth, Northumberland, n.d. [1928] Helen Maria Fox (1838-1928) (daughter of Alfred and Susan (nee Lloyd), brother of Howard Fox) married John William Pease (1836-1901) in 1860


Photograph of two women, and two men, in country clothes, on a hillside, with a dog; they are identified as follows:'Timmy, Edwy, Harry, Strathmashire, August 1926', 1926


Photograph of a middle-aged woman, and a young man, standing on a garden path, with a terrier dog, identified as 'Maud Pease; Harry Pease & Peter, St. Michael's Cottage', n.d. [c.1930]


Newspaper cutting, reporting the marriage of Michael Wentworth Beaumont, Coldstream Guards, Wotton House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, son of the late Hon. Hubert Beaumont, to Hon. Faith Pease, second daughter of Lord and Lady Gainford of Headlam Hall, Gainford, 1924


Newspaper cutting, reporting a sale of work, in aid of the Durham County Nursing Association, at Headlam Hall, Darlington, 1926


Copy of part of a letter, from James N. Richardson to G.H. Fox (Uncle George), commiserating on the death of the addressee's brother-in-law, Sir J[oseph] W[hitwell] Pease, and mentioning the writer's memories of their boyhood, youth, and days in Parliament together, 24 June 1907


Newspaper photograph, in the Northern Echo, of Sir Alfred Pease patting a horse, winner of the King's Champion Challenge Cup for Cleveland Bays, belonging to William Grayson, Pickering, Yorkshire, 1927


Newspaper photograph of the head and shoulders of Gertrude Bell, daughter of Sir Hugh Bell, Ironmaster, and Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner of Iraq, 1926


Watercolour, depicting a woman, dressed in the clothes of the 18th century, blowing tobacco fumes from the bowl of a pipe down its stem, which is fixed in the ear of a man, also dressed in 18th century clothing; the drawing is signed E. A; beneath the drawing is a remedy for earache, recommending the blowing of tobacco fumes into the affected ear, couched in the language and spelling of the 18th century; the picture and remedy are described as 'Lydia Richardsons Recipes Vol. 1', n.d. [19th century]


Watercolour drawing on paper, endorsed: Hurworth Moor, Darlington, of a man, with his left arm in a sling, and plasters on his cheeks and right hand, pointing to a cage, containing an owl; beneath are the words 'A.A. Johnstone Collector of Customs Barberton [South Africa] the day after receiving a present from the R.M. of a 'tame' Eagle Owl to R.M. 'I say when you had this owl did you often handle it?', n.d. [20th century]


Watercolour drawing of a child, in pyjamas, dressing gown, and solar topee, facing the observer, with the sea, and a domed building behind him, and a porcupine on his left, with the caption: 'Christopher [ Christopher York Pease, son of Alfred Edward Pease] as he appears on the balcony every morning at 5 am', n.d. [c.1890]


Watercolour drawing of a man wearing a white suit and solar topee, facing the observer, with a small table bearing a bottle, a parapet and a palm tree behind him and a striped pig beside him on his left, with the caption: 'Alfred E[dward] Pease, Biskra', Algeria, n.d. [c.1895]


Photograph of a round cactus, on a log with seashells round it, described as a 'Sun Fish', n.d.


Photograph of a young girl, wearing a gym slip and a straw hat, standing on turf, with an arcade behind her, in which a man is sitting at a table, captioned: 'Helen 1908'


Photograph of a young girl in a gym slip standing beneath a tree in blossom against a house, captioned: 'Helen & Apple Tree 1909'


Photograph showing an elderly woman, apparently sitting either side of a small table, pouring tea from a teapot into a cup, against a wall, captioned: 'Faked photograph of S.C. Hodgkin J.A.M.', n.d. [20th century] [perhaps Sarah Charlotte Hodgkin (nee Pease) (1858-1929), wife of Howard Hodgkin, daughter of Joseph Whitwell Pease]


Photograph of a middle-aged and an elderly woman, sitting on a bench, with plants behind them, captioned: 'H[elen] B[lanche] Pease & Mrs. Pattison Biblewoman at Cockerton, died 19..', n.d. [c.1920]


Photograph of the exterior of a large stone house, with two wings and a garden right to its walls, identified as: 'Sledwich [Hall, Whorlton] 1912', 1912


Photograph of the same house, taken from the same direction, and showing steps and lawns where the garden had been previously, identified as: 'Sledwich [Hall, Whorlton] 1930', 1930


Photograph of an elderly man, in a suit and hat, standing on a path, with trees either side, and a small bird perched on his right hand, captioned: 'Howard Fox [of Rosehill, Falmouth, Cornwall] with Robin', n.d. [c.1920]


Photograph of path, running away from the camera, duplicate of (139), identified as being at 'Rise Hill', n.d. [c.1930]

Henry Pease (1807 - 1881) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/102-271)

son of Edward and Rachel (nee Whitwell)
married Mary Lloyd

Personal Records (Ref: D/X 1667/8/102-108)

Extracts from my beloved Husband's Journal', 4 January 1835 - 26 February 1869 The journal was kept by Henry Pease and the copy made by Mary Lloyd Pease, Henry Pease's second wife. He refers to a gift of £2,000 from his father, on 2 January 1850. A note on paper, headed Hurworth Moor, Darlington, reads 'Extracts from Journal of H. Pease'. Hurworth Moor, was the residence of Edward Lloyd Pease, son of Henry Pease and Mary, nee Lloyd. Edward Lloyd Pease outlived his elder half-brother, Henry Fell Pease, by at least two decades.
(1 volume, leather bound)


Phrenological Character of Henry Pease, given by L.N. Fowler, Practical Phrenologist, Darlington, 18 March 1864
(1 file)


Notebook, inscribed 'Henry Pease Darlington', 10 October 1821 Includes: 'After the Vacation in 1821' : accounts[crossed through]of purchases of paper, books, quills, a pane of glass, 10 August 1821- 6 May 1822 'After the Vacat 1822' : accounts of similar purchases, [crossed through], 8 October 1822 - 14 March 1823 1823 accounts of purchases of books and quills, 28 January 1823 - 25 December 1823 essay on the steam engine, n.d. 3 verses on the transitoriness of life, 1823 3 short prayers, n.d. sketch of a cistern, n.d. 2 geometrical figures, n.d.
(1 booklet)


'Henry Pease's house stock accounts, Darlington, 1835' The accounts list household items, alphabetically, and give the price, and supplier, of each item. Henry Pease married Anna Fell on 25 February 1835 and, consequently, left his parental home and set up his own establishment. The accounts record the purchases made by Henry Pease to this end. At end: list of 'accounts Wanting', 4 November 1835
(1 volume, paper bound; 1 paper)


Account, issued to Henry Pease, by Mewburn, Hutchinson & Mewburn, [solicitors], for expenses incurred in the purchase of property at Middleton St. George, in the purchase of Pierremont, and about a dispute concerning costs in the election in the constituency of South Durham, 17 September 1839 - 4 February 1848
(1 paper)


Vouchers and receipts, issued by tradesmen, and addressed to Henry Pease, May 1858 - November 1864 Includes: vouchers for work at Pierremont, receipts for the rent of Stanhope Castle, receipts for annuities payable to Anne Best, and vouchers for the purchase of photographs of Mr. & Mrs. Pease and Miss Pease
(39 papers)


Bill, including an engraving of the exterior of the hotel, issued by The Zetland Hotel, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, to Henry Pease, Esq., M.P., for a stay at the hotel on 20 - 22 October n.y., [late 19th century] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100 Hotel opened 1863
(1 paper)

Records of Property (Ref: D/X 1667/8/109-110)

27 October 1845 (1) John Hardcastle Bowman of Darlington, currier (2) Robert Thompson of Darlington, sharebroker Agreement for the conveyance, from (1) to (2), of the messuage of Pierremont, with garden, stables, outhouses, outoffices, and parcels of land adjoining (21a. 3r. 37p.); abutting, on the south, on the lane leading from Darlington to Cockerton; on the east on a close, formerly belonging to John Stainsby, and, later, to Michael Hardcastle; upon the north, upon Cockerbeck; upon the west, on a close, called Bridge End Close, formerly belonging to Thomas Pickering; (2) to pay (1) £500 of the purchase money, on the signing of this agreement; (1) to supply to (2) clear evidence of his title to the property, (1) to convey property to (2) by 23 November 1845, and (2) to pay remainder of purchase price at that date; (2) to have rents and income of property from 19 October 1845, and, if the conveyance does not take place on 27 November 1845, (2) will pay interest on the unpaid part of the purchase price at 5% p.a. Consideration: £5000 from (2) to (1) Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 paper)


Photograph of a painting, showing trees and a pond, with 5 cows standing in it, with, in the middle distance, a lawn with sheep, and in the far distance, the façade of an extensive country house, with three gables and tall Elizabethan-style chimneys; endorsed 'Pierremont from West? From painting bought by the late Dr. Sinclair at Hurworth Moor Sale', n.d. [late 19th century]; photograph taken, n.d. [20th century] Pierremont was built for Henry Pease in 1869
(1 photograph, 19 cm. x 14.5 cm., black and white)

Business Records (Ref: D/X 1667/8/111-113)

27 May 1831 (1) John Stainsby of Darlington, and Cornelius, his son (2) Henry Pease of Darlington, shirt manufacturer and merchant Apprenticeship indenture, whereby (1) is bound to (2) for the term of 7 years Attached on reverse: discharge, by 2 Justices of the Peace, of Cornelius Stainsby from his apprenticeship to Henry Pease, shirt manufacturer, on the grounds of his refusing to work and disobeying orders, 6 May 1833 The royal coat of arms on the discharge bears the Prince of Wales's feathers
(2 papers)


Copy letter from Henry Pease, Pierremont, Darlington, on behalf of 'Provl Director', to Thomas Boucher, C.E., asking for the latter's charges for seeing the bill for the Durham Barnard Castle Railway through the House of Commons, for supervising the scheme thereafter, for details of the scheme: 'are we liable to a charge from thee for needful explanations of the plans which were to be furnished to us on certain terms, and without which explanation the plans might be almost useless', 11 December 1852
(1 paper)


To The Young People and Others In The Employment of Henry Pease and Co. urging the employees to refrain from attending the proposed theatre in Darlington, issued by Henry Pease & Co., Darlington Mills, 2 November 1859
(1 paper, printed)

Literary works (Ref: D/X 1667/8/114-117a)

Text of a lecture, giving arguments for the existence of God, based on the intricacies of the human body, and on the evidence, to be found in the work of ancient historians, corroborative of the truth of the Bible, by H. Pease, 3 July 1839
(1 volume, paper bound)


Draft address to the Darlington Friends' Essay Society, most probably by Henry Pease, describing the County of Durham, and its inhabitants in 1844, 1844
(2 papers)


Richards's Universal Daily Remembrancer..., 1846 Contains: pp. 3-25, 51-52, 55 draft of a talk to the Mechanics Institute on the Bible, by Henry Pease, n.d. [1850s] pp. 27-33 draft talk, describing a journey through Belgium and Prussia to Russia, by Henry Pease and others, to see the Tsar of Russia, in an attempt to prevent the Crimean War, n.d. [1850s]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


The two midnight Prayers, verse by M.H.P., possibly Henry Pease, with manuscript annotation, 'Written at the time of the Crimean War', 1853 - 1856
(1 card, printed)


Description of the remarks, made by the members of the deputation of the Society of Friends, to the Emperor of Russia, emphasising that they spoke only for their own Society and other men of goodwill, that Christianity is a religion of peace, that they believe that international disputes should be settled by arbitration, that armaments should be reduced, that the misery of war usually fell on the innocent and that they wished for the temporal and spiritual prosperity of the Emperor, written by Henry Pease, n.d. [1850s] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/116
(1 papers)

Tickets, Menus, and Invitations (Ref: D/X 1667/8/118-123)

Pass for a Free Ticket - First Class, issued by the Railway Clearing House, 101, Seymour Street, Euston Square, London, to Henry Pease for a journey from London to Barnard Castle, March 1857
(1 paper)


Dinner Ticket, issued to Henry Fell Pease, at the 'Sod Cutting' of the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, 25 August 1857
(1 card, printed)


Menu for 'The Speaker's Dinner', 26 March 1859
(1 card, printed)


Invitation, issued to the Ex-Mayor of Darlington [Henry Pease], by 'The National Committee for The Reception of The King and Queen of the Belgians to view The National Address and Silver Casket on Saturday 29th January at the Mansion House [London]', 26 January 1870
(1 card, printed)


Menu for a dinner at Southfield Villas, addressed to 'Mr. Pease', 23 April 1874
(1 card, printed)


Sketch plan of a horse-shoe-shaped table, with the following initials and names along it: 'Lizzie; D[avid] Dale; M.H.P.; J[oseph] W[hitwell] P[ease]; Mrs. Dale; H[enry]P[ease]; M.A.P.; Alfred; Nellie; Cos. Arthur; W.W. Willmott; Frank; Fry; Lloyd; Mr. Coleby; Henry Fell; Hildreth; S.W. Wright; n.d. [1870s] Endorsed: papers for reference, 1876
(1 paper)

Eulogia and Obituaries (Ref: D/X 1667/8/124-128)

The Kings of British Commerce. Containing Notices and Portraits of Henry Pease, Esq., Joseph Whitwell Pease, Esq., M.P.; Arthur Pease, Esq., and Henry W.F. Bolckow, Esq., M.P., published by S. Deacon & Co., 150 Leadenhall Street, London, n.d. [1875] Includes: photographs of the head and torso of Henry Pease by James Cooper, Darlington; Joseph Whitwell Pease, by Window and Grove, Baker Street, London; Arthur Pease, by James Cooper, Darlington; Henry W.F. Bolckow, M.P., photographs taken by Window & Grove, Baker Street, London
(1 volume, paper bound, printed)


The Northern Echo, pp. 1-8, containing the report of the death of, and memoir of, Henry Pease, 31 May 1881
(1 paper, printed)


In Affectionate Remembrance of Henry Pease, Who Died May 30th, 1881, Aged 74 years, describing Henry Pease's religious life and his last days, n.d. [1881]
(1 booklet, printed)


Funeral of the late Mr. Henry Pease, instructions issued to 'Representatives of the Corporations, Societies, and Companies who have intimated their desire to attend the Funeral of the late Mr. Henry Pease' to arrange themselves in the stated 'order of precedence' on the main road, adjoining Pierremont Gates, at Half-past Two o'clock in the Afternoon of Friday, June 3rd' [1881]
(1 card, printed)


Verse In Memoriam: The Late Henry Pease, Esquire of Darlington (Commonly called and styled 'The King of Darlington') by The Poet Close Composed as soon as we heard of his Death at Bowness, Windermere, [Westmorland], Sunday, June 5th, 1881, published and sold by 'Poet Close' at his Book-Stall, on Cragg Brow, Bowness-on-Windermere, until the end of September next, when he goes home to Kirby-Stephen [Westmorland] for the Winter, 1881 Annotated: '£520,000' indicating Henry Pease's wealth at death
(1 paper, printed)

Correspondence (Ref: D/X 1667/8/129-271)Album of letters received (Ref: D/X 1667/8/129)

Scrapbook containing letters sent to Henry Pease by well-known people, 1851-1883
(1 volume)


Letter from A P Stanley, The Deanery, Westminster, London, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for his invitation to Darlington and hoping that he will be able to come on the 22 of the following month, 27 December 1877 Arthur Penryhn Stanley (13 December 1815 - 18 July 1881), Dean of Westminster (1864 - 1881)


Letter from A.P. Stanley, Deanery, Westminster, London, to Mary Pease, thanking her for her hospitality on his visit to Darlington and asking to be remembered to Thomas Hodgkin, 18 February 1878 Thomas Hodgkin (1831 - 1913)


Photograph of the head and shoulders of William Ewart Gladstone, c.1880 W.E. Gladstone (1809 - 1898), Prime Minister, 1868 - 1874; 1880 - 1885; 1886; 1892 - 1894


Letter from W.E. Gladstone, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, to Henry Pease, esq., M.P., declining Henry Pease's invitation to deliver a lecture or address and to stay with Henry and Mrs. Pease, 15 September 1857


Letter from W.E. Gladstone, 11 Carlton House Terrace, London, to Henry Pease, esq., M.P., thanking the addressee for a 'kind present and the still more acceptable note which accompanied it: yet I can say with truth that the anxieties of my office, at a period like this when so much pressure is concentrated upon it renders the expression of your favourable judgement peculiarly welcome'; referring to the fact that he has 'striven hard against what I think very dangerous tendencies: but I fear the time be near when it will require some stronger hands than mine to keep them in check' W.E. Gladstone was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1859 to 1865


Letter from 'W. E. Gladstone, 11 Carlton House Terrace, London, to Henry Pease, responding to a request concerning Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister, that he should, possibly, visit Darlington: 'I feel myself unable to advise as to your request, for I feel that if I were Lord Palmerston's medical man I should advise him to decline it. Nevertheless after his successful expedition to Scotland, I should not be at all surprised at his accepting. This I must add: I can bear testimony that this place & its circumstances are all worthy the view of any man interested in the progress of the country, much more than of its Prime Minister', 14 July 1863 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784 - 1865), Prime Minister, 1855 - 1858, 1859 - 1865


Letter from Lord Palmerston, 94 Piccadilly, London, to Henry Pease, enclosing a note from Sir Edward Cust concerning the etiquette required at a royal levee, offering to introduce Henry Pease at a levee, and remarking that the levee on the following Wednesday was to be held by the Prince Consort, on behalf of Queen Victoria, 12 May 1861


Letter from Sir Edward Cust, Leasowe Castle, Birkenhead, Cheshire, to Lord Palmerston, concerning the 'Court difficulties to a Quaker' which are 'I apprehend threefold bowing kneeling kissing hands', reassuring Lord Palmerston that 'Few indeed ever go upon their knees - it is a mere inclination of the body with the knee, a motion, which is shuffled through without any monitor and would not I am sure distress any Quaker gentleman - The kissing hands is a mere token of allegiance as bowing is of courtesy - and I am quite sure that when your friend sees the ceremony he will find nothing to shock the tenderest conscience', 3 May 1861 Sir Edward Cust (1794 - 1878) was Master of Ceremonies to Queen Victoria


Letter from W. Brougham, Brougham Hall, Westmorland, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for his letter, assuring him 'how glad I shall be to do all in my power to bring Westmorland nearer to Durham than it now is', and remarking that 'We are to have a meeting at Appleby [Westmorland] on the 24th at which I hope to have the satisfaction of seeing you, and of making your acquaintance e', 19 November 1857 William Brougham, (1795 - 1886), M.P. for Southwark, Surrey, 1831 - 1835; Master in Chancery, 1831 - 1852; younger son of Henry Peter Brougham, ist Baron Brougham and Vaux, (1778 - 1868); Lord Chancellor(1830 -1835)


Note in an unidentified hand, possibly that of Henry Peter Brougham, enclosing a copy of the writer's 'work on the British Constitution' sent to an unidentified addressee, presumably Henry Pease, asking him to add the phrase 'from the Author' on the title page of the book, 19 October 1860


Photograph of the head and shoulders of Roundell Palmer, created Baron Selborne, 1872 and Viscount Wolmer in 1883 1st Earl of Selborne (1812 - 1895), Lord Chancellor, 1872 - 1874; 1880 - 1885, M.P. 1847 - 1852; 1853 - 1857, 1861 - 1872 Solicitor General, 1861 - 1863; Attorney General 1863 - 1866


Letter from Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, The Holmwood Parsonage, Dorking, Surrey, and 6 Portland Place, London, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for the gift of a copy of the 'Book of Discipline', of the Society of Friends, and for his praise of the writer's 'Collection of hymns', 6 April 1863 Roundell Palmer, Baron Selborne, published The Book of Praise From the Best English Hymn Writers, in 1862


Photograph of the head and shoulders of Sir Henry Brand, as Speaker of the House of Commons, c.1880 Henry Brand (1814 - 1892), Lord of the Treasury, 1855 - 1892); Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, 1859 - 1865; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1872 - 1884; created 1st Viscount Hampden, 1884


Letter from Sir Henry Brand, H.M. Treasury, London, to Henry Pease, expressing his sorrow that Henry Pease is about to leave the House of Commons and congratulating him on having made a name for himself in the House, 10 June 1865


Letter from Richard Cobden, 103, Westbourne Terrace, London, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for the gift of £5 for the Trustholding Union, 3 April 1857 Richard Cobden (1804 - 1865), moving spirit, with John Bright, of the Anti-Corn Law League, 1838 - 1846; M.P. 1844 - 1857; 1859 - 1865


Photograph of the head and shoulders of John Bright, c.1870 John Bright (1811 - 1889); member of the Society of Friends; M.P. 1843 - 1889; President of the Board of Trade, 1868 - 1870; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1872 - 1874 ; 1880 - 1882; moving spirit, with Richard Cobden, of the Anti-Corn Law League; active in parliamentary reform in 1860s; in Irish affairs and foreign affairs


Letter from John Bright, London, to Henry Pease, commenting on parliamentary reform: 'Hume or anybody else will present your petition. The Reform Bill is a dangerous & most anti-reform Bill & it is impossible for any real reformer to support it, if he understands it. It gives nearly all the seats to Counties already having too many & the seats given to Boroughs will go to the Tories by the 'minority' Clause - votes without a fair distribution of the members are no better than shouts & this Bill is a complete fraud on the great Town populations - I shall oppose the Bill in its present shape as far as I can - we shall have a much better Bill if this is lost. Hume is nearly 80 years old and supports the War [in the Crimea] I think my opinion is as good as his. Think of this, & don't fall into a trap, 23 March 1854


Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, declining an invitation to attend the meeting of the Committee of the Darlington Freehold Land Society, because he has a meeting in Preston, Lancashire, and because he has too much business to allow him to attend all the meetings to which he is invited: 'I find it more than I can well do to give 6 months in the year to attendance in Parliament, and my business and domestic duties cannot be wholly neglected'; adding that the Darlington Freehold Land Society has purchased 46 acres of land and that the Preston Society has purchased 24 acres, 7 January 1857


Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, informing the latter that 'I have no interest in the Metropolitan Railway, and therefore can do nothing in the matter', and commenting on the fact that Henry Pease has retired from the House of Commons and on the fact that: 'If I were wise, I should probably take thy course and retire from the House of Commons', 19 July 1865


Letter from Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, expressing his hope that the addressee will be at the Yearly Meeting and that he and the addressee will be able to meet to discuss whether they should speak to the Meeting about their journey to St. Petersburg, Russia, [to see the Tsar], 15 May 1854 Endorsed: note that the writer and his brother were so impressed by 'the lost Herald of Peace' that they intend to produce 10,000 more copies and ask that Henry Pease should supply 100 or 200 names of influential people to whom copies could be sent Joseph Sturge (1793 - 1859), member of the Society of Friends; founded in Birmingham, Warwickshire, with his brother, Charles Sturge, one of the largest grain importing businesses in the country; active in the movement for the abolition of slavery; disappointed in the measure of emancipation passed in 1833, visited the West Indies; published The West Indies in 1837, which was influential in the abolition of the apprenticeship system introduced by the 1833 Act; active in the Anti-Corn Law League; active in the movement for parliamentary reform; member of the Quaker deputation to the Tsar of Russia in 1854 in an attempt to avert the Crimea War, member of the Peace Society


Letter from Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, enclosing a paper [not found, possibly the Lost Herald of Peace referred to in (20)], which the writer has distributed to people attending the 'Patriotic Fund' meetings in the Town Hall, and which he also intends to 'Placard' on the walls and 'send them through the post to the Clergy etc.', 8 November 1854


Letter from Edward Baines, St. Ann's Hill, Burley, Leeds, Yorkshire, to Henry Pease, referring to his history of cotton manufacture written 44 years before, to his having looked at patents for spinning frames and to the fact that he would be interested in seeing the specifications and drawings for John Kendrew's patent of 1787 for the spinning of flax; thanking Henry Pease for offering to send him such drawings and specifications and for the latter's 'personal remembrance', 23 April 1878 John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse both of Darlington, registered a patent for a new flax spinning machine in June 1787 Sir Edward Baines (1800 - 1890); Dissenter; Editor of the Leeds Mercury; supported parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Laws; interested in education: President of the West Riding (later Yorkshire) Union of Mechanics' Institutes; supported the Yorkshire Village Library; and the Yorkshire College of Science, later the University of Leeds; M.P. 1859 - 1874; knighted, 1881; published, inter alia, A History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, 1835; The Social, Educational and Religious State of the Manufacturing Districts 1843; contributed a chapter on the Yorkshire woollen trade toThomas Baines' Yorkshire Past and Present, 1875


Letter from Henry Vincent, 9 Mornington Crescent, Regent's Park, London, to Henry Pease, congratulating the latter on his re-election to parliament and urging him to support 'a discreet Reform in Parliament. We need a re-adjustment of our electoral system - a few more small, or rotten boroughs destroying, a few new and large borough's [sic] creating - an extension of the franchise in boroughs - at least Lock King's proposition for counties - more stringent laws against bribery and drunkenness at elections - and the Ballot'; asserting that he is aware that Henry Pease is aware of the electoral questions of the day, but assuring him that 'knowing the moral weight you will have that I venture, most respectfully to press upon you that a thorough reform of Parliament is the road to a greater security for all that 'is good in our Government - and the road also to be overthrow of all ecclesiastical abuses', 9 April 1857 Henry Vincent (1813 - 1878); radical politician; joined the London Working Men's Association in 1836; a successful lecturer, travelled extensively promoting the People's Charter; imprisoned for having participated in 'notorious assemblage' August 1839; his imprisonment provoked an armed rising by Welsh miners in Newport, Monmouth, Wales, in November 1839; in March 1840, he was convicted of conspiring with Frost, the leader of the miners 'to subvert the constituted authorities, and alter by force the constitution of the country' and sentenced to a further year in prison; He, after, was associated with teetotal Chartism, Joseph Sturge's Complete Suffrage Union, and the Peace Society. His sympathies lay with the Society of Friends, but hewas never formally received into membership.


Letter from W.C. Trevelyan, congratulating Henry Pease on being elected Member of Parliament for the constituency of South Durham, n.d. [1857] William Calverly Trevelyan (1797 - 1879) sixth baronet; naturalist; ardent phrenologist; geologist; antiquarian; a tolerant Anglican and total abstainer, collaborated with the Dissenters in campaigning for the prohibition of alcohol; from 1853, was President of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of Liquor Traffic; from 1854 President of the National Temperance Society. In 1846, succeeded to the baronetcy and the family estates, including Wallington, Northumberland


Letter from H. Vane, Battle Abbey, Sussex, to Henry Pease, sending the latter his condolences on the death of his father, Edward Pease, 5 August 1858 Harry George Vane (1803 - 1891) M.P. for South Durham, June 1841 - April 1859 and M.P. for Hastings, Sussex, April 1859 - September 1864; 4th Duke of Cleveland, 1864 - 1891; assumed surname of Powlett, 1864. He purchased Battle Abbey, Sussex from the Webster family in 1858. It was bought back by Sir Augustus Webster after Harry Vane's death in 1901


Letter from, possibly, 4th Duke of Cleveland, [Raby Castle], to an unidentified correspondent [Henry Pease] referring to the death of William Huskisson on the Manchester to Liverpool Railway on 15 September 1830 and discussing Huskisson's allegiance to Canning at the time of his death and whether Huskisson was concerned with the 'establishment of railways', n.d. [c.1875] William Huskisson (1770 - 1830), statesman; M.P.


Letter from the 4th Duke of Northumberland, Plymouth, Devon, thanking Henry Pease for returning a letter addressed to the Duke, 8 July 1857 Algernon Smithson (1792 - 1865); Duke of Northumberland, 1847; 1st Lord of the Admiralty, 1852 and Constable of Launceston Castle, Cornwall


Letter from the Earl of Zetland, Aske, Yorkshire, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for his congratulations, 12 November 1872 // Thomas Dundas, (1795 - 1873); 2nd Earl of Zetland, 1839


Letter from Lord John Russell to Henry Pease discussing a proposal: 'If Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. Macaulay can be put up and carried I shall be very glad - But it must not be done without Lord Harry Vane's consent - Sir J. Hobhouse would pay all legal expenses!, 4 August 1847 Lord John Russell (1792 - 1878); Whig Statesman,; Prime Minister, 1846 - 1852, 1859 - 1865; created Earl Russell 1861; Sir John Cam Hobhouse (1786 - 1869); was President of the Board of Control in Russell's cabinet; Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859) was Paymaster-General; Parliament was dissolved on 24 July 1847


Letter, written on behalf of the Earl of Cardigan, to Henry Pease, stating that he has forwarded Henry Pease's request regarding Private [Stoward?] to the Company Office of the 5th Dragoon Guards and that he has no power to order, or means to obtain, his discharge, 24 June 1860 James Thomas Brudenell (1797 - 1868), seventh Earl of Cardigan; commanded the 15th Hussars, 1832 - 1833; 11th Hussars, 1836 - 1854; commanded a cavalry brigade in the Crimean War and led the famous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' before Balaclava on 25 October 1854; (of 673 men and horses, 113 men and 475 horses were killed and 247 men and 42 horses badly injured); from 1855 to 1860 he was Colonel of the 5th Dragoon Guards


Letter, written on behalf of Lord Stanley, Foreign Office, Whitehall, London, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for his letter, and a copy of a Resolution of a Meeting of the Members of the Peace Society, and commenting that the resolution is 'an additional evidence that the line of conduct pursued by Her Majesty's Government towards that of the United States is in accordance with the feelings of the great majority of the English public', 25 May 1868 Edward Henry Stanley (1826 - 1893); M.P., 1848 - 1869; styled Lord Stanley 1857 - 1869);15th Earl of Derby, 1869; Colonial Secretary, 1858; Secretary of State for India, 1858 - 1859; Foreign Secretary, 1866 - 1868; 1874 - 1878; Colonial Secretary, 1882 - 1885


Letter from Sir George Grey, Home Office, Whitehall, London, to Henry Pease, acknowledging the latter's recommendation of John Nichol for the Chair of English Literature at Glasgow; commenting that he has already received recommendations supporting John Nichol; and stating that nothing can be done until the creation of the Chair has been confirmed by the Queen - in - Council, 28 January 1860 Sir George Grey (1799 - 1882); Under-Secretary for the Colonies, 1834 - 1839; Judge Advocate General, 1839 - 1841; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1841; Home Secretary, 1846 - 1852; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1854 - 1855; Home Secretary, 1855 - 1858; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1859 - 1861; Home Secretary, 1861 - 1866; inherited from his uncle, Sir Henry Grey, the estate at Falloden, Northumberland; John Nichol's father, John Pringle Nichol, (1804 - 1859), married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Pease (1807 - 1897) of Darlington, daughter of Joseph Pease; John Nichol (1833 - 1894) held the Regius Professorship of English Literature in the University of Glasgow from 1862 to 1889


Letter from Teignmouth, 1 Athole Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, to Henry Pease, referring to Henry Pease's courtesy in informing the writer what had transpired at a Bill Meeting and to his having met members of the Association in the past, 12 November 1877 Charles - John Shore,(1796-1885) 2nd Baron Teignmouth (1834) of Teignmouth, Ireland, and baronet of Great Britain; M.P. for Marylebone, London


Letter from Feversham, Fontmell, Bournemouth, Dorset, to Henry Pease, asking the latter for his support for his brother's candidature for a seat on the board of the North Eastern Railway, 3 December 1879 William Ernest Duncombe(1829 - 1915); succeeded as 3rd Baron Feversham, 1867; created, Viscount Helmsley and 1st Earl of Feversham, 1868


Letter from John S. Pakington, The Admiralty, Whitehall, London, to Henry Pease, asking the addressee to consult Mr. Fitzgerald as to the view of the Foreign Office, before the writer supplies him with a return on the 'Slave Trade question', 6 July 1858 John Somerset Pakington, ne Russell(1799-1880); M.P., 1837 - 1874; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1852; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1858 - 1859, 1866 - 1867; Secretary of State for War, 1867 - 1868; 1st Baron Hampton, 1874; assumed name of Pakington on inheriting the states, including that of Westwood, Warwickshire, from his maternal uncle.


Signature of George Cruikshank, dated Darlington, 30 January 1857


Signature of George Cruikshank, dated Darlington, 1 February 1851


Invitation issued by George Cruikshank, 48 Mornington Place, Hampstead Road, London, to Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pease and friends, to visit his studio toview his drawing of The Worship of Bacchus on 25, 26, 27 or 28 July 1860 George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878) artist, caricaturist and illustrator of books, including some of those of Dickens: Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist; The Bottle was a series of 8 engravings promoting temperance; in his latter years he painted in oils: The Worship of Bacchus is a gigantic oil painting depicting the evils of drink. He also became active in the promotion of many causes.


Letter from George Cruikshank, 48 Mornington Place, London, to Henry Pease, arranging to meet Henry Pease and his wife the following evening, 26 March 1860


Letter from Edward Pease, Cothum Lawn, to Henry Pease, thanking the addressee for his congratulations on his 86th birthday, referring to the 'backslidings and transgressions' of his life; describing how he has seen Rachel who looks better than she did when he saw her at Torquay, Devon, but who is 'thin and feeble, a little walking fatigues her'; recounting how they are about to go on a drive; discussing the oddness of the weather, the fact that he has seen Henry Pease's son, that the F. Frys are to come to breakfast the next day; announcing that he hopes to return home soon, 31 May 1852


Letter from J.V.D. Erskine, Dean of Ripon, Yorkshire, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for informing him of the death of Edward Pease, Henry's father, and expressing his condolences, 3 April [1858]

from Mr Allan (Ref: D/X 1667/8/130)

Letter from Mr. Allan, Blackwell Hall, to Henry Pease, esq., M.P., thanking the latter for information concerning the annuity conferred on his cousin, Sir Henry Havelock, and its extension to Captain Havelock who has recently won the 'Victoria Cross', 14 December 1857 Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 - 1857) born at Ford Hall, Bishopwearmouth. Joined the army; 1815. Sailed to India, 3 January 1823. Took part in First Anglo-Burmese War (1823 - 26); had strong religious faith - known as a bible puncher; became Baptist 1829; Captain 1838; took part in first Afghan War, 1841 - 1842; Major, 1843; Anglo-Sikh War, 1845; Colonel, 1854; war with Persia, 1856 - 1857; Indian Mutiny, May 1857; sent to relieve Cawnpore; reached Allahabad 120 miles from Cawnpore, 29 June 1857; battle at Pardu Nadi, where his son, Henry Marshman Havelock showed great gallantry; entered Cawnpore, 17 July 1857; returned to Cawnpore without reaching Lucknow; Sir Colin Cambell reached Lucknow, 16 November 1857; Havelock made KCB & Major-General; died in the arms of his son 24 November 1857; widow given rank of baronet's widow and pension of £1000 p.a. for life; she died, 25 August 1882 Harry Havelock (1830 - 1897); was awarded baronetcy and pension of £1000 proposed for his father, 18 January 1858; awarded V.C., 1858,.for capturing a gun at Cawnpore, July 1857. In 1880 inherited estate and fortune of the Allans of Blackwell; and took the additional surname and arms of Allan. Killed while accompanying a Parliamentary Commission to North-West Frontier of India, 30 December 1897. His daughter, Ethel (1867 - 1941) married Joseph Albert Pease M.P., later Lord Gainford
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from I. Lowthian Bell (Ref: D/X 1667/8/131)

Letter from I. Lowthian Bell, The Hall, Washington, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for 'your very kind note of yesterday', 11 February 1874 Endorsed, in a later hand: Lowthian Bell; father of Sir Hugh Bell, bar., and one of the earliest Cleveland Ironmasters
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Letter from Peter Bedford, Croydon, Surrey, to Henry Pease, asking the latter for money for the rebuilding of the Infant School House in Amsterdam, Holland, which is conducted on the 'Wilderspins System', was 'established by Devonshire Ho. Meeting' and was designed to spread 'a knowledge of the Peace principles of our religious Society on the European Continent', 7 January 1863 Note at top: £10, 12 September 1863
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from Peter Bedford (Ref: D/X 1667/8/132)from Bolckow & Vaughan (Ref: D/X 1667/8/133)

Letter from Bolckow & Vaughan, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, to Henry Pease, enclosing an invitation to the opening of the Eston Branch Railway on 6 January 1851, 3 January 1851
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from John Bright (Ref: D/X 1667/8/134-145)

Part letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, explaining the effect of the Corn Laws on the working classes in Britain, in depressing their wages, in preventing them from buying food and extra comforts from abroad; remarking that Protection benefits only landowners and oppresses all the other classes; 'I maintain that a repeal of the Corn Laws would advance Wages. We have power equal to 600 million of men in our steam & machinery & yet we cannot maintain with this 27 millions of men - If we had free trade this 600 millions of power would bring from every country in the world the best of every thing they produced, but as it is, it is given away, partly to our Aristocracy & partly to other nations, & little of the good remains for us - These are the main points of my argument upon the Corn Laws & wages', 9 March 1842
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Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, 23 September 1842 describing the activities of the Anti-Corn Law League; mentioning 'Tracts of the Leagues', 'I think they would be useful if distributed amongst the Farmers of your part of the country. If you have an Association having any vitality, possibly they may be disposed to order a quantity, or some private individual might wish to have some for circulation'; mentioning a lecturer: 'Our lecturer Acland is about commencing operations in your district'; mentioning Prize Essays 'on the evils which the Corn Law inflicts upon Tenant Farmers & farm labourers... Is there no well informed, intelligent Farmer in your neighbourhood who can have a chance of coming in for one of the prizes?'; referring to a series of letters signed 'Reuben', which are published in the 'Circular'; referring to the imminent death of 'the dear and amiable girl' one of the writer's relatives living in Newcastle
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Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, arranging to 'secure some small property to give them a vote for South Lancashire' and expressing his belief that 'we shall give the Monopolists a complete & I trust a final overthrow in this district - There is an excellent spirit among all our friends in Lancashire and Yorkshire', 25 November 1844
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Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, informing the latter: 'I wrote thee about the West Riding votes - they are now more important than those for South Lancashire - The occupancy of a warehouse in Borough will not give a vote for a County. You had better buy a House or a chief or ground rent bringing in clear at least 40/- for each person - & then your County votes will be secure', 'I hope thou wilt be able to prevail upon several of they friends to qualify for the West Riding - the importance of gaining that constituency can hardly be over rated'; going on to remark: 'Why should not our new plan be put into operation in North Durham? Newcastle - Gateshead, South Shields - Sunderland & Durham would speedily settle the quarrels of Londonderry & Liddell if they would take the County into their hands. And as the squires are the least useful class, I see no reason why they should rule', 29 November 1844
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Letter from John Bright, National Anti-Corn-Law League, 67 Fleet - St., London, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for 'the help thou hast in store for us - The Contributions should be in London by the end of 4th month' [April]; remarking that 'We had a skirmish with the squires in the House last night & laid on them rather heavily'; exclaiming to the latter that 'Darlington should give a good help to the Bazaar - I think thou ought to devote a little time to it - & get a small Committee formed who might prepare such contributions as they may be able to get ready, & also get subscriptions in aid of a Bazaar purse - for where many articles cannot be provided, a purse will be just as acceptable', 7 February 1845
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Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, remarking that 'nothing is known of the intentions of the Govt. about the National Defences - my opinion is, they will do little or nothing in them this session - It is however well to show that the people are alive to the question, & I think a large petition will go up from Manchester, & several from the Towns in Lancashire & Yorkshire'; referring to Eliza Holmes' possible admission to the school at Ayton [Yorkshire], 15 January 1848
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Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, remarking that 'It is not a very wise thing to give a confident opinion on a matter of trade prospects', going on to comment: 'There is a decided improvement in the condition of the Country, & also in the state of our foreign customers - Food, & the raw materials of manufactures, are cheap - & this is at the root of trade prosperity - & a gradual but very sensible improvement is observed in almost every trade'; remarking that the wool trade appears to be improving along with the situation 'throughout the Country. But I dont expect the improvement to be rapid - it will probably be some - what slow, & not the less certain or permanent on that account. The difference between prices now & three months hence, may not be important or considerable - but I certainly think the chances are in favor of some improvement within that period'; referring to tickets for the 'Banquet - 'We expect it will be a very imposing exhibition of Free Trade feeling, from which the friends of the departing nuisance will hardly be able to extract any Consolation'; recommending tracts published by the 'Manchester Examiner & Times', which newspaper 'should be in your newsroom - it is the organ of our friends in Manchester', 18 January 1849 Post scriptum: 'The Daily News is our friend in the London Press, and should be supported', 18 January 1849
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Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, Darlington, sending the latter, at the request of 'My Bro. C.A. Leatham' details of the arrangements in place for the welfare of the writer's workers: 'We have no Institution for the benefit of the women in our employ. When my sisters were at home, we had an evening school, where they were taught reading, writing, sewing, 'cutting out', & such things as were most necessary to them - but this has been given up. We have a school for Children - & also a Library & news room for the men who choose to subscribe to it. We find them a room & fire & light, & they manage the whole thing for themselves - we think it has been very useful amongst our workmen', 30 September 1850
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Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, Darlington, asking the latter to attend 'the Conference'; 'We want good earnest reformers from various parts of the Country', 24 November 1851 Endorsed: printed circular letter from George Wilson, Chairman; Smith P. Robinson, Wm. McCartney, Hon. Secs.; Newall's Buildings, Manchester [Lancashire], announcing that the Manchester Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association resolved, at its meeting on 28 November 1851, to hold a Meeting of Friends of Reform to discuss parliamentary reform in the light of the Prime Minister's announcement that the government intended to introduce a 'measure for Reform of the Representation in the coming session of Parliament'; and that such a meeting is to be held, on 3 December 1851, in Newall's Buildings, Manchester,17 November 1851
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Letter from John Bright, London, to Henry Pease, refusing an invitation to address a meeting on 12 May because of the pressure of business during the parliamentary session and because, after all the public speaking he has done, he now accepts public speaking engagements only in Manchester, [Lancashire], and Rochdale, [Lancashire], 6 May 1853
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Letter from John Bright, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Joseph Sturge, describing the principles on which a new daily newspaper in London is to be run: 'is intended to support generally the views which Cobden & I have advocated in & out of Parliament. It will of course be thoroughly liberal in its politics will write as occasion offers in favour of parliamentary reform - of religious equality - a necessary expenditure, with a view to a more moderate taxation & generally in favour of just and humane conduct in Government. It will oppose the present war, & will support the policy of non-intervention in the affairs & quarrels of Continental Europe & of such a course as shall tend to prevent the danger of future Wars, & to enable our Government & all Governments to diminish existing military forces. On the question of Public Education, it will support, in any application of Public money for that object, such a course, as shall not invade the religious rights of any portion of the community & which shall devolve as much as possible upon districts & localities the management & dispensation of such funds as may be raised for educational purposes'; asking the addressee to remit any money raised to start the paper to Geo. Wilson, or the writer; assuring the addressee that 'Everyone of the Proprietors agrees in our views, especially with regard to Foreign policy & they would agree that in case of any difference of opinion among the members of the board of management as to any question of political principle, they would refer the point in dispute to the decision of Cobden & myself'; reassuring the addressee that no financial problems will be entailed in supporting the paper: 'If the experiment should succeed Geo. Wilson proposes to repay the money thus contributed, if it should fail then no personal responsibility is incurred by anyone'; requesting Joseph Sturge and his friends to raise £2000 or £3000; 'If thy friends could raise £2000 I think the rest of the capital would be obtained in Manchester [Lancashire] & persons raising the additional sum would also be prepared with a larger amount, as a reserve in order that a complete experiment should be made'; expressing confidence in the calculation of the amount of money needed, as it is based on 'their experience in the management of the 'Manchester Daily Examiner & Times', 23 August 1855
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Letter from John Bright, Rochdale, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, Pierremont, Darlington, referring to the writer's planned visit to Darlington, 'to pay a short visit to dear Rachel' and asking Henry to ensure that no public engagements will be arranged for him during his visit, 11 January 1869 From December 1868 to December 1870, Bright was President of the Board of Trade in Gladstone's 1st cabinet
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from John Burnside (Ref: D/X 1667/8/146)

Letter from John Burnside, Brankin Moor, Darlington, to Henry Pease, giving his opinion of 2 farms at Hurworth Moor and of Neesham Springs, 6 October 1874 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
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from Robert Charles (Ref: D/X 1667/8/147-149)

Letter from Robert Charles, Ashley Down, Bristol, to 'My dear Friend', concerning the purchase of an annuity for Henry Richard, the Secretary of the Peace Society, and asking the addressee for a contribution and a contribution from his brothers, 6 December 1836
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Letter from Robert Charles, Bristol, to 'My dear Friend' [Henry Pease], giving his apologies for leaving a meeting [possibly the Yearly Meeting] early, because of his anxiety about the health of his father-in-law, T. Fox; remarking that he had seen the addressee's son who 'was looking remarkably well'; hoping that the addressee had a safe journey to Darlington; sending 'a statement of the expenses of our late journey [probably to Russia], the overplus above £200, being divided between us in the proportions agreed on - The a/c will be settled as far as thou art concerned, by remitting £31. 6. 0. to Joseph Sturge - & I shall pay him £33. 14. 0.', 27 February 1854 Postscript: the writer asks the addressee 'whether the Fur Cloak & felt boots were returned to Cornelius Hanbury - If they were not perhaps thou will kindly write me a line, & I will write to Wm. Hughes to explain about it - Our united love to thy Father'
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Letter from Robert Charles, Ashley Down, Bristol, to 'My dear Friend' [Henry Pease], asking the latter to forward the sum of £100 promised by him and his brothers for the benefit of H. Richardson, and informing him that the Trustees of the £1000 raised have decided to invest it in a Pennsylvania Central Railway Bond which should be secure and pay a high rate of interest, 24 January 1857
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from Richard Cobden (Ref: D/X 1667/8/150)

Circular letter from Richard Cobden, 103 Westbourne Terrace, London, to 'Dear Sir', enclosing a letter from the M.P. for Birmingham, and requesting the addressee's support for the Freehold Land Societies and praising 'Mr. Jas. Taylor, the meritorious author of this admirable plan for conferring the franchise upon the working class, at the price of their own frugality & self - denial', 29 March 1857
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from H. Christy (Ref: D/X 1667/8/151)

Letter from H. Christy, London, to Henry Pease, offering to send 'Specimens of Indian Industry' [artefacts produced by Native Americans], such as mats, a 'Heathen Drum' and a 'Great Sheet of the Birch bark with which they make their Wigwams' and also offering to send a description of 'the Cutting Machine I saw at Work on the Prairie', 17 January 1857
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George Cruikshank (Ref: D/X 1667/8/152-154)

Letter from George Cruikshank, 48 Mornington Place, [London], to Henry Pease, enclosing a prospectus for a ventilator and asking the addressee to give it to a lady whom the writer met at his house; sending best wishes to the addressee and his son, and to Mr. Jones, 1 March 1851
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Letter from George Cruikshank, 48 Mornington Place, [London], to Henry Pease, referring to Colin Lamont, a banker, at Greenock, Scotland, a prize essay, written for the Savings Bank, managed by Mr. Lamont, and sending best wishes to the addressee and his son, 31 August 1853
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Letter from George Cruikshank, 48 Mornington Place, London, to Henry Pease, asking for the latter's help in obtaining a position for Captain Hastie, 'a brother Teetotaller', as a 'Sea Pilot for the Middlesbro' on Tees branch', and informing the latter that Captain Hastie had previously worked for the Stockton and London Shipping Company as Master of the Thirsk, but has been put 'out of commission' by the company's adoption of 'large steam vessels', 24 January 1857
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from Josiah Forster (Ref: D/X 1667/8/155)

Letter from Josiah Forster, Tottenham, [Middlesex], to 'My Dear Cousin' [Henry Pease], discussing the possibility of the addressee's son [Henry Fell Pease, b. 1837] attending Grove House School, as a day boy, living in private lodgings, because of the state of his health; suggesting that he should go as a boarder to the school, as a trial, as travelling back and forth may be more injurious to the boy than if 'he were regularly living in the family as a scholar'; and also pointing out that the school does not have a policy of taking day boys, 4 January 1851
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from Thomas Hodgkin (Ref: D/X 1667/8/156)

Letter from Thomas Hodgkin, Bedford Square, London, to 'My dear Friend, H. Pease, M.P.', soliciting money to pay another worker to assist T. Reynolds, a sufferer from neuralgia, 'Erysipelas & other maladies', in his labours for the Anti-Tobacco Society, for which he travels, sets up meetings and produces a monthly newsletter, 26 September 1863
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from J.S. Jeans (Ref: D/X 1667/8/157)

Letter from J.S. Jeans, Royal Hotel, Manchester, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, asking the latter if he would allow the 'jubilee memorial' volume to be dedicated to him as the only surviving son of Edward Pease 'The Father of Railways' and 'the oldest director of the first public Railway', 7 September 1875 The volume was produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton-Darlington Railway
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from Barton Russell Kewell (Ref: D/X 1667/8/158)

Letters from George Chalkley, on behalf of Barton Russell Kewell, 11, Bishopsgate Street Without, London, to Henry Pease, Pierremont, Darlington, suggesting, and confirming, that Henry Pease will rent the house of Dr. Davis, 23 Finsbury Square, London, for two weeks during the course of the Yearly Meeting, and describing the house and its arrangements, 2 and 5 May 1874
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from Thomas Dundas, the Earl of Zetland (Ref: D/X 1667/8/159)

Note from the Earl of Zetland, London, declining an invitation to the opening of the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway on 4 June 1846, 1 June 1846
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from Captain R. Eliott (Ref: D/X 1667/8/160)

Letter from Captain R. Eliott, Appleby Castle, Westmorland, to 'Dear Sir', describing the fact that 'some of the Gentlemen of this neighbourhood who are interested in promoting the Line of Railway from Kirkby Stephen by Appleby to Penrith [Cumberland] have held a meeting here to day at which TW. Bouch also was present', and asking the addressee and 'your Railway Friends in the East to meet them at Brough [Cumberland]' on 14 & 15 October 1857; 'with a view of asking your cooperation in carrying this project into effect', 10 October 1857 Thomas Bouch (1822 - 1880), civil engineer, knighted, 26 June 1879; at 17 worked on Lancaster & Carlisle Railway; 4 years resident engineer on Wear Valley Railway; consulting engineer for railways mainly in the north of England, chief of which was South Durham & Lancashire Railway (50 miles); designed Redheugh Viaduct, Newcastle; Tay Railway Bridge, which opened in May 1878 and collapsed 28 December 1879 The Eden Valley Branch of the North Eastern Railway opened in 1865
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from J.S. Ellerby (Ref: D/X 1667/8/161)

Letter from J.S. Ellerby, Minister of the Protestant American Church, St. Petersburgh [sic], Russia, to Messrs. Sturge, Charlton, Pease, discussing 'the feelings with which we [American residents of St. Petersburg] view the present crisis of affairs between Russia, G. Britain'; deploring the 'tone of abusive virulence which has prevailed in a considerable portion of the English press when adverting to the Imperial Family'; deprecating the effect the hostility of the English press and politicians to the Emperor is having on 'our national reputation amongst the Russians'; describing the subsequent 'very bitter feelings among the higher classes' of Russia and their consequent lack of enthusiasm for 'our boasted freedom of the press'; describing the fact that 'the English community here' has 'individually and as a body' 'ample cause to look up to the Imp. Emp. with respect and Gratitude - they live in quietness and safety - are estimated according to their moral conduct and have every opportunity of doing well in their respective secular vocations'; describing how appeals on behalf of his distressed countrymen have always been met with favour and how 'In addition to my ministerial and pastoral duties - I have sought to do all I could in cooperation with the Lutheran pastors of Finland - the Baltic provinces - the German 'Colonies on the Volga - and other parts of the Empire to disseminate the Holy Scriptures among the Protestant Population of Russia and have met with every facility for the effective carrying out of this mark of Christian enterprise'; deprecating the prospect of the outbreak of 'the fearful calamity of war not that I nor my fellow countrymen need be in personal fear for we have the Emp[eror]'s word and promise - that in any eventuality British life and property will be safe'; congratulating Henry Pease on his mission of peace, which has 'been so well and kindly appreciated by the Emperor', 2 February 1854 The letter is written on paper headed 'Darlington Mills, ...185'
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from W. Fallows (Ref: D/X 1667/8/162)

Letter from W. Fallows, North Eastern Railway, Darlington Section, Dock Office, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, to 'Mr. Pease', enclosing memoranda of 'the events which have from time to time taken place in connection with the Parent Line'; remarking that Henry Pease was 'present at the inauguration of the First Furnaces what a Giant result of that beginning'; explaining that 'A circular has been issued to Shareholders from York shewing that Special Trains will leave and return to various starting places on the Line, but singular to observe, no such notice is given that such description of Trains will leave or return to - Saltburn, Redcar, Middlesbro', Guisbro' - although Wt. Hartlepool & North Stockton are provided for - are we to suppose that such places are not known at York?', 22 September 1875 This letter possibly concerns preparation for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
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from J.H. Fell (Ref: D/X 1667/8/163)

Letter from J.H. Fell, Hull, Yorkshire, to Joseph Pease, Esq., M.P., Darlington, marked for Henry Pease, describing the writer's interrupted sea voyage, occasioned by the failure of the boilers on the original vessel, and his intention of re-embarking on The Wilberforce, 9 January 1838
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from Mary Fell (Ref: D/X 1667/8/164)

Letter from Mary Fell, Belmont, Uxbridge, Middlesex, to Henry Pease, Darlington, apologising for not writing before because of an indisposition 'more bilious than cold'; describing the health of Henry Fell Pease 'our dear pet is pretty well perhaps not quite up to par but nothing more than a little more fretful and a few little spots, a white tongue and not quite comfortable with another tooth approaching'; referring to Henry's description of the last Quarterly Meeting he attended and to the fact that 'HLB is travelling as a preacher'; referring to her own discouragements in the life of faith and her own 'unworthiness' and her fear that she 'should be called unprepared'; referring to the fact the day of writing is 'monthly meeting day at Staines' [Middlesex]; referring to the behaviour of 'our dear John' [John Fell, son of Mary Fell]; 'the last letter from him was last first day week it is exceedingly trying we cannot understand it sometimes I think perhaps he really is married and yet I think you would know whether the young woman is at home or not or he may have got the information from them that his father had decided respecting providing for them if they did marry the post comes in day after day and we watch it unsuccessfully' 'dost thou know how lightly Wm. Backhouse has spoken of the young woman? do friends in your neighbourhood really approve of his taking such a step? if it be a right one far be it from me to oppose it'; referring to the writer's ill health; the happiness of Henry Fell Pease and the fact that 'cousin E. Smith is gone down to Elm Grove to stop a month or two with poor R. Lowther whose dear babe is to be interred today - it has appeared that the dear little innocent suffered much she had many strong screaming convulsions', 15 January 1840
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from W.R. Freemantle (Ref: D/X 1667/8/165)

Letter from W[illiam] R[obert] Freemantle, The Deanery, Ripon, to H. Pease, Pierremont, Darlington, informing the latter that he will be unable to speak in Darlington, and offering Rev. G.T. Fox of St. Nicholas, Durham, as a substitute, 29 October n.y. [1856 - 1881]
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from Edward Fry (Ref: D/X 1667/8/166-168)

Letter from Edward Fry, 2 Charlotte Street, Park Street, Bristol, to 'My dear Friend' [Henry Pease], discussing the appropriateness of First Day (Sunday) Schools; the writer's mixed motives in taking part in the provision of such schools; the current unrest in Europe, its causes and the possible spread of freedom it promises; the exception to this possibility presented by France: 'for their manner of acting as though they had learned not one atom of wisdom from all the horrors of the great revolution seems to shew that they are the same wicked foolish people as Ever'; discussing lectures on the Apocalypse, delivered at the Baptist College, Bristol, by Dr. Ash, who identifies the contemporary events as 'fulfilment of the seventh vial'; referring to his parents' desire that he should leave his 'present occupation' at the end of June and his desire to find a congenial companion so that he can take 'a run on the Continent', especially to Italy and Switzerland; sending love from his parents and brother, 14 April 1848
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Letter from Edward Fry, Bristol, to 'My dear Friend', [Henry Pease], thanking the latter for his letter and unspecified enclosure; assuring him that 'Lewis has been very much enjoying his expedition in the north, and not least his kind reception at thy house and his evening at Shildon' commenting on the year 1848 'What a year is this that has just come to an end?' and who shall tell what may be the future results of what has occurred in it?'; quoting the first three lines of Ode To The Departing Year by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to this end; thanking the addressee for 'his good wishes in highest matters. I think if there is one remark which the observation made in London impresses on me, it is, that learning alone and by itself has no tendency to elevate the ideas or to ennoble the man', 1 January 1849 S.T. Coleridge (1772 - 1834) published Ode To the Departing Year in the Cambridge Intelligencier, 31 December 1796; 1848 was the year of political upheaval on the continent of Europe: the Orleanist monarchy fell in France and was replaced by a republic; Metternich fell in Austria; revolts against Austrian rule occurred in Hungary and Italy
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Letter from Edward Fry, Venice, Veneto, Austria - Hungary, to My dear Friend [Henry Pease], describing his journey via Rouen [France] and Havre [France] to Paris [France], where he compares the size of the Chambre des Deputes to that of the Houses of Parliament [London] and the size of the ministers' houses to the that of 10 Downing Street, [London]; describing the journey via Dijon [France], Geneva [Switzerland], along the Rhone Valley [France] via Martigny [Switzerland], the pass of the Col de Baume [France], Chamonix, [France], to the Jardin, an island of grass above the Mer de Glace [France]; recounting his religious reflections provoked by the view from the Jardin; describing the pass of the Tete Noir [Switzerland], the Simplon Pass, [Switzerland], the inhabitants of which suffer from goitre and cretinism; Domo d'ossola [Domodossola, Kingdom of Piedmont - Sardinia] with its 'fig, trellised vine, the mulberry, the wild hop - the evergreen oak' and white houses and campanile; describing Lakes Maggiore [Kingdom of Piedmont - Sardinia], Lakes Lugano & Como, Milan, [Lombardy - Venetia] ; describing Milan Cathedral as 'by far the most impressive piece of architecture I have ever seen - pinnacle rising above pinnacle into the clear blue sky and on each some saint or confessor of the faith. It is like an embodiment of the assembled Church'; describing Venice, [Lombardy - Venetia]: 'I almost dislike the railway and the lagoon here - it seems like an iron arm of despotism grasping this city - once the retreat of freedom - and protected by its very situation'; commenting on Verona, a city of 80,000 inhabitants with 'I am told a garrison of 3000' Austrian soldiers, 4 October 1854
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from Joseph Fryer (Ref: D/X 1667/8/169-170)

Letter from Joseph Fryer, Smelt House, Howden-le-Wear, to Henry Pease, Pierremont, concerning the former's running of the Hurworth Moor Estate, as the latter's agent, in collecting rents, drawing up agreements for the tenancy of farms, the behaviour and quality of tenants, the building of a new road, a proposal to wall round the farm, and the commission he proposes to charge for his services, 19 May 1876 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
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Letter from Joseph Fryer, Smelt House, Howden-le-Wear, to Henry Pease, Stanhope Castle, discussing the possibility of the latter's buying the Hurworth Moor Estate and Neasham Springs from Thomas Pease, giving the acreage of the estates and the price required, 28 July 1874 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
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from E. Glassick (Ref: D/X 1667/8/171-172)

Letter from E. Glassick, Glan-Aber, Chester, Cheshire, to 'My dear Sir' [Henry Pease] asking the latter's opinion on the advisability of purchasing Spittal Tongue Colliery [Northumberland], 15 November 1858
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Letter from E. Glassick, Glan-Aber, Chester, Cheshire, to 'My dear Sir' [Henry Pease], thanking the latter for his note concerning the colliery, as a result of which he has decided not to purchase the colliery, 20 November 1858
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from George Graham (Ref: D/X 1667/8/173)

Letter from George Graham, Darlington, to Henry Pease, requesting Henry Pease to pay sum of money, due to William Garbutt and Robert Reed, builders, of Darlington, for masons' and plasterers' work on a 'New House at Cotherstone the property of Francis Gibson Esqr.', 7 October 1843 Endorsed: 'Building of Balders Grange'
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from James Hardman (Ref: D/X 1667/8/174)

Letter from James Hardman, Independent Minister, Barnard Castle, to Henry Pease, Darlington, asking for assistance from Henry Pease in meeting the costs of the defendants in the 'Barnard Castle Clerk's Groat Case', 27 August 1854 Endorsed: description of the Barnard Castle Clerk's Groat Case, whereby the right claimed by the Parish Clerk of Barnard Castle to a payment of fourpence [1½p.] per annum from each household, was disputed by half the ratepayers, on the grounds of legality, and, by members of the 'dissenting churches' on the ground that they received no benefit from his services; the case disputing the Parish Clerk's right was defeated in the Court of Queen's Bench, April 1854
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from Henry Havelock (Ref: D/X 1667/8/175-176)

Letter from H.M. Havelock, Halnaby Hall, Croft, Darlington, to Henry Pease, congratulating the latter on the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton-Darlington Railway and expressing his pleasure in being associated with the writer and his family both in their religious and political beliefs, 28 September 1875 H.M. Havelock is staying with Mr. Wilson-Ford
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Letter from Henry Havelock, Ascot, Berkshire, to 'My Dear Sir' [Henry Pease], expressing his regret at being unable to assist the addressee 'on the 4th', because his time is taken up with the opening of Parliament, and expressing his belief that Britain should abstain from any action, which will 'help perpetuate the gross and cruel Government of Turkey, - or prevent her subject races getting that freedom & that security for person, property & family honor which is their just right', 2 January 1878
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from William Goodenough Haytor (Ref: D/X 1667/8/177)

Circular letter from Mr. Haytor, Whitehall, London, to Henry Pease, requesting the latter to be present for the election, on 30 April 1857, of J. Evelyn Dennison as the Speaker of the House of Commons, 15 April 1857 Sir William Goodenough Hayter (1792 - 1878), 1st baronet; called to the Bar, 1819; Liberal M.P., 1837 - 1865; Whip, 1850 - 1861; John Evelyn Dennison, Viscount Ossington of Ossington Hall, Nottinghamshire; M.P., 1837 - 1872; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1857 - 1872; instigated The Speaker's Commentary on the Bible, 1871- 1881
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Letter from Anthony M. Kimber, Philad [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.] to Henry Pease, referring to a box of 'valuable mineral specimens' which Henry Pease had asked the writer to distribute between 'the Cabinets of Haverford College [Haverford, Philadelphia] and the Academy of Natural Sciences'; to the fact that some may be given to the Philadelphia City Institute; to changes in the constitution of Haverford College; to the health of himself, his wife, Margaret and their two children; to summer sojourns at Newport [Rhode Island, U.S.A.]; to the marriage of James Whitall; to the prospects of the addressee's niece, Elizabeth Lucy; to the missions of Elizabeth Gurney and Joseph Sturge; to the fact that the two excellent women Friends from Yearly Meeting are diligently and acceptably engaged in their labours within our Quarterly Meeting and those of Concord [New Hampshire, U.S.A.] and Caln, [Chester County, Pennsylvania], 24 October 1836 Haverford College was founded in 1833 by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends to educate young men in Quaker principles. It became fully co - educational in 1980.
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from Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Ref: D/X 1667/8/179)

Letter from Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham, Trinity College, Cambridge, to Henry Pease, regretting that he is unable to address the Pupil Teachers' Association at its Annual Meeting, 30 November 1880 Annotated: 'May be retd. to H.P. - when done with'
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from Vane Londonderry (Ref: D/X 1667/8/180)

Letter from Vane Londonderry, Wynyard Park, Stockton on Tees, to Mr. Pease, informing the latter that an urgent appointment in London will prevent him being present at an event arranged by the latter, 26 September 1875 The event is the 50th Anniversary of the Opening of the Stockton-Darlington Railway. George Henry Robert Charles William(1821-1884); 1st Earl Vane, 1854 - 1872; 5th Marquess of Londonderry, 1872 - 1884
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from John S. Pakington (Ref: D/X 1667/8/181)

Letter from John S. Pakington, Westwood Park, Worcestershire, to Henry Pease, esq., M.P., thanking the latter for an invitation to address the Darlington Mechanics' Institute, 'one of several of the same nature which I have received from the North of England, and which I hope I may consider as a proof that my sincere desire to promote the instruction and improvement of the working classes is appreciated', and regretting his inability to accept, because of the fact that 'my time is fully occupied during the whole month of October', 29 September 1857
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from Charles Parker (Ref: D/X 1667/8/182)

Letter from Charles Parker, to Henry Pease, Darlington, discussing 'Bowes' reply' and possible 'proceedings brought' to 'drive Bowes out of the Field', n.d. [c.1836] [possibly discussing the opposition of Joseph & Henry Pease to the Durham South West Junction Railway or South Durham Railway]
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from Anna Fell Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/183)

Henry's wife


Letter from Anna Fell Pease, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, to Henry Pease, c/o Joseph Pease, Junior, Esq., M.P., Darlington; referring to a previous letter which was 'too Jeremiahy & instead of having checking would perhaps have a contrary effect tho' unintentionally'; to the writer's mother's health being better but 'she feels very unequal to the exertion of going out so soon in the morning'; but men of business cannot be detained'; to the fact that 'it will be a great relief to get some of these most formidable visits over'; to the writer's desire to see 'my dr. Grandmother and Aunt J.'; to the writer's recovery from a cold and to the writer's father having 'gone to Town, but I do not think it was fit for him he did not seem so well taken and a little fresh cold and his lungs are so very susseptable[sic], he has had a plaster which has irritated his skin and teased him worse than a blister would have done'; to the fact that 'John I think does not seem well - he goes to Town - I hope he may not be laid by this winter'; 'I have the morning quite to myself and I thought I could not employ it more agreeably than in communing a while with my dearest. I can now fancy him busily engaged in the railway office and I hope he will allow himself time for a walk before dinner I think of doing so by and by I should like to go with him and peep at Westbrook etc.'; to visits by 'S. Corder's two sisters' and 'E. Hassie'; 'Cos. Josiah & R. Forster', Sarah Harris 'cos C.B.'s sister'; describing the activities of some acquaintances: 'Thou knowest that A. Abbot married a Newton - I heard yesterday that a crowd was observed near the water's edge and on enquiry it was this Newton babtizing - whilst his wife was parading the streets of Plymouth [Devon] I think without bonnet with a large number of followers singing hymns - & we heard also that they always sit with their windows open in the morning to be ready for the coming of Our Lord!'; discussing the possibility of bringing pears to the people in Stoke Newington, the possible purchase of 'pretty glass candlesticks'; the visit of 'John Hodgkin, the counsellor' to bring the present of a book 'for Mamma', entitled 'The Memoranda of Josh. Howard'; the visit of Edward May, a doctor, who 'asked me if thou wert brother to Jn Pease & said he thought it quite a privilege to be so nearly related to such an one'; a letter from Stephen Gillett; a visit from P. Bedford 'who had been closeted a long time with W. Allen & S. Corder'; visits from C. Hanbury, the Bradshaws, Matthew Wright, H. Messer; the birth of a boy to 'cos Marianna'; 'Jacob has been to the counting house so he is better'; the possibility of making soup once a week for the poor 'if thou thought well of it and inclined thou couldst buy some coarse beef and it ought to be thickened with whole pease and flavoured with celery or any odd vegetables'; Uncle John's wish to withdraw from business with the writer's father 'this I think is a great trial to Pa - not that he would wish to keep him in - would like both to give up and divide their property which between them is very handsome I believe but Father does not think it right to on account of John sometimes does very well I don't know when he will be fit to be entrusted with much there is so much instability about him - how different the case might be were he what he ought to be considering the many advantages he has had and opportunities of mixing in the best society had he availed himself of them'; 'I should like to see my dr. Father out of business and free from anxiety the distance is too far when at Uxbridge [Middlesex] and he is far from strong'; discussing plans for the writer to return home, although she 'must spend a week or two at Uxbridge, I think'; discussing the indisposition of 'Father' [Edward Pease], 8 January 1836
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from Edward Pease (sen.) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/184-229)

Henry's father


Letter from Edward Pease [senior], Dublin, Ireland, to Henry Pease, describing his journey to Ireland, 'the two dismal snowy days between Darlington & Liverpool', the journey through North Wales, which though 'pretty, picturesque and interesting by turns' did not, 'with the exception of the descent down Penmanmawer, the remarkable ruins of Aber-conway, & its very numerous complete towers in the walls round the town, - the surprizing Menai bridge', come up to his expectations; the passage over the sea: 'Dr. Edward suffered quite enough, the contents of every Stomach black, purple etc. was ejected, & indeed when we passed by large vessels with masts appearing as if laid down on the waves, then thou mayest conclude our vessel was tossed to no small degree & often so low on one side & up on the other, the Sailors themselves could only get from place to place by catching hold of things'; describing how Edward remained ill below and how he and 'cos. D remained on deck in the cold rain sharing a bowl and a bench; 'Cos. D. and myself were constantly on deck (except the intervals named) it was cold rained the whole way, & the latter of it we sat quiet enough holding ourselves on our bench with one concern between us & even in this state occurrences come to make one smile, a large wave came suddenly he let go of the bowl or had set it on the bench it skipped off along way across the deck and dashing it to pieces and its contents famously about'; commenting on Dublin: on the 'many fine Streets, Columns, Statues - large Ships laying in the midst of them, within little more than 100 yards of each other in one view - is the College, the Vessels, the magnificent Parliament house, the Grand Post Office & elegant Pillar to Nelson, an Equestrian statue of King William'; how 'there is not the opulence or mercantile bustle of London', describing how there are no beggars 'but indescribable garments for raggery cover many backs, or leave patches of back etc. uncovered'; commenting how 'the damsels of the Emerald isle rather excel' 'in fairness of skin and prettiness of countenance', how 'all classes of society...greet us with a heartiness that is cheering'; describing the Yearly Meeting which the writer and his companions attend and the conversion of 2 women to the Society of Friends; describing 'roman catholic bigotry & severity to their poor adherents they were speaking of a number they had seen going round & round a burying ground on their hands & knees till they were dreadfully exhausted, as a pennance for attending a fr[ien]ds meeting'; describing the excellence of the hotel in which they stayed; 'I never saw such order, the porter sits within the door where he can see all bells, & immediately gives notice to the party in whose department the call is - he receives all letters & parcels, immediately deposits them in your lodg room, in each of which there is a small framed paper, politely requesting you will not read in bed -& if you intend to burn your candle out to set it upon the hearth, if gunpowder be bro' into the house or any combustible matter tis requested it may be lodged with the Landlord, the safety of the inmates & the premises being equally the object of the Landlord's care etc etc'; commenting that Irish Friends enjoy long meetings, and remarking that 'I should fear in all Points that fr[iend]s here are below the English standard' and describing some proceedings of the meetings, 2 May 1827
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Letter from Edward Pease, [Saffron] Walden, [Essex], to Henry Pease, Darlington, remarking on his being in Saffron Walden, 'on the margin of the world of commerce, beyond malt, hops, barley & beer; - sometimes 'says I to myself, what is the present price of wool, is there any amendment in the spin[n]ing trade;' remarking on 'the very numerous band of your dependants: many of whom I can believe are attached to the firm by long employment & I hope conscientious treatment rec[eive]d at the hand of their employers - I wish you may be able to find them a fair share of work during this approaching wintry season - your resources pecuniarly will be called into full exertion, & not less your Patience which I desire may not fail because all bad times have mended'; mentioning Joseph Pease's interest in the question of whether 'G. & Co. would renew their bills for RWay accommodation'; Sophia's indisposition during her husband's absence on business, Joseph Pease's description 'our dear Nephew JBP as inducing a more decided apprehension that was wasting'; mentioning Chr. Healy of Thirsk, (Yorkshire), and S. Gillett, of Doncaster, Yorkshire; who described in a letter a meeting attended by a follower of the 'Hicksite delusion', who prophesied divine vengeance on one of the most esteemed of the Friends present, an immediate message that the Friends house was on fire, but, on inspection, it turned out that a fellow Hicksite's house was in fact on fire; describing how his, the writer's, daily life of 'converse, reading, writing to distant fr[ien]ds fill up my measure & seeing our dear Elizabeth recover so nicely now taking all meals with us except B[rea]kf[a]st my indolent habits may seem to have plenary indulgence'; referring to the improvement in the state of his wife's knee 'I think your dear mother's knee improves, she still walks lame I hope it is only tenderness & some little weakness, the blackness is subsiding & as nothing seems to be wrong, & much attention paid to embrocating I look to a little time rendering restoration complete'; discussing business: 'Henry [Backhouse] desires Rd. Otley to write Robt. Barclay saying the Committee agree to accept the loan tendered by Jno. Barclay of 2500£ and that it will be convenient to have the same paid over to Esdaile on the 8 of Jany next Hy has wrote to Jos that the accept[ance] will be renewed'; and 'Francis desires his Love to Joseph and is quite obliged to him for his informing letter about Middlesboro etc. - it afford him & HB no small subject of converse & expatiation, they thought the prospect bright - but HB is much afraid Joseph is in too great a hurry in selling St. Helen coal, as their wet state must bring them into disrepute does Eldon continue its foots pace, under G. As maxim the old beaten track is safest', 2 December 1831 Endorsed: column of figures headed: 'Coals to B. Palmer' in another hand
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, Post Office, Dunfermline, Scotland, discussing the state of the textile and coal trade; the health of Sister Coale; the imminent death of 'our Cousin Tho. Mounsey'; Joseph Pease's intention of affirming on becoming a member of parliament; Dr. Lushington's opinion on the matter; Mewburn's accompanying Joseph Pease to London; John Richardson's wedding; an Anti-Slavery meeting and the powerful effect the speaker there had on his audience: 'Perhaps they would tell thee there was a most interesting Anti Slavery meeting. Jos in the Chair Kemble the missionary the narrator, & at N[ew]Castle it was said there was not a gentleman on the platform who had a dry cheek so pathetic were his details, & the chairman at Durham Dr. Fenwick, Cos. Jane Priestman says sobbed aloud, at this place there was a tenderness and interest never before raised'; commenting on the great qualities possessed by Joseph Pease: 'I ought to say that our taking leave of dear Joseph has left in our minds a hope that his is rightly staid he appeared seriously quiet surely one would think such a mind, such a memory & such talent have been given beyond ordinary measure for more than ordinary purposes. May his use of such gifts be to the exaltation of the power & kingdom of the giver, first in his own Soul & then for the People', 3 February 1832[sic] [Joseph Pease was elected, with John Bowes, as Member of Parliament for South Durham on 21 - 22 December 1832]
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Letter from Edward Pease, London, to Henry Pease, describing a walk by 'E[dward] P[ease] and Junr. to the House of Commons; their missing the introduction of Lord Morpeth's bill; Joseph Pease's speaking on the register bill; Joseph's serving on a committee on the London Police Bill, extending the jurisdiction of the police by 5 miles, to the area round the General Post Office to allow for the punishment of those committing cruelty to animals - 'before it was bounded by principal streets and that cruelty to animals might be practised on one side of Oxford Street & be no offence on the other being beyond the jurisdiction'; the composition of a committee to try disputed elections: 'the Coleraine committee to try the election has some pleasant interesting members on it - Hardy of Bradford, Ireton, Brotherton, etc. etc. - it will not be so degrading a business as many - the returning officer gave the casting vote the question will be who polled the most bad votes'; enclosing a letter to Rachel; describing how their time is spent; referring to Henry's mother's belief that 'we have too much on hand & are too throng'; putting the question to Henry: 'what have you done about a new Engine?', 9 May 1833 Franked by Joseph Pease as Member of Parliament
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Letter from Edward Pease, [Saffron] Walden, [Essex], to Henry Pease, Darlington, describing his and Rachel's stay with Joseph and Emma, and their grandchildren, at Grove House; referring to his attendance at the Yearly Meeting; how they 'trotted out the children for exhibition & to call at Tottenham [Middlesex]for d[ea]r Rachel, in our way there, calling on Cos. Messers, Beaumonts & Richardsons, & at the last named place we held a short R[ail]Way Preparative meeting to R. & J.P. meeting again, as to a further reduction by the Co. to meet the Tyne & Were, which F.S. or Fallows write as tho' these rivers were exulting the[y] had annihilated us - but I see little in such assertions wheresoever they arise from - for when they begin to live we must revive, if they are now going on prosperously and can go on enriching themselves as things now are, they may say we are done & we must be so, but they must make out the first part of the case affirmatively - the longer the struggle lasts apparently the worse, but are we correct in believing that because there has been a long and ruinous war the fear of its recurrence and the establishment of Peace have now become something like settled principles to have no more war if one can possibly be avoided?'; describing sister Gurney at Grove House, her grand-daughters Jane and Ann, of whom he 'saw very little I fancy their cage door is as close shut as is compatible with their age and inclinations'; describing a visit to Plaistow [Essex] meeting and dining at Upton [Essex]; describing a visit to Mary Marriage of Chelmsford, Essex, who is speechless and in the last days of her life, but an inspiration to her visitors: 'there seems I think something like balmy health to the mind secretly infused from the presence of the refinedly virtuous sick; & concerning whom all [deleted] our hopes as to the future are blissful!!'; mentioning A. Braithwaite and Eliz Robson the first of whom proposes to undertake a Bible Mission to Lancashire and the latter to Cornwall; discussing the journey northward and a marked change in the weather 'I am now writing in the library and it is so cold it would be really grateful to have a fire whilst on 2d day the heat was such as to be quite oppressive'; discussing trade: 'it appears J. Gurneys opinion that trade will continue fair and good this year generally but occasional reactions of not long duration will be experienced', and proposals to smuggle 'religious tracts into Spain and other kingdoms where such Books are by Law excluded... a kind of Gospel smuggling perhaps reconcilable', 12 June 1833 Endorsed: note from Rachel sending her love to Henry and saying that she is pulled between her desire to be with Elizabeth and her children and her desire to be with Henry Note from Edward Pease sending his and Edward Pease junior's love
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Letter from Edward Pease, Manchester, Lancashire, to Henry Pease, Leeds, Yorkshire, begun at noon, describing an accident sustained by his wife, Rachael Pease, nee Whitwell, during the night, followed by a morning of unconsciousness and her death: 'last night thy most precious mother retired to rest as usual well but getting into her bed from which she had risen in the course of the night & placing her knees on its side to raise herself again into it she slipped down upon her knees with much force & the shock to her system has been such as the drs fear has caused an alarming concussion on the brain - she only complained of her knees & said she had a violent shock when she returned to bed And she was soon asleep - but it was short, & when she awoke was slightly delirious, that in the course of the day has given way to a constant stupor & unconsciousness of all that is doing around her, has not recently opened her eyes, nor could I say there was a ray for hope to seize upon except in the goodness of the Pulse' 'but now the affecting end is come at about half past the peaceful and purified spirit took its flight - my belief is that after the 2 first hours it was granted her to be free from the knowledge of pain and she gradually sunk into the arms of everlasting mercy with all the peacefulness with the infant sinks into sleep - my spirit entertains no doubt but a mansion of the blessedness is hers', 18 October 1833
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, describing the health of Edward Pease, junior, who 'considers himself improving but it is slowly - he is languid and inert - he was at the office a few minutes yesterday & also today - hope he will continue to improve but tis a lingering disorder with many - hope it has no prevalence at Belmont, [Uxbridge, Middlesex], & that thou mayst not have carried it'; giving the latter advice on how to conduct himself in conjugal love, in his future marriage, 'if thou conc[e]ive thy natural disposition wants impartiveness, labour against it, for momentous, as well as lesser matters must have a repose for confidence in the conjugal bond'; discussing Henry's religious life: 'perhaps thy own heart knows something of these withdrawings, & if so never adopt a sentiment, or feeling, some of our dear fr[ien]ds make use of 'peaceful poverty' - believe no such state, I question if it is to be found in the dictionary of Christian warfare'; describing his enjoying fine weather in the garden 'when my attention to this letter, one to dr. Jno & Jos. and my pillar building have admitted of the recreation, a recreation not unfriendly to meditation; for I cannot destroy weeds, & think of my bosom thistles & nettles without considering well their needful eradication; I can transplant, & wish the thorn and briar to be uprooted and the box tree and myrtle to be planted where the former grew - and my heart often turns, (& my feet I may say also) to that spot of heavenly feeling quiet over which the earth is for ever closed! over her who was dear to me beyond all that language can speak'; commenting on the proceedings of the Monthly Meeting where a decision 'to disown poor Mary Atkinson' was taken; remarking on the 'brisk letting of Turnpike gates all much advanced Blackwell bridge £900 what a proof of its value to the community; poor auction of old metal, 1 Lot at £3 per ton, the average £2 15s. 0d. the K[itchings] did not bid, I fear they will do themselves harm every way', 16 April 1834
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Letter from Edward Pease, 20 St. James Street, London, to Edward and Henry Pease, saying that Rachel intended to write from Tottenham [Middlesex], that John and Sophia will soon join the addressees, expressing his wish to know how 'dear John fared at Manchester [Lancashire], I fear it would be a trying spot - but his master has been often kind to him, & I trust would not desert him or my beloved Sophia who though I did not say much I feared was reduced to half-pay since she crossed the Chan'l'; describing attendance at Meetings at Tottenham, Middlesex, and Uxbridge, Middlesex; commenting on the possibility of staying in Hastings [Sussex] instead of [Saffron] Walden [Essex]; commenting on a passage, possibly from Newcastle to London: 'T. Hackw[or]th is also by me, says they got to the wharf this mor[ni]ng, their passage was about 41 hours - their passengers were but few up - & not quite full of goods', 6 June 1834
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Letter from Edward Pease, Hastings [Sussex], to Henry Pease, commenting on the happiness he had experienced in the past with his wife, advising Henry that his service on the Grand Jury will be as useful as his attendance at the Quarterly Meeting, 'who is ready to say that thy example of sobriety, and the turn of thy converse and opinion may not be as useful there as with thy assembled brethren: the law of Christ may exercise their ministry in the Hall of Justice, whilst preachers of the Gospel may exercise theirs from the Gallery. Preachers of righteousness have no contracted limits - perhaps wherever they are the consciences of men there is a field for them'; counselling Henry to send frequent and kind letters to Anna Fell, and her parents, to reassure them of his love for them during his 10-week absence; announcing his intention of attending the London Quarterly Meetings of M. & E. and the Meeting for Worship and then taking the 'Walden Coach'; referring to the fact that 'E. Bates & Co. will be in London - it would seem my Cos. R. Fowler, as well as what Elizabeth says of Cos. G. & D. Gibsons opinions that there is but one wish as to the dissolution of this partnership on the part of the public; but the concern judging for itself does not appear to see the right time for breaking up to be arrived'; describing a journey to attend Kent Quarterly Meeting at Dover, Kent, stopping at Rye, Sussex, where he 'saw Thomas Harrison's partner & found that he and many more Graziers had considerable stocks of old wool the new clip can hardly be said to have commenced, but as the prices at which they closed buying were £24 so now they were opening at £16 (a fall of 33 PCm) [33 per cent] their market now had neither any criterion or regularity in it, the French came over & bought freely at high price, as they must do, being so disagreeable & little depend up on that if prices fell, they either refused the wool or returned it he had sold them upwards of 1000 pks [pecks] last season'; describing the journey: 'Romney Marsh is a fine & very extensive tract of fine land generally remarkable in one part we passed over for an irruption of the Sea having covered several thousand acres with washed round flints from the size of a nut to the size of an Egg no sand amongst it, and in some directions the eye can hardly reach its limits - not a blade of Grass or any thing green upon it, the desarts of Arabia may seem to have a preferable chance for cultivation; describing the beautiful scenery on the approach to Folkestone, Kent, the excellent inn near the point of embarkation of the steamers coming from Calais, France; the small number of Friends attending the Meeting; reporting that Joseph had written that 'after all the care and anxiety and time spent by fr[ien]d on their petition to Parliament, it has obtained its full value in the house as so much wasted Parchment etc. and no more'; adding that 'reforms in the state, go on like reforms in ourselves, much slower than is desirable - Joseph seems to have faint hopes as to his bill for preventing cruelty to animals'; remarking on the imminent arrival of a child to Emma and Joseph [Edward Pease, born 24 June 1834]; remarking on the weather, the cherry and strawberry crops; enquiring how Bro[ther] & Si[ste]r [Uxbridge, Middlesex] Coates are and asking to be remembered to the servants, 18 June 1834
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, Belmont, [Uxbridge, Middlesex] referring to the health of Emma Pease after the birth of her son on 24 June 1834 and the conditions in the house inhabited by Joseph and Emma; describing the cold and wet weather 'the thermometer which at breakfast hour on 5 day stood in the place at 72 is now 56! & what was then a parched surface is now a soaked one'; remarking that 'we hear nothing more of thy uncle', dr. Joseph infers the probable thought of having 20m at 4PC [£20,000 at 4 per cent] somewhere instead of 5 may not be without its influence; such reduction, added to what he has suffered by the amount already taken, & may have to abate on the mills; & his support of his Son, will on a calculating mind like his, operate some way visibly I think!'; referring to the proposed visit of Ann Jones to the "north England", referring to her and expressing interest in what that phraise may mean; referring to her 'doctrine' which was described by 'Geo. Benson' as 'very astounding & almost unbearable, I suppose, as to the results of religious conversations; bible searching etc. etc. and spoke so much of sifting and discussions as to be both fearful and alarming'; describing the writer's intention of serving on the Grand Jury at the Assizes during A. Jones' visit, an intention which he expects will be condemned by many Friends, but which he considers necessary: 'many of my friends know that I have always been the advocate for the removal of all barriers which opposed equal rights and equal laws, & as friendly to the equal administration of them'...'yet standing as the exhibitor of our peculiarities & our principles in such a new scene, has abundance in it to mortify, yet I am not sure but it may be right for me to endure all the abasedness there is in it'...'& if I go, my mind is made up with all the temperance of my habits and uncompromising demeanor, not to shrink from dining with Bishop, Judge, Jury & Council'; giving his opinion on political matters: 'I hope there may be no change in the Comm. [House of Commons] as to present ministers - there is a sad frustrating body amongst the Peers who wish to stifle national improvement - I wish their damping influence may be over-ruled, but no chink of hope presents itself - unless in the Grain of faith that we cannot have gained our acme of national justice & all the amelioration of Jurisprudence & taxation etc. etc. that we may aspire to; & I trust is in store for our Beloved country'; discussing alterations to 'the Cottage' planned by dr. John near the Grove [Grove House, Walthamstow, Essex], 19 July 1834
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, c/o Richard Fell, Belmont, Uxbridge [Middlesex], referring to his 'inertness and langour' which have prevented him from writing to Henry; referring to Henry's duty to comfort 'dear brother and sister Fell', a duty which prevents him from being with Edward; remarking that Beck's abilities as the writer's nurse compare unfavourably with those of Henry; describing the ministry of Anna Thorne, an American, including her 'Gospel Labours' at Bishop Auckland, her promise to spend the next day with the writer and her intention to travel next to Westmorland 'a prospect having more than usual discouragement in it from her intimacy with cousins J. & A. B. when in her country'; discussing the progress of Henry's vinery; referring to his having required that it may 'have a greater shape given to it' and continuing 'we hear nothing from Bradford as to the kind of compost that we must follow our own views'; commenting on the fact that 'poor James Thompson has been obliged to close whether under an assignment or Bankruptcy I do not learn his wife an amiable woman with a large family is exceedingly to be felt for; and remarking on 'dear J. Grellets loss by the fire at New York'; commenting on the vigour of his Sister Gurney at the age of 'upwards 80'; on the behaviour of his 'Nephew JC' of whom he understands that his 'tried sisters are rather indulging the hope he is improving, but so long as he deems wine an essent[ial] [I] cannot but fear there is a tendency to slide'; on his brother's 'not being so well as usual more giddiness etc.'; on Francis's plans of leaving; and on the writer's desire to see Henry in his old quarters, 23 January 1836
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Letter from Edward Pease [Saffron] Walden, [Essex] to My Beloved Son & daughter Henry & Anna', Post Office, Matlock-bath, Derbyshire, referring to writer's having parted from the addressees at Salt Hill and wishing them happiness and Christian fortitude in the married life on which they are now embarking; discussing the weather: 'I can hardly suppose you will see Haddon or Chatsworth if this cold stormy sleety weather continues - nor will the vale of Matlock be seen to any advantage'; going on to advise the addressees that when they visit Ripon, Yorkshire, they should see Studley Park 'if it is worth seeing at this season' and to be careful in choosing 'the best winter Inn at Harrowgate', Yorkshire; informing them of his intention of returning north on the Wellington from Royston [Cambridgeshire]; referring to his remaining at Belmont, [Uxbridge, Middlesex], the home of Anna Fell, for a time; describing his journey to Essex; T. & E.'s attendance at the interment of M. Marnage, his travelling companions from London, including Jonah, W. Rickman, D. Prior Hack; a stay at 'the hospitable & accommodating large mansion of T. Christy, where P. Bedford and ISMG were also staying; the deathbed of a speechless Friend; relating a description by Joseph of a Bible Meeting: 'Joseph was invited I suppose to be a platform man at devons[hire] house at a full & satisfactory bible meet[ing] F. Buxton exhilerated the company by the reception the emancipated slaves gave to the bibles granted', 6 March 1835
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Letter from Edward Pease, B[isho]p[s] G[a]t[e], Str[ee]t, [London] to Henry and Anna Pease, Darlington, discussing the proceedings of the Yearly Meeting; lodging with Henry's 'Grandpapa', taking tea at J. Hagens, taking breakfast at John Dorman's; discussing the report that a Hicksite minister 'had obtained a cert[i]f[ica]t[e] from his Y[early] M[eeting] to visit this country, & I have been not a little amused in learning that after their meet[in]g first day week that there had been a regular consultation & apprehension though no fault could be found with his doctrine, that our worthy frd Land Marshall had been by many supposed to be the man!'; expressing his sympathy for 'Cos. W. & R. Robson as well as the family at Highbery for the situation into which the latter is placed, 'it is greatly feared that ruin awaits them, they as Brokers have done to such an extensive degree in Spanish stock - their employers have been unable to pay the difference of course it falls upon them with a weight it is supposed they must sink under - for Cos. Jo & Rachel it is a distressing case, retired into all the ease & competence of life with a confidence of their means & the propriety of doing so & to be suddenly broken up - if it must end so'; indicating that 'the Lancaster business will have to be attended to, & I hope one week or less will be all that may be required the committee has fixed to meet at Liverpool...'; expressing his regret at missing Sunderland Quarterly Meeting, his hope of making Essex Quarterly Meeting 'as profitable as we can'; his intention of calling on his brother who is 'reported to have the Gout', 1 June 1835 Postscript: 'I think I did not acknowledge Henry's last Lre I prized it'
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Letter from Edward Pease, Leamington, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, describing Henry and Anna's proposed journey from Belmont via Manchester, Lancashire, to Leamington: 'Leamington has few attractions for you I fear, beyond what are within the limits of the domicile of the Post master'; discussing the health of Edward, junior: ' I don't see Edward has gaind much by his dr yet, tho' the dr thinks he is gaining but I have observed when he has been indisposed & suddenly been restored without any obvious proofs of a disordered digestion etc. that more inertness has hung about him, but when we were at Hereford & he mixed in a company of Perhaps 50 to tea... there was no want of energy - he conversed animatedly with whoever was next'; describing his own health regime: 'Blue Pills, dandelion mixture, Saline water QS & tepid shower bath - I wear the muzzle as to a fourth meal per day I dont feel this press me, but when a refreshing tea & Coffee is going enjoyably round & tarts & puddings follow a good dinner - the closing with my pce of beef or mutton without these, is really being finished before I have done - & so it is with one cup of tea in a morn[in]g, and I have learnt the most valuable part of its contents is that which lays nearest the rim - a short filled cup raises a feeling thats not right however...'; going on to describe his '3 Glasses of Sherry a day', the fact that his pulse is in 'so much better state' and his opinion that 'I think this moderate eating or something restores me more fully up to my former unloaded feeling & I seem to enjoy & be much refreshed by a shower bath at 85'; describing a journey to Hereford 'through a very interesting Country & very beautiful - the incredible quantity of Apples on the trees everywhere & the countless waggon loads laid in large heaps on the Grass to mellow a little ere they came under the pressure of the Cyder mill were novelties to our vision'; describing the reception they received, the size of the Quarterly Meeting 'fully 2/3 the size of our QM', held in a house erected for that purpose in Hereford; describing dinner with Nathaniel Morgan and his wife, and a trip to see 'the great beauty of the scenery of Ross' [Herefordshire], where they generally live, tho' they have a house at Hereford also'; expressing the hope that by the end of another week or 2 'my dr. will be saying you may go home, only live so & so'; discussing business: 'go on as far as relates to my Bro as if he was defunct - he would make all things defunct, but all things should make him so & I wish you were in condition to reap now you seem to have some easing about you - my apprehension is that the demand for yarn will draw wool up whatever appearances as to it may be - Harrison says he has bo[ugh]t about 300 p[ec]ks for a Kdmr[?] house - that the best Ross wool is worth 19/ [19 shillings: 95p] & the best heavy wool about ¼ hogs he could buy at 16 to 17s. - but they are little stiffer for strong hands are generally the holders, & such will hold harder & harder - I expected no result from EO's journey - perhaps there may be some - he (Bro) can be fixed to no point he is as illusive as you can conceive - does there not appear a reduced income from the RWay, what is the excess of the 2 last pay bills above expenditure - this subject brings poor Rd into my view, suppose he may give to the wind his sighs & to the wave his tears'; describing a letter from Elizabeth giving news of their arranging a ploughing match with prizes, giving dinner to the neighbouring gentry in 'their great new hall - they seem to follow rural life in all its joy in that Land'; describing walks, drinking the waters and measuring the height and circumference of an oak; reporting a letter from John at York and commiserating with an accident sustained by Christopher, 10 October 1835
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Letter from Edward Pease to Joseph Pease, junior, discussing his health, informing the latter that his doctor has ordered him a dozen more Blue Pills, will keep him 12 days longer and that his symptoms fluctuate and that today is a 'day of a little more lassitude & yellow than some which have preceded it'; discussing proceedings at the two Meetings in Warwick which he describes as 'poor work and we were a poor company'; remarking that 'I notice from the Durham paper thy attendance at the Agricultural meeting at Stockton - I question what continued attendance at such succeed[in]g folly, will do for thee I should apprehend it as a little compatible with thy approving mental peace, as it is with thy position in holding the pen of the QM - we are called up higher - to 'whatsoever things are of good report' to Christians professing its precepts & spirit in their purity - consider', 12 October 1835 Postscript: 'What were the results at St. Helens last month'
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Letter from Edward Pease, Leamington, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, Darlington, assuring the latter that his letters are valued and explaining that the paucity of the writer's letters may be explained by the lack of interesting items to discuss in Leamington; hoping that his doctor may soon give him an indication of when he may leave Leamington; describing his symptoms; recounting how the doctor again visited and prescribed a 'course of Blue Pills that will be so gentle as whilst accessory to changing the sanctions will prove no detriment to increase of flesh'; describing his hopes of returning home 'a home longing fit comes over me - tell my poor servants they must be patient, cheerful & good & that I desire to be remembered to them'; alluding to his plan to produce a map of Quarterly Meetings; congratulating Henry on not engaging with 'my nephew E. Whitwell': 'it would be a source of care to you' ... 'if he could find a wool stapler or something where a small capital will make a fair set off - for what office or place do you want Bignold - are you sure there are so many mice you require more Cats?'; commenting on the chimneys to be put in Henry's new building and advising him to be prepared in advance to be aware of the 'vexations there are in delay & how very costly it is time & mens wages'; commenting on Henry's account of Joseph's visit to Leeds, Yorkshire, 'in him & Hackforth they would find few materials connected with R.ways but what were better known to them than their would be instructors - I hope they are shock of - to connect with York and N[ew] C[astle] is legitimate - let the York people have the 200 miles to London and you and the N[ew] C[astle] the 80 miles between can you get it into next parliament. I suppose you will take land for 4 ways - no bridge over the Tyne, let the Durham side have the advantage. Walker cannot - beware of his working and any ascendancy over Yorkshire men - he has ousted or upset Gibbs Walden line perhaps correctly in that instance - so soon as your conjectural estimate of income & expenditure is ready send us some of them & enter on your list dr. Jephson [Edward Pease's doctor] for 10 shares' by dear Joseph's letter to Edwd. recd this morng we were surprized considering the number of projects under way how well the lists have filled - were any allotted for a given space to Edinr. & Glasgow & Carlisle?'.; commenting on Joseph's many business concerns including those at St. Helens - 'I am truly sorry he has so many sources of annoyance there & at Storeys management having so abridged the power of raising coals the spleen of a low minded angry woman, is only like the flame of Sulphur, burns bright and smells strong, soon done - All the men I trust under Joseph's correct conciliating & just measures will come to have a peaceable settled confidence in their master - corruption is as the many-headed hydra'; 13 and 14 November 1835 Endorsed: note that Edward Pease delayed sending the letter because it would have arrived on Sunday and he considered it an unsuitable letter to be read on that day because it contains discussions of railway business; note concerning a dispute between Cos. J.B. & J.F.; note concerning the departure of J & E; note asking: 'Will the new line come thro' the Easternmost field in Josephs farm - or is it further east still if so - near Neesam Lane - how through Allens'
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Letter from Edward Pease, Leamington, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, Darlington, giving detailed advice on the building of Henry's new mill: grouted walls & foundations as far as may be - the Quoins not carried up empty without short and frequent ties; commenting 'I am old fashioned & know little - my own desire was to look to the end and see how it workd out ere it was adopted'; discussing his health and regime: a walk before and after dinner, commencing with mercury again: I do not lay down, not having ever used the sofa for that posture - 'when I am to get away I know not I feel for the detention of my dear companions, but they veil any impatience & are all kindness'; reporting on a visit from Joseph Gibbinson whose 'fate and engagements seem etc: the manufacture of Joint Stock Banks - here Birming[ham], Gloucester',.'his knowledge on RWays & Canals surfacely appears extensive - he says the Exch[an]ge loan office is advertizing the Gloucester & Berkley canal for sale' ... 'I can never approve the proceedgs of this Loan Office, it fosters schemes of adventuring men, against the sober proceedgs of the judicious - then the unwary shareholder loses all, & the whole debt 'not being repaid, population is taxed to make up the loss'; enquiring after 'my dear Sister Fell, is she yet anchored at Tottenham'; remarking on Cos R. Forster's journey to Devon & Cornwall with certificate in company with John Allen; describing the plan of R. Howard to pay the writer a visit: we are in no great trim for much company & yet a little of it Zephyrs us very pleasantly - this afternoon we have a levee 'Sam and Sarah Barnard M. & A. Satterthew & sister'; commenting on the bad quality of the local newspaper; advising Henry to 'make out all you can as to the truth of Hewitson's drinking if true lose no time in Jno. or Jos. placing before the man the ruin that is at his door - the loss of my employ without any hesitation'; returning to the building of the mill; advising Henry not to build at the East end of the old mill, but at the low mill, urging the cost of foundations and the fact that 14 feet of masonry will bring the building only to the waterline: 'to bring to the level of the waterline will be 14 feet, then your room begins - the 14 feet will do all at the low mill - the expense willbe more than double, beside being joint & unsettled property', 27 October 1835
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Letter from Edward Pease, no. 5 Marine Parade, Dover, Kent, to Henry and Anna Pease, expressing his hope that the latter are now settled in their house at Southend and that they will remember the lessons of the recentl Yearly meeting; describing his journey by sail (about 40 or 50 miles), from London to Herne Bay, Kent, and thence by coach to Dover, where, after a night in an inn, they 'selected our apartments, finding them rather scarce, the general run being too large or too small; we are forced into the former; having most spacious accommodations - beautiful drawing room, 2 Sitting rooms & 8 or 10 beds - everything most delicately clean for the same sum per week as John paid in Camomile Street'; describing the site of the apartments as 'within a stone's throw at low water is very pleasant we are not near the pier, but have a fine view of numerous Steamers out and in from France, Holland etc. - and it is amusing to walk down & see the company going & landing - sometimes looking very distressed by the voyage, as we have no very smooth sea since we came'; describing a visit to Dover Castle: 'ascending 159 steps & the spaces between the flights almost as steep as the steps themselves - it is a most commanding situation and has many attractions as a strong fortification exhibiting a vast collection of materials for destruction - Cannon, Mortars, Shells etc.'; remarking that they intend to stay in Dover for 2 weeks and that Rachel would like to go to Paris [France], but 'I cannot see that I could peaceably be her companion' .'Reviewing the past, the present & the future, I do not see it amongst the duties or proprieties for which extended existence has been granted me to spend two or 3 weeks in seeing what is attractive in the Capital of France - that we may go over to Calais [France] & thence as far as St. Omer [France] so that we can be one night absent is not improbable - it must depend on the calmness of the Sea etc.'; asking about alterations to the writer's house and discussing employees: 'Henry will see if he can keep Hewitson in work - hope Suggit is not at all employed - I think Wm. can have no occasion for anyone in the Gardens if he has he may take Hewitson, perhaps the hedges are not grown enough to clip - & please to notice how my Nephew J. Coates is - if settled in body & mind with reformed habits, my Bro mentions having gone to Darlington that I suppose he is much recovered'; mentioning that 'Jno Blackburn was at the Green dragon whilst we were there he stated wool was about 15/pk [15 shillings per peck] lower - that he has met with some good ½ bred hogs in Bermondsey [Surrey] he had bo' well - Suppose clip will be very late, but when it commences I have generally found that all which has been bought in the first 4 weeks of it has been well bought', 5 June 1836
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Letter from Edward Pease [Saffron] Walden, [Essex] to Henry Pease, remarking on the fact that his and Henry's letters 'having crossed on the road' and on municipal affairs 'what could induce Bainbridge to assault W. Maude'; discussing the advantages of the family being together: 'we often felt, and dwelt on your isolated position as to the absence of that interchange of social converse & the feeling from it which is mutually shed over us when we are in larger or smaller bands of affectionate family association' and the qualities of John and Sophia Pease: 'I hope their dedication has given them that precious something which the eye of the stranger can neither penetrate into, nor intermeddle with'; advising Henry, in the light of what John Thistlethwaite writes about 'Brookes & Noyle things generally, you would do well to buy freely and buy quickly a considerable supply of the various wools you use - I hardly know how to think there will be any flagging till near the close of the year & then the accumulation or bareness of the market for manufactured goods will give the tone of trade'; commenting on the heat; the 'day not so close and hot as we had it this day week (87 in the Shade 114 in the Sun), and on the fact that 'Rd. Smith who lives near Malden I think expects to commence his Wheat harvest this month'; describing the fact that 'Francis he is engaged in Stock taking of the Brewery concern & seems as flat & discouraged as other people who have toiled the whole year & get nothing - the Banking is a fair business & malting this year very prosperous'; expressing his hope that 'you are now advanced far towards completion of your intended improvements, when once arrived at what you had settledly contemplated - rest thee a little don't then urge onward; least like the Eagle that would pursue it course till it came so near the Sun that it melted the wax on its wings and so it fell to the earth'; remarking that he learns very little of what passes in the world of friends - 'one stream which often had intelligence in its current may be said to be dried up (Cos. G. & D. Gibson) we cannot unload cargoes on each others wharf as we used to do, but on many points are as silent as if we had a Greta bridge secret to keep'; announcing that he will be accompanied home by his niece Dorothy, who 'looks quite improved mentally she is the same as heretofore, her freedom of remark amusing and suprizing the Gibsons who have not been used to such a reign of tongue liberty and range of thought as she exercises'; explaining that Dorothy currently lives with Cos. M. Gibson and that the next week she is to go to Cos. G. Gibsons 'as he is likely to be in London a while in order to obtain some change in the laws as regards the making of Malt'; expressing his hope that Henry's vinery concern is looking well - 'I was struck with the despatch thou hadst made over what Cos. Geo had effected... the interior is yet a mass of neglected earth and not a vine in it excepting an old dying transplanted one', 9 July 1836
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, Post Office, Shap Wells, Penrith, Cumberland, and Post Office, Darlington, expressing his expectation that Henry will spend Sunday with 'your dear Mother at Kendal' [Westmorland]; expressing his pleasure that Anna [Fell Pease] & thy Uncle John have improved in health and that 'you find Shap wells quite as agreeable as fancy had prefigured the spot as to situation and I hope its hether [sic] crowned elevations said to send forth invigorating air may make you all so comfortable that none of the dreariness some think there is where no verdant plains & cornfields are may be experienced during your tarriance'; expressing his hope that Henry will return from the Lake District in time for 'the Committee meeting at Manchester the 25/27 of next mo. - to expect you by the 11 our mo. meeting here, is perhaps too soon to call you due'; describing how he feels 'a reduced company with your house and dear Johns closed; recounting a visit to' Stockton meeting with JG where he discussed with the latter the fact that 'his ministration as often was more in the way of teaching & instructing the mind, than baptising & edifying the spirit'...'I pressed hard his not mixing the two separated things'...'he admitted the whole but I question whether his goodness of heart & intention do not sometimes outrun his own perspicacious judgement - perhaps he may be deemed good to help, but difficult to keep mended'; enquiring how 'your beloved mother gets along at Kendal' and expressing his fear that E. Bates may be there, who 'would seriously endeavour to bend & crook her clear straightforward gospel message'; giving news of Edward 'who is nicely he says', and of the departure of Cousin R. Fowler, Anne Gurney, Ann Alexander and 'Sir Gurney', 28 September 1836
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to 'My Endeared daughter Anna' [Anna Fell Pease], [Belmont, Uxbridge, Middlesex], referring to his intention to attend the Quarterly Meeting at Preston [Lancashire], to their attendance at the Monthly Meeting at Manchester, [Lancashire], where they speak of getting on peacefully but in a lowly way (a safe one)... & it was a comfort to me to learn their mo. Meeting, so often a scene of conflict and affliction had got quietly over, & 4 resignations delivered in so 'one a young man whose conduct would soon have placed him in that position in which he now stands with our society. Mary Crewdson, daur of the late Thos. Crewdson, a convert to ordinances & Jno. Cockbaine and wife their paper of resignation was rather desultory, amongst other things touched on our document of observations noticing its shortness in not saying where our principles so well known were to be found - how lamentable that we should have had respectable professors amongst us who after 30 or 40 years have now to seek what they have been professing'; describing 'circumstances here' 'much of a counterpart of what most parts of the Kingdom are passing through - a very considerable degree of indisposition; ......& it was a comfort to me to learn their mo. Meetg, so oft a scene of conflict and affliction had got quietly over, & 4 resignations delivered in'...'we had a very small mo. meeting'...'Staindrop fr[ien]ds all poorly, could hold no preparative meeting'; observing that Lancelot Marshall was sanctioned by the monthly meeting to be a 'minister among us', discussing Cos. H.C.B.'s giving up her minutes to visit families and minute to visit Brighouse [Yorkshire], her belief that she was called to visit Friends in Norwich [Norfolk], and the Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex; the discussion of the proposal by the Meetg and its conclusion that it should be considered again; commenting that 'dost thou not think my dear Anna if we ever had the character of being priest ridden we shall stand better now'; referring to the fact that the meeting at Bishop Auckland was closed for lack of members and to the death of John Dean of Bishop Auckland, 18 January 1837
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Letter from Edward Pease [Saffron] Walden, [Essex] to Henry Pease, Darlington, concerning 'land agreed for with Robson & Co.'; to the fact that he had commissioned R. Otley to bid for 'that low field' and that he hoped that it would be his; discussing how by the 'laying out of roads or cites [sites]' it may be made more available to the Gas house field, but also in anything that might yield me some remuneration by sale or by letting to Lister & co.'; discussing in more detail how the land can be used to greater advantage; 'when the plan is laid down on paper & the extent is measured thereon of the build[in]gs you contemplate as wanted for drying ground or other purposes, you will then ascertain the least quantity which will fully accommodate the intended concern, you will not be surprised at my anticipations, that whatever ground is left will become of more value either from the approach of the Gr. NERway, or Johns buildings, or that it is my wish that my descendants should reap the advantage which might arise from any contingency - I am surprized that Jno Kipling does not see the advantage of selling of 3 or 4 y[ar]ds on the north side of his land to add to the same quantity set of[f] by you, as at once giving him a new line of fronts...'; commenting on John Coates's behaviour: 'I shall be glad to hear Jno Coates's plan of going back & forward to Middleton answers but no hopping about or change of scene awakens in my mind a hope so strong as to see him settledly attend to the duties of religion and expect to draw his strength from that source'; discussing the savings bank movement: 'I do not know that much of my time may be given to savings bank purposes but thinking them really beneficial institutions if it be of the least value to have my name stand as a director [sic] trustee I do not object'; referring to a dispute with Parker & Co. who owe him rent; and to a possible dispute with the coal company 'Dear John alludes to the Coal Co. having again refused to pay their dues & you as before were detaining the wagon - not doubting but they are taking this step by advice of counsel, I wish we may be on sure ground, no doubt you have advice from London & shall be interested in hearing the progress & issue of this contest will it not be attended with great loss to stop working their Collieries, & do they expect to make a good case against us as to claim damages arising therefrom - Joseph is desirous of knowing if they have any shareholders who are clergymen - could James ascertain this'; recounting the illness of Cos. Josiah, E. Dudley and Br,. Howard and Dr. Hodgkin's debility; recounting events of the Yearly Meeting in Dublin [Ireland] as described by one of his correspondents; remarking that he is writing the letter 'whilst all the dear inmates are busy going to see a French traveling Bazar etc. etc.', 15 May 1837 Postscript: expressing his hopes that trade will amend because 'I apprehend from the plentifulness of money for safe legitimate purposes, it will be applied to speculations, then advance will follow but it seems to me you should not talk of more than 1/peck for wool - we have seen fewer sheep clipped than usual'.
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Letter from Edward Pease, Penzance, Cornwall, to Henry Pease, referring to his stay at Burnworth 'the mansion of Jno. & Phillipa Williams'; a public meeting at Cambourne: 'a full and good meet[in]g. I am almost disposed to think people are better here than in the North'; describing a candidate for membership of the Society of Friends: 'a very pious man, perhaps they fear his effervescence'...who, although blind had taught his children to read, as he had 'about 160 or 180 chapters of the holy scriptures off by heart'; referring to their continuing their journey to a Meeting at Falmouth, Cornwall, dinner at R.W. Fox's house, and on to a meeting at Marazion, Cornwall; discussing the good nature shown to them by John Williams, whose business interests are described: 'J.W. & his two Brothers I should suppose in the Cornish bank, with Copper, Tin & Coals are amongst the largest miners and buyers of Ore in the County making upwards of 4000 tons of fine Copper annually worth upwards of £100 per ton and half as much Tin in weight and value & importing about 40m [40 thousand] tons of Coals - the Foxes have large engagements in all the above & an Iron foundry & forge that if females with us are annoyed with RWay & Coal converse, the ears of their Sisters here may be open to Copper & tin - however may think themselves in a safer position only to have to listen than like their poor husbands who may have to watch, & may they do it most effectualy, against being covered with tin, coated with copper, rusted with Iron, smutted with Coal, or smothered wool, or feel exhausted by Rway speed'; describing a visit to the 'Loggan rock (a large rocking stone) in itself not superior to the largest at Brimham, but vast assemblage of Granite columns & Granite boulders which composed the scene was indescribably grand', and to 'the Lands end, which may be called a truly sublime sight'; describing the scene there, reflecting that the Lizard was the last and first of England seen by many travellers; describing the climate of Cornwall: 'this appears to me a most grateful climate they never know heat enough to ripen grapes, they never know cold enough to kill the myrtles which are flowering against this (Edw Crouchs) facing the sea and against some to the tops of the houses, varities of Pink & other Arbutus almost timber trees - beautiful Camelias flowering against their walls - an Aloe 23 feet high flowering in the open air where it has always grown is attracting numbers to see it'; referring to another public meeting to be held at Penryn, and to his imminent departure for Austle, Cornwall, 20 October 1837
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Part letter from Edward Pease, Street, Somerset, to Henry Pease, advising the latter to keep his anxieties about his and his wife, Anna's, health 'within as limited bounds as possible, they are apt to be exhaustingly luxuriant'; giving Henry advice on his 'future dwelling'; discussing 'Church rate matters': 'from dear Joseph accot recd yesterday at Bridgewater [Somerset] would appear the rate will be carried - let that half of the Parish which has opposed but suffer the magistrates (if they will do it) make out warrants against them they will be bold and unprincipled Church wardens who will dare to execute them'; referring to railway concerns: 'I notice that Plews has wrote to the GrN of ERW this is probably at the instance of the B.- may say my mind revolts at such conduct - if an accountant was employd to examine their accot with the S & D I think it would be found they had no such feelings (tho' with much cause) for themselves as they exercise toward thy Brother I am glad he takes it so patiently as not I hope to warm any blood above temperate'; assuring Henry that his business affairs are of interest to him; exhorting him be mindful of his Christian faith; discussing his intention of visiting Bristol, Frenchay, [Gloucestershire] and the Potteries [Staffordshire] to hold meetings; describing his enthusiastic reception at Taunton, Somerset, from R. Ball, his wife and family; discussing the monthly meeting at Street; describing a slight indisposition 'a rheumatic spasmodic feeling from the right breast to near the shoulder' and his daughter Rachel's being courted by R. Fry; announcing the likelihood that they will go to Liverpool [Lancashire], after their stay in the Potteries, 1 November 1837
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Letter from Edward Pease, [Saffron] Walden, [Essex], to Henry Pease, Darlington, referring to improvements in Anna Pease's health: 'the getting sometimes into another room, and beginning to think of her needle, (always considered a good sign of female amendment)', and to the health of Henry Fell Pease: 'a good history of your sweet baby which all accounts hitherto represent a thriving untroubleous little fellow'; expressing his desire to see how Henry reacts to fatherhood 'to see how you look in your new; your honoured responsible position - to use one of our expressive north country sayings - I would say dont be 'heart grown upon him'; expressing his desire to see 'what sort of grandmother my dear Sister [Mary Fell] makes'; referring to anxiety experienced by them all concerning the birth of Henry Fell Pease: 'my own anxiety was the greater for you on account of the unwise forebodings of your medical men'; commenting on the weather: 'this has been a very chilly season with frost and cutting winds if you have had the same, your Gooseberries will be much gone they hang on the trees here quite decayed as large as a full sized Orange pippin - it is not congenial walking, tho' I do not hear Rd & Rl who use this exercise the most complain'; referring to his wish to see John and Joseph before he leaves Walden, but as far as Joseph is concerned: 'tis possible the important debate which had occupied the house two sittings might not close with the second & he would feel bound to say till its termination'; discussing the narrowness of the circle in Walden and the effect made by Jabez's removal: 'the chasm which dear Jabezes removal has caused is felt by us and I may say every one, wherever we call it is subject for lamentation, few are characters that could be described in the words, 'Every country, my country, every man my Brother' than his, so expansive his benevolence & desire to help all classes - this unexpected change in these families has hastened the conclusion to dispose of the Brewery, and a negotiation now pending it is hoped may be satisfactorily closed in a few days'; referring to Edward Pease, junior, and the writer having colds: 'Edward who has otherwise been well has a heavy one & I have for the last 2 or 3 days been more on the invalid list than has for long been my experience, perhaps the stomach had a good deal to do with my weary feelings, and that stiffness of old age which I may encreasingly calculate upon'; referring to their departure this afternoon and sending the love of Henry's brothers and sisters to Bro. & Sis. F. and to Sophia 'suppose she feels Darlington rather lonesome', 17 May 1838
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry and Anna Pease, Belmont, Uxbridge, Middlesex, remarking on the absence of letters from the latter, hoping that the latter improves in health: 'does my Loved Anna increase in vigour; does treasure thrive; & my dear Sister how is she since her head visited her own longed for pillow, has all the effects of accident left the strongman ready at the right time, (& when that may be) to return with vigour to scenes which have an undeniable claim on thee'; referring to the fact that all is well at Seaton [Carew] except that 'I would not on the latter without marked limitation as to dear Emma say so much - I have never known her pine [not shrunk] so much for want of her husband [Joseph Pease], I believe he sips the same cup...', 'when ever he sees best, he can retreat honourably'...'whatever his conclusions are, at least if they are to resign it appears to me, few should be in his confidence as his constituents are the earliest entitled to know his intentions'; pointing out that Henry is needed in his business: 'I am more forcibly struck with it today from W.E. Forster coming, & sending over for E.C. understood he was from home yesterday & likely to be absent all the week, should anything trying occur it struck me it would be reproachful there should not be any one like a principal on the spot'; referring to a reprobate in the Coates family: 'I suppose it may not be easy to find any subject dear R has omitted, does she say that exhausted patience & anxiety have induced the dear family at Norton to send of Jno Sparks to seek up Isaac C[oates] they hope to find him at Keswick [Cumberland] as £10 from his book concern & £20 from his Iron ore, has gone there at difnt times for him - Jno [Fell] is also gone to the Lakes his continental companion with him - accounts state that he is soberer but how his business goes on; or how that Tavern keeper, and his itinerant preaching associate (too much from home following that calling) get on, & for whom they make profit I cannot say, but I should fear not for my nephew Isaac [Coates]'; describing the proceedings of the monthly and quarterly meetings, including a dispute concerning a book critical of some members of the Society of Friends; 'Cos Jno Richardson wished to know what steps our mo meet[in]g had taken respect[in]g a book which was published by one of its members reflecting on some fr[ien]ds, the discipline of his own mo meet[in]g and the QM - or Sunderland fr[ien]ds made long harangues (some of them who ought to have said nothing) stated our mo meet[in]g was so weak we could not manage our discipline, etc! or words fully equal; my remark was that neither my knowledge of the constitution of our Society nor anything in my experience or observation had furnished me with a knowledge that the bringing individuals before a QM, or the impeachment of a mo meet[in]g in that way was correct - this view was opposed, and JR's correct proceed[in]g indicated your Bro Jno supported my sentiment, I remarked we were in the hands of the QM and they of course must take any measures with us they liked, - indeed if NCastle m meet[in]g in the pride of its strength will come and manage the case for us with JT I should not object - the imbecility of their discipline kept him and member & of equity he ought to be theirs'; discussing the fact that 'My Aunt Briggs' is now at Kendal [Westmorland] and discussing her quality as a speaker in religious meetings: 'this I am clear in, our QM has not her equal in many respects - universal information etc. etc.'; declaring his intention of acceding to his summons to service on the Grand Jury: 'I stand in the hope of find[in]g an opening to forward the cause of declarations versus Oaths'; discussing the whereabouts of members of the family: 'I have a longing to be with my dear grandchildren at Seaton, and I feel my presence most unessential to dear Rachl or Rd but my Grass cut yesterday seems to have a claim on my care & the Foxes of Exeter Geo. his daur. & sister have succeeded D Malcolmson & wife so closely at Eastmount that I cannot comfortably leave dear Jno & Sophia to carry all - Cos. W. Bkhs family are in Scotland Jona & H not returned, & you absent, the circle for visits is limited'; referring to an agreement with Miss Rowntree, presumably concerning railway business: 'perhaps dear Jos would tell thee I got a bargain with Miss Rowntree, I think I rather a hard one for the Co, but I hope not worse than they expected, and Jno Harris was so very anxious; Jno Dixon now here, thinks it worth all the sacrifice; discussing Joseph's activities: 'The last letter I had from dear Joseph noticed how fruitless had been all his efforts & care to get a meeting of Rway shareholders in London - such indifference may vex one, but it has this very useful teaching in it, that if you do anything for the publick, they will make your shoulders as welcome to the load, as any gain to their own pockets - the Wilsons of Sunderland (no bad authority) say their river can do no more it is quite at its stretch, no bad news for Cos TR and his dock scheme, but let him first find a purse to make them & a back really to carry it', 10 July 1838
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, referring to his 'knowing that a correspondence is kept up among your brotherhood', to the fact that 'there is something better than late telling which impels me to commence a letter, & that is to recite the pleasure I have from time to time in hearing of dear Anna's progressive amendment' and, to the fact that 'having accomplished your journey with but little fatigue as far as Tonbridge, [Kent] - a place I was aware that open bracing air resided at, I hope the change will be continuously beneficial...& I hope you will stay as long as your separation from your babe will admit'; commenting on the harvest and the need for good weather; describing the writer's journey to 'Whitby near Sea [Yorkshire]', the object of my being there thou art I suppose acquainted with - the pressure of thy dear Bro Johns duty to hold meet[in]gs for the inhabitants of Guisbro' [Yorkshire], Whitby & Ayton [Yorkshire] and I believe they were to his relief and satisfaction at the two first named the[y] were largely and very respectably attended, at Ayton not quite so much so'; commenting that: 'I think he [John Pease] will probably yield to Jno Harris solicitation to be his bridegroom man at Penrith [Cumberland] next 2d day; describing the proceedings at the monthly meeting: 'it was largely attended, the womens side especially would not contain the assembled females - from Middleton we had several Shields fr[ien]d. Richardson & Proctors etc. - from Seaton Edw Backhouse's family the comm[ission] to consider of Overseers laid their report on the table, requesting no fr[ien]d therein named, nor any one make any remark, but let it rest in the minds of the individuals, etc. sub silentio for one month - this was implicitly obeyed & the names of W Bkhs & Jno Beaum[ont] P[ease] were added to Cos W Robsons & mine to be for one year'; describing how Cos. Eliza Backhouse and her greatly recovered invalid Sister 'inform us of James & G Walkers arrival at the Cape of Good hope [South Africa] - suppose their tarriance there may be considerable'; describing Henry's garden: 'I noticed in thy Garden the Apricots near ripe I desired they might be bro' here & A. Thorpe attend to their being preserved for you - the younger gardner thought there were no orders rec[ieve]d from thee concern[in]g them'; describing 'a very short visit from Cos. Stacey's only one night & two days the atmosphere of Kendl Lvpl & Manchr we may conclude from their lengthened stay at those places were much more genial'; referring to the rejection of the appointment of a chaplain to 'this workhouse' proposed by the Rector of Dinsdale by 28 votes to 10; referring to the arrival of 'Francis' suffering from 'his eruptive indisposition'; discussing marriage: 'it seems as if marriages were a little going on in that generation of the Backhouse family tis said Jno Mounsey expects to succeed with Lucy Bkh'...'Wont my dear Anna be surprised if Jno Mounsey gain Lucy Backhs tis said he will - 13 years difns in age too much Going down to South end hope I may find the dear party arrived & get this franked - for postage it is not worth', 19 September 1838
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, c/o Richard Fell, Borough, London, remarking on the increased health of Anna and on the fact that a slow recovery is preferable to a rapid one which may not last; expressing his hope that the weather in Tunbridge is not as 'gloomy & damp' as in Darlington, and expressing his further hope that 'the weather will clear up & all the rich beautiful foliage which surrounds & enlivens, may for a while continue; yet as I write this and admire the dark shade on the opposite wooded bank, I see one tree with its fading leaf, emblematic of Egyptian mourning - the works of the harvest man are impeded, yet I saw on my way to St. Helens yesterday some reapers at work - I have not yet seen one field cleared, in looking over the country I have seen about 4 Stacks of Grain, that thou mayst conceive the state of our harvest'; describing the companions found by the Robert Barclays at Buxton [Derbyshire]: 'Jos Dockray & Esther who happily call upon them less seldom than they see them with their prayer books under their arm on their road to church! what more likely heaven-sped journey those have who can use such a book, than those who have it not; how this parade of sanctity or devotion stands in the sight of him who knows all Hearts & only blesses the Pure, I know not - the recent accot of R. Barclay state his improvement from champooing'; describing a social event, possibly a wedding at 'Cos WBs' [William Backhouse], attended by, among others, 'Jno Bright, whose bright eyes I ween will be about him'; referring to visitors for the Quarterly Meeting; recounting the fact that John is about to return from his duties as 'bridegroom man' to rejoin 'his two Sophias'; describing alterations at Southend 'these wet days hinder their operations and it is well for them that the roof is yet on; the side walls are all carried up, and ready for removing the roof as soon as it is safe'; discussing the disposition of Henry's fruit: I find thou has wrote about thy fruit; but the Grapes quite ripe do not appear as if they would keep; to whom are they to go - hav[in]g observed the Apricots generally ripe ere thy letter came I directed them 3 day to be pulled, my cook to preserve them for you: there may be 4 doz more which your cook will care for as wished'; describing a day spent with George Stephenson: 'did I name G. Stephenson spend[in]g most of a day very agreeably with me, & his warm anxiety for a Rway from NCastle to Edinr, which he says can be got without either incline or tunnel - but where is the cash to come from, in so bare a country, Yet on every ground it seems to us a most desirable & valuable thing'; describing a visit to Shildon and Bishop Auckland for a 'satisfactory examination of the pupils near 100 in each school'; referring to 'dear Rachel' having to endure a week of visits from well-wishers 'it being the Bristol custom [after her marriage to Richard Fry]; to the fact that no further has been heard of the dispute over the chaplain for the workhouse and to the fact that 'I am proposing to make one more effort to stir the magistrates at the Quarter Sessions respecting a Northgate bridge - I doubt my success, but O'Connell like constancy moves things despaired of sometimes'; referring to his having met 'your Bro Jno at the forenoon meet[in]g on 1st Day the only time we have met'; to a dispute about whether 'Cos. T. Robson' should be allowed to accompany his wife to America 'surely no station in society annihilates civil, shall I say sacred rights - neither Law nor gospel can make severance or dissolve honorable marriage: can a man be under the necessity of ask[in]g if he may have his wife's company?'; describing celebration of John Harris's marriage 'When naming Jno Harris marriage I might have noticed the demonstrations of attention to it by the flags out from the RWay office, the Station at Shildon Coll[ier]y, & the village, the celebration at the latter place was wild enough & the running in Sacks, etc. etc. the establishment of an annual feast whether in commemoration of the event or not I know not '; referring to Henry's determination to spend the winter at Belmont [Uxbridge, Middlesex], 25 September 1838
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, expressing his relief that Henry was not involved in 'the disaster on the Birming[ham] R[ail]Way', and that Henry has made his 'arrival in a mansion of Kindness after all the uncourteousness of Inns, in their mistaken policy is it not among the advantages of RWays, that the number of these houses & their inmates on the main lines of road will be greatly lessened'; discussing the possibility of Anna's returning home to the north of England: 'and as my Lov'd daur asks me what I think about her coming home, say I should be rejoiced to see her at it, as soon as she thinks herself so vigorous and bold as to think it safe to leave all the murky & soft foggs that envelope your dusky atmosphere and come into our clear sunshine and unstormy clime - whilst they have been fearing they might be blown off the face of the earth; we have wind enough to ruffle the feathers on a hens back'; referring to his own good health after a set back: 'after grand reductions, constitutions change; my experience tells me & I wish dear Anna may have a long season of as successive health as has been my favor'd Lot, since she fanned me so gently, & with a sweet affectionate kindness that is to be unforgotten'; referring to the fact that Southend is not habitable and that the family have returned there: 'your house recently so enlivening now looks again deserted and cheerless - I must have got spoiled by having them so near me, & seeing the four eldest come every day to have a romp with Lydia till four o'clock - they reinhabited So end on 7 day Nt - it looks and feels as tolerably comfortable as one could suppose, yet drafty: but instead of two or three calls per day at dear old parental care hall I get once a day to South end on the average, it makes my measure of attention there less & can you conceive how such a journey, one to East mount & having three endeared absent children to correspond with, & other such like works and writings fill up the measure of a little effective old mans time, you may have some sense of his worthlessness & condemnedness when he lays his head on his pillow and mourns so little done'; remarking that Henry and Anna will be missed 'around Jno & Sophia's table', that he feels 'tis possible my tenderness to dear Rachel for whom I seemed as if I would never do enough, induced me not to propose anything that might be a degree of care to her - indeed I am sure I do not act with the same care towards my valued housekeeper, whose active habits interpose no difficulties when company are coming and going guests are to be suited'; and that Cos T. & M Richardson are due the next day; referring to the fact that he is not sure whether his brother is still in 'the vicinity of Sterling' [Scotland], but that 'my Nep[hew] Jno remarked on 1st day that Bro was bilious and then yet too feeble to travel'; that Lydia will remain with him until the end of the month and that she accompanied the writer and 'dear Edwd' to 'Norton a considerable time having elapsed since I spent any time with Brot he was well as usual my nieces both had colds - Sarah has too much Cough Hannah whose tarriance at Bristol is not yet limited, has been spend[in]g a week or two with Aunt Abbot' and that 'it seemed a little cheering to thy Uncle that he has a recent letter from John still at Inverns [Inverness, Scotland], which was written in a more satisfactory and agreeable strain that he had had ever from him - yet he inferred there was not that fullness of acknowledgement he should have been glad to have recd - Isaac who is now at Farmers, seems more completely tendered & humbled than we have seen him, he has assigned all inspection care and control of his Iron concern to Geo. - has signed the remuneration of all Cricket clubs & concern there with, and a teetotal pledge - I dare say with the intention to adhere thereto - but the flesh is weak yet I have always observed it has strength enough left to undo and break that which it has made'; referring to a meeting to be held by Cos. H.C.B. at Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; disclaiming great knowledge of local and railway business: 'nor is there in Rway matters much within the scale of my knowledge, tis said the Collieries are working very hard & that it is not in the power of the Brusselton engine to get all over the bank last week there was 5200 wagons shipd I think'; giving further details of the meeting in Cambridge: 'on 1st day, tis supposed 1000 Students might be present', 'I wish I could recollect her [Ann B] description of the doctrine but it was Christianity with views of Philosophy being its complete adjunct, I dare say it would be a stirring service', 14 November 1838
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, referring to 'the almost overcoming hour at Eastmount, which witnessed our tender parting'; hoping that the addressee's journey to Anna's sickbed has been accomplished successfully and discussing Anna's symptoms: 'greatly alarmed and apprehensive as I was, from the announcement of a considerable himorage', and expressing his 'trust that thou wouldst find this most precious object so very worthy of all our Love free from the distressing, yet (I fear) invested with that debility and exhaustion which ever accompanies the disease and in a patient tranquil mind'; expressing his hope that 'thou will not fail to express to thy dearest so far as thou thinks proper all the nearness and fullness of that paternal love which has dwelt in my bosom since I could in all completeness adopt her as a daughter'; urging the consolations of religion on Henry; assuring Henry that 'the difnt branches of our family are well, saving dear Edward he desires his dear Love & feels most tenderly for thee often saying Poor Henry I should like to hear how he finds Anna etc and he desires his dear Love to her & each of the family with thy dear father Uncle Aunt & my dear Love, they all come with their sorrow into most tender review', 25 March 1839 Postscript: 'anything that strikes thee about thy furniture (I have wrote to J C Hoskins how thou art situated) please to name - Edward wishes to know where he can get the Colly stock book, has thou left the Cash drawer, or where is it - your partner J Smithson is to be interred tomorrow'
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease c/o Richard Fell, Borough, London, expressing 'that anguish which thy communication recd this morning has plunged my heart into' and saying 'if it is to be my lot as thou expresses the probability to meet thee as a Widower, it will be a day of anguish - indeed it is a day that has more than dawned upon us - from the first seizure, whilst there was no foundation for hope, yet there was some expectation entertained, that the perfume of her fragrant spirit, might have been for an extended time poured over you - the mourning my dear Henry 'of a husband for the wife of his youth', is used as one of the figures of the heaviest distress, but whether this desolation of human bliss is the most poignant in youth, is not mine to determine, but this my sorrowful experience well knows, that to dissolve a cement which 30 to 40 years had been successively cementing was felt, & daily remains to be felt as a flowing spring of inward unseen sorrow'; describing Edward's condition as 'more lingering than heretofore' and describing how 'Dr. W. thinks there is a Sinus which probably it will be needful to lay open, in order to expedite amendment' and how 'Dr. Edwd looks towards it without apprehension'; suggesting that he and Henry 'under our touching circumstances mutually we must write to each other by every post'; remarking that the Quarterly meeting is now over and that 'Cos. Priestman, WS and Hy Whitwell remain a while'; concluding: 'Farewell my Beloved Henry in the nearest feeling of paternal & tenderest commiserating sympathy as always', 3 April 1839 Postscript: 'Let every message that bespeaks the strongest the sincerest love with something like an assurance of the bliss that is about to be revealed to Dearest Anna be given - what a comfort it would have been for me to have mingled in all your feelings & done all my poor best efforts would have enabled me'
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, assuring Henry that his 'frequent tidings' are of great comfort to him as there is in the affection we feel towards those we love a desire to inquire morning by morning respecting those we love'; expressing his solicitude for Henry and Anna, 'my dear Bro and sister and your Uncle and Aunt'; referring to 'the truly affecting accot thou gives of the nature of thy worthy Uncles attack;' and expressing his belief that Henry will give all the consolation he can to 'dear Jane'; referring to 'thy accounts of endeared Anna, her sweetly serene and peaceful countenance with some feeling of her unruffled spirit seem again to introduce me into her presence and by the side of that couch on which I have seen her reclined - by the side of which I have sat, listened and gazed on so much sweetness, and which it seems as if it would refresh me again to have such a position'; expressing his hope that 'the day may yet come when the fulfilment of Dr. Hodgkins probability may be realized 'that the warmth of summer may to a certain extent be restorative'; discussing Edward's health: 'he has not got back to his former standard previous to the operation perhaps it is more the inconvenience from the enlargement of the wound than any reduction of much strength from the loss of blood - all our hopes may be said through divine mercy on the powers of the constitution, but even under the most favourable circumstances Dr. Baird appeared to think from the internal waste and sloughing of the integuments a year might lie before us - that almost unvarying debility which for the last four months, has prevaild appears to be accounted for by the diseased state of the intestines, which were so exceeding loose, that they seemed incapable of mutual support & should not these be braced by returning strength, the issue could not be contemplated with hope'; describing the burial of 'Barb Palmer', a 'touching scene to me, as it was near the place where my treasure & my blessing lay reposed'; referring to the fact that 'Thy Bro. Joseph', is intending to go to London; discussing the disposal of Henry's furniture: 'I should quite suggest to thee any succeeding circumstances to think of fiting up Blackwell or rather lodging thy furniture there as if for a years residence, yet with this understand[in]g that Parental - care Hall offers thee all the accommodations they darling babe, and the nurse can want'; remarking that 'should it be thy father Fells wish to come and look at that which his Poor lost Son has so deeply involved him in, or should thy dear mother wish to come on what would be the greatest privilege & mercy to have dear A[nna] once more here, everything seems to conspire to looking at Blackwell as being pro tempore ready'; referring to Edward's 'wish that I should go down to Norton to take tea with my Bro Coates etc. & take my Cos. E. & M Priestman in the car[ria]g[e]; and to the possibility of HCB staying with him for a month, 11 April 1839
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, explaining that he meant, in his previous letter, to ask Henry to write daily but that he himself would not do so as his life is not so full of interest and change as that of Henry, although Edward has not yet recovered: 'not that my dear invalid has got up again to his Croft par. Perhaps some little more strength is now present than when the operation was performed - he yesterday for the first time walked from his own room into mine, & to day the same - so far as I can learn nothing but a healthy appearance is about the wound, but its healing can be scarcely to be said to advance; remarking that he had not intended to write that day, as John intended to do so, but he has been prevented by 'such a glimmer & head ache as quite incapacitates him'; referring to John's intention of attending the Staindrop monthly meeting the next day; discussing J.H.F. [John Fell, Anna's brother]: 'in dear John's letter from thee I noticed with regret what an annoyance J.H.F. is to you, as my opinion of the decorous conduct of the Boweses is good, under different circumstances at Belmont I should have thought that little of such levity, but when I consider his general conduct & that wound he must increasingly inflict on thy dear worthy parents it is truly distressing & if possible some course should be taken to stop his bad career - that he has various very old unpaid but long promised debts, no doubt thou art aware and it may have reached thee, that one of the Bassnells has left the house, to become his mistress and taken lodg[ing]s with Wallace a common prostitute - to harrow your feelings by again throwing then before thee would have been far from me, but in the hope that with his afflicted father you might if possible resolve on some plan to curtail his cash to a weekly stipend, & if he could be withdrawn from his corruption here to thee & to us all it would be a great relief'; reporting on the 'clearing out of thy house, the many dray and cart loads to Blkw & the conveyances & reconveyances of Dear Sophia & AT to see all things properly arranged there & cared for, have had some share of my thought as packing papers and abundance of small things had on dr. Jno and I on 7 day - tomoro Hopkins will be here & what thou wished is left for his option'; referring to Henry Whitwell: 'On 5 day I look for Hy Whitwell to commence his two years with Jno Harris', 15 April 1839 Postscript: 'Thy Uncle Coates & Hanh desire very dear Love to you - the first named has just been up to sit a while by Edwd, I think to their mutual Gratification'
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, c/o Joseph Pease, Jun., M.P., 7 Manchester Buildings, Westminster [London], referring to an improvement in the health of Anna Pease, the possibility of Henry's returning home for a time 'but not at the cost of great anxiety or any distressing anxiety on the part of thy dearest to resign thee for a while'; describing the declining health of his son, Edward Pease, junior: 'in the few past days many and encreasing are my apprehensions that for me the furnace of affliction has to be again heated - during the past week, there has at times quickened breathing, some suspicious expectoration, more difficulty of drawing a full breath & a hurried respiration on laying down, which affectingly indicates I greatly fear, that decline which Baird said he had observed to ensue when there was not vigour in the system to induces healing processes - and this healing is not neither is enlargement of the wound obvious - Dr. Wishart does not think the pus like expectoration is from the throat or lungs, but there is some formation of matter in the system'; 'Dear Edward is generally serenely cheerful, he has made no remarks on his anticipations of recovery or otherwise, and the tenderness of my nature has hitherto shrunk from what at times I would feel a relief to have effected, and some moment may arise when his state which cannot but be deemed precarious may be adverted to'; discussing the Christian virtues of George Fox and William Penn and contrasting them with the men of his day 'surely the puerile squabbles of the present day will some day be beheld with pity - what contemptible christians such men as Peel & Brougham are the worst in the tribe because strong natural talents are sunk by an ardent love of fame & sacrificed good understandings, seem to me to render the men infamous'; discussing Sam. Smithson's proposals: 'the measures he seems very desirous of affecting which is to draw the coals as at Adelaides which in quality and saving of Labor he considers would be highly advantageous the offer he has to make on the most approved principle, find[in]g every thing requisite for both top & bottom to allow pulleys etc. etc. & keep all in complete repair for 3 years - is £400 and 1 tender £415 thy Bro thinks as it was his & J. Smithson's intention to have Storeys view of the state of the pit & the probableties of a new sinking & where & where the bore holes were to be and when it would be best to have Storeys report extend to this alteration also, I purpose writing to S. Smithson accordingly this even[in]g'; referring to further disputes about, and refusals to pay, church rates; referring to the possibility of the present administration falling and his opinion that 'I do not seem to mind how soon they withdraw - for the Torys would have to make themselves a ladder which would be advantageous to the People in order to climb into popular favour'; discussing negotiations in the House of Commons concerning railway business involving Joseph Pease: 'dear Joseph kindly wrote me a long interesting letter I hope his care about the Gr N of E Bill is much got thro', he noticed that Mewburn was in great fears about the Weredale, Lord Shaftesbury hav[in]g been told of the reserved powers of the tunnel - I hope if they abandon that Bill they will keep that power, & either make the enfirion line they say they can make, or purchase at any rate the good will of resisting parties'; referring to a letter sent by Joseph concerning the qualities of coal' 'The acco. which Jos. sent to the Durham Chro[nicle] about the coal producing beautiful white ashes seems to please several'; referring to John [Fell]: 'how sad[en]ing to think of John', 22 April 1839
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, Belmont, nr. Uxbridge, Middlesex, commiserating with Henry over the fact that 'our very precious Anna is rather losing strength'; saying that he knows 'what anguish such an observation would cost thee; & how all the tenderness of thy nature and the love and endearment which has been in your most happy union will augment the depth of thy sorrow'; and going on to say that 'I feel that a path of mourning must ere long be mine for a beloved affectionate innocent pious minded son, endeared to me, may I not say intensely from having long on account of the state of his health been morning by morning the object of inexpressible solicitude, not only when in sight, but out of sight, at home and abroad, beyond whatever my tongue would express or my feelings betray least I should infuse into those around me that continual anxious sensibility to which I was so keenly alive'; describing Edward's health: 'there has been a diminution of strength and appetite, & on removing him from his bed to the couch I was painfully struck with all his limbs so reduced - I fear a change is rapidly advancing'; remarking that 'we expect dear Joseph home about the middle of the week if he can get a pair on the education bill, to have all my beloved family around me, when circumstances such as we are immersed in fall to our lot is a great privilege'; going on to say: 'he [Edward] is freed from pain except when he has a straining sickness & is the same patient tranquil sufferer thou hast ever seen him - he has made no allusion to his anticipation of amendment or otherwise & when expressions calculated to elicit his feelings have been made, there has been no respond to them', 3 June 1839
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, c/o Richard Fell, Cornfactor, Borough, London, re-directed to Uxbridge [Middlesex], informing Henry of the imminent death of Edward and expressing his hope that a visit to Tunbridge [Kent] may benefit Anna's health; describing the course of Edward's illness: 'the dear invalid was gradually and inevitably languishing, - he was so calm, so quiet collected and sweet, that only Gatenby was left to watch by him; and with a paroxism of trying breathing from 12 to 1, the night was passed in rather heavy sleep, and we may hope without much suffering, - but this morn[in]g great exhaustion was apparent, and very little notice taken of anything passing around him, yet a general consciousness when awake of who came into the room & who was around him, - and evincing a willingness to take or refuse Jelly etc. that was offered to him - the accumulation on the lungs was so great, & only now and then with an exhausting effort got up'...'we who watched round the couch of the dying, were permitted to feel the sweetness of that innocence over which we cast many a tendered look'; going on to discuss the consolations of a religious faith; remarking that: 'it is now 15 days since my return from London, and so gentle, yet so gradual has been the sinking, that except with an intervening circumstance now & then, it seems as if no day had through its whole length been of more discouraging character than its predecessor, & whilst I write, his Bro says 'he said a Strawberry diped in Brandy might be given him' - his pulse is very weak & very rapid, yet does not perceptibly intermit - I can hardly anticipate his continuance over this night, & should be released without much suffering I trust reverent thankfulness will rest on my Spirit for that favor, as it does for a sense which this afternoon was vouchsafed whilst his enfeebled arms clasped round my neck, that concerning him some expressions in Holy writ would be verified, 'Say ye to the righteous it shall go well with him'; advising Henry that he should remain in Uxbridge with Anna and not attempt to return to Edward; giving further details of Edward's progress: 'I conclude this letter at near 9 O Clock & may say my precious Edwd has rather revived & seems more bright - he occasionally complains of pain in the Shoulder & at the Stomach but I trust it is not severe'; we are but separated in person; we are together in spirit, - in affection, and in sorrow - yet or Calvaries; thine I trust from the account thy dear Sisters have this morning recd, may have some hope in it, and Tunbridge may be useful to precious Anna - but here there is no hope, and so near may be the end of all things to thy loved Brother, that the silver cord may be loosed, ere this be posted, 16 June 1839
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, referring to the fact that no letters had been sent to Henry since his departure; to the fact that Henry had arrived safely at Tunbridge Wells [Kent] and had found Anna 'rather better'; to the fact that Anna has been 'able ride out'; and to the fact that the 'cold chilly east winds' in Darlington have given way to 'hot weather, most seasonable for the luxuriant crops of Grass & Grain everywhere apparent - I have begun to cut my meadow, of course I am desirous such a plenty making fit of Weather may continue - and it makes for my Grandchildren (a numerous band) a most delightful scene'; describing the dispersal of the 'establishments of Eastmount and this house dear Rach[e]l & Rich[ar]d for their long journey, started at 8 - Jno [John] and So[phia] with Eliz & self about 9, & A Thorp and daur for Middleton after dinner'; discussing his decision to attend the Quarterly Meeting, 'apprehend[in]g it might be right for me to go, shew myself as yet bound to the cause'; describing the proceedings at the Quarterly Meeting: 'we had no ministry but from thy dear Brother [John], it was long, I think none deemed it too much so - but rather that it was excellent and under that covering of spirit which the spirit of man can neither command nor control continued until fr[ien]ds considered it a right time to read the Epistle'; continuing: 'but little business was before us; 'no epistle but one, no copy of Ackworth report, & only some of the minutes of the YM had arrived & no new matter was brought before us except a request to reopen Benfieldside meet[in]g house for worship on 1st days, this being agreed to by NCastle mo meet[in]g soon obtained a sanction'; describing 'HCBs desire to have a meeting in the evening', a desire thwarted by the writer of the letter, and another encounter with her when she expressed her desire to hold 'a meeting with the inhabitants of Durham on 1st day Evg', a desire also thwarted by the writer, and a visit by HCB to 'the drawing room at Southend' where 'she became pleasantly social & sweet', and 'she soon opened in most uniting affectionate strain of ministry addressed with great credence and pertinence to thy Sisters, Rd and each at parting'; referring to an 'Apoplectic Seizure' suffered by Anna, wife of J.N. Richardson 'as they were riding out very near the Giants causeway where they had gone for Sea bathing', 4 July 1839 Postscript: H. Whitwell was our companion home in the Car[ria]g[e] - Jno & Sop[hia] went to take lodg[ing]s at Seaton for themselves & Sis Jowitt to enter on next 3d day - but ah on my arrival at home how my precious Edwards form, his placid innocent countenance arose before my view - Eliza went into her room A Thorp & her daur at Middleton - like a lonesome empty house, like a lone sparrow in In cielo quies'
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, P.O., St. Leonards on the Sea, near Hastings, East Sussex, expressing his sympathy with Henry on the continued decline in the health of Anna; discussing the fact that his children are away from County Durham; 'I ask thee to think how I seemed benarrowed in my affectionate interests in looking at Eastmount - So end & thy habitation - all vacant - and was not my Beloved Eliza and her children here to comfort me I should seem bereft indeed - how long they may remain with me seems uncertain'; describing the partial recovery of Mary Gibson from a seizure; discussing John and Sophia's stay at Seaton, and John's health: 'I have been quite concerned to see him more than normally bilious and thin'; describing John's intention of visiting 'Berks & Oxon & Bedford & Northampton QMs & it might be to hold some publick meet[in]gs and appoint meet[in]gs going and returning, his concern met with great concurrence and unity, indeed it appeared to me that he gave proof in our first meet[in]g yesterday that he was endued with a power which in the brightness of its openings and influence was not of man'; describing the proceedings at the Meeting: 'our meet[in]g for worship was striking & that for discipline comfortable & harmonious; lamenting the lack of Edward during these contentious discussions 'on this occasion I found the want of my very precious Edwards sometimes very timely words & when I look at his vacant seat in meet[in]g and the want there is of his pure spirit - when I feel that he is neither in this room nor that, nor nowhere, my heart in great tenderness feels its lonesomeness with tears of tenderness - yet blessed is the peace into which his spirit is entered - may we all reassemble in mansions prepared by our Lord'; discussing common acquaintances: 'Isaac Sharp is returned with his Hanh & it is said there is some improvement I fear tis but little - I conclude some one would tell thee of poor Thos Atkinsons deplorable fall & how his dear mother is overwhelmed with grief & very distressingly so the nice amiable girl Rach Spence to whom he was about to be united - it would appear that in disease and crime it is an affect[in]g counterpart of his poor Bro Benjamin'; referring to a proposed visit by Cos. J. Braithwaite and Cos. Anna with Caroline and Bevans; referring to the reprobate John [Fell]: 'Bro had been at Marske [Yorkshire] and spent a day with poor Jno who is most miserable & unhappy and has since wrote Bro he did not know what a day of peace or when he had it except the day he spent with him desires his father will go & pass 2 or 3 days with him, the letter seems wrote in a better disposition than he has of long evinced & something more like apology in thinking he perhaps deserves the misery he feels'; describing a letter from 'Josiah F. then relaxing in the beautiful salubrious vallies of the Appenines [Italy] which he compares to the finest English lake scenery on a grander scale'; recounting E.F.'s visits to prisons in Marseilles [France] and Toulon, [France] which 'had been satisfactory & ever afforded EF opportunity of bearing testimony to Gospel truths as held by us, but Roman Catholic sway was a sad bar, yet the valuable work[in]g of the bible society in getting new testaments into the schools etc. etc. in these remote vallies was evident - he expects to be at home 20th of next mo - at Toulouse [France] they had made acquaintance with the three valuable Brothers the Courtois, Bankers, those who were indefatigable in spread[in]g the scriptures & works of piety'; informing Henry that a remittance will be sent to York and that a cheque for his 'furniture as per Biltons valuation' has been paid into his account, 17 July 1839
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, Belmont, Uxbridge, Middlesex, expressing his sorrow at the news given in the latter's letter, received that morning, of the death of Anna Pease: 'the mournful tidings thine recd this morning has conveyed & which has dipped the mind of thy tenderly attached parent & thy Bro & Sister G into much sympathy, sorrow and commiseration'; expressing his conviction that 'very Peaceful & I trust very little painful appears to be have been the peaceful close of the innocent well spent life of her thou dearly loved - the uncomprehending unconscious smile of thy dear child will times usefully arrest the flowing of the current of sorrow - how the heart longs that he may be favord with health, & shed many a ray of comfort and pleasure round thy dwelling as my beloved children have all done round mine'; discussing the possibility of the writer and others of his family attending Anna's funeral; discussing thy Bro JHF [John Fell] 'I sent thy letter to Bro JHF not receiv[in]g any message back but thanks & surprise that he had recd no account, if he does not call on me in the course of the even[in]g, I shall endeavour to see him ere I close this I understand he has been from home of late at Leeds [Yorkshire] I believe, this probably known to you, what a favor it would be esteemed if this mournful circumstance which would suppose & hope might be exquisitely felt had any right reaching influence on his mind, if it has not how gloomy may our apprehensions of his future path in life be - it is a delicate matter for me to touch on in my letters to my dear Sister, & one which I have generally shunned from my being unable to discover any altered or improved conduct - it is some satisfaction to be able to say that nothing has transpired in any way to his disadvantage since YM - we see him seldom at meet[in]g or elsewhere - it was my intention to have seen him this even[in]g but find Cos. Jona & HCB are making a call on him', 28 July 1839
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Letter from Edward Pease, Northampton, Northamptonshire, and Banbury, Oxfordshire, to Henry Pease, Darlington, expressing his sorrow and sympathy for Henry and reporting that their journey has been smooth; expressing his hope that Johns preaching will bear fruit 'but viewing our society as a whole these are discouraging days; for one would appear to me it is only kept alive without increase of vigour, & when we see any plant in such a state, we cannot but fear what its next stage may be'; describing the reaction at Ripon [Yorkshire] 'Bigotry & Toryism I apprehend prevented such an attendance there as we might have hoped for'; describing the reaction at Mansfield [Nottinghamshire]: 'at Mansfield on 1st day where we had a truly relieving meeting about 7 to 800 present'; describing the weather and the state of the harvest: 'We have had only two days entirely free from Rain, but it may be said to be only showering & such does not prevent the cutting and carrying grain, yesterday was very fine & it was cheering to see the people busy in allmost every field it being with but little exception quite ready for the sickle, we see it very much laid, but there seems a general satisfaction with the crop & the laid Grain tho' not free from smut is not much complained off. I should be glad to see our northern crops in so forward a state'; arranging to meet the members of the Uxbridge [Middlesex] family at Maidenhead [Berkshire] or Reading [Berkshire]; recounting Joseph's return to his family at Lowestoft [Suffolk]; describing 'what a toilsome onset he and Cousin R have had at Liverpool [Lancashire]with this poor wronghead man, who it would appear has been laid out before the referees in fair colours'; remarking on the health of 'Bro Hustler': 'how infirm & I thought shrunk my d[ea]r Bro Hustler was with a Rheumatic affection walking lame & with a stick he was pleasant in spirits & with my sister most kind'; describing an old house: 'last night at Widow Burgess her old mansion would please Francis - their Lobby at Walden [Suffolk] & staircase especially might be said to be a miniature of the widow B; broad black stairs, heavy carving were all in the heavy mansion style of 200 years ago'; describing a story at Olney [Oxfordshire]: 'from Northampton [Northamptonshire] to Olney where we had an every meet[in]g, a very small company only one man our kind entertainer Sheppard Bell who has a very amiable wife & himself an agreeable fr[ien]d - there is one friendly female here quite a character - Ann Smith, a name thou mayst have often seen to Bible society, our society subscriptions, marked with liberalety which seems most diffusive, she has erected a suit of Alms houses for 24 unmarried females or Widows & endowed them with D/X 1667/4/- [4 shillings [20p]] per week to each inmate - in point of taste & completeness as well the lawn & Gardens, they are superior to Walden Alms houses - but Olney has another source of agreeable contemplation attached to it as the residence of the pious Jno Newton, whose dwelling and that of his interesting fr[ien]d Cowper we also saw, & went to the very humble summerhouse in a secluded orchard where he wrote his task'; recounting a visit to Newton Pagnel 'to a forenoon meeting - 4 men fr[ien]ds and 3 women with a few children, where 'two of the men are dewsberrys, the direct descendants of one of truth's warriors'; a visit to Buckingham [Buckinghamshire] 'to an evening meet[in]g, two men fr[ien]d belong to it only one at home & three women, only one at home, some attenders were present'; discussing again the state of the harvest, retarded because of the rain, 29 and 31 August 1839
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Letter from Edward Pease, Warborough, Oxfordshire, to Henry Pease, Darlington, apologising for not answering Henry's letter for 10 days, because 'our traveling has been close, and succession of meet[in]gs so quick, with attentions like this, needful to be rendered to thy dear Sister and Bro Jos (who has been most neglected, being two weeks without any tidings from us)'; expressing his concerns about Henry's health: 'I was quite concerned in perusing the account thou gave of the depression of thy mind at times, and its reaction I believe on thy health, inducing that liability to be soon fatigued, - let me press upon thee as much as in thy power to guard against giving way to thoughts that tend to drink up thy spirits'; urging on him the consolations of their Christian faith; describing his tour with John: '2 meet[in]gs and 2 stages every day last week except 7...our horse has done well, tho' I tho' last night after 27 miles afternoons work yesterday, & 42 miles the preceding day from Chorlbury thro' Oxford to Newburry he was less fresh than sometimes, but he rests today having a morn[in]g meet[in]g with fr[ien]ds in the even[in]g with the inhabitants of this populous & wealthy village'; describing the efficacy of John's preaching and the fact that they need new supplies of tracts; commenting on the weather and the harvest: 'we seldom have 24 hours without some little rain, yet the Sun in the intervals has been so hot & powerful it has but little retarded the operations of the harvest man, the want of hands or unwillingness to hire labourers to cut the barley & Oats is to us most remarkable, they appear in 1000s of acres dead ripe - the wheat is all in, in our ride of 27 miles yesterday I think 3 or 4 fields out was all we saw it is generally stated to be average crop, not more, - the advanced state of the Autumn strikes us, the mellowed tint of the foliage, - ploughing again where the wheat has been carried, stacking the beans & many such occupations, indicative of harvest being ended, awakens a wish that it may be in fine progress with you'; describing meetings in Henley [Oxfordshire], Wallingford [Oxfordshire], Warborough [Oxfordshire] and proposals to proceed to Maidenhead [Berkshire] and Reading [Berkshire]; discussing railway and property matters in the north: 'Thy remarks respecting the RW coming thro High Ellens field did not escape my notice, I had rather not have had it as it destroys what in its whole might have been an eligible build[in]g plot, however not wishing to withstand improvements, if I am really compensated for Land & injury, there will be no objection to [to it] but I may observe that giving J. Allan access to his land across mine, is worth £500 & were I in his position I would give it, so he should pay me that also - could R. Otley ask what he would take for the whole on the south side of the Stockton RWay'; describing an accident in Blenheim Park [Oxfordshire]: 'Our horse keeps up his condition beyond my expectation considering how closely he is worked, & has been perfectly gentle, except a little prank he played us in coming over the lawn in Blenheim park taking on coming up to a large herd of deer, very near to the celebrated column, he reared 2 or 3 times, most probably from dear Jno turning him round from facing them, I was on the step, getting out to hold him when the quickness of his turn threw me of it, and gave a famous roll on a turf that felt as soft as a bed, of course the bustle I was put in least he should rear on to me was all I felt about it personally but thankfull I trust that nothing but excited apprehension arose out of the circumstances'; referring to S. Beezley and Jno Aldbright as 'most agreeable guides'; sending love to Henry, Sophia [John's wife], and A Thorp 'very many are the enquirers after her'; referring to the prospect of seeing Henry's 'sweet babe 4 or 5 hours hence', 12 September 1839 Postscript: 'I do not think if asked take up my abode or anything with Cos Jno Wilkinson, I cannot well endure to receive anything at the hands of such a reviler, nor do I see how he in honest sincerity can offer anything to those whose object it is to propagate a faith which is as the effluvia of the bottomless pit to spend a first day at Wycombe [Buckinghamshire] will be a trial'
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Letter from Edward Pease, Berkeley Square, Bristol, to Henry Pease, thanking Henry for his frequent letters and exhorting him to learn from his tribulations to put his faith in God; discussing a backslider: 'I was concerned to hear of Geo Pearsons incarceration - I have seen his sliding and feared his fall - I wish his life long instruction for the circumstance. If he is not mixed with wicked company, I have no anxiety about the period of his confinement being shortened- surely this disgraceful humiliation will make him the object of his master and mistreses care - I hope they have whilst spreading their religious endeavors not neglected this domestic cultivation; I do not forget the awful warning thy beloved Brother [John Fell] gave to fr[ien]ds'; expressing his hope that such reprobates would prove a warning to others: 'that they might be induced to pursue a more watchful course than misspent time on profitless associations, and the benumbing there is in smoking etc.'; discussing railway affairs: 'I was concerned to find there had been another fatal accident on the Railway, what a contrast to the vindictive deodand inflicted by the preceding jury it would seem as if the country felt the unjust severity of that sentence, & this decision was meant to cover them with condemnation - what is your Rway Co. doing about the payment of the £1400 and to whom? - I am not averse to testing the conduct of the coroner, exposing his advisers, the influencers the jurors or getting rid of the finer as far as any of these can be done - as to purchasing GN of E shares, from thinking well of these, I leave it to dear Jno & Jos & thy decision, I can only wish my property to be employed as you think most advantageous, I think I have ab[ou]t 4m [£4000] in dear Josephs hand, he is much in advance for Adelaide colliery for me - that its resting with him, purchasing those shares a 20 dis[count] - or paying up some half shares or 3m [£3000] to W. Aldam is a matter of no anxiety to me - I have 20 original shares and 15 bought & 15 disco[unt], that you can take any course you please - I wish us to stand prepared to pay my Brother at the hour it is called for'; expressing his concern at hearing of the poor health of 'my dear Sis Fell'; describing his having to travel to Neath [Glamorgan, South Wales] and attend a monthly meeting in Bristol; describing Rachel's health: 'Rachel is better, not quite at Par but I hope near it', a walk over Brandon Hill [Bristol] and drive through Clifton: 'our conveyance which they have recently purchased very much resembles thy mothers, a shade larger to take 3 of their stout Durham horses, without difficulty climbs such hills with it as we have nothing about us to compare with'; referring to Dr. Wishart's ill-health [he operated on Edward Pease, junior]; the situation of poor Ruth Beck of Middlesbrough [Yorkshire] and her 'vagabond husband'; referring to the fine for the railway accident: 'I see in the Durham paper one of the jurors is endeavoring to justify the enormity of the deodand, if it is intended to have this case reviewed in Court, is not undesirable to reply to any such letters in any other way than by putting questions likely to discover dif[fere]nce[s] of opinion or proceed[in]gs in some way incorrect'; expressing his pleasure in 'My being here and seeing a beloved daur so comfortable & so surrounded by kind relatives', 4 and 5 November 1839
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Copy report of the Q[uarterly] M[eeting] Committee, made by Thomas Milliner, David Dockray, Ralph Nield, Harrison Alderson, William Waithman, at the Quarterly Meeting, Liverpool, [Lancashire] in the case of a dispute between Edward and Rebecca Watson and Isaac and Tabitha Hadwen, 25 March 1840; made by Edward Pease and sent to Henry Pease, Belmont, near Uxbridge, Middlesex, 1840
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to Henry Pease, Belmont, Nr. Uxbridge, Middlesex, referring to a suggestion made in the writer's recent letter to Cos. T.R. 'that the St Helens Co should take D/X 1667/1/9 of Eldon & thou the other D/X 1667/2/9 that was my precious Edward's thus by hold[in]g D/X 1667/5/9 we should ensure the coal down the S & D and prevent any branch Rway being let to any other parties if it should prove as Grame hopes that there is 2 years coal to work, the sinking it is probable might be deferred 2 yrs - should you 3 meet many things would occupy your attention - as TH Whitwell speaks of the exps of the tunnel being so tremendous I could wish R. Stephenson [gap in ms.] to see it, possibly he might devise some economy in the [gap in ms.]; sending love from Jane & E and Emma, postmark 9 April 1840
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Letter from Edward Pease, Darlington, to 'My Beloved Henry' [Henry Pease] [Belmont, Uxbridge, Middlesex], expressing his concern about 'thy dear Aunt Jane's health', that of 'dear sister' and that of his 'dear grandson', and expressing his hope that 'your enjoyment in being together is very great; I can easily conce[i]ve as he is coming to that age in which a noticing companion yields great delight'; expressing his hope that Henry will soon return because of Joseph's absence; discussing the use of a building plot at Seaton for the erection of a meeting house and other houses on the plot: 'I should wish to have his [Green's] ideas as to where a meeting house would least encroach on the back access which to stables etc. would be needful, - into how many building scites it might divide, without anything more than possibly going into the first object this year, or should tempting offers be made for parts of it accepting the same - I have not seen Green or had anything from him yet, that there will be time for thee to evince thy taste ere anything is settled, indeed I am not yet in possession'; referring to a dispute in the Society of Friends in Liverpool [Lancashire], between J. & T.H. and E. Wall, and an arbitration in the matter presented by a Committee to the Quarterly Meeting there; discussing the activities of women in the Society of Friends: 'This seems a singular service which thou notices as hav[in]g attracted Marion Foxs attention in hav[in]g a meet[in]g of females of a certain age alone - such was her visit to the meet[in]g for sufferings - I do not say that in either of those instances the good woman has done anything but what is right but it is my dear sisters opinion there may be in feminine sensibility a quickness of feeling, on which masculine consideration may at times be usefully bestowed - possibly we have a beloved one here, whose traveling with feeling that she has the check string on her little finger to give a gentle useful pull up she can acknowledge the value of - We had this Gospel intenerant [itinerant] who has so long in the vicinity of Carlisle [Cumberland] been a Colporteur in her masters service at our QM on 3 day, and at our weekday meeting this forenoon, soon after which she set out to have a meeting at Corbridge [Northumberland] about 12 miles west of NCastle this even[in]g! and at Hexham [Northumberland] tomoro', where next she knows not, but either for Edin ½ year meet[in]g or Lancaster QM and so to derby & Notts or!'; referring to her leaving 'Cos Jona' at home because of his health, and further describing her behaviour at the meeting: 'his remarkable companion after a sermon well calculated to excite to faithfulness and individual inward examination & after a supplication, felt it her place to offer up prayer for her who with her family were ere long about to cross the ocean and settle in another land, I apprehend Mary Thistlethwaite's heart went along with this as I observed she also kept on her knees all the time'; describing the activities of 'dear Hanh' who 'aimed to be at our meet[in]g of Ms and Es on 2nd day night, but taking as usual more into the days work than could be accomplishd she only got within 9 miles of home a little after midnight sleepg at Rusheyford - we had a very powerful declaration from her in much demonstration & I thought something like Apostolic authority'; describing how Hannah intended to 'account to frds how she had spent her time since recevg their certft to visit Scotland in 1s mo as she had not yet entered that land', and how 'she gave us an interesting account of the occupancy of her time having on the average held more than one public meetg every day since she rec'd our certft, that these meetings were very much amongst a people situated in districts where there was no worship, no churches nor any shepherds that they came an unsophisticated people flocking to the appointed meetgs & lively were her hopes that some were powerfully reached - as the locality in which she had been I recollected was once a fruitful one in valiants raised up in former days in our Society so it seemed now as then there were not any trammels of an ordinance built religion to pull down, & if it was pirmited that the visitation & dispensation was fraught with power as in days of old - the church might yet have a seed there'; referring to the visits to the Quarterly Meeting: '8 people staying with 'A Tharg', 'Aunt Bragg too feeble to be present; 4 from 'Sumrhill' & 'Chas & Susan'; D Oliver and Cos Geo Richardson were absent, the latter visiting his ailing son in Brighton [Sussex]; 'Jno Chipchase was staying with the writer; referring to the imminent bankruptcy of Jos Taylor: 'I suppose in a day or two we shall either see Jos Taylors name in the Gazette or hear of his havg assigned - if the attendant loss on banks outlay was not so great I should on Cos Rs acco be more pleased with Gazette than assignment as in the first named R would be out of his hands & society to work him instead of his working society', 10 April 1840
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Note from Edward Pease, Darlington, to 'My Beloved Son Henry My Joy and Crown', enclosing a gift of £2000, 15 April 1853
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from John Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/230-231)

Henry's brother


Letter from John Pease, East Mount, to Henry Pease, Belmont, Uxbridge, Middlesex, commiserating with Henry on the illness of his wife, Anna, and recommending him to the consolations of his religion; informing Henry that 'dear Edward was removed to Croft on third day afternoon with as little fatigue as could have been supposed' and remarking that 'our dear invalid does not seem any better since he went'; referring to O'Gilkes' negotiations with Lister; recounting how O'Gilkes was 'upon the point of requesting me to accept WL's offer, another was made him on his iron line which has so far turned him aside as to induce him to request further time'; and commenting that 'a similar offer might be obtained for Thos. Smiths son but 'really T. Smith is so rascal a man I should fear much contact with him', 14 February 1839
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Letter from John Pease, East Mount, to Henry and Mary Pease, enclosing a copy of 'A brief Notice, of the last days of Elizabeth F. Gibson who died at Clifton [Bristol] on the 31st of 1st Month 1866 [31 January 1866], 17 March 1866
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from Joseph Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/232-246)

Henry's brother


Letter from Joseph Pease, Carlisle, Cumberland, to Edward Pease, marked 'for Henry', referring to letters received from his mother and John; to Henry's illness; to the writer's proposal to spend some time with relations in Kendal [Westmorland]; to the fact that Henry's friend, Edward White, was in Glasgow [Scotland], spending some time at home before opening a new shop in Princes Street in the New Town in Edinburgh [Scotland]; describing how the 'spirit of magnificence & display is still exerting itself to render a fine city [Edinburgh] still more imposing & grand', and how, in Glasgow, 'the population & throng of inhabitants is very striking, it was reported by a Committee of the Synod of the Kirk of Scotland that there were 30,000 Highlanders in Glasgow who could not understand a sermon in English, I understand that there is but accommodation for 2000 in those Churches where the Gaelic language is preached & it was resolved to build one or two more Churches for their particular advantage. There has been a very great stir & some serious mobs in Glasgow owing to the Doctors making too free with the sepulchres of the dead and in consequence the profession has fallen under the general odium of the poor and the medical men sometimes in going about their business have run considerable risk of being maltreated'; describing his being accompanied by a French man, his wife, and daughter of 12 years, from Dumfries [Scotland] to Carlisle, with whom he conversed in French; sending his love to uncle, aunt and cousins at Feethams, and to J. Coates, 16 April 1823
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Letter from Joseph Pease, junior, Grove [House, Walthamstow, Essex], to My Beloved Brother, thanking the latter for his letter, received the day before, describing the writer's illness and his feelings for his brother, and the religious reflections occasioned by them; the visit of his parents; the kindness of Friends in Norwich [Norfolk]; his recovery from his illness: 'I may tell thee this is the third day I have directed my tottering steps downstairs today to dinner and if I had been clear of a deal of grumbling from my teeth, I should have been as well a poor fellow, who has been kept for days on water, has been bled, leeched and well salivated could expect in fact I am doing well'; sending greetings to Uncle Pease and Cousin Elizabeth, Cousin John & Sarah Pease, Cousin R. Coates, Cousins J. & J. & C. Backhouse and flock, and thanks to Mewburn for his kind attentions, 3 January 1826
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Part letter from an unidentified correspondent [Joseph Pease], 23 Lombard Street, London, to 'dear Henry', referring to the counting house, his health, a visit to Tottenham [Middlesex], with his 'dearest E[mma]' to see Aunt and Cousin Stacey, and others, a proposed visit to 'Aunt S's' and Cousin Foster's'; bemoaning the demands of Emma's near relations; discussing their dining at Upton with Brother & Sister B, a proposed visit for dinner at Barclays, a return to Stamford Hill; his not having seen Mewburn, no progress on railway matters; his delight at the good news of 'our little precious girl'; his not having accepted Hubbard Wade & Sons bill: 'I have the memorandum of discounts on bills paid to C.G. & Co. they will throw out and few small bills first opportunity but perhaps the difficulty of employing money never was greater - I believe C.G. & Co. lose interest on £100,000...for which after every exertion they can find no employment whatever - when J. Overend leaves they will want a very efficient hand here may I offer thy services?'; expressing his opinion that J. Gurney 'buckles too', 'I presume Mewburn would write to say that to prevent the Northerns' having any plea against us, we have after serious consideration offered S. Prattman a guarantee of laying J. & L. Branch in 4 years, but have not yet received his answer, this however we are advised will render nugatory any attempt to oppose us on that ground'; describing his purchase of Trimmer's wool for 3s. 6d. per pound and ask that J.P.B. should send the writer names of any who require wool, 22 February 1828
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Letter from Joseph Pease, junior, Grove House, Walthamstow, Essex, to Henry Pease, Darlington, announcing his intention of travelling to Darlington via the Stamford Coach, of lodging in Stamford [Lincolnshire], travelling by mail coach to Leicester, [Leicestershire], and thence to Leeds, Yorkshire, and thence to Darlington; requesting that E.J. and J.P. should send the prices and values of items he is to buy or sell in Leeds on their behalf, to The Stag and Pheasant in Leicester; referring to his refusal to provide more than was received, with reference to the Tees & Thames Steam Navigation Company, and agreeing to accept the Secretary's draft of the surplus to which T.K. had rejoined that if cash were required he would discount it; discussing a long letter received from T. Hackworth, commenting that 'he goes so rapidly from post to pillar that it is some stretch of recollection to follow him'; complaining about the demands made on his time especially 'hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of letters from J.G. Bevan, Jon Hutchinson, Mary Watson, S. Alexander etc. etc.'; commenting on the reading he must do; the letters to be written by his wife; the consolations of Christian hope; the suffering of the baby while teething, the other children are flourishing; referring to R. Fowler's not being in London; news from Elm Grove of R.F.'s health; the price of 'capital steel pens sold here with sticks at D/X 1667/1/6 per doz!', 24 January 1831
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Letter from J[oseph] Pease, House of Commons, Westminster, London, to 'Dear Henry', referring to his having come up from Grove House to Grace Church Street; describing the exertions of the members of the Society of Friends attending the Yearly Meeting, his taking part in the Conference on the Book of Extracts, and attending the Anti-Slavery Committee, which was 'anxious to lend a helping hand at the present crisis and there employed themselves without intermission'; mentioning Sophia, Rachel, and Sister Gibson coming to tea with Emma; describing John driving back and forth in his gig; the writer meeting William Leatham as he crossed the Forest; the writer attending Meeting at Newington and Tottenham where John Silvanus Fox, J.S. Gurney, R. Jowett, S. Lloyd, Sam Rundall, B. Dickinson, John and Thomas Yeardley, W. Forster, were met; describing his activities in the House of Commons: 'in the evening we had a long debate in the Committee on the Irish Church Temporalities - the Tories fighting the ground inch by inch and having prevailed upon Lord Althorp to make some concessions - they became still more earnest & some would say unreasonable - though after all they did not gain any great advantages - then we had a debate on the Dower Bill and frightened the Solr. General into the admission of a clause whereby all women now married or who may be married before 1st of 1834 - is exempted from the operation of the Bill - then my Clause on Bearbaiting which as before was vehemently opposed but I had on division the satisfaction of carrying it by 24 to 16 in the House (40) and the 4 tellers to spare this said this morning the newspapers which pander to the low taste of the Mob upbraid Members for being from their duty when such mischievous enactments are made - but there are others on the other side and these I must draw my satisfaction from if anything is wanting beyond the conviction of doing what is right'; going on to comment: 'this mor[nin]g I have seen Cos. T.R. Edward Jos Taylor etc. on the Clarence Co. Committee and since we have had some Conversation on general topics - particularly on the Staithes at Middlesbro: The Tees Navigation Co. have got clauses which satisfy them and we adjourned to give Appleby time to complete a treaty which is set on foot and which they hope to bring to a comfortable conclusion - referring the whole to the decision of 3 Barristers at the expense of the Clarence Comp - tomorrow we must meet at 12 - which will probably be merely to go through the clauses and settle the Bill', 20 May 1833
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Letter from Joseph Pease, Grove House, Walthamstow, Essex, to Henry Pease, expressing regret at his inability to attend the Quarterly Meeting and declaring his intention of attending the railway general meeting - 'if I knew when you proposed to hold it'; discussing the low price of coal: 'it was a real pleasure to me to hear that you could hope for a favourable balance of your Stocktaking as other matters have been so adverse - indeed I cannot tell thee how depressing it has been to me from day to day to see Coals at such low prices knowing how greatly many must suffer'; expressing his desire not for great riches but to keep his 'present competency so far as we have gone and leave great things to others'; describing the state of the coal trade in the north-east: 'you say nothing as to any hope springing up that northerns are with loss - my calculations make Hetton Londonderry and Durham miners on former incomes about £400,000 per annum of which 40 to 50 must be real loss and the defalcation must be still greater in some smaller concerns where the cost of raising may be more and in which the sale price is much less - It requires some nicety to manage a conversation with Gully lest he should receive and communicate the idea that Income of the Tees colliers was quite wearied out - the last time we conversed on the Subject his tone was much altered and subdued - and he did not speak of a compromise as so entirely out of the question. Sir H. Williamson complained that neither Durham nor Londonderry would pay their rents and that at Lambton Park races a £20 bill of the latter's drawing was passed out round the table in payment of debts and no-one would touch it as value - Bowes tells me they are all (he as one of the Killingworth Co. very sick upon the business and are desirous of coming to a settlement - that there was a meeting at Chester-le-Street a few days ago but he had not heard what were the resolutions though he knew that they agreed that they could not go on much longer Fenwick says it is now certain that many collieries on the Tyne must close and Lord Wharncliffe complains that without the expense of the strike they were only £150 good at Killingworth last year - that he thought it hard then to have to pay £4000 premium out of nothing to his Sisters - but what may be the issue this year it is dreadful to think - thus there may be some hope that things will mend with us - bad and distressing as they have been there always was the comfort of knowing it could not continue and the hotter the fight the shorter the conflict and probably ultimately so much the better for those who managed to ride out the Gale as none who have lasted now will be very anxious to resume the war - it was mentioned the other day that the Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners had advanced Londonderry £30,000 on Seaham Harbour - it is monstrous to grant the Company's money to parties for the sake of encouraging private cupidity - speculation and a system of ruinous competition - that the people of Sunderland and Stockton should pay taxes to lend money to ruin themselves - but I have got an order for a return of all their outstanding loans - original amounts and repayment of Capital and interest - I did not think Ministers would allow of it but they did not oppose it and it will be my duty to examine the particulars - I paid a pleasant visit to Ld. Morpeth on 7th day 8 o'clock dinner exceedingly splendid very quiet and agreeable 15 sat down Lords - M. Hill Clement Morpeth etc. Gaskell, Parker, Young, Briggs, Macaulay Tottie Wood Patten Vernon Smith etc. no toasts or healths - about 6 of them engaged me in strong argument on War - it is not for me to decide what advantage they obtained - I should say none-quite the reverse and at parley Lord Morpeth said firmly pressing my hand 'well I do like Quaker principles - we broke up at ½ past 11 and I have thought there was still more openness toward me amongst some I met since the day - we are pushing forward as quickly as may be and the members are disposed on some occasions to be quiet and more attentive to business the Assizes and Sessions have thinned the House greatly and as business proceeds quicker with fewer Orators and great deal may possibly be accomplished in the next fortnight the time some prognosticate for the conclusion of the Session tho' I am apprehensive it will be near the end of the month or the beginning of the next - it is said Ld. Althorp has withdrawn his intention of meddling with the Joint Stock and Private Bankers this Sessions this will save some debating'; asking 'To whom did C.G. & Co. make the offer of £10m - as I cannot make out and do not like to ask so lame a question'; referring to the 'Middlesbro' Church Accs as named by S. Sharp' and to Timothy's visit to London: 'whilst there was such much money and time spending in continuing Road Steamers - I think it might be worth his while to come and the Companys to show him but there is a pause again and the parties after dissipating fortunes are discouraged and lagging' , 3 July 1833
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Letter from J. Pease, Southend, Essex, to Henry Pease, Stamford Hill, Hackney, Middlesex, referring to a step taken by the latter, presumably in an affair of the heart [the courtship of Anna Fell]; advising him not to be discouraged, to trust in God, not to be ashamed, and to remember that 'there is nothing selfish or unmanly in thy errand - I say not selfish because the honest purpose is thine to receive but surely also to bestow every attention to seek to heighten every charm of life to thy chosen one'; exhorting him to bear up under setbacks, and to 'look everyone fairly in the face - fear no man - no nor woman - but with the meekness and gentleness of a Gentleman & Christian try to please - but be not too anxious even to do this', 10 December 1833
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Letter from J. Pease, 3 Manchester Buildings [London], to 'My Dear Bro.', describing a debate in the House of Commons concerning rival bids to build railway lines: 'I do well to bear and suffer to protect myself and those nearest and dearest to me from an atrocious attack upon our property'...'Bowes brot forward his motion that the House should receive the new petition - name of Bill changed - new petitioners etc. - for this purpose - they had availed themselves of the objections I had already taken and deposited new Lists of Assents etc. - information reached me of their having galloped to Eden Hall amongst the Road Surveyors - to Norwich, Darlington - Newcastle - Stamford Hall etc. etc. etc. and thus were prepared to say how we begin as tho' nothing had happened and we claim to go upon the Petition and the Lists last deposited in the Private Bill Office - not that I have less than 20 other objections to take but that such a fraud I was determined to resist the utmost'; describing the debate on the new petition: 'I explained to the House the manoeuvre by which the Standing Orders were to be made a dead letter - appealed to the objections specifically whether they were frivolous etc. and elicited a 'cheer': 'we carried without a Division; that the Comee be revived that they do sit on the old petition and report!!'; describing the reaction of Bowes, Strutt, Ingram and Sir George Musgrave to their defeat: 'they were much chagrined and spoke about 4 times each - they were right served and they find Wheldon particularly that bullying wont do here - and that a vigorous opposition is a botheration of which he has hitherto had but a glimpse'; discussing the points on which a railway scheme should be judged by the Committee: 'Extent - Saving in distance - population interested nature of expected traffic - Extent - General levels or gradients Capital Subscribed - General appearance of the List - Assents and Dissents - numbers and extent also value of property etc. - so that the House may not commit itself to measures without knowing anything about them'; discussing the prospects for the Pease proposal: 'It is said our railway is a general favourite as no rivalry exists there unless from Locke's proposed western - and of this project you must make the best possible use at Durham to frighten the people about losing the traffic through our district altogether the danger is imminent and real - thou wouldst notice my suggestion to Storey about his meeting a Comparative Scale but the difficulties of that Line must not be too strongly insisted upon because that will cut both ways - Otley & Mewburn got sadly alarmed they tho't Rastrick so costive but you will be satisfied there is no ground for alarm on perusing the letters which I have prevailed upon Giles & Rastrick to write - also Brunels letter which Mewburn sends under cover to thee - As regards Leather's appearance Storey will be present and will be able to Contradict any false assertions and if you come to close quarters - you will remind him that assertion is not proof - and that whilst he was asserting a Capital direct line from Leeds northward can be obtained - the Leeds people were particularly anxious that such a line should be pointed out Leather was employed his son stated his belief in my presence that a favourable Line did exist - they have tried, Storey has tried - Stephenson has tried the two latter assert that there is not such a Line - let Leather explain himself - I must now conclude - and thanking thee for thy letter yesterday - say how sorry I am to hear of so much damage being done, 23 February 1836
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Letter from Joseph Pease, London, to Henry Pease, Darlington, discussing the coal mines in St. Andrew, Auckland: 'The laying in of the Engine Pit is a matter of serious consequence and demands due consideration - it is true the effect upon our quantities was at one time a matter to be taken into account perhaps a provision of two Pits one only required for the quantity allowd would be most likely to operate as named by thee - I had hoped we should have an adequate number of men by such an increase in foreign trade as would justify and recommend the working of two shafts - perhaps as matters stand just now between the other parties and I.F. - the subject will be best left on our minds to be weighed and preparation made rather than any outward Signs of action; discussing 'the Linthorp case' which is 'a clear one because on their own assumption the quantities being so exaggerated the evidence could be clear it is a sad tribunal to have to go before - that is the only bad part of the case. Such fateful dispositions indulged we must see but need not dwell upon'; commenting upon the financing of the Great North of England Railway: 'I must say I am puzzled with GNE finance I will endeavour to have some conversation with Thomas Richardson tomorrow but it is a heavy business and the largeness of the amount comes suddenly upon me - the want being at hand' and upon the price of coal: 'The report of the value of coals is very interesting to us - but the prices named are somewhat higher than I had supposed it may be for an inferior kind of Coal but I think D/X 1667/7/9/- [9 shillings: 45p] has been occasionally quoted to me - The York & No. Midland people I know stand in awe of us'; discussing the situation with regard to their enterprises in Weardale: 'I should like to know what further blunders have come to light as regards Weardal[e] - the Clay Yard and one at Boweses I remember, the latter in which he was not much to blame in my humble opinion - is it some of Mewburns strong ideas grafted on our friend Smith - there certainly has been Some lack of talent - I was sorry to hear of H. Thompson's 'pause' and of Downings catastrophe, it is very affecting'; expressing his sympathy with Anna and the 'dear babe'; describing proceedings in the House of Commons concerning the abolition of slaves in the British Empire: 'As regards the Abolition question - Sir E. Wilmot has I think wisely concluded not to meddle with his own resolution - Then (say the Gov) we will move on Monday The determination of the House rigidly to carry out the provisions made by the Abolition Act and the new Act in favour of the Negroes and another resolution pledging the House to secure every privilege for the Negroes as they become legally entitled, to their freedom we shall see how these resolutions go down - it is well done for the Government as I cannot believe they could have succeeded in bringing the House to a direct vote to repeal the resolution - It is clear Sir E. Wilmot could not have carried the Act if he had brought one in'; describing the proceedings of the Yearly meeting; discussing Edwin Birchall's son: 'I have no objections if thou thinks well speak to E. Oxley about it - W. Forster is very anxious we should take his Son 6 or 9 months and let him spend the time in Wool sorting - Combing - and Spinning that his time may be employed while the [Camblet?] trade is so bad that he has [virtu]ally nothing whatever to do'; discussing the development of steam ships to cross the Atlantic: 'The proceedings in promoting Steam Navigation with America excites great interest and is looked upon as likely to produce great and incalculable consequences - another monster 1860 Tons has been launched I went to see her previously a splendid vessel two 250 horse power Engines which will stride away'; describing a dispute concerning the abolition of slavery: 'There has been a fine ludicrous fling at Exeter Hall between one of our good Abolition friends H. Handly M.P. for Lincoln & Lord Brougham - O'Connell has been giving me an account of Lord B's distortions while H was lecturing him and richly he deserved it for his low pitiful attacks upon the Government and the Whigs'; discussing the coal trade; 'I quite think we have got Shaw's mischief out of his head as regards the Coal Trade - he saw he could not carry his violent resolutions & had sense not to press them. H. Birkbeck had some talk with my Br. B. about B. Boy - the former told him he ought to consider how many had embarked on his representations and with the hope of having his Coal etc. but he would not pretend to say that must bind him for ever against the plain interests of his family or compel him to continue cares from which it was important that he should free himself if possible - he (JB) said Well what of £100,000 - 'Why it is a very large sum. Well I can do something very like it', but I have said I cannot attend to it 'till Yearly Meeting is over and there it rests - Where is the money to come from? I cannot think', 25 May 1838
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Letter from J. Pease, junior, London, to 'My Dear Brother', referring to the addressee's ill health, the writer's wife, Emma, and her family 's journey to 'Seaton' [Seaton Carew?] and the writer's desire to join her there; to a decision that the writer has to make and which may need to be deferred to the beginning of the next session of the House of Commons; referring to the fact that [John] Bowes, the writer's fellow M.P. for South Durham, has not been given a peerage; describing the writer's intention of interviewing a governess who is coming to London for the Coronation: 'Oh what multitudes are poured and are pouring in to this mighty Babylon by every means and every species of conveyance - the bustle and din of preparation are indescribable - the Houses covered with Balconies hung with Crimson Cloth Silk and in all fantastic Shapes - vast preparations for illumination - common beds are 10/6 [52½p.] per night and the means of getting here are absolutely wanting - at Birmingham 'tis said thousands are waiting disappointed that the Railway and its Auxiliaries do not furnish adequate accommodation, there has been a pressure this Morning to the Abbey to hear the rehearsal of singing - what must it be on 5Day...Everything - room - power, food - repose seems in demand - the person well employed at Leyton by my Bro B - only asked £2.10 [£2.10 shillings: £2.50p]for a fly for the day!; discussing the fact that: 'My Sister B' is holding public meetings and visiting families in Bermondsey [London] and elsewhere; discussing his work to save two friends in Canada who have been condemned to death there as 'participants in the late troubles'; describing the fact that 'we are to have another outing with Hume on the floor of the House about the Coal Trade Bill and I fear as the Gov. are favourable to him he will beat us', 26 June 1838
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Letter from Joseph Pease, junior, London, to 'My dear Brother', Henry Pease, discussing the illness and recovery of the addressee's wife, [Anna, after the birth of their son, Henry Fell Pease on 28 April 1838]; referring to the Coronation of Queen Victoria: 'What have I seen an enormous well behaved contented and apparently happy People crowning their Youthful Sovereign - and a Splendid sight it was - Strange Mixture and sad confusion of the realities and the Semblance of sacred things - much of Popery - much of Ancient Tradition and feudal days much of Jewish remnants grafted upon a Xian [Christian] stock - much to excite the feelings to raise the admiration and disgust the judgment 'an air of Congratulation and Satisfaction is almost universal - weather and Circumstances having favoured the whole. The Abbey was certainly a grand Spectacle - The Company Gorgeous and beautiful - The Queen interesting but somewhat benumbed (I should think) and the experienced declare to have been a whol[e] without the possibility of rivalry under the Sun - no Metropoles so grand, No people so rich, - No Nobility so capable Nor any Empire more the subject of admiration or more worthy the consideration of the Statesman or the Philosopher all these as it were confided to the guardian care of a child just emerged from simplest tutelage and tutorage - these points remembered there was much to induce trains of sentimental thought - I see the Morning Chronicle singles me out for notice and echos the oft repeated Comments made to me on my appearance - Simple as it was - I had a Capital Seat in the Abbey, came home and wrote my letters dined on a bit of Cold Beef and bread and then Assisted my Bro Barclay in shewing the scenes to his Children and Jane GB - Such prodigious masses of people as the extraordinary display of Fireworks exhibited to us my mind had never conceived - A discharge of 800 rockets simultaneously strewing in many balls of Crimson, Yellow, Green and Blue Lights throughout the Sky shewed the hundreds of thousands of gazing spectators - The illuminations were of the most Costly character and as I pushed my way home from my friend Vivien's Garden where I had secured for my companions kind accommodation near 1 O'clock the Streets were still crammed - we were once locked for about one hour and half - the police in vain endeavouring to obtain any regular passage - this finished my Coronation - others are pursuing the Balls - The Music - The Fairs and the Levees I have had enough'; discussing a revival in trade which he hopes will not lead the addressee to precipitate purchases - 'it is pleasant to hear of the demand being better and prices rising but you are not I hope led away into heavy buying - lack of means & a fear that there may be a check even to trade now coming to life again would discourage me from being at all venturesome - this is my decided opinion - All the Monetary Changes in America relieve pressure and stimulate business but the last panic & storm there have convinced persons that it is but an ambiguous method of augmenting Capital to authorise the unlimited increase of paper money and the borse will act with the circumspection the past has shown them is necessary'; describing changes to a railway bill: 'The Government have yielded in the Mids rway Bill and are about to strike out two of the most objectionable Clauses - other amendments will be required and probably will not be resisted. Hume and Lord G. Somerset want to make the Coal Trade Bill not so good or secure for us and I fear they will succeed to a certain extent but in anyway materially to affect our interests - We shall make a struggle against the alterations proposed though we shall probably be defeated as there is undoubtedly a strong prejudice against us and the industry with which reports against our regulation have been circulated will account for much of it', 29 June 1838
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Part letter from an unidentified correspondent [Joseph Pease], Southend, Essex, to 'My dear Bro' [Henry Pease], referring to the fact that 'our beloved Edward', who is at Southend, is ill, and that 'it is now affectingly evident that the dawn of immortality is very near to him, a glorious dawn I have no manner of doubt'; describing Edward's reaction to the news of his imminent death, given to him by his doctor, his instructions concerning his will, and his private conversation with Joseph: 'he desired Gatenby to leave us alone and after a flood of tears said 'I wanted to say that I find there is little or no hope of my recovery, my course has not been a striking one, but I have endeavoured to choose the right path - I can now do nothing for you - but pray that the Lord may indeed bless you and yours and shower down upon you His richest choicest blessings and may He guide and keep all of you and yours, - he again burst into tears, adding 'I feel, keenly for those who may be left behind but I can say no more at present' he had an uneasy night and there is reason to believe about 3 o'Clock ...', June 1839 Edward Pease, junior, b. 1801, d. 17 June 1839
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Letter from Joseph Pease, junior, House of Commons, Whitehall, London, to [Henry Pease], referring to 'feelings which are Sombre and trying enough'; discussing business: 'I was obliged by thy Note received this morning - in my ride with Wilkinson he informed me of his conclusion - should it be unanimous - I am not able to see where the risk is - that more Shares will be paid up is in my view certain; upon the number on which you may fairly, may I not say securely calculate, it is in the power of the Directors to reserve such Calls as will indemnify them against any risk: - is it not Plew's calculation that if you could but borrow £100,000 - you might push your works with the greatest vigour, find yourselves easy in your finances and make not more than 3 to 5 Calls during the remainder of this year - What a relief would this be to your Shareholders! My letter from Richard this morning inclines me to think that though there may be uncertainty under any circumstances how far the parties at Bristol will heal this condition (the Guarantee of the Directors that they will see the money repaid) will be insisted upon - I have written to Bristol to obtain information how far, this conceded, the parties will really agree to treat - and my request is that a Copy of any resolution you may come to on this point may be sent to me and another to Richard should he encourage me to join him in seeing the individuals next week I must continue to go down - On my journey hither I travelled with a very intelligent Gentleman Col. Norcliffe - who had long been an Officer in the Army evidently a large Land Owner near Malton [Yorkshire] - who is very anxious indeed to see Durham Coals at York - he repeatedly said 'well if you can render us your Coals at York at 16/- per ton we shall burn nothing else - we will send our teams with grain into York and all return Coal Laden - Oh I wish you would' - 'We get such hasty Swift burning Coals you can have no idea what your Sales will be' - this agrees very much with what your Committee recently at York gleaned as the Common opinion there - I am duly obliged by EGs letter - but stay I will enclose a few lines in this by way of acknowledgement which thou canst read Seal and Send to him - I am sorry to hear of Bind's loss - there always is loss and personal annoyance in these calamities - 'twill be well if we escape we appear to have very little room for such losses in addition to the 'accablement' we have already received', 17 January 1840 Postscript: '7 day morning I have recd thy letter and am very sorry to have such news though it is far from unexpected My dear love to you and particularly to my dear Father'
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Part letter from an unidentified correspondent, possibly Joseph Pease, London, to Henry Pease, informing Henry that the 'GNE Railway Coy' now has ample finance, but that 'some vigorous effort must now be made if we would avoid signal discomfiture and throwing all into due Confusion'; recommending certain measures: all defaulters should be pursued; all avoidable expense avoided; all payments that can be deferred, should be; all bills given should be for as long a time as possible; all loans should be called in; all efforts must be taken to promote traffic on the line 'even tho' it be but barely remunerative - shew a prudent good income - trust to a reasonable extent the chance of obtaining more profit hereafter and thus prompt the Shares to par, if this were done, the Company's difficulties would vanish'; he goes on to recommend the following: 'consider seriously the proposition of the Royal Exchange Assurance Society for a loan - without it is obtained the Coy will assuredly stick fast and be on the edge. I believe over the edge into ruin Their proposition is £50,000 for 12 mos or 18 mos at 5p cent secured on a Call and guaranteed by the directors or some ten of them personally - now to this I could were I a director object unless the General meeting was sure to cover and protect me - first the proceeds of a Call to be made in not later (say than the 1st of 6 mo (June 1842 if loan is for 18 mos) to be fully pledged - then that the Gen. Meet[in]g shall place 1000 Shares in the names of three Trustees to be sold for the best price that can be obtained to meet and guarantee the repayment of each part of the Loan as is not punctually ensured by the receipts on the Call'; going on to say that the writer has no doubt that the General Meeting will agree to the scheme outlined above, that such a scheme presents no risk to the directors and that without the loan the company has no chance of surviving, 28 February 1841 Annotated in later hand: list of names: Henry Pease, Wilkinson [crossed through], Stobart, Cargill, Priestman, Shields, Plews, Smith, Hopkins, Oxley, Meynell, Smailes, Wilkinson, J.C. Backhouse, T. Backhouse, Ritson, Recorder York, Humphreys, Gnolly
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Part letter [to Henry Pease] from 'Thy ever affe. Bro. J. Pease Jnr' remarking that 'perhaps such a question containing reference to so many dry Statistical details is not a good field for such a display of elocution as on some former occasions in years that anyone - when Chas. Grant shone as one of the first Speakers in the House', n.d. [1840s] Postscript: 'I am fearful you will not be able to raise funds to buy any of Dr. Allinson's high row houses for the site of Public Rooms', n.d.
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from Rachel Pease (nee Whitwell) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/247-248)

Henry's mother


Letter from R[achel] Pease, Saffron Walden, Essex, to Henry Pease, commenting on the improved health of Elizabeth and the continued health of her 'dear infant'; the dull time being experienced by the addressee's father Edward; describing the addressee's sister, Rachel's enjoyment in caring for her niece; discussing papering, painting, and cleaning the house, and visits of S. Ventress, Margaret and Ruth before the Quarterly meeting; reporting on the improved health of Aunt Stacey and the death of Rachel Robson's 'poor wandering brother'; 'asking to be remembered to M. Sams, and Cousin William Backhouse'; remarking that 'Fredk has made his choice', and hoping that 'thy Aunt Coates' will not be overdone with her journey to Darlington, 17 June 1830 Endorsed: Letter from Edward Pease, Saffron Walden, Sutton, to Henry Pease referring to floods reported to him by Henry and to the inclement weather in Saffron Walden; an oak tree estimated to be 1000 years old of 57 feet in circumference; commenting on railway and coal matters: 'thy account of Rway doings was quite acceptable, are the bridges getting on? does land sale keep up? how does it go on at Croft? - are the collieries tractable? are the fitters peaceable? are ships plentiful? are the Locos industrious? does the way stand well? are all sidings lengthening? can the Genl. meetg be adjourned till 8 mo to suit TR and H Bbk Newmans want dividend in 7 or 8 mo can they be paid?; discussing the work that should be done by Robert and his son, gardeners; discussing Henry's experience and knowledge of the textile trade: 'I am glad to find thy engagements are not altogether discouraging, but it will not do for thee to go into any new thing until thou art more complete master of weaving etc. & has gaind both knowledge & experience, I would indulge no hope from thy benefiting thyself by Bombazines and the skill, the dyers, and the finisher the silk suitable etc. etc. presented to Jona Akeroyd one of the best and most practical manufacrs in Yorksh[ire] such obstacles as I believe he has not yet overcome'; discussing commissions from the addressee's mother, better performed by Sophia, 17 June 1830 Postscript: 'Two poor men (some of your Chesterford clients) came in with some Roman pots just found, Francis has bo[ugh]t them at a small price for thee, they are as authentic of Roman possession, as if they had been more elegant, one is as much so, as the saucer of a garden & may from its fired appearance been used for frying their mutton chops in!!'; describing a proposal to ride to see Curtis, nursery & flowers
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Letter from Rachel Pease, London, to Henry Pease, commending the latter for visiting cousin M. Atkinson, and exhorting him 'not to forget the sick and comparatively helpless of the poor'; discussing the effects of influenza 'what a favor it is not a disorder more alarming, yet the Medical Men here say a great number have been removed, most of such whose health was declining, or aged, as I understand; describing the illness of Aunt Whitwell, who has lodgings 'half way from us to Bishopsgate St.', the fact that the Clays and Joseph who 'looks more pleasing than I was led to suppose from report', are in London; the affecting nature of the meetings, where vacant seats of worthies, make the writer 'feel the want of deeply instructed instruments, yet there is consolation in viewing a considerable number of a younger class'; discussing the question of slavery: 'many are greatly occupied with the thought of the momentous slavery question, we learn they had a very interesting committee yesterday, a number of Friends were there, F. Buxton was there also Brother W. attended and I think is gone to make the attempt to get into there but many must be disappointed - how delightful my dear Henry; if through the blessing of the great judge of all aiding the endeavour of thousands; these merciless bonds may be broken'; describing visits and dining with friends, the improved health of Edward Pease, junior; their intention of spending a night at Stamford Hill to see the 'cousins Beaumonts and Misses'; Endorsed Letter from Edward Pease, London, to Henry Pease, giving the addressee advice on the buying of new wool, recalling his own uncertainty as a young man in performing the same task when his father was away at the Yearly Meeting: 'I cannot express to the full how much I feel for thee in the exercise of one part & a heavy part too, how to manage the buying in of new wool in the difnt parts of the Kingdom - it is vividly in my remembrance when I was young & my beloved father my only counsellor was at YM how heavy & how unequal I felt to the needful decision & responsibility which was on my shoulders; however I found it was safe not to go with the most ardent but keep cautiously following them & buying a little in all quarters where the obvious inequality of price did not exclude me - as generally speaking all the wool bought in the first month of the new clip proves right I wish thee to indulge the hope thou will not do wrong, perhaps using more of John Thistlethwaite in caution & counsel than the sanguine temperament of EP yet he must not be neglected wholly - when you set prices ask enough, & quite as much as you are sure you can buy wool now so as to pay & profitably, for if you have 3 mos orders in hand, you must proceed as certainly as to what you have to do at the end of that time'; describing deliberations at the Yearly Meeting, including discussions concerning whether, and how many times, parties about to be married should appear at Monthly Meeting; describing his and his wife's attendance at the interment of Cos. Southall in Bunnhill fields, [London] 'where the ashes of many worthies sleep'; remarking that Francis and other Friends were unable to attend the House of Commons debate on slavery, and that 'there seems an established confidence in an insurrection taking place in the Colonies if no redress is granted', that 'the frds of the Anti-Slavery Cause appear in high spirits at the prospect now before them'; enquiring, in a postscript, 'do we write too much', 30 May 1833
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from Sophia Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/249)

Letter from Sophia Pease, Christopher Street, London, to Henry Pease, Darlington, referring to the writer's imminent return to the north; John's attending Meetings; the writer's visit to her sister Jowitt at Peckham [Surrey, ? Kent?], and a visit to Josh; Howard, who is approaching his death in serenity after 'a life in which much of doubts and fears were his' and who 'has been looking thro' his Library and desired all his Books might be distroyed which are at all likely to disincline the mind for more serious reading, or lower the standard of Christianity. I think several poetical works were amongst the number'; referring to the departure of Cousin Fowler with her daughters and son for Melksham, [Wiltshire], despite 'the fact that she is 'sinking'; describing decisions in the men's meeting; 'the proposed alterations of the Conference have not passed I hear, the marriage rules stand the same - Friends petition on Tythes was yesterday signed by 600 names'; mentioning a visit to Stamford Hill where Cousin Martha is suffering from gout; a proposal to go to Uxbridge, Middlesex, to take tea with R. Fells, who 'have a very nice daughter'; describing their proposed journey to High Wycombe, [Buckinghamshire], thence to Oxford, [Oxfordshire], thence to Birmingham, [Warwickshire], thence to Sheffield, [Yorkshire]; and Leeds, [Yorkshire]; and home; referring to Isaac Coates and 'his solitary situation'; and referring to the fact that her brother Joseph has been with them two evenings, as a result of the Speaker's illness, postmarked 6 July 1833; Endorsed: letter from Edward Pease, describing doctrinal disagreements at the Yearly Meeting; the fact that he dined with Joseph '& was noticing how greatly the recent vote in the Lords against Government had disgusted the MP & tending to the conclusion that Bishops may be spurned as I think all the house (12 or 13) had voted with the duke of Wellington, - how much this infatuated class (the Bishops) endeavour to make themselves unbeloved by the People, & if they hold on they will effect their expulsion from the upper house if it stop there - the Petition of frds [Friends] on the subject of the first the [sic] ever presented relative to them, it is supposed will excite a good deal of attention & not raise us in the esteem of the Priests - about 800 signatures are already affixed to each Lords & Commons - Lennard, the MP for Maldon [Essex] is to be presented of it & it is expected will speak thereon as a true Anti tithe man'
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from T.C. Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/250)

Letter from T.C. Pease, Darlington, to 'My dear Cousin' [Henry Pease], referring to a 'resolution of the S.D. Board' which left the writer perplexed because the resolution put the 'Y [York].C[C[arlisle].Co.' in a difficulty, because it was 'not permitted to show a continuous line' and was 'to be looked upon as decidedly hostile if they surveyed a concurrent line with the Hagger Leazes Branch'; referring to his belief that 'in some respects at least the interests of the two Cos. were mutual I have regarded as derogatory to the managers of both that there should be any clashing'; going on to say: 'I have combated with a general and strong dislike on the part of the S.D.Co. to sell any part of the line - but since yesterday I hope some impression has been made upon those who's judgement would have weight with the Board -; let it be understood that I write this only as a fd [friend] to both and therefore I feel no difficulty in proposing to thee to consider how far it would not be best for the Y.C. Co. to make a bid of a business stamp for that branch - if the Y.C. Co. could do this - and enable me to offer at the next Board 12m per mile - (this is what I think fair as interested in both Companys,) I should feel that I had a leverage, and should entertain some hope of bringing the cos. to a settlement of the [?] The question of dues on coals going on the S.D.R. would follow i.e. - as to the rates not exceeding those charged by the S.D.C. under similar circumstances and also clauses to secure as far as might be the traffic continuing on the S & D Rway. Probably I need not add at present, I purpose writing a few lines to Malaby that he may be aware of the present state of things if he was at home', 24 October 1845
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from George Richardson (Ref: D/X 1667/8/251)

Letter from George Richardson, Newcastle, to Henry Pease, warning the addressee that the Bishop of New Zealand is prejudicing the indigenous population of the country against the missionaries of non-conformist churches in favour of those of the Church of England; asking him to remonstrate with the Bishop, and remarking that 'It appears that the Native population is rapidly diminishing in some parts of that Country - greatly injured by the introduction of Spirituous liquors, 16 January 1860 Letter written on leaflet entitled Friends' Missions, describing Quaker missions to 'heathen lands', by George Richardson, Newcastle, 12 December 1859
(1 paper, printed, and manuscript)

from Earl Russell (Ref: D/X 1667/8/252)

Letter from C.G. Barrington, on behalf of Earl Russell, Prime Minister, Downing Street, Whitehall, London, to H. Pease, esq., acknowledging the receipt of a 'Memorial of the Inhabitants of Darlington praying that in any redistribution of Parliamentary Representation the claims of Darlington may be duly considered', 29 January 1866 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, became Earl Russell of Kingston and Viscount Amberley of Amberley Ardsalla, formerly Lord John Russell (1792 - 1878), Prime Minister, 1846 - 1852; October 1865 - June 1866 A parliamentary reform bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 12 March 1866, and a bill for the redistribution of seats in May 1866. The latter bill was defeated on 18 June 1866, and, on the 26 June, the Government resigned.
(1 paper)

from the Marquess of Ripon (Ref: D/X 1667/8/253-254)

Letter from the First Marquess of Ripon, Studley Royal, Ripon, Yorkshire, to Mr. Pease, thanking the latter for the 'interesting events of yesterday' and lamenting the loss of the book which he was given as a 'Memorial of the Jubilee', 28 September 1875 The book, and the event, commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Stockton-Darlington Railway
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Letter from the 1st Marquess of Ripon, Studley Royal, Ripon, Yorkshire, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for sending the book which the former had left behind, 2 October 1875
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from William Dyly Seymour (Ref: D/X 1667/8/255)

Letter from William Dyly Seymour, The Deanery, Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, to Henry Pease, apologising for requesting, on behalf of his nephew, the Dean, a subscription for the completion of the new cathedral at Tuam, which Henry Pease had refused, 30 September 1876
(1 paper)

from Thomas Sopwith (Ref: D/X 1667/8/256)

Letter from Thomas Sopwith, 103 Victoria Street, Westminster, and 82 Grand Parade, Brighton, East Sussex, to Henry Pease, thanking the latter for inviting him to the celebration to mark the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Stockton-Darlington Railway, and enclosing a booklet, written by the former in 1841, which includes a model demonstrating the practicability of making a railway line from the Team Valley, across the Tyne, west of Newcastle, and on to Edinburgh [Scotland], 18 October 1875 Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879), surveyor and civil engineer; born in Newcastle; undertook many commissions in the years 1832 to 1845 including work on several railways; became, in 1845, Chief Agent to the WB [Lead] Company
(1 paper)

from Lord Stanley (Ref: D/X 1667/8/257)

Letter from Lord Stanley, Leadenhall Street, London, to Henry Pease, esq., M.P., declining the latter's invitation to attend the Soiree of the Darlington Mechanics' Institution, on the grounds of pressure of business, 9 September 1858 The letter is written on paper embossed 'India Board' Edward Henry Stanley (1826 - 1893), from June 1851, Lord Stanley; In February 1858 Lord Stanley became secretary of state for the Colonies in the cabinet of the second government of his father, the Earl of Derby; in August 1858, he became the first Secretary of State for India; he became fifteenth Earl of Derby in 1869
(1 paper)

from H.J. Sturge (Ref: D/X 1667/8/258)

Letter from H.J. Sturge, to 'My dear Friend' [Henry Pease], describing the safe return of the writer's husband from distributing relief in Finland [at the time under the control of Russia]; referring to the fact that Joseph Cooper went no further than Riga; the fact that a narrative of the journey to, in, and from Finland, has been produced for private circulation and that a copy will be sent for the addressee to read to Henry's father, Edward Pease, 21 October 1856
(1 paper)

from Joseph Sturge (Ref: D/X 1667/8/259-263)

Letter from Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, Warwickshire, to 'Esteemed Friend', [Henry Pease], concerning Henry and Edward Pease's dissent from the Anti-Slavery Society concerning the 'exclusion of Slave Grown Produce', and concerning the sudden death of W. Backhouse, 13 June 1844
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Letter from Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, thanking the addressee for his writing him a letter 'with all the turmoil of a contested election pressing upon thee'; congratulating the addressee on his 'success though thou art going into a difficult and arduous position now that the House of Commons had had so much of its moral principle and to use the expression of a friend of mine its 'Brains knocked out of it'', 4 April 1857 Henry Pease was Member of Parliament for South Durham from 1857 to 1865
(1 paper)


Letter from Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, M.P., asking the latter, as 'Known Friend of Peace'. to attend a Peace Conference in Manchester [Lancashire], and expressing his hope that 'the efforts already made to counteract the spirit of Vengeance have not been altogether without effect', 4 October 1857 The letter is written on a printed circular letter from Henry Richard, Secretary to the London Committee, and William Stokes, Secretary to the Manchester Committee, inviting the recipient to attend a Peace Conference on 13 October 1857 at Newall's Buildings, Manchester, [Lancashire], 8 October 1857
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Letter from Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, M.P., referring to the latter's approval of 'the Finland report', to the fact that a 'final one' [report] can be expected, and to his hope that it 'may not be delayed much longer as there appears likely to be an opening for the application of the remdr of the money satisfactorily'; commenting on the state of the House of Commons: 'I do not envy you who have to stem the torrent of corruption and selfishness in the House of Commons. I fear it does not improve in this respect but a few uncompromising men there have a powerful moral effect not only on their fellow M.P.s but the country at large'; commenting on his hopes that 'the fall in the price of sugar will suspend their new Slave Trade scheme for the present, and perhaps it may lead to its suppression'; expressing the hope that Jno. Bright may be equal to his former self in the House. 'I believe he means to take his seat the week after next', 30 January 1858 J. Sturge and T. Harvey: Report of a Visit to Finland in the Autumn of 1856 (1856) In 1856 Sturge, visited Finland to arrange for distribution of funds from the Friends towards the relief of a famine, caused by the destruction, by the Royal Navy, of private property 'during the war'. John Bright (1811 - 1889) suffered a nervous breakdown in January 1856. It, most likely, was brought on by the stress he suffered as the leading opponent to the Crimean War (1854 - 1856). He lost his seat for Manchester in March 1857. He was elected for Birmingham in 1857 and returned to the House of Commons in February 1858
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Letter from Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, Warwickshire, to Henry Pease, M.P., asking the latter to attend a 'Public dinner which Jno Bright has consented to attend here on 29th [October]. The public meeting is on the 27th and which I know that he is rather nervous about and I am more anxious that he should be surrounded by a good number of his friends at the first meeting than the last', 18 October 1858 John Bright had not undertaken public speaking since his breakdown in January 1856. The speech, on 27 October, concerned parliamentary reform, and the speech, on 29 October, attacked interventionist foreign policy
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from R. Thompson & Co. (Ref: D/X 1667/8/264)

Letter from R. Thompson & Co., Darlington, to Henry Pease, High North Terrace, Darlington, informing the latter that the writer has purchased Pierremont Estate and House, on behalf of Henry Pease, for the sum of £5000 and requesting that Henry Pease come to discuss with him The Haughton Property, 27 October 1845
(1 paper)

from William Cracken Thorpe (Ref: D/X 1667/8/265)

Letter from William [Cracken] Thorpe, Newbiggin Hall, Carlisle, Cumberland, to 'my dear Sir', [Henry Pease], recounting 'the progress which was made' at the meeting at Appleby [Cumberland]; acknowledging 'the kind interest you have taken and the support given to it by our Durham friends'; remarking that 'I believe Mr. Boucher was satisfied, and that there is a prospect of the undertaking being prosecuted in the present session' [of the House of Commons]; remarking that the whole cost is estimated at £135,000, and on Sat: we only had about £40,000 subscribed, leaving a large sum to be found in some quarter or other. I hope however when the scheme is ventilated and known, subscriptions may come in, for I believe it will prove without any speculation or exaggerated notions remunerative to those, who are willing to embark on it - and I sincerely trust, that it will not be entered upon with a show of fictitious capital, which I think most dishonest as well as inexpedient'; explaining that he has 'decided not to take a prominent part in the business beyond launching it before the public', 26 October 1857
(1 paper)

from Harry Vane, Duke of Cleveland (Ref: D/X 1667/8/266-267)

Letter from H. Vane, Grosvenor Place, London, to Mr. Pease [Henry Pease], requesting the latter to forward an unspecified enclosure to Thomas Todd, at Broadwood [Broadwood Hall, Allendale, Northumberland], who wishes to get his son into the Oriental Bank, 3 April 1858 Harry George Vane (1803 - 1891) 4th Duke of Cleveland (1864 - 1891); M.P. for South Durham (1841 - 1859)
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Part letter from Duke of Cleveland, Raby Castle, Darlington, to Mr. Pease, acknowledging the receipt of a letter and enclosure from the latter, refusing an invitation on the Duchess's behalf, because of her absence in Scotland, and discussing the letter,s and claims for money for services rendered during Gladstone's government, sent to the writer by a Mr. Ryecroft, 13 September 1875 The letter is written from Raby Castle, the seat of the Duke of Cleveland and the writer refers to the duchess and himself. A pencil note on the letter, most probably erroneously, identifies the writer as Marquess of Zetland
(1 paper)

Telegrams (Ref: D/X 1667/8/268-271)

Telegram from Richardson, London, to Thomas Macmay, Darlington, reading: 'Bill read third time clause omitted. Stockton not proved. Picton proved', 8 May 1854
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Telegram sent by 'Brown, Barnard Castle' to Mr. McNay, Darlington', reading 'Please ask Mr. H. Pease and inform me per Telegraph whether in the Committee Lists I am to reckon for Sir George Musgrave's Mileage as Dissent Assent or Neuter', with a reply reading: 'Brown ought to be a better judge than I am In the absence of an assent - we are hardly at liberty to call it 'assent' - I propose to instruct Brown to enter Neuter', 6 March 1857
(1 paper)


Telegram from W. Brunton, West Hartlepool, to Henry Pease, M.P., Darlington, reading 'Mechanics meeting fixed for Monday next - Please say can you attend as notices are ready special train after meeting', 19 January 1858
(1 paper)


Telegram from Henry Richard, Paris, France, to Henry Pease, Charing Cross Hotel, London, and Henry Fell Pease, Brinkburn, Darlington, reading: 'Have engaged apartment for you at Hotel du Louvre, Rue Rivoli, [Paris, France], where we are staying', 3 September 1858
(1 paper)

Henry Fell Pease (1838 - 1896) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/272-275)

son of Henry Pease (1807-1881) and first wife Anna (nee Fell) (1809-1839)
married Elizabeth Mary Pease (daughter of John Beaumont Pease)


Receipts issued by the Yorkshire Fire & Life Insurance Company for premiums for the insuring of the life of Henry Fell Pease, for £3000, 20 June 1852 and 20 June 1853
(2 papers, printed)


Receipts for premiums, issued by the Leeds & Yorkshire Life Assurance Company and by the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, for premiums for the insuring, for £4000 and £5000, of the life of Henry Fell Pease, 20 and 21 June 1857
(2 papers, printed)


Offprint, from the Darlington & Stockton Times, of 17 May 1862, describing the marriage, on 15 May 1862, of Henry Fell Pease, son of Henry Pease, to Elizabeth Pease, daughter of John Beaumont Pease, of North Lodge, Northgate, Darlington, at the Friends' Meeting House, Skinnergate, Darlington, 1862
(1 paper, printed)


Menu for a 'Wedding Déjeuné', [Wedding Breakfast] at North Lodge, Northgate, Darlington, given by J.B. Pease on the marriage of his daughter, Elizabeth, to Henry Fell Pease, 15 May 1862
(1 card, printed)

Ingram Edward Pease (1914 - 1939) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/276)

son of Christopher York Pease and Margaret Phillipa (nee Johnson)


Newspaper cutting, from The Times, containing an obituary of Ingram Edward Pease, Pilot Officer, R.A.F.V.R., (died 18 February 1939 aged 25), by F.E.R., identified by a manuscript note on the cutting that F.E.R. is Elsa Richmond, 6 March 1939
(1 paper, printed)

John Pease (1797 - 1868) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/277-278)

son of Edward and Rachel (nee Whitwell)
married Sophia Jowitt


Letter from Rachel Pease, Penrith, [Cumberland], describing her and Edward Pease's journey to Penrith via Greta Bridge [Yorkshire]; describing the 'romantic views the windings of the river, and the shelving rocks, with the Abbey Bridge but the dull evening prevented our seeing them to the greatest advantage'; describing her sharing Cousin Richardsons' carriage to Brough [Cumberland], because of the rain; describing how 'the cornfields promise an abundant harvest; more is got in than with us, mostly ready to reap, and many fields we thought in danger of suffering for want of the reapers'; recounting visits to the John Ritsons, both of whom are in a poor state of health; and to H. Walker 'who kindly enquired after her young friend Joseph', 13 September 1817 Endorsed: Letter from Edward Pease, Cockermouth [Cumberland], describing how 'the weather has been very fine since we passed the heigh of Stanemore' and also commenting on the 'luxuriant crops'; describing the 'gathering of Friends', including 'Uncle & Aunt Whitwell & S. Hustler, Junior, Jona[than] Flounders & his Bride, several Waterhouses, W. Crewdun, Jno. Fell his wife & daur. Of London etc. etc'; sending his and Rachel's love to all the children and exhorting them to 'send your grandmother some peas'
(1 paper)


Letter from George Coates, Norton, to 'My dear Nephew' John Pease, discussing the fact that the next Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends in Darlington is scheduled to take place on the same day as the election for the constituency of South Durham and suggesting that it may be appropriate to change the date of the Monthly Meeting as a consequence, 4 January 1835
(1 paper)

Joseph Pease (1737 - 1808) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/279-292)

son of Edward and Elizabeth (nee Coates)
married Mary Richardson


10 April 1799 (1) John Allan, son of Christopher Allan of Bishop Auckland, weaver (2) Joseph Pease and Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber
(1 paper)


10 April 1799 (1) John Harrison, son of Barbara Harrison of Bishop Auckland (2) Joseph Pease and Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber Endorsed: 'Was absent at sea without Consent of his master 36 weeks'
(1 paper)


23 April 1799 (1) George Cowell, son of William Cowell of Bishop Auckland, yeoman (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber Endorsed: 'From 4mo 17th 1799 [17 April 1799] To 4mo 17th 1800 [17 April 1800] ran away
(1 paper)


23 April 1799 (1) Thomas Waller, son of Robert Waller of Bishop Auckland, weaver (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber
(1 paper)


10 May 1799 (1) George Gibson, son of George Gibson of Staindrop, yeoman (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber Attached: note recording the fact that George Gibson ran away on 26 July 1800, and that Joseph Gibson ran away on 22 November 1802
(2 papers)


10 May 1799 (1) Joseph Gibson, son of George Gibson of Staindrop (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber
(1 paper)


28 May 1799 (1) Joseph Smith, son of Matthew Smith of Bishop Auckland, woolcomber (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber Endorsed: 'From 5mo 19th 1799 [19 May 1790] To 5mo 19th 1806 [19 May 1806] Ran Away'
(1 paper)


29 June 1799 (1) John Hardy, son of Thomas Hardy of Bishop Auckland, pitman (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber Endorsed: '6m 24th 1799 [24 June 1799] Att Biddick Coll. Gone Away'
(1 paper)


9 July 1799 (1) William Hall, son of Robert Hall of Bishop Auckland, miner (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber Endorsed: ' Wm Hall 6mo 24 99 [24 June 1799] 1 Year and 8 Month, run away to the Sea & [ ] Weeks after to get cured of his lameness'
(1 paper)


9 July 1799 (1) Thomas Hardy, son of Thomas Hardy of Bishop Auckland, pitman (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber Endorsed: 'Gave Us 10s/6 for his Indenture at Auckland'
(1 paper)


25 September 1799 (1) George Wiseman of Redworth (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcomber Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber
(1 paper)


21 October 1800 (1) Thomas Hall, son of Robert Hall of Bishop Auckland, miner (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber
(1 paper)


1 January 1807 (1) Thomas Hagston, son of Thomas Hagston of Darlington, woolcomber (2) Joseph Pease & Sons, Darlington, woolcombers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a wood and iron turner
(1 paper)


29 January 1809 (1) Martin Widdop, son of Thomas Widdop of Darlington (2) Edward & Joseph Pease, Darlington, worsted manufacturers Apprenticeship indenture whereby (1) is apprenticed to (2) for seven years as a woolcomber
(1 paper)

Joseph Pease (1799 - 1872) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/293-310)

son of Edward and Rachel (nee Whitwell)
married Emma Gurney


Unsigned affirmation by Joseph Pease, at Darlington, that he has property worth £600 p.a. in Darlington; St. Andrew, Auckland; Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; which qualifies him to be a member of Parliament for the Southern Division of the County of Durham, n.d. [1831]
(Parchment, 1 membrane)


The Poll for Two Knights of the Shire to Represent in Parliament The Southern Division of the County Palatine of Durham; as Taken before the several Deputy Sheriffs, the 21st and 22nd Days of December, 1832 Each District Arranged in Alphabetical Order Charles John Clavering, Esq., High Sheriff, Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Under Sheriff. Candidates Joseph Pease, Jun., Esq., John Bowes, Esq. Robert Duncombe Shafto, Esq.. Durham. Printed and Published by George Walker, Sadler Street, 1833
(1 booklet, printed)


Election broadside entitled: South Durham Races. To Be Run Over The Darlington Course, In December or January Next. The St. Stephen's Stakes for Horses of All Ages. Handicap Weights Three Horses only have been entered for these Stakes, featuring 'The Streatlam Colt' (John Bowes), 'The Darlington Colt - Joseph, by Obadiah' (Joseph Pease) and 'The Whitworth Colt' (Robert Duncombe Shafto), 24 October 1832
(1 paper, 7.5 cm. x 43 cm., printed)


Quaker Joseph or the Apostate Patriot, broadside attacking Joseph Pease for his failure to support a plan for a railway in Weardale, n.d. [c.1836] This broadside most probably refers to the opposition of the proprietors of the Stockton and Darlington Railway to the South West Durham Junction Railway, in particular, Joseph Pease's opposition in the House of Commons
(1 paper, printed)


Balance sheet of the Middlesbrough Estate [Yorkshire] produced by Joseph Pease, junior, 31 December 1836
(1 file)


Duplicate balance sheet of the Middlesbrough Estate [Yorkshire], 30 June 1837
(1 file)


'Extract from William Cubitt's report on proposed Dock at Middlesbro'', 14 February 1838
(1 paper)


Balance sheet of the Middlesbro' Estate, produced by Joseph Pease, junior, treasurer, 31 December 1838 Endorsed: 'Edward Pease Jr. Copy'
(1 file)


Letter from Edward Pease, Leamington [Gloucestershire], to Joseph Pease, junior, and Henry Pease, thanking them for their letters and remarking that 'without having a heart set on RWays, Coal Trade, Worsted trade, Firth Street, or alterations in buildings, I cannot be indifferent to them because that which interests you must be inwoven with me'; advising them to pursue their interests circumspectly: 'if you engage at all make no plunge after great profit by a great number of shares'...'Would you bound your limits to not exceeding 50 shares in the name of EP & family, then a little care from one or more of you none from me, could only be called for'; describing the duties of a treasurer; discussing the necessity for offices to be in Darlington or within 12 miles of the centre; remarking that the York and D[Arlington] line seems better than the Leeds and D[Arlington] line; asking how the coal trade is progressing and whether 'the engine at West Crooke is complete and at work'; expressing his hope that the improvements planned in the worsted trade are successful; advising the addressees to ensure their new building is 'entirely square'; commenting on Firth Street: 'As to Firth Street the picture is forlorn enough what is best to be done - I have always seen selfishness the uppermost in L [sic] & my long continued belief was he wanted to work the whole thing away to Bedlington this may be said to be the day when advantage was to be expected from it after so much uphill & bad management - how can it be renovated, should that be aimed at, or Cos R having each 1600£ in it, ask for a premium of 1400£ each that is 3m [thousand] each and quit - 3m should be less than 1 years profit - that for me - is a way not to increase you or my cumber'; advising Henry to consider his business matters calmly and sending greetings to Emma and Anna, 2 November 1835
(1 paper)


Letter from Emma E. Pease, Dunster [Somerset], to 'My dear Joseph', her brother, referring to the fact that Papa and Elizabeth have written such informative letters that little remains for the writer to convey; describing a ride over 'fine moorland' and picturesquely rural villages from Lynton [Devon]; sauntering 'down the avenues of fine old oaks and elms in the park to the front stream' and the fact that 'Papa Mamma and the brothers have enjoyed a lovely walk over the hills'; a visit by the writer, Jane, and Elizabeth, to a Methodist church; describing their plans to drive to Bridgewater [Somerset], a railway journey to dine with Uncle Fry, a visit to Birmingham [Warwickshire], Southend and Marske [Yorkshire]; reflecting on memories raised by visiting Bristol 'dear John Henry's being taken from the evils he seemed so little able to contend with'; referring to Juliet's being better, the Stirlings having returned to her; the Gibsons being at Balder Grange [Yorkshire] and Uncle and Aunt Pease being at Plymouth [Devon] and intending to return home via North Devon, 9 March 1854
(2 papers)


Number not used


Telegram sent by P.J. Teale, Ackworth, Yorkshire, to Joseph Pease, Darlington, informing the latter that Mr. Fowler has passed a comfortable night and is a little better this morning, 3 December 1864
(1 paper)


Bookplate inscribed 'Joseph Pease Darlington', bearing an engraving of a bush, in the foreground, with a landscape of a river with boats and beyond it, a tower on the further bank, n.d. [early 19th century] The bookplate has been damaged and repaired
(1 paper, 8.5 cm. x 6.3 cm.)


Joseph Pease: A Memoir, reprinted from The Northern Echo, 9 February 1872
(1 paper, printed)


Notice of the Death of Joseph Pease, Esq., of Southend, 8 February 1872 and Joseph Pease, A Memoir, printed on pages 2 - 8 of The Northern Echo, 9 February 1872
(1 paper, printed)


Poster entitled: In Memoriam. On Tuesday, February 13th, 1872, A Public Service Will Be Conducted in Paradise Chapel. When A Sermon, Having reference to the lamented death of the late Joseph Pease Esq., Will Be Preached By The Rev. A. Holliday. Subject: 'A Prince and a Great Man is fallen in Israel', 13 February 1872
(1 paper, 44.5 cm. x 56.5 cm., printed)


'The Late Mr. Joseph Pease: A Memoir', printed in an Extra No. of The British Workman, January 1873 Includes: engraving of a labourer and a railwayman holding a full-length painting of Joseph Pease; with a picture of Locomotion captioned: 'S & D.R. No. 1 1825', January 1873
(1 paper, printed)


Article entitled 'The Joseph Pease Memorial Statue', describing the viewing by the Memorial Committee of the model produced by the sculptor, Mr. Lawson, reprinted from the Northern Echo, n.d. [c.1873] Joseph Pease died 8 February 1872
(1 paper, printed)

Joseph (Jack) Albert Pease (1860 - 1943) 1st Baron Gainford (Ref: D/X 1667/8/311-312)

son of Joseph Whitwell Pease and Mary (nee Fox)
married Ethel Havelock-Allan


Album commemorating a Golden Wedding entitled: 'Our Golden Wedding, October 19, 1886 - October 19, 1936. Reproduced photographs of us at different dates. Jack and Elsie', inscribed 'For Maud from Jack and Elsie October 19 1936', 19 October 1936 Jack had a sister Maud Mary Pease (1862-1947).
(1 volume, leather bound)


Photograph of 'Jack' Pease, aged 3, standing holding the back of a chair next to a table, 1863


Photograph of 'Elsie' Havelock-Allen, aged approximately 3, and wearing an elaborate dress of lace, 1871


Photograph of 'Jack' and his elder brother, Alfred Edward Pease, wearing highland dress, sitting on a rocking horse, 1865


Photograph of Elsie, dressed as a shepherdess, with a crook, sitting on a chair, with her feet on a footstool, 1872


Photograph of Jack, sitting, wearing a suit, with his elbow resting on a desk, 1871


Photograph of Elsie, wearing a dress with a full skirt, a hat, white socks and strapped shoes, standing against a wall, 1875


Photograph of Jack, wearing a suit, sitting on a chair and holding a large dog on his lap, 1881


Photograph of Elsie, dressed in a sleeveless ballgown, a pearl choker and with her hair up in an elaborate style, signed 'Elsie', 1886


Photograph of the head and torso of Jack, wearing a checked jacket and with his arms folded, 1886


Photograph of Elsie in a ballgown, with a pearl choker, and a tiara, and carrying an ostrich feather fan, 1889


Photograph of Jack, wearing a jacket, breeches, gaiters and a deerstalker, standing in a field, surrounded by hounds, 1884


Photograph of Elsie in hat, coat, skirt, and holding, on her lap, a baby wearing a bonnet and long robes, 1888


Photograph of Jack, in military uniform, leaning on a spade, on a beach with sea behind him, 1915


Photograph of Jack, wearing cricket whites, pads and carrying a cricket bat, 1922


Photograph of Elsie, wearing a jumper and skirt, standing before a wooden door in a stone house, with a small girl, aged approximately 6 years, who is holding a toy dog in her right hand, and holding the lead of a terrier in her left hand, 1925


Photograph of Jack, wearing plus-fours, holding a shotgun and looking at a dark Labrador, who is sitting at his feet gazing at him, with fields beyond them, 1929


Photograph of Elsie, wearing a herringbone coat and a cloche hat, and holding a shooting stick, patting the neck of a horse, which is being held by a man whose head is obscured by the horse, 1931


Photograph of Jack, wearing a formal, striped, 3-piece suit, with a watch chain, standing before panes of glass in a window, 1936


Photograph of Elsie, wearing a dark jacket and skirt, a hat and strapped shoes, standing on grass, 1934


Photograph of Jack, wearing a suit, a bowler hat, and carrying a stick, sitting side by side on rocks with Elsie, who is wearing a hat, tight bodice, long skirt, and carrying a parasol, 1886


Photograph of Jack, wearing plus-fours, standing with Elsie, who is wearing a tie, a cardigan, and long skirt, with a dark Labrador between them, before the wall of a house, covered in creeper, with 2 sash windows, 1923


Photograph of Jack, wearing a 3-piece suit, and Elsie, wearing a cloche hat, dark cardigan and skirt, standing in a walled garden with beds of plants, a paved walk, and an obelisk, 1931


Photograph of Jack, wearing a dark jacket, jumper, and light-coloured trousers, standing with Elsie, wearing a hat, dark jacket and light-coloured skirt, in the doorway of a stone house, 1935


Photograph of Jack's head and torso, wearing a trilby, and a 3-piece suit, and Elsie, wearing a hat, pearls, blouse and jacket, with indistinct vegetation behind them, 1936


'Recollections of Lord Gainford', reprinted from The Friends' Quarterly Examiner, April 1943
(1 booklet, printed)

Joseph Whitwell Pease (1828 - 1903) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/313-335)

son of Joseph and Emma (nee Gurney)
married Mary Fox

Correspondence (Ref: D/X 1667/8/313-315)

Letter from 'Uncle Henry' [Henry Pease], Pierremont, Darlington '(alias Railway Office!), to 'My Dear JWP', saying that he cannot expect the addressee to give much thought to 'old Darlington, so dull in the absence of so many shining lights', but he thinks of the addressee 'having attained that thou hast so long desired' [his marriage]; referring to the fact that the writer is continually interrupted on railway business; describing the celebrations of the addrressee's marriage in Darlington: 'There was as much noise and bell ringing here on 23rd as thou couldst desire - , thy gardener procured flags until the very trees seemed to grow them and only think how the times are changed! - Trinity 'Church House' bore the Union Jack in honour of the Quaker's wedding!!'; describing the comparative failure of the dinner party at The Flute, because of the greed of Ridley and Mr. Clear and 'because some eatables were scarce - indeed the Landlord has previously earned the character of a mean provider'; describing a 'party of domestics in the kitchen at P[ierre]mont - So End [Southend] C'Mt [Claremont] - Northgate, Woodlands about 20 in all - who seemed very happy'; giving comparative figures for 1853 and 1854 for use of the Railway; reporting the fact that 'Middlesbro [Yorkshire] continues unhealthy about 4 cholera deaths a day'; describing his nervousness at having to give the inaugural address at the Darlington Mechanics' Institute: 'I have before an evenings work which I dread - viz the opening of the Mechanics Inst. lecture room - to make an inauguration speech - I have neither beginning, middle nor end in my mind'; referring to the sudden death of P. Heseltine: 'Didst thou hear of the sudden decease of P. Heseltine in Scarbro [Yorkshire] streets on 3rd day - suffered affection of the heart', 25 August 1854
(1 paper)


Letter from 'thy very aft Uncle', Henry Pease, Pierremont, Darlington, to My dear JWP' [Joseph Whitwell Pease], referring to writer's visit to Woodlands, the residence of the addressee, where 'sundry of thy relatives have been pressing on works'; describing the behaviour of a chestnut horse belonging to the addressee: 'one day lifting his heels too high and the dog cart splash board - and report says - showing the riders therein a near view of the road; another day in double harness with Grandpa's [Edward Pease] old Jack and 5 men in attendance including: T. Baister - Hall and performing almost instantly something nearly equivalent to a double somersett [somersault] - once fairly down on the ground and up with face to the carriage having fairly cleaved all harness but the bottom'; describing how the chestnut was tamed by putting him into old Jack's harness, and how Baister thinks that Pybus of Catterick [Yorkshire] has a horse that would suit the addressee; recounting the fact that 'Thy grandpa has bought a house 'adjoining the Fothergills' to let to A.E. Dale'; and to the fact that John Harris proposes to build a house to let to Mr. Robson near South Villa; recounting railway business: 'Yesterday there was a great do at BP Auckld - Flower Show - we conveyed a 1000 passengers on the RWay - Darlington Gardeners took pretty large shies at the prize money - Graham for hollyhocks price melon etc. etc. brought away between 4 or 5; discussing the course of cholera at Middlesbrough [Yorkshire]: 'The Cholera scarcely abates at Mbro - one day this week there were 15 funerals from all causes - , the works there are greatly inconvenienced by the sickness and fear of the men - many seek work elsewhere to get out of risk'; going on to say: 'There is a great stir getting up about lines to the West - Leeman, Clark, of G[ ] have sent out a prospectus for line up Wensleydale to Sans Gill on the L[eeds] Carlisle. They propose via NAllerton to ship coals for Ireland!!! The Westmoreland people want a direct line to Bd Castle - and no doubt this scheme has brought out Leeman's circular because the North Eastern would tremble to think they might lose the [trey? key?] upon our Coke going to the south, - now this and Ulverstone Ore is precise what our district wants to confirm in particular - and as 33 miles would do it, we can only hope the Westmorland people may persevere', 2 September 1854
(2 papers)


Letter from J[oseph] Pease, Dunster, Somerset, to 'My dear Son', [Joseph Whitwell Pease], describing his stay in a 'most comfortable Inn in a most quiet Town and sweet neighbourhood', 'on a very quiet Sabbath'; 'with fervidly hot' weather; describing plans to go to Bristol, Birmingham [Warwickshire], and home to Southend, Darlington; expressing commiserations for 'our Middlesbro Friends', saying 'we continue to think of you wending your way happily like long courting - old married folk!'; 3 September 1854
(1 paper)

Visiting Cards (Ref: D/X 1667/8/316-317)

Visiting card of Mrs. J.W. Pease, with a design of leaves, n.d. [1854-1892]
(1 card, 8.4 cm. x 4.6 cm.)


Visiting card in the names of Sir Joseph Pease, Miss Pease, Miss Maud Pease and Miss Claudia Pease, Hutton Hall, [Yorkshire], n.d. [1892-1903]
(1 card, 9.2 cm. x 6 cm., printed)

Records relating to the Case of the Earl of Portsmouth v. J.W. Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/318-321)

Statement of Facts Relating To the Case of Portsmouth v. Pease, in the High Court of Chancery, November 1900, printed by Wm. Dresser & Sons, Printers, 41 High Row, Darlington, 1901
(1 booklet, printed)


Newspaper cuttings containing reports of the case of the Earl of Portsmouth v. Pease concerning the Estate of the late Edward Pease, 1898-1901 Dated 6 December 1898, 30 November 1900, 1, 5, 12 December 1900, 15 July 1901
(6 papers)


Cutting from The Yorkshire Post, containing a report entitled 'J. & J.W. Pease's Affairs. Liabilities, £700,000. Deed of Assignment Registered', 22 December 1902 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 paper, printed)


Newspaper cuttings concerning the failure of Messrs. J.W. Pease & Co., 22 April and 6 May 1903
(2 papers)

Obituaries and Account of the Death of J.W. Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/322-323)

Description, by Maude Pease, of 'Father's last days', 14 - 23 June 1903 Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease died at Falmouth, Cornwall, on 23 June 1903
(1 paper, printed)


'Joseph Whitwell Pease, By One Who Knew Him', reprinted from The Friends' Quarterly Examiner, c.1903
(1 paper, printed)

Records of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease's Life (Ref: D/X 1667/8/324-326)

List of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease's grandchildren, born between 1880 and 1927, and married between 1910 and 1946, compiled by an anonymous hand, possibly that of Lord Gainford, 29 November 1951 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/101
(1 paper, printed)


List of the grandchildren of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, compiled by an anonymous hand, 29 November 1951
(1 paper, typescript)


A Hutton Fairy Story', a description by the 2nd Lord Gainford [b. 8 March 1889], of Christmas at Hutton Hall, as experienced by the grandchildren of Joseph Whitwell Pease [d. 1903], written at Taynish, Tayvallich, By Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, Christmas 1951 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/101
(1 paper, typescript)

Photographs (Ref: D/X 1667/8/327-333)

Photograph of a middle-aged man, Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, dressed in a frock coat, spats and carrying a top hat and cane, sitting on the steps of the porch of a large house surrounded by 5 young women dressed in long dresses; endorsed in a later hand 'Hutton Hall, stamped: No. 18444, E. Yeoman, Photographer, Teesdale Studio, Barnard Castle, n.d. [1890s] The young women are Sir J.W. Pease's daughters, Sarah Charlotte; Maud; Helen Blanche; Lucy Ethel; Agnes Claudia
(1 photograph, 15 cm. x 20.5 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Photograph of an elderly man seen from the side, sitting in a collapsed deckchair on sand dunes near the side of a hut, n.d. [c.1900] Possibly Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, bart. (1828-1903), father of Helen Blanche Pease
(1 photograph, 7.5 cm. x 5 cm., black and white)


Volume bearing the following inscription: 'Michael Pease from Aunt Ethel in memory of his dear Grandpapa, Hutton, and other days', n.d. [1904]
(1 volume, leather, half-bound)


Photograph of the head and torso of Joseph Whitwell Pease, First Baronet (23 June 1828 - 23 June 1903) wearing a frock coat, waistcoat and watch chain, c.1900


Photograph of the head and shoulders of Joseph Whitwell Pease, wearing a jacket of the 1880s or 1890s, c.1880


Photograph of the head and shoulders of Mary Pease (died 3 August 1892), daughter of Alfred Fox, wearing a high-necked dress and lace cap, n.d. [c.1870]


Photograph, full-length, of Mary Pease, showing her wearing a dress with long sleeves and high neck, a lace cap, and purse hanging from her waist, and carrying a basket, n.d. [c.1880]


Photograph of the exterior of the front of Hutton Hall, seen across a formal garden, marked F.F. & Co., n.d. [c.1890]


Photograph of the exterior of South End, showing a conservatory, and seen across an expanse of water, n.d. [c.1890]


Newspaper cutting, from The Western Mercury, containing the obituary of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, who died on 23 June 1903 at Falmouth, Cornwall, 24 June 1903


Newspaper cutting, from The Yorkshire Daily Post, containing a report of the funeral in Darlington of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, 29 June 1903


An Historical Outline of the Association of Edward Pease (born 1767; died 1858), Joseph Pease (born 1799, died 1872), and Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, born 1828, with the Industrial Development of South Durham and North Yorkshire, and with the creation of the Railway System, c.1900


Photograph of the exterior of Hutton Hall, 'looking South', taken from a distance across fields, n.d. [c.1890]


Photograph of farm buildings, taken from a distance across a field in the snow, n.d. [c.1890]


Photograph showing a carpet runner on a polished floor, receding from the camera, with elaborate banisters on the right, an elaborate cupboard against the wall at the end of the runner, a small boy, the back of a small girl, with long hair, kneeling beside the boy, a pillar, a cupboard, and a window behind the boy and girl, described as 'Landing with Blanche and Edwy', n.d. [1870s]


Photograph of the rear of the woman wearing a light-coloured blouse and hat and dark skirt, carrying a light-coloured handbag, walking in a garden of luxuriant vegetation and trees, described as: 'Aunt Maud in the old children's gardens', n.d. [c.1890]


Photograph of the interior of a high-ceilinged room, with a large mirror above a heavy sideboard, a picture above 2 elaborately carved chairs, the back of a sofa, the backs of chairs drawn up to a table, a carpet on which a dog is asleep, described as 'Dining Room used as sitting room, Winter 1903'


Photograph of the interior of a room with a large fireplace, antlers on the wall above it, occasional tables and chairs dotted about on a carpet, patterned with stylised leaves, entitled 'The hall', n.d. [c.1903]


Narrative of 'Father's last days, written by his daughter, Maud Pease, June 1903'


Memoir of Joseph Whitwell Pease, By One Who Knew Him', reprinted from The Friends' Quarterly Examiner, c.1903


Photograph of a view across a valley and hills, entitled 'From Bousdale', c.1900


Photograph, taken from above, of two rows of houses, a church and a large house, surrounded by wooded hills, described as 'Village', c.1900


Photograph of the farm, duplicate of (11), c.1890


Photograph of part of the façade of a large house on the left of the picture, with an elderly man [Sir J.W. Pease] standing on a path immediately in front of the façade and with trees on the right, described as 'Kerris Vean', [Falmouth, Cornwall], April 1903


Postcard photograph of the interior of a billiard room, containing a billiard table, a desk, a chair, a sofa, occasional tables, antlers, plates, and pictures on the walls, n.d. [1890s-1900s] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/329
(1 photograph, 13.2 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Volume with the following inscription: 'Cyril Pease from Aunt Ethel in loving memory of dear Grandpapa and many happy days at Hutton, Christmas 1904', 1904
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Photograph of Joseph Whitwell Pease, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(1)


Photograph of the head and shoulders of Joseph Whitwell Pease, c.1890


Photograph of the head and shoulders of Mary Pease, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329 (3) and (4),


Newspaper cutting from The Auckland Chronicle, announcing the death of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, 25 June 1903


Newspaper cutting from The Newcastle Leader, announcing the death of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, 1903


Newspaper cutting from Church Bells, noting the death of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease and describing his burial, 1903


Photograph of Southend, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(6)


Photograph of the façade of Hutton Hall 'looking South', taken across a field, in which cows are grazing, c.1900


Photograph of the interior of the hall, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(15)


Photograph of the interior of a large high-ceilinged room, showing a desk and chair on the left of the picture, a sofa against the wall with three pictures above it, and the back of another sofa on the right, showing the same part of the room, from the opposite side, as in D/X 1667/8/329(14), described as 'Dining room used as sitting room, winter 1903'


Photograph of an elderly man [Joseph Whitwell Pease] at Kerris Vean, Falmouth, Cornwall, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(21)


Photograph of the sea, with waves breaking on rocks at the right of the picture, described as 'Waves at Swanpool [Falmouth, Cornwall]. Grandpapa was watching them', c.1900


Narrative of Father's Last Days, June 1903, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(16)


Notice of Joseph Whitwell Pease, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(17)


Photograph showing the façade of Hutton Hall, with trees obscuring part of it, described as 'Hutton from Lodges', c.1900


Photograph of a hill, seen across intervening fields, and with a gate and fence in the foreground, identified as 'Roseberry', [Topping, Guisborough, Yorkshire], c.1900


Photograph of the façade of Hutton Hall, considerably obscured by trees, with snow on the lawns, hedges and path on the right of the picture, described as 'Hutton from Avenue', c.1900


Photograph of the interior of the conservatory, showing a tiled floor, a statue, a pillar, and vegetation, including palms, c.1900


Printed copy of a coloured portrait of the head and torso of 'Mary-Henry-Pease, nee Lloyd, Pierremont, Darlington, born 1826 died 1909', captioned 'MHT aetat, 18', c.1844


Printed copy of a coloured portrait of a woman sitting in a chair wearing a bonnet and shawl holding a book reading The Chain is broken AFRICA is Free Anno 1834, identified as 'Mary Lloyd [nee Honeychurch] Farm', [Wednesbury, Staffordshire], 1830s


Printed copy of a coloured portrait of a young man sitting at a table writing on a piece of paper with a quill pen, identified as 'Samuel Lloyd Farmer born 1795 died 1872', c.1840 [Father of Mary Lloyd, wife of Henry Pease]


Printed copy of a coloured portrait of the head and shoulders of a young woman wearing a white cap and white fabric on her shoulders, identified as 'Rachel Gurney', c.1840


Newspaper cutting reporting the wedding of Lavender Mary Pease, daughter of Sir Alfred Pease of Pinchinthorpe, Yorkshire, containing a photograph of Sir Alfred Pease; the bride and bridegroom; Miss Challoner, Miss Miriam Pease and Mr. Christopher Pease, best man, 1910


Order of service for the marriage of Lavender Mary Pease to Walter Sandfield Medlicott, eldest son of Henry Edmondstone Medlicott of Sandfield, Potton, Wiltshire, at the church of St. Nicholas, Guisborough, Yorkshire, 5 October 1910


Newspaper cutting reporting the marriage of Lavender Mary Pease to Walter Sandfield Medlicott, 5 October 1910


Volume with the inscription 'Robert Pease From Aunt Ethel to Tell Him A Little About Grandpapa and Hutton Xmas 1904', 1904
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Photograph of Joseph Whitwell Pease, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(1)


Photograph of Mary Pease, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(3)


Newspaper cutting from the Daily News, entitled 'Death of Sir Joseph Pease, M.P. Sketch of His Career', 24 June 1903


Newspaper cuttings from The North Star, noting the funeral arrangements for Sir J.W. Pease, the fact that his death was regretted in Weardale, and a resolution of condolence addressed to his family passed by the Darlington Trades Council, 25 June 1903


Duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(17) and D/X 1667/8/321(18)


Photograph of Hutton Hall, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/331(19)


Photograph of the interior of a large high-ceilinged room showing the side of a sofa facing a fireplace [the back of this sofa can be seen in D/X 1667/8/331(14)], an armchair to its right, a door, a portrait [of Sir J.W. Pease] on the wall, a painting over the fireplace and china on the mantelshelf, described as 'Dining room, used as drawing room during the last winter. Portrait presented by constituents', c.1903


Photograph of a group of two women, an elderly man, a young boy, four small boys, and four small girls, lined up against a fence with grass before them and, behind them, identified as, from left to right: 'HBP Becky Grandpapa Blanche Mary Michael Cyril Edwy Harry Lavender Christopher MMP group taken autumn 1902 late afternoon'


Photograph of the interior of the hall, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(15) and D/X 1667/8/331(13)


Photograph of the landing, showing the elaborate banister in detail, a sideboard, bearing china, against the wall, the elaborate cupboard to be seen in D/X 1667/8/329(12), three paintings on the wall, the pillar, and a door beyond it, c.1900


Photograph of Hutton Farm in the snow, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(11) and D/X 1667/8/329(20)


Volume bearing the subscription 'Henry Alfred Pease From Aunt Ethel To Tell Him A Little About Grandpapa and Hutton', n.d. [1904]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Photograph of Sir John Whitwell Pease, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(1), D/X 1667/8/331(1) and D/X 1667/8/332(1)


Photograph of Mary Pease, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/331(3), D/X 1667/8/332(2)


Photograph of Mary Pease, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/331(4)


Newspaper cutting from the Yorkshire Herald, describing the death of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, and the date of his funeral, 25 June 1903


Newspaper cutting from the Leeds Mercury, describing Sir J.W. Pease's funeral, 29 June 1903


Photograph of the exterior of 'Hutton from the stream', 'L.E.B.', c.1900


Photograph of Hutton Station, showing the railway line in the foreground, the platform and the station buildings, L.E.B., c.1900


Photograph of Sir J.W. Pease at Kerris Vean, Cornwall, duplicate of D/X 1667/8/329(21) and D/X 1667/8/331(15)


Photograph of Pendennis Castle on Pendennis Point, seen in the distance, across Falmouth Bay, Cornwall, c.1900


Photograph of the façade of Hutton Hall in the distance, partly obscured by trees, c.1900


Photograph of the façade of Hutton Hall, seen across grassland, on which cows are grazing, described as 'Hutton Hall from drive', c.1900


Photograph of a tiled corridor, running between luxuriant vegetation, and leading to an archway, with a statue either side and a flight of six steps before it, described as 'Conservatory leading to Billiard Room', c.1900

Writings (Ref: D/X 1667/8/334-335)

Notes, entitled 'Galway', describing the writer and his companions as being 'in the midst of what appears gross darkness hardly any Protestants and the Roman Catholics in a highly irritable state, so much so that the Mayor has just called to say he thinks a guard should attend us at our meetings', and describing the success of another of their meetings attended by 'about a thousand people', n.d. [20th century] Written on paper headed 'Kerris Vean Falmouth'
(1 paper)


Notes on the life of Elizabeth Fry, nee Gurney, [1780 - 1845 Quaker minister, prison reformer], made in the same hand as D/X 1667/8/334, n.d. [20th century]
(23 papers)

Lavender Mary Pease (1889 - 1989) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/336)

daughter of Alfred and Helen Ann (nee Fowler)


Order of service for the wedding, at Guisborough Parish Church, Yorkshire, of Lavender Mary Pease and William Sandy Medlicott, 5 October 1910
(1 booklet, printed)

Mary Pease, nee Richardson, (1736 - 1821), widow of Joseph Pease (1737 - 1808) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/337-340)

10 June 1820 (1) Richard Scott of Darlington, innkeeper, and Jane, his wife (2) Robert Botcherby of Darlington, timber merchant, and John Pick of Thirsk, Yorkshire, mercer (3) Mary Pease of Darlington, widow (4) Edward Pease, the elder, merchant; Joseph Pease, the elder, merchant; John Pease, merchant; Joseph Pease, the younger, merchant; John Beaumont Pease, son of Joseph Pease, the elder; Edward Pease, the younger; Isaac Pease; Henry Pease; three of the sons of Edward Pease, the elder, all of Darlington Copy bargain and sale, from (2) to (4), at the direction of (1) and (3), for the residue of a term of 980 years, from 1 December 1690, a parcel of land, part of the garth, garden and orchard with 4 almshouses, lately erected thereon by (3), in Chairgate, alias Glover's Weind, alias Posthouse Weind in Darlington; and that parcel of ground situate between a house belonging to Edward Pease, the elder, and to Joseph Pease, the elder, and a house belonging to John Crawford, which parcel of land is now used as a road [boundaries further defined]; (4) to hold the premises on trust to house 4 poor widows over the age of 60, not members of the Society of Friends; each widow to pay 5s. p.a.; (4) to use the income so gained for the upkeep and insurance of the houses; if the income should accumulate to the sum of £20, (4) may be allowed to invest the sum in government securities and remit the rents of the poor widows as they see fit; when only 3 trustees remain the poor widows to be chosen by the Society of Friends in Darlington District; any of the widows may be removed on marriage or for gross indecency
(1 booklet)


Cash book of Mary Pease, senior and junior, 20 July 1814 - 8 July 1822 Includes: Particulars of Purchase building and Sale of property connected with the Alms houses as named in the preceding accot current with M.P. for the Year 1819 to 6m. 1820'
(1 volume, leather bound)


Cash book of The Trustees of Mary Pease's Alms Houses, in account with Barclays Bank, 1 January 1881 - 15 August 1902
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Cash book of the Trustees of Mary Pease's Alms Houses in account with Barclays Bank, 29 August 1902 - 3 January 1917
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Mary, Lady Pease, (1835 - 1892), nee Fox, wife of Joseph Whitwell Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/341-346)

Photograph of Mary, wife of Joseph Whitwell Pease, wearing an elaborate velvet dress, a velvet choker, and a lace cap, n.d. [1870s-1880s]
(1 photograph, 4 cm. x 14.5 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Photograph showing 2 young women dressed in similar high-necked dresses with bustles, standing in profile to the camera, looking at an older woman, also standing in profile to the camera, wearing a dark, high-necked dress, a white cap, and a white flower at her bosom, a studio portrait taken by W.G. Blight, High Street, Falmouth, Cornwall; endorsed: 'Claudia (Wilson), Ethel (Buxton) and Mary Pease (Hutton Granny), 22 June 1885 [Mary Fox (d. 1892), wife of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease of Hutton Hall, with her daughters, Claudia and Ethel]
(1 photograph, 24 cm. x 29.6 cm., sepia, mounted on card)

Daughters of J.W. Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/343-346)

Photograph showing a bride (possibly a daughter of Sir J.W. Pease), dressed in her wedding dress and carrying her bouquet, sitting on a rug with flowers either side, outside the window of a house; surrounding her are her five bridesmaids, aged from approximately 4 to 14 years, Photograph no. 18448, taken by E. Yeoman, Barnard Castle, n.d. [1890s-1900s]
(1 photograph, 21 cm. x 15 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Photograph of an unidentified wedding, possibly that of Lucy Ethel Pease and Gerald Buxton, showing 5 bridesmaids, the bride and groom, and sitting below the bay window of a house, with a marquee, people standing beside it; beyond the marquee, part of the chimneys and roof of a house can be seen; behind the bridesmaids and bride and groom, 4 men are standing and a man is bending to adjust the bride's dress, n.d. [1890s - 1900s] A newspaper report of the wedding of Lucy Ethel Pease and Gerald Buxton refer to the bridesmaids wearing large hats and to a reception being held at Hutton Hall
(1 photograph, 10.5 cm. x 8 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the same wedding as in D/X 1667/8/344, showing three bridesmaids sitting behind the bay window of a house, the bride and groom, with the back of a man bending over near the bride, n.d. [1890s-1900s]
(1 photograph, 10.5 cm. x 8 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the same wedding as in D/X 1667/8/344, showing the bride and groom, standing with their backs to bay window of a house, with bridesmaids and other wedding guests standing with their backs to the marquee, n.d. [1890s-1900s]
(1 photograph, 10.5 cm. x 8 cm., black and white)

Mary Anna Pease (b. 1840) daughter of John Pease (1797 - 1888) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/347-348)

Photograph showing a group of approximately 6 men and women, with eight children, standing on the lawn in front of a wall, two windows and one bay window of a large house, surrounding a bride and groom, captioned: 'Wedding Group of J[onathan] B[ackhouse] Hodgkin and M[ary] A[nna] Pease, Woodburn, Darlington, April 24th, 1873'
(1 photograph, 29.5 cm. x 24 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Photograph of approximately fifty men and women sitting on a lawn in front of shrubbery and trees, probably in the grounds of Woodburn, Darlington, endorsed, in a later hand, 'Wedding J[onathan] B[ackhouse] Hodgkin and M[ary] A[nna] Pease Gurney Pease, Katherine Kendall', 24 April 1873
(1 photograph, 24 cm. x 18 cm., black and white, mounted on card)

Mary Pease, nee Lloyd, (1826 - 1909), wife of Henry Pease (Ref: D/X 1667/8/349-356)

Journal, kept by an unidentified young woman, possibly Mary Lloyd, January - July 1840 Mary had 9 siblings, including Joseph, Anna, Rachel, Sara and Samuel; her mother was Mary Lloyd (nee Honeychurch) of the Anti-Slavery Society; uncles Theodore and Sampson are brothers of Mary's father, Samuel Lloyd. 4d 1 January Went to meeting; Governess had her painting lesson off S. Fox; no school in the afternoon; started German wool bag; 5d 2 January Went to Uncle Theodore's to tea; 6d 3 January Uncle Sampson & Uncle Theodore came to tea; 7d 4 January Cleaned the canary bird and had a sore throat and headache; 1d 5 January Stayed at home with Amy - Amy had stye; writer had bad headache and sore throat; father sent her to bed; 2d 6 January Stayed in room, because of bad night; 3d 7 January 'Mama, I, Rachel, Amy, Ruth went to Farm'; 4d 8 January Governess and Sarah went to meeting; 5d 9 January Nothing happened; 6d 10 January Quiet day; 7d 11 January 'Prepared for Sarah and myself to go to Farm'; 1d 12 January Went to Farm with Sarah and Joey; 2d 13 January Pond frozen: Sam & George skated; I and Sarah went on the pond; Joey afraid; 3d 14 January To the Mechanics' Institute with Sarah and Uncle William; Tea at Uncle William's lodgings; home by carriage; Mama, grandmamma, Joey to Aunt Theodore's 'who is poorly'; 4d 15 January G R A and Joey to Mechanics Institution; '200 soldiers when they were there'; 5d 16 January To Pascan Stutcliffs with Mama; 6d 17 January To Pearsons with Sam and Sarah with some books; 7d 18 January Wet day; played with George; 1d 19 January Returned home from visit to Farm; 2d 20 January John O'Hanagan came and Cousin Joseph and wife; Joseph went to Turner's Academy; 3d 21 January Mama, Cousin Mary & Joseph to Uncle Sampsons Joey did not enjoy School; 4d 22 January Went to Meeting; windy day; 5d 23 January The brethren came to stay; 6d 24 January Very stormy day; 'wind very high, so we could not go for a walk'; 7d 25 January Joey came home to dinner showery day; 1d 26 January To Meeting; dinner; 2d 27 January J.O.F. came; 3d 28 January Nice day; 4d 29 January Went to S. Lines; called at Aunt Theodore's - better; attended lecture by G. Smith; 5d 30 January Nothing of note happened; 6d 31 January Nice day; the brethren came to dinner & G.M. G.P. also; 7d 1 February Raining; 1d 2 February Meeting; Joey poorly - cut finger & gathering; 2d 3 February Joey could not go to school; 3d 4 February Wet day; 4d 5 February Nice day; Governess had painting lesson off Sarah Fox; Rachel could not attend Meeting; H.H. Smith's lecture; 5d 6 February Governess received news of ill-health of sister, Lydia, Inflammation of the bowel; 6d 7 February Governess received news of death of sister; 7d 8 February No school; walk with the babies; Caught in the rain; 1d 9 February Sister Lydia buried; Rachel gave the writer a book: Death of Jane Prior; Meeting; 2d 10 February Queen married; ½ holiday Joey had whole one; John O.F. came - had no work at Warsall - all his scholars had holiday because of the marriage of the Queen; Governess talking about 'me going to Sunderland with her'; 3d 11 February Went on walk with M. Jones; Rachel & self to Mechanics Institute - H.H. Smith's last lecture; 4d 12 February to Monthly Meeting; dined at the lodgings with Uncle George and Uncle Sampson 'who with papa talked about socialism uncle George was in high spirits what made him so I cannot tell'; 5d 13 February To Mary Jones to tea; 6d 14 February The brethren came today; walked to Wednesbury; 'P. Townsend made his long lanky appearance'; 7d 15 February Nothing happened; 1d 16 February Went to Meeting; said texts and read G. Fox; Mama ill with tooth - and ear-ache; 2d 17 February Began letter to Anna Deborah; 3d 18 February Beautiful day rather cold; 4d 19 February Went to Birmingham; heard that Aunt Anna Lloyd of Birmingham had had a little boy on 18 February 1839 'Cousin Caroline Braithwaite was at Farm went to lecture was very very cold a cold cold cold day bitter bitter bitter'; 5d 20 February 'Governess had a letter today saying it was thought unsuitable for me to go to Sunderland as proposed'; Mary Jones called; 6d 21 February Francis Dickinson to dinner - to get 'our flower seeds off him' 'Papa said that Uncle Sampson had a valentine but he would not show it'; 7d 22 February Sarah fell down with baby, which frightened him and made him cross'; 1d 23 February Cold Cold Cold very Cold almost frozen to death with cold going to Meeting; 2d 24 February Went with Governess over District and got a few new persons; 3d 25 February Long walk; writer had ½ holiday 'because I had 100 marks'; 4d 26 February To Meeting; writer and Governess got cold; 5d 27 February Went on walk and met Papa on Echo; let Willy ride home; 6d 28 February Went in garden; writer's cold troublesome; 7d 29 February Did not go on walk today; 1d 1 March Did not go to Meeting; cold in head; Anna Mary Southal came; 2d 2 March Cousin Ashes came; played at 'Schimels' in schoolroom. Deaf and Blind children came and stayed to tea. Then to Meeting; 3 boys and 3 girls all nice children; Mary Jane not there as she went to Birmingham at supper 'S.A. was very rude speaking to papa about silent worship in a very disrespectful way'; 3d 3 March Governess obliged to stay in bed because of cold, and sore throat; 'Anna Mary Southal went soon after breakfast she is a nice little girl though very silent scarcely talking at all and great contrast to Cousin Mary whose tongue is for ever going'; 'just before dinner as we were playing at Lavata Uncle Theodore came and said the little baby was dead Cousins did not appear so very sorry though Uncle looked very grave after dinner Cousins went away and Mamma went with them we had school in the afternoon after tea Mamma came'; 4d 4 March Governess still unable to go to Meeting because of cold 'went to S. Lines had a nice lesson' 'as we were going home we called at Uncle Theodore's to see our little cousin it looked quite shocking it was quite yellow its face no bigger than a table spoon'; 5d 5 March Went on walk to Mary Jones with the pony; went to the 'benevolent meeting' 'Rachel was very unkind in making me have the talking mark 4 times just out of spite'; 6d 6 March 'Uncles came today'; 7d 7 March Went on walk and 'met a man who pretended to be very ill crying and groaning and making great noises'; 1d 8 March 'Staid two meetings and remained at the Lodgings a very dry opportunity'; 2d 9 March With governess to district; the rest to Violet Lane; 3d 10 March Prepared room for re-decoration - School room; 4d 11 March School in the parlour; 5d 12 March Mama's birthday; R[achel] S[arah] A[my] E & S with myself gave her a little testament; went to the Violet Lane School in the parlour; 6d 13 March Uncles came to dinner; school in the drawing room; 7d 14 March Papa gave Amy 'a very nice doll' that Philippa Williams gave us; 1d 15 March Plan for 'Little Willy' to go to Meeting frustrated by his cough; 2d 16 March 'Collected 6s. 6d. in our district'; a fine day; 3d 17 March G[overness] expected her brother Samuel who arrived at 4 in the morning; 4d 18 March G stayed with her brother; R & writer went to Lines; G. stayed in Birmingham; 5d 19 March Sam came home with them and they went a pleasant walk along by the wood and Sand Park hall and lake G[overness] returned before dinner and had school; 6d 20 March Uncles to dinner; 7d 21 March Game of Lavata with Sam; 1d 22 March Went to Farm to dinner and stayed for afternoon Meeting; 2d 23 March Reinstating books; Mary Shipton staying with Uncle Sampson; C. Audley came and had Bible Meeting; 3d 24 March No walk, many colds, baby ill cutting teeth; went to tea at Uncle Sampson with Mary Shipton; 4d 25 March Baby very poorly; 5d 26 March No walk; 6d 27 March Grandmama and Papa to dinner; 7d 28 March Mary Shipton went away with Uncle Sampson; 1d 29 March Went to Dudley - Papa had business there; 2d 30 March Writer goes for a little walk with Anna; 3d 31 March Writer can remember nothing to record; 4d 1 April 'R. J. and myself' to drawing lesson; 5d 2 April Writer, Rachel and Mother to Benevolent Meeting; 6d 3 April Uncles to dinner; 7d 4 April No walk; 1d 5 April To Preparative Meeting; letter to Cousin Anna Deborah; 2d 6 April Goes on pony asks Ann Noles to come; 3d 7 April Amy runs into room saying Joey has Scarlet Fever; 4d 8 April All to meeting except A who stayed with Joey; Anna Carol expressed her desire to go to Dublin Yearly Meeting; discussion on this; 5d 9 April Walk and pony ride; Governess frightened by dog after going past the water and instructed children not to pass the dog and she went round by Oakswell; 6d 10 April Saw 'man whom we supposed to be mad and looked as if he wishes to drown himself'; Uncles came; Joey worse; 7d 11 April Planted seeds; 1d 12 April 'Went to farm and staid the 2nd meeting Edward Ash from Bristol was at Meeting'; 2d 13 April To the District with Governess and pony G[overness] wished to call at Jane Weeks; 3d 14 April Edward Ash had public meeting at Wednesbury; planted seeds; Rachel had 100 marks so had half holiday; 4d 15 April Edward Ash meeting at Walsall Meeting - Governess and Rachel went; 5d 16 April 'Nothing particular'; 6d 17 April 'Mama, Amy and myself' to Bilston for Edward Ash; 'it was the first time I have been there it was a very dirty place'; 7d 18 April Mama quite poorly; Joey very cross; 1d 19 April Went to Farm; stayed with little Willy while others went to Meeting 'I walked to town with him as we were walking we heard most dreadful shrieks and screams and saw a young man standing in the passage of a house the blood streaming from his mouth and nose so I asked a person who came out of her house what was the matter and she told me that his father and mother were wicked people and beat him shockingly, there was a great crowd round the house'; 2d 20 April Writer and Governess to their District; 3d 21 April M.H. and Rachel invited to dine and drink tea at Uncle Theodore's house; 4d 22 April M.H. & Rachel went by omnibus; papa detained; 5d 23 April Amy & Sarah went to ride in field; Governess Rachel and writer went to Sand Park lake and hall; 6d 24 April Ride on pony; grandmama, grandpap and Mary Shipton came to dinner; 7d 25 April 'A Shorching day'; looking at Atlas to choose holiday destination as 'doctor said should go as soon as Mama is well'; 'Little Annie' has 'scarlet tenor' [Scarlatina]; Willy had an emetic; 1d 26 April To farm; M.H. to Anna Leans; discussion of holiday at dinner: 'Mama, Rachel and myself want Barmouth [Merionethshire]; Papa 'somewhere by Liverpool [Lancashire]; C[ousin] Sampson favoured Barmouth; Uncle William mentioned Seaport [Southport, Lancashire], which Uncle G. described as 'sand and no sea like the desert of Arabia'. Edward Ash held public meeting.; 2d 27 April Edward Ash to tea with Thomas Southel to have meeting at Darlaston; Sarah Rooth walked round the writer's family's garden with the Browns; 3d 28 April Writer had half holiday on gaining 100 marks; 4d 29 April Quarterly Meeting; then went to Farm; all the Williams dined there; 5d 30 April 'Nothing particular occurred'; 6d 1 May After school gathered flowers in the meadows and made a maypole; Uncle Theodore came to dinner; Uncle Sampson in London; 7d 2 May Governess believes Uncle George has made Mary Shipton an offer; 1d 3 May To Farm to hear nightingale; Rachel walked into town with Willy; 2d 4 May M.H. leaving; P.O.J. came; R.J. M.H. and writer; M.H. bade farewell to the people; to the Mechanics Institute for a book, The South Seas, by a Missionary, for Rachel; 3d 5 May Papa ill with influenza; 4d 6 May E and C. Ash staying for a Meeting at Dudley; Uncle Sampson drove M.H. to Birmingham - she will stay at Farm during the day and the next morning will set out on her long journey; 5d 7 May Mama, Rachel, writer to Amsted Hall to see Lucy & Charlotte Townsend 'who are there', handsome lunch, walk in grounds; 6d 8 May Rachel kept school with Amy and Sarah; wet day after long dry spell; 7d 9 May Little Willy has Scarlet Fever; R. kept school; 1d 10 May Meeting; Willy doing well; 2d 11 May John O.F. came; R. kept school with A. & S.; 3d 12 May Rachel sore throat, felt sick; given emetic; Doctor Best diagnosed fever; 4d 13 May No visit to Meeting; wet day no walk; 5d 14 May Nothing particular; Rachel poorly; 6d 15 May Uncles did not come for fear of infection; 7d 6 June In garden; 'haven't kept diary for many days'. Rachel ill in bed for 5 days, recovered rapidly. By 31 May able to go to Meeting; went to Farm; going to Aberdovey [Merionethshire] next day, 11 June; 2d 8 June Busy packing all day; 3d 9 June Papa home from London about 8 o'clock; presents: 'parasol for R.A. & myself'; nice books and puzzles for Willy; doll for Annie; soft book for baby; 4d 10 June Mama finished packing; Papa bitten by Nimrod, his horse; 5d 11 June Set out; Joey in the cart with Susan and the luggage; Sarah in the coach with Ruth; stopped at Shifnel [Shifnal, Shropshire] to rest the horses; got to Shrewsbury [Shropshire] about 6 o'clock; had tea and R. and writer went for walk with Papa; 6d 12 June Wet day; R.A.J. Susan & Papa outside; rest inside; could not enjoy journey - 'I passed through hill and dale over river and stream heard the dashing of the waterfall and the purling of the stream I could not enjoy it penned up as it were in a prison with little children to amuse we were all glad when we came to Machynlleth'; had tea and set out again in [Shandirdan?] and the rest in a post chaise to Aberdovey reached at 7 o'clock; 7d 13 June Fine day; went on sands covered with shells and 'had a very nice bathe'; 1d 14 June After breakfast read, then silence of about an hour; Mama spoke to them; went a walk; had dinner; afternoon spent in reading or writing; 2d 15 June Had 'delightful bathe' in the sea except the 'little children'; all but R. preferred to bathe in the river; 3d 16 June On the sands; pleasant weather; 4d 17 June Mama Sarah and writer accompanied Papa who was setting out for home ; 5d 18 June On the sand before rain; writer drew and made child's frock; 6d 19 June Wet day; writer recounts the fact that Mama received a letter the previous evening from H.F.H. which the writer surmises announced H.F.H.'s imminent marriage; 2d [22 June] Bathed in the sea a.m.; walk p.m.; 3d [23 June] Went for walk over mountains; Mama remained at home to await doctor; sheltered in a cottage from the rain: 'it had only a mud floor nothing but a hole for a chimney and a window broken in many places the old woman who lived in it was very dirty yet she seemed contented'; 4d [24 June] Bathed: Rachel, Mama, Sarah & Anna in 1 machine; Amy Willy and writer in another; Annie a good little thing; Willie cried; 5d [25 June] Walk in p.m. and got flowers; 6d [26 June] Early dinner; Rachel and Amy set out to meet Papa in an Irish Car; Mama's 'tooth came out as she was finishing dinner so she put it in gin which she got from the Captain at 5 o'clock. Mama Sarah and I went to meet Papa and Sam we walked a long way till it began to rain and then we turned back but the car overtook us before we got home so we rode in it the rest of the way'.; 7d [27 June] Bathed: Papa and Sam first. Willy frightened and would not go; 1d [28 June] Morning meeting; walked; read; walked; 2d [29 June] Nothing particular; 3d [30 June] Went across the ferry; 4d [1 July] Writer forgets; 5d [2 July] Wet; 6d [3 July] 'Nothing of note'; 7d [4 July] Went to 'Caderidris' in open carriage; could not see the top for the mist; dined at little inn on the banks of a 'pretty lake' on which they went in a boat; Sam fished, but caught nothing; 1d [5 July] Long walk along the mountains to the slate quarries; 2d [6 July] Packed for Rachel Amy Joey and Willy to go home with Papa on 4th; 3d [7 July] Luggage sent on cart to Machynlleth; 4d [8 July] After early breakfast, travellers sent out in rain; later better weather; lonely without them; 5d [9 July] Sarah, Susan and writer bathed; made Susan's head ache; 6d [10 July] Beautiful day; 7d [11 July] Bathed; Ruth dipped dear little baby who cried; 1d [12 July] Nice day; walked; 2d [13 July] Had 2 donkeys; went on pretty walk towards Towyn; had lunch beside a stream; 3d [14 July] Mama wished to go home next day only Papa objected; 4d [15 July] Fine day; 5d [16 July] Fixed to go home 6 day; went for walk on donkey which 'was very stupid and would stop and lay down'; Papa instructed Mama to stay another week, an instruction which was 'a great disappointment to all who were very tired of being here'; 6d [17 July] 'Went on the sands to pick up shells on wet afternoon'; 7d [18 July] Another wet day, decided to collect shells; 6d 23 February [1838 or 1844?] Governess's sister dead; 7d 24 February No school because of death of governess's sister; 1d 25 February To meeting; Sarah and governess stayed at home; Sam recounts thefts at his school: another boy lost 17s and 6d and Sam lost 3s. and a twopenny pork pie; The writer comments that the thief has not been found; records the burial of Annie Walker; meditates on her unworthiness and bad behaviour; fears that she will go to hell and prays that 'the Lord would make me a good child that I may have no more wicked thoughts'; comments later that she wrote the preceding on 1st day and that 'To day not very good I am so sorry now and vexed that I am very sad to forfeit cub board was opened today and I had to forfeit 6 marks'; comments that 'cousin Sampson came yesterday and teased Uncle Sampson so as to make him blush he played on the Jews harp a great many times'
(1 booklet, 3 papers)


A Birthday Wreath for Dear Mama Composed of some pieces on Given Subjects written by the Home Circle during the winters of 1842, 1843 and 1844, 1842-1844 verse entitled 'To M.S. Lloyd, 12th of 3rd month 1843' [12 March 1843] verse entitled 'On Time' by Rachel, 15 March 1842 story entitled 'On Time' by Sarah, March 1842 essay entitled 'Spring Pleasures' by Mary essay entitled 'Spring Pleasures' by Amy : verse entitled 'Time' by Emma, 14 March 1842 verse entitled 'Winter Charms', by Rachel, 27 October 1842 verse entitled 'Procrastination is the theif [sic] of Time', by Mary verse concerning wisdom, by Emma, April 1842 essay entitled 'Winter's Charm' by Sarah, October 1842 essay entitled 'The Life of James the first of England', by Sam[ue]l, 1842 verse entitled: 'The Ties of Home and the Enjoyment of Children' by Rachel, n.d. essay entitled 'The Ties of Home' by Mary, n.d. verse entitled 'Love' by Emma, Wood Green, October 1842 essay entitled 'Which is the most necessary to a woman's character, good nature or Good humour?', by Rachel, 30 January 1843 verse entitled 'The Power of Affection' by Mary, n.d. verse entitled 'What is Friendship's most cementing bond?', by Emma, 7 December 1842 verse entitled 'Time and Eternity, by Mary, n.d. verse entitled 'The Return of Spring' by Amy, n.d. verse entitled 'Spring' by Rachel Jane Lloyd, 29 March 1844 verse entitled 'The Power of Affection' by Emma, Wood Green, February 1843 verse entitled 'The grateful Sentinel' by Mary, copied by R[achel] J[ane] L[loyd] verse entitled: 'What is True Happiness?' by Emma, Wood Green, February 1843
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Verses entitled: 'To William Henry Lloyd aged two years & five months - For my dear friend Mary S. Lloyd, by E.R., Wood Green, 23 March 1842 The verse is written in the same hand as 'Emma' in D/X 1667/8/350 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/350
(1 paper)


Phrenological Character of Mrs. Mary Pease, given by L.N. Fowler, Practical Phrenologist, Darlington, 13 February 1863
(1 file)


Photograph, and duplicate, showing an elderly woman, wearing a long black dress and white cap, standing on a path in garden, with a slope to her left, trees to her right, and what looks like a balustrade of the wall in front of a house, endorsed, in a later hand: 'Mary Pease (Mary Lloyd) In Pierremont Gardens', n.d. [1890s]
(1 photograph, 6.7 cm. x 7.8 cm., sepia, mounted on card)


Photograph of 2 elderly women wearing long dark dresses and white caps, sitting either end of a garden seat, with two small boys between them, and a small girl standing before the woman on the left of the picture; a man wearing a suit and trilby hat is sitting behind the bench; behind the group part of a house and garden can be seen, n.d. [1900-1909] The woman on the right is probably Mary Pease, nee Lloyd
(1 photograph, 11 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white, mounted on card)


Mary H. Pease. A Slight Sketch of Her Life, by her niece, Amy Lloyd, printed by The Eagle Press, 170 Edmund Street, Brighton [East Sussex], 1909 Includes: portrait of Mary H[enry] Pease
(1 volume, paper bound)


Letter from Amy Lloyd, Farm, Sparkbrook, Worcestershire, to Mrs. Mounsey, enclosing a copy of D/X 1667/8/355, referring to her 'dear Aunt Mary', 14 February 1910
(1 paper)

Michael Lloyd Pease (1891 - 1968) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/357-371)

son of Helen Blanche and Lloyd Pease

Correspondence (Ref: D/X 1667/8/357-363)

Letter addressed to 'Dearest Michael', a child, from his 'grandmamma', Mary Pease, thanking him for his letter and referring to his going on a train to Hutton Hall, [Yorkshire] and inviting him to Pierremont, [Darlington] on his return, n.d. [1895-1896]
(1 paper)


Letter from [Mary Pease], Pierremont, addressed to 'my Darling Michael' [Michael Pease], wishing him a happy birthday, referring to 'Mollie and Jo' visiting Pierremont, referring to Michael's feeding birds at Hutton, and expressing her hope that 'you and Cyril and Mary and baby' will visit her at Pierremont, 11 January n.y. [1895 - 1896] Cyril and Michael were born in 1891, Mary in 1893 and the next child 'baby' Henry, in April 1894
(1 paper)


Letter from Aunt Claudia, to My Dear Michael, wishing him a Happy Christmas, n.d. [1890s] Many of the words are replaced by pictures [Agnes Claudia Wilson (nee Pease) was sister to Michael's mother]
(1 card, 18 cm. x 11.7 cm., coloured)


Letter from Nana A. Lee, Ramsgate Kent, to 'My Dear Master Michael', discussing the picture of the lighthouse and West Pier and Cliff at Ramsgate, which is at the top of the letter, exhorting Michael and his siblings to behave well, and promising him a present when she returns, n.d. [1890s]
(1 paper)


Letter addressed to 'Master Michael' from Nana, referring to Michael's going to tea with Master Joe, to her being away one more week and sending her love to Dolla, Mary, and Mr. Parks, Kate, Emma and Minnie, n.d. [1890s]
(1 paper)


Postcard of the west end of the church at Guisborough [Yorkshire], sent by Lavender to Michael Pease, 44 Grosvenor Gardens, London, 16 January 1901 Lavender Pease, daughter of Sir Alfred Pease of Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough, Yorkshire
(1 card, 8.9 cm. x 14 cm.)


Postcard photograph of 'Brink of the American Fall', with the inscription 'With Love Your Father', posted in New York, U.S.A., and addressed to Master Michael L. Pease, St. Peter's Court, Broadstairs, Kent, 2 June 1903 'Father' is Edward Lloyd Pease
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.7 cm.)

Photographs (Ref: D/X 1667/8/364-371)

Photograph of a small boy, standing, with a small boy, on his right, sitting in an armchair, and with a small girl, also sitting in an armchair; the two boys are wearing suits with knee breeches and shirts with frills and large collars; the girl is wearing a dress with a large collar and puffed sleeves; the photograph is taken by E. Yeoman, Studios, Barnard Castle, and Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, n.d. [1897] Endorsed: 'Michael Pease' (centre) and '1897' The children are Michael, Cyril and Mary Pease
(1 photograph, 16.5 cm. x 11 cm., sepia, card-mounted)


Photograph of 4 small children, aged between approximately two and six years, playing in the shallows of the sea, possibly at Saltburn, Yorkshire, 1890 - 1900 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 photograph, 9 cm. x 8.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph showing a child, aged approximately 3 years, standing holding a small spade accompanied by a horse, with a man at its head, and with the façade of the house and stables at Hurworth Moor behind him, captioned 'Bobby [Robert Pease], Brown and Boniface 1902', 1902 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100 In 1901 there is a groom, William Brown, living at the stables
(1 photograph, 7 x 7 cm)


Photograph of a small girl, aged approximately 3 years, sitting on a horse with a girl, aged approximately 10 years, standing at the horse's head and a boy, aged approximately 6 years, patting its rump, standing below the terrace at Hurworth Moor, captioned: M[ary] C[ecilia] P[ease], H[elen] M[aud] P[ease] & R[obert] P[ease], n.d. [c. 1904] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100 Mary Cecilia Pease, born 1892; Helen Maud Pease, born 1901; Robert Pease, born 1898
(1 photograph, 11.7 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Card, with a photograph, showing, possibly, Blanche Pease, Edward Lloyd Pease and nine children, Becky [Rebekah May Buxton, b.1900], Blanche [Blanche Emily Buxton, b.1891], Mary [Mary Cecilia Pease, b.1892], Michael [Pease, b.1891], Cyril [Pease, b.1891], Edwy, Harry [Henry Alfred Pease, b.1894], Lavender [Pease, b.1889], Christopher [Pease, b.1886], aged between 18 and 2 years, standing with their backs to a metal fence with a field and distant trees behind them, inscribed 'A very Happy Christmas and New Year to you' 'For Michael', 1904 - 1905 Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/101
(1 card, 16.5 cm. x 21.4 cm.; 1 photograph, 11.5 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Photograph showing a boy [Robert Pease] aged approximately seven years sitting on a horse, in front of the terrace at Hurworth Moor, a man is standing holding the horse's reins, n.d. [c.1904] Originally enclosed in D/X 1667/8/100
(1 photograph, 11.7 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Photograph of four men, sitting one behind the other on a grass-covered slope in front of the terrace at Hurworth Moor; an elderly woman, partially obscured by a bush, can be seen observing the scene, which possibly shows Helen Blanche Pease observing her four grown-up sons, Michael, Cyril, Henry and Robert, n.d. [1920s]
(1 photograph, 11.5 cm. x 16 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the head and shoulders of a middle-aged man, wearing a collar and tie and jacket, n.d. [20th century] The photograph is signed E.R.L. North The photograph was enclosed in an envelope with the words 'C. Pease', and the words 'Ideal Studios, 11 Beadon Road, Hammersmith, London', written on it Possibly Cyril Pease [b.1891], son of Edward Lloyd and Helen Blanche Pease See also D/X 1667/8/370
(1 photograph, 5 cm. x 5 cm., black and white; 1 envelope, 7.5 cm. x 9 cm.)

Sarah Helen Pease (1861 - 1937) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/372)

daughter of John William Pease and Helen Maria (nee Fox)


Copy obituaries; extracts from newspapers, including The Times, and local papers; extracts from letters; all commemorating the life of Ellen [Sarah Helen] Pease (17 July 1861 - 6 December 1937) of Nether Grange, Alnmouth, Northumberland, n.d. [c.1938] Ellen Pease was the daughter of John William Pease (1836 - 1901) of Pendower and Alnmouth; her mother was Helen Fox of Falmouth; she was the eldest of three daughters; she had 2 brothers, the eldest of whom became Lord Wardington, 1936
(1 booklet, printed, and 1 paper)

William Edwin Pease (1865 - 1926) (Ref: D/X 1667/8/373)

son of Edwin Lucas Pease and Frances Helen (nee Edwards)


Newspaper cutting describing the funeral in St. Cuthbert's Church, Darlington, of Alderman William Edwin Pease, M.P., (aged 60), January 1926
(1 volume)