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Minutes of evidence taken before the Committee for Privileges concerning the claims of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Bowes and John Bowes, an infant, to the title of Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne etc., 5 April 1821

Copy of the will of Benoîte Josephine Bowes, Countess of Montalbo. Appoints John Bowes, Rt. Hon. Sir William Hutt K.C.B., M.P., Henry Morgan Vane, Esq., Revd. Thomas Witham, Alexander William Kinglake, Esq., Edward Young Western, gent., George Adolphos Western, gent., John Dickonson Holmes, gent., Ralph Dent, gent. and Ralph John Dent, gent., as trustees. Appoints lands specified in Barnard Castle upon trust as the site for the Bowes Museum and grounds. All works of art in France to be brought to England. All personal estate in France to be sold and the proceeds used to complete building the Museum in which all her art works are to be placed. Conditions of office of curator. After death of testatrix and husband museum site to be vested in the Official Trustee of Charity Lands. The contents of the museum are to be vested in: the trustees of the will, the Lord Lieutenant of the County, the M.P.s for the county division containing Barnard Castle, two appointees of the Lord Lieutenant and other residents of Barnard Castle and district to a total of eleven. Manor of operation of the Committee described. Details of the filling of vacancies on the committee and the management powers of the committee. The curator to be a male aged over 35 years and for preference single or widowed. Attendants for preference to be unmarried. Opening hours specified, 12 and 19 July 1871

Correspondence between E.R. Hanby Holmes, Mary Dent of 20 Artesian Road, Bayswater W2 and R.J. Sevier, Paris and London, (uncle of E.R.H.H.) concerning the marriage of John Bowes, 27 October - 12 November 1928

Correspondence received by R.H. Edleston from the Dean of Peterborough, the Spanish Ambassador and others concerning the presentation by Edleston of the standard of Catherine of Aragon to Peterborough Cathedral, 14 June - 4 September 1930

Photograph of the standard of Catherine of Aragon, n.d. [c.1930]

Newspaper cuttings concerning the presentation of the standard, 1930

Correspondence received by R.H. Edleston from Major J. Fairfax - Blakeborough, M.C., Grove House, Norton on Tees and Low House, Westerdale, Castleton, Yorkshire, concerning Edleston's book Some Northern Thoroughbreds dealing with the Streatlam Stud equine matters, donations to horsey causes, sporting, gossip, travel etc., 14 July 1942 - 1 September 1949

Stud cards, 1936 - 1948

Programme for Barnard Castle Gymkhana, 29 May 1950

Newspaper cutting concerning Streatlam Stud, the Gainford Stud and Edleston, 23 May 1942

Correspondence between Kenneth de Courcy, Alderbourne Manor, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, and R.H. Edleston concerning the Anti-Communist Conference organised by de Courcy, programme of events and related papers, 10 May - 25 June 1952

Notebook of Alice Edleston being an index of sources for wills of former inhabitants of Teesdale, n.d. [c. 1890]

Notebook of Alice Edleston containing transcripts of parochial documents and extracts from parish registers, n.d. [c.1890]

Incomplete translation of papal absolution to Voladislau, son of Duke Casimir, with regard to the succession to the polish crown of the late 14th century. This copy n.d. [c.1900]

Translations of inquisitions post mortem for the de Plesyngton family, 1393 and 1409. This copy, n.d. [c.1900]

Rough minutes and programme of antiquarian gatherings, 1912 and 1935

Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings relating to the Teesdale Record Society and other antiquarian interest of the Edlestons, 1933 - 1943

Book plates, n.d.

Photograph of Hornby [Castle], 1931

Obituary of R.H. Edleston contained in the journal of an antiquarian society, 1952

Letter from William Brown, Old Elvet, Durham to Mr. Gradon concerning incorrect suggestions of R.H. Edleston in connexion with the history of a church (building), 20 October 1905

Letter from J.C. Hodgson, Alnwick Castle, to R.H. Edleston concerning pictures at Alnwick, election of William Brown as President of the Surtees Society etc., 27 December 1918

Letters from Baron Michel de Witte de Haelen, Brussels, to R.H. Edleston concerning Belgian brasses, meetings in Brussels and Cambridge, 16 and 27 January 1930

Letter from F.A. Greenhill, Broughty Ferry, Forfarshire, concerning brasses and tomb slabs, 1 June 1947

Letter from Herbert Honeyman, Secretary of the Society of Antiquiaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, to Miss Edleston accepting her as a member, 23 January 1953

Letter from Dr. C.W. Gibby, Hon. Secretary, Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, to Miss S.A.C. Edleston accepting, with regret, her resignation as Vice President, 1 March 1953

Correspondence received by Miss Edleston from Revd. William Oliver, Rokeby Rectory, concerning local antiquarian and historical affairs, condolences on death of R.H. Edleston, 10 September 1952 - 5 March 1953

Letters from David Ramage, University Librarian, Durham, thanking her for gifts of incunabula and other items, 10 November 1952 - 24 March 1953

Letters from Thomas Wake, the Curator of The Bowes Museum, to Miss Edleston thanking her for gifts, 29 January - 20 March 1953

Letter from G.M. Trevelyan, Cambridge, to Miss Edleston acknowledging gift of Macaulay letter, 13 February 1953

Letter from the Director of the National Portrait Gallery to Miss Edleston concerning Bindon's portrait of Dean Swift, 14 May 1954

Invoice for printing and binding Incised Monumental Slabs by R.H. Edleston, 13 November 1943