Catalogue

Album of newspaper cuttings on various topics to and events. 1818 to 1883: p.1 Poem entitled "The Bishop Auckland Harriers". Articles on the North and South Durham foxhounds. p.2 Article entitled "The Short-Horned Breed of Cattle", with illustration. p.3 Poster advertising the Crook Races (with illustrations) p.4 Poem entitled "Buried Griefs", by Charles Mackay, "The Old Sportsman's Lament" by Piscator, Sen., "Thy Spirit of Love keeps a Watch over me" (Anon.) and "Glimpses of the War" by Gerald Massey. p.5 Poster for the South Durham Grand Steeple Chase p.6 Articles on the new Marriage Acts and the Duke of Cleveland's foxhounds. p.7 Poem in memory of Henry Pease of Darlington (d. 5 June 1881) p.8 Articles on the Westminster Clock Bell, the Duke of Northumberland's premiums to farmers and ploughing matches in Ryhope. and West Auckland. p.9 Tory Election poem entitled "The Happy Choice." Article on "The Miser of Ketton." p.10 Articles on the celebration of illicit marriages at Barnard Castle Bridge and the origins of the Shorthorn or Durham Cattle. p.11 Whig Election poster p.12 Account of the Case of Stobbs v Robson heard at Bishop Auckland County Court. Poems entitled "Epitaph on a Babbler" and "Hope Deferred" p.13 Whig Election poster p.14 Miscellaneous anecdotes entitled "Facts and Scraps." p.15 Poster for Hunwick Steeplechases. p.16 Obituary for John Bell of Hexham; poem entitled "The Child and the Dew Drops" p.17 Poems entitled "The Publican's Decision" and "An Old Man's soliloquy"; account of a meeting of Darlington Guardians. p.18 Poem entitled "Neville's Cross: A Lay"; article on trends in agriculture giving the price of wheat, 1844 - 1873 and details of farm worker's wages. p.19 Poems entitled "Truth" and "The Hero of Skerne"; Account of Mr. Sibbald's speech at Messrs. Pease and Lambton's meeting at Bishop Auckland; description of the monument in Hughenden Church erected in memory of the Earl of Beaconsfield. p.20 Article entitled "Extract from the Diary of a Free Trader"; Poems entitled "My Dog" and "Board of Health Election 1865" p.21 Articles concerning fox-hunting in County Durham. p.22 Articles concerning fox hunting in County Durham. p.23-24 Account of the Great Floods of 1883 in South Durham and North Yorkshire. p.25 Obituary of Mr. Thomas Burn of the Lambton Arms Hotel; Account of a brawl involving Lord Lonsdale; Poem by Lord Winchelsea entitled "Jumbo." Report of the floods at Swaledale and Arkingarthdale in North Yorkshire. p.26-27 Continuation of p. 24. p.28 Report on the patronage of the new Bishop; Obituary of Robert Wakefield of Eighton Banks (died 1856); Account of the discovery of ironstone in the Cleveland Hills. p.29 Account of the burial of children at Mere Knolls cemetery; Obituary of Mr. Hall Stobbs of Barmpton; Account of a meeting of the North Durham Hounds. p.37 Election poem entitled "The Tories Lament." p.38 Election poem entitled "A little Incident in the Capacity Office." p.39 Account of the Lamesley Agricultural Society ploughing match. p.40 Poem Re. Yarm Fair. Enclosed: Copy of "A Hunting Song" by John Ord of Newton (1818) (1 vol., Calf-binding).