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Diary with autobiographical and other notes, 19 October 1839 - 31 December 1849 Includes accounts of: his departure from Otley, Yorks., when he had been articled as a solicitor, 19 October 1839 visit to Croxdale, October 1839 visits to Burn Hall and Lartington, June 1840 meetings with John Hancock of Newcastle, naturalist, August 1841 and March 1842 meeting with Robert, son of Thomas Bewick, engraver, 17 March 1842 making of an arboretum at Croxdale, 29 March 1842 trapping birds, training dogs, treating animal diseases etc., March - April 1842 last illness and death of his father, June 1842 catching rabbits with steel traps, September 1842 description, with drawings, of an alarm gun for use against poachers, April 1843 hawking, 8 July 1843 (August - September 1845) improvements at Burn Hall and housekeeping accounts, 4 August 1843 trapping badgers, November 1843 life in Yorkshire, end of 1843 description of Craven, Yorks., June 1844 travelling in Yorkshire, August 1844f. death of H.T.M. Witham, High Sheriff of Durham (p.123) Newmarket Races, 29 April 1845 visit to London, April - May 1845 a visit to Malham Tarn, Yorks., 4 July 1845 menagerie at Wetherby, 8 May 1846 visits to Leeds Infirmary and Fever Hospital, 14 July 1846 Iceland and Icelanders, 16 January 1847 death by fever of 36 Irish at Otley, Yorks., 27 June 1847 Indian animals (p.241f.) a hawking tour in the Yorkshire Wolds, September 1847 a visit to the battlefield at Marston Moor, 9 November 1847 the Berkshire countryside (inserted between pp.301-302), August 1848 poaching affray at Croxdale, 6 November 1848 visits to Beverley, Hull and Selby, 27 April 1849 visit to Tudhoe Horticultural Show, 4 September 1849 visit to Ushaw College with comments on improvements, 6 September 1849 outbreak of cholera at Alnwick, 21 September 1849 death from cholera of cousin, John Weston, while serving in the Austrian army against the Hungarians, 5 October 1849 visit to Burn Hall, October 1849 The volume concludes (p.383f.) with a section headed "miscellaneous notes" which includes details of how to keep dirt and wet from horses heels; how to make sea water free from salt; hanging oil paintings; building a pond foundation and rockery; a recipe for Ormskirk gingerbread; an operation for squinting; cures for sick rabbits; sportsman's dress; a cheap cottage for a cottier or small farmer; mending china; the art of netting birds etc. Comments on the weather throughout

Printed notice for Grand Bazaar in aid of the new Catholic Schools at Hanley, n.d. [Enclosed in D/X 871/1]

Engraved letterhead with view of Mulgrave Castle, n.d. [Enclosed in D/X 871/1]

Engraved view of Lartington Hall, published by J. & R.W. Atkinson, Barnard Castle, n.d. [Enclosed in D/X 871/1]

Copy of diary, 30 January - 12 June 1844 [written on paper dated 1860] Contains entries relating to: steeplechases at Hineford and Wetherby, 15 February and 8 March accounts of journies in Durham (March), Yorkshire (March - June) and Norfolk (April) Includes printed view of the Wharfedale Hydropathic Establishment and Hotel at Ben Rhydding, near Ilkley, Yorks., and ink drawing and wash of Kilnsey Crag, Wharfedale, Yorks.

Diary with some weather notes, 1 January - 30 December 1850 Includes accounts of: acquisition of a Titian at Wetherby, Yorks., 23 May 1850 visit to Browsholme Hall, Lancs., 26 June 1850 farming in the Borders, 4 July 1850 visit to Scotland, including Aberdeen, Elgin, Lossiemouth, Forres, Inverness, Caledonian Canal and Glasgow, July - August 1850 engravings of Elgin and Elgin Cathedral and Bishop's Palace (between pp.78-79) visit to Thirsk Church, 20 August 1850 visit to Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, 16 September 1850 visits to Wylam, Swinburne, the Tyne Valley, Belsay, Sandhoe, Hexham, Naworth Castle (including details of restoration following the fire of 1844), October 1850 County Meeting at York to petition against the re-introduction of the hierarchy, 22 November 1850 outcry against Catholics, 8 December 1850 visit to Stratford on Avon (including engravings), 11 December 1850 Fanny Kemble's Shakespeare readings, 19 and 21 December 1850

Diary with autobiographical and other notes, 1 January - 31 December 1851 Includes accounts of: hunting in Yorkshire, January 1851 how to make "a very cheap and excellent closet for Ladies' dresses", 16 January 1851 "one of the most wonderful open winters ever known by the oldest people", 16 February 1851 a visit to the Great Liverpool Steeplechase, 26/27 February 1851 Hungarian refugees in Liverpool, 5/6 March 1851 design for "a very cheap and nice bed", 12 March 1851 completing the census return, 30 March 1851 preparations for hanging a murderer in Liverpool, 26 April 1851 visit to Cayley Hall, Yorks., 1 May 1851 visit to York races (the Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur), 13 May 1851 visit to London, June and July 1851 Sutton Place, Surrey, June 1851 visit by Marchioness of Wellesley, 1 September 1851 visit to Otley, Yorks., 7 September 1851 setting up a burglar alarm, 19 September 1851 visit to Marshall's Mill (flax spinning and weaving), Leeds, 18 October 1851 Much information on hawking throughout

Diary, 1 January - 26 December 1861 Includes accounts of: being stationed with his regiment, The West York Rifles, at Glasgow, January and February 1861 visit to the Black Prince, 'an iron clad war steamer', 25 January 1861 visit to the Hunterian Museum, 26 January 1861 a hawking tour of Ireland, April 1861 newspaper report of a hawking tour in Ireland, 4 May 1861 injury resulting from discharge of a spring gun (with details of treatment), 6 May 1861f. visit to Farnley Hall, Yorks., to see Mr. Fawkes's collection of Turners, 28 May 1861 visit to Sutton, Surrey, to discuss estate improvements with the agent, 13 - 20 June 1861 visit to Mulgrave Castle, 22 October 1861 death of the Prince Consort, 14 December 1861 ["He has not interfered much with his German notions"] Much information on hawking throughout

Autobiography [dated 1862] and diaries of Francis Henry Salvin Contains entries relating to: the origins of the Salvin family (p.lf.) the arms of Salvin of Croxdale (p.4) laying out of the grounds at Croxdale (p.6f.) Sutton Place, nr. Guildford (engraving) (p.8) introduction of haymaking machines and iron ploughs (p.14) apprenticeship to a solicitor at Otley, Yorks. (p.21f.) meeting with Charles Waterton of Walton Hall, traveller and naturalist (p.25) building of Burn Hall (p.27) meeting the Duke and Duchess of Leeds (p.29f.) visit to workshop of the late Thomas Bewick (p.33) making of an arboretum at Croxdale (p.34) illness, death and funeral of his father, including letter (p.42) written in his last illness (p.37f.) engraving of Bambrough Castle by Westall and Finden (p.44) visit to first Wetherby steeplechase (p.48) archery meeting at Lumley Castle (p.54) import of Iceland Falcons by the curator of the Durham University Museum (p.57) [A log for 1 - 6 January 1868 at end of volume]

Extract from Gill's Vallis Eburacensis concerning the history of Easingwold and the Salvin family, 1852 [Enclosed in D/X 871/9]

Printed notice for Bubbles: or How a Dog Started a Children's League by Ida Lemon, a children's book, n.d. [Enclosed in D/X 871/9]

Diary notes, 9 June - 20 August 1863 Contains entries relating to: visits to copper and brass wireworks and silk mills, 9 June 1863 visit to Minton's tile and china works, 11 June 1863

Diary notes, 31 August - 11 October 1868 Contains entries relating to: a visit to Middleton Beverley, 31 August 1868f.

A verse lampoon entitled Fillypotto on "a Dean from the north", n.d. [postmarked 14 April 1829]

Letter from M. Angela Salvin to W. Thomas Salvin, Croxdale, acknowledging receipt of £500. Refers also to Salvin's summer tour of the Highlands and to the laying of the foundation stone of the new cathedral in Birmingham, 4 November 1839

Engraved view of Cape Split, Bay of Fundy, by W.H. Bartlett and J. Cousen, published by George Virtue, 1842

Engraved view of Navy Island from the Canada side, by W.H. Bartlett and C. Cousen, published by George Virtue, 1842

Printed letter of Charles Langdale addressed to Lord John Russell on the restoration of the English Catholic Hierarchy [Croshaw, printer, Stonegate, York], 15 November 1850

A digest of Cardinal Wiseman's manifesto concerning the restoration of the English Catholic Hierarchy [C. Croshaw, printer, 35 Stonegate, York], 1850

Letter from Henry Shaw, 37 Southampton Row, London, to Francis Henry Salvin, concerning a bedstead of the time of Henry VIII and referring to an example of an early 16th century bedstead shown in the stained glass window containing Prince Arthur's portrait at Great Malvern church, 23 October 1851

Letter from John Dalton, The Grange, Ripon [to Francis Henry Salvin], concerning identification of a hawk, 29 December 1861

Report on the Nile Campaign, with plan of river, n.d. [1895]