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Letter from John Hodgkin, Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, concerning his son, Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin's stay in Australia, 15 January 1867

Letter from Auntie B [Hannah Chapman Backhouse], Polam Hill, concerning family matters, 23 July 1836 Attached: Letter from Eliza [?], n.d.

Letter from John and Elizabeth Hodgkin at H[enry] Crossfield's to their children, Jack [Jonathan], Willie [Wilfred], Ellen, Alfred and Howard, concerning family matters, n.d. [c.1860]

Letter from Sarah Rickman, Albion Street, to her cousin, Annie [Hodgkin], inviting Howard and Annie Hodgkin to tea, 10 April 1861

Letter from 'Father' [John Hodgkin], Portland, Maine, [U.S.A.], to Nellie [Ellen Hodgkin], concerning a hummingbird he had sighted in a friend's garden, 28 July 1861

Letter from 'Papa' [John Hodgkin], Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, to Nellie [Ellen Hodgkin], concerning the correct way for a young lady to behave, 10 March 1868

Letters from Nellie [Ellen Hodgkin], concerning school and family news, sent to her sisters;

Alice Mary and Annie Hodgkin, 2 April 1868

Annie Hodgkin [variously addressed as 'Annie', 'Nancy' and 'Childie'], 19 February 1871 - 24 September 1873

Letter from Ellen [Hodgkin], concerning the antics of a pet cat, 20 March 1869

Letter from J[ohn] H[odgkin], Niagara Falls, Niagara, describing the Niagara Falls and also giving news of Society of Friends members in the U.S.A., 19 May 1867

Letters from J[onathan] B[ackhouse] Hodgkin, concerning his proposal of marriage, and subsequent engagement, to Mary Anna Pease, 11 December 1872 - 26 December 1872

Letter from J[onathan] B[ackhouse] Hodgkin, concerning the preparations for his wedding to Mary Anna Pease, 12 March 1873

Letter from J[onathan] B[ackhouse] H[odgkin] concerning his engagement to Mary Anna Pease, 18 December 1872

Letter from H[annah] C[hapman] Backhouse, Polam Hill, concerning the death of John Hodgkin's second wife, Ann Backhouse, 3 February 1848

Letter from Jane G[urney] Fox and R[obert] Barclay Fox, Roskrow, expressing happiness that John Hodgkin has found a prospective wife, 21 December 1849

Letter from Ellen, Ann, Howard and Alice Mary Hodgkin, entreating their father not to go to London on business as they feel his health is not good enough, n.d. ('V.mo. 1867' pencilled in later hand)

Letters from J[onathan] B[ackhouse] Hodgkin, concerning his proposal of marriage, and subsequent engagement, to Mary Anna Pease, 14 December 1872 - 21 December 1872

Letter from John Bright, Aberyswyth, Wales, offering condolences on the death of John Hodgkin's daughter [Ellen], 16 September 1874

Letter from his aunt Juliet [Fox Backhouse], Polam, concerning a recent visit by Jonathan to Polam and reminiscences of holidays in Ireland, n.d. [c.1850]

Letters from 'Papa' [John Hodgkin], sent from various locations in Ireland, England and Wales, giving descriptions of various events and sights, which he has encountered on his journeys, 1847 - 1850

Letter from Elizabeth Haughton (later Hodgkin), Greenbank, concerning her forthcoming marriage to Jonathan's father, John Hodgkin, 12 February 1850

Letters from John Hodgkin, sent from various locations in England, Wales, Ireland, Switzerland and U.S.A., giving family news and greetings, some undated [c.1851 - 1861]

Letters from Elizabeth Hodgkin, sent from various locations in England and Wales, giving family news and greetings, some undated [c.1851 - 1861]

Letter from J[ohn] Hodgkin, Lewes, Sussex, to Jonathan [in Australia or New Zealand], concerning the latter's stay in Australia and New Zealand, 29 June 1867

Letter from J[ohn] H[odgkin], Lewes, Sussex to Jonathan [in Australia or New Zealand], concerning family matters; also mentions the Reform Bill and the choice of architects for the Law Courts, 24 July 1867

Letter from Alfred Hodgkin, Brighton Station, written en route to a quarterly meeting at Southampton, to his brother, Jonathan, [in Australia or New Zealand], concerning family matters, 24 July 1867

Letter from J[ohn] Hodgkin, Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, concerning the spiritual rewards of being a Quaker missionary, 26 December 1870 (1 paper) Letters sent to Jonathan B. Hodgkin, concerning his proposal of marriage, and subsequent engagement, to Mary Anna Pease, by the following:

John Hodgkin, Shelley's Lewes, Sussex, 12 December 1872

'Mother' [Elizabeth Hodgkin], Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, 12 December [1872]

G. Barclay, Derby, 15 December 1872

Lucy (wife of Jonathan's brother, Thomas Hodgkin), Benwelldene, Newcastle [17 December 1872]

'Father' [John Hodgkin], Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, 18 December 1872

'Father' [John Hodgkin], Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, 19 December 1872

Tho[ma]s Hodgkin (brother of Jonathan), Bank, St. Nicholas Square, Newcastle, 19 December 1872

Lucy (wife of Thomas Hodgkin), Benwelldene, Newcastle, 19 December 1872

John Hodgkin, Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, 20 December 1872

Mary Anna [Pease], Elm Ridge, Darlington, 20 December 1872

Wilfred Hodgkin, Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, 21 December 1872

Nelly [Ellen Hodgkin], Shelley's Lewes, Sussex, 21 December 1872

G. Fox, Gainsboro[ugh], 21 December 1872

Howard and Annie Hodgkin, Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex, 24 December 1872

Elizabeth Hodgkin, 24 December 1872

Sophia Fry (sister of Mary Anna Pease), Woodburn, Darlington, [December 1872]

Part letter from G.B[arclay], n.d. [December 1872]

Letters from [Mary Anna Hodgkin, formerly Pease], Cleveland Lodge, Great Ayton, Stokesley, written while her husband, Jonathan, was staying at his parent's home [Shelley's, Lewes, Sussex] during his father's final illness, 1 July 1875 - 30 July 1875

Letters from John Pease stating religious opinions and sending family greetings, 6 June 1855 - 5 June 1867

Letters from Sophia Pease, East Mount, [Darlington], concerning news of family and acquaintances, January 1859 - April 1867

Note from [Sophia Fry?] to Polly [Mary Anna Pease, later Hodgkin], 13 July 1866 (1 paper) Letters concerning Mary Anna Pease's engagement to Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin from:

Tho[ma]s Hodgkin, Benwelldene, [Newcastle], 28 December 1872

Edward Pease, Greencroft West, Darlington, 30 December 1872

Mariabella Fry, Highgate, [London], 10 January 1873

Letter from J[ohn] Pease, East Mount [Darlington] to 'his beloved children', concerning their visit to Paris and also family matters, 5 June 1867

Letter from her nephew, William Adlam, London, concerning his recent visit to Leeds, his education and news of family and friends, n.d. (postmarked 7 January 1832)

Letter from her nephew, William Adlam, Cambridge, concerning a recent visit to the Isle of Wight and also his studies and lodging at Cambridge, 12 October 1834

Letter from Mary Anna [Pease], East Mount, [Darlington], concerning a visit to Middleton, 27 May 1848

Letter from Mariabella [Hodgkin, later Fry], Bruce Grove, to an aunt, concerning family matters, 29 December 1845

Letter from J[ohn] Hodgkin, Dublin to an uncle, concerning the writer's visit to Ireland and the conditions caused by the potato famine; including an extract of a letter by F. Forster of Glenties, 3 May 1847

Note from Jane [Gurney] Fox to [John Hodgkin?], concerning turkish towels, 1853

Letter from Pollie [Mary Anna Pease], Cleveland Lodge [Great Ayton, Stokesley] to Sallie[?], concerning the recent death of the writer's father, 3 August 1868

Letter from Eliot[?], to his uncle, enquiring after his uncle's health and giving observations on a statue of Queen Victoria, 29 December 1870

Anecdotes from the childhood of Jonathan [Backhouse Hodgkin] as collected by his sisters [Mariabella and Elizabeth Hodgkin], May 1849 - 4 September 1850

Memories of J[onathan] B[ackhouse] H[odgkin] by Annie [Hodgkin], 24 April 1873

Recollections of the Hodgkin family's life at Shelley's [by Annie Hodgkin?], n.d. [late 19th c. - early 20th c.]

'Anna Took, [Hodgkin family's maid]: notes on her life as told to A[lice] M[ary] H[odgkin]', n.d. [late 19th c. - early 20th c.]

Notes on Shelley's [Lewes, Sussex], with roughly-drawn plan of the house [by Alice Mary Hodgkin?], n.d. [19th c. - 20th c.]

Notebook containing extracts copied by Alice Mary Hodgkin from an account of the life of her mother, Elizabeth Hodgkin [formerly Haughton]; also includes comments by Alice Mary Hodgkin, n.d. [19th c. - early 20th c.]

Notebook of A[lice] M[ary] H[odgkin], containing a chronological list of events affecting the Hodgkin family, n.d. [20th c.]

Recollections from the childhood of J[onathan] B[ackhouse] H[odgkin], with accompanying letter to his son Henry Hodgkin, June 1916

Recollections from the childhood of Alice Mary [Hodgkin], 19 February 1923

'Reminiscences, grave and gay', based on the recollections of Alice May Hodgkin by one of her grand nieces or nephews, n.d. [1937]

'As it was in my beginning'; recollections of his childhood by J[onathan] E[dward] H[odgkin], n.d. [mid 20th c.]

Extract from the Northern Echo, containing the article "The marriage of Miss Mary Anna Pease at Darlington Friends' Meeting House" (to Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin), 25 April 1873

Extract from the Herald and Telegraph, containing the article "The marriage of Miss Mary Anna Pease at Darlington Friends' Meeting House" (to Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin), 26 April 1873

Front of Shelley's, as viewed from the High Street; with Elizabeth, Annie and Helen Hodgkin, n.d. [c.1860s] 152/2 Part of garden and garden wall at Shelley's, with 3 Hodgkin family members, n.d. [c.1860s]

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 152/1

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 152/1 (1 black and white photograph, card mounted with tissue covering sheet) Photographs of :-

The paddock at the rear of Shelley's, n.d. [c.1860s- 1870s?]

Horse, 'Brunette', and rider, n.d. [c.1860s-1870s]

Croquet match with Howard, Alice Mary, Jonathan, Alfred, Ellen, Wilfred and Annie [all Hodgkin] and their mother Elizabeth Hodgkin, n.d. [c.1865]

As in D/Ho/F 152/1

Photograph of the rear garden at Shelley's, with 3 seated figures [Hodgkin family members?], n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 156

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 156

Photograph of the terraced garden at Shelley's and surrounding land, n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph of the terraced garden at Shelley's and surrounding land, n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph of the gardens at Shelley's and surrounding land, n.d. [c.1860s - 1870s?]

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 161

Photograph of the terraced garden at Shelley's and surrounding land, n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph of the west side of Shelley's and lawn, n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph of the sitting room at Shelley's, n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph of the sitting room at Shelley's n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 166

Photograph of the sitting room at Shelley's, n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph of Ellen Hodgkin's studio in the porch room at Shelley's, n.d. [c.1860s-1870s?]

Photograph of the front of Shelley's, as viewed from the High Street, n.d. [1860s-1870s?]

Photograph of gardens at Shelley's with two figures with view of Lewes Castle and other buildings, n.d. [1860s-1879s?]

Photograph of a church [as viewed from the garden of Shelley's?], n.d. [1860s-1870s?] (1 black and white photograph, unmounted) Photographs of:-

The terraced garden at Shelley's, with eight Hodgkin family members, c.1865

The terraced garden at Shelley's, with five Hodgkin family members, c.1865

Three men in a sailing boat, n.d. [mid-late 19th c.] (3 black and white photographs, card mounted, D/HoF 173/3 partially intact) Photographs of:-

As in D/Ho/F 173/1

Burra-Burra, Australia, n.d. [mid-late 19th c.]

Photograph of Wilfred, Annie and Alice Mary Hodgkin standing outside the rear of Shelley's, with Ellen Hodgkin on horseback, n.d. [c.1865]

Photograph of the rear of Shelley's, as viewed early in the morning, July 1874

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 176 (1 black and white photograph, card mounted) Photographs of:-

The front of Shelley's, as viewed from the High Street, with unknown figure, 1876

The rear of Shelley's, as viewed from the garden, 1876

The hall at Shelley's, with sedan chair, 1876

The drawing room at Shelley's, 1876

John Hodgkin's library at Shelley's, 1876

John Hodgkin's library, with telescope and windows, 1876

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 178/1

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 178/2

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 178/2

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 178/3

Photographs in D/Ho/F 178/4

Photograph as in D.Ho/F 178/4

Photograph as in D./Ho/F 178/5

Photograph as in D/Ho/F 178/6

Photograph as in D.Ho.F 178/6

Photograph of the rear of Shelley's and gardens, n.d. [late 19th c.]

Album containing photographs of Hodgkin family members, interior and exterior views of Shelley's, Barcombe House, near Lewes, Bodiam Castle, near Lewes, Lewes town centre [and various houses and other views in and around East Sussex], includes duplicates of some of the photographs described in D/Ho/F 152-188, n.d. [mid-late 19th c.]

Album containing Hodgkin family photographs of Jersey; also includes a guide to 'La Houge Bie', June 1928

Description of Mary Anna Pease (later Hodgkin) as given by a phrenologist, 1843

Sales particulars for Shelley's, which was to be sold at auction in April 1897

Passport of Howard Hodgkin , 3 February 1921

Account of the illness and death of Ann Backhouse [1810-1829], daughter of John Backhouse and niece of Jonathan and Hannah Chapman, n.d. [1829?]

Extracts from the letters of witnesses to the illness and death of Thomas Hodgkin, M.D., [1798-1866] at Jaffa, n.d. [1866?]

Sir William Hale-White, K.B.E.: Thomas Hodgkin [1798-1866], reprinted from Guy's Hospital reports, April 1924

Christine E. Swanson: Nancy Hodgkin republished by courtesy of the Women's Press, 1925; also attached; prayer 'A thought for today'; also including an attached letter from Reginald [?], Berkeley, California, to his uncle Jonathan [Edward Hodgkin], 8 January 1926

Lillian Clarke: Family Chronicles, section 2: The Chapmans of Whitby and their descendants, published by Perkins and Co., Wellingborough, (Jane Chapman was great-grandmother of Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin); also attached: letter from S. Chapman, 2 Marlborough Mansions, Hampstead to Miss Hodgkin, concerning the booklet and its author, Lillian Clarke, 18 December [1928?] For enclosure: see D/Ho/F 199

Note by S. Chapman to [Miss Pease] concerning William Temple, one of his ancestors, [probably referring to an error in the text of D/Ho/F 198], n.d. [1928?]

Passport of Thomas Richardson [a cousin of John Hodgkin?], his wife, and Caroline Ayton, issued by the French Chargé d'Affaires in London; includes exit and entry stamps for various Italian States, France and Austria, 12 November 1835

Open letter written by Edward Pease in which he defends himself against the charge made by Dr. Peacock that he had altered the will of Thomas Clark, 15 January 1834

As in D/Ho/F 201 203 As in D/Ho/F 201

Open letter to the inhabitants of Darlington and its vicinity, written by Dr. J. Peacock in reply to the refutation by Edward Pease of the allegations made against him by Peacock regarding the will of Thomas Clark, 27 January 1834 (1 paper, printed) See also D/Ho/F 150-151 and D/Ho/F 191 for Mary Anna Pease (later Hodgkin)

Epistle from the yearly meeting held in London, 1765

Epistle from the yearly meeting held in London, 1845

Memorial book of William Dillworth Crewdson, containing an account of his life, final illness and death, compiled by his daughter, Maria Howard; also obituaries from the Westmorland Gazette and Kendal Mercury, presented to John and Elizabeth Hodgkin by Maria Howard on 15 August 1851

Memorial book of Rachel Lloyd, containing an account of her life, final illness and death, presented to John Hodgkin in 1854

Memories of Rachel Howard, compiled by her children, 1893 For enclosure: see D/Ho/X 134

Photograph of [Rachel Howard], n.d. [late 19th c.]

Order of the Charity Commissioners, concerning a scheme for the regulation of several Society of Friends' charities and the appointment of trustees, 29 June 1897

Account by J[onathan] B[ackhouse] Hodgkin of the visit by a Society of Friends deputation to Windsor on the occasion of Queen Victoria's [diamond] jubilee, 28 July 1897

5 October 1903 (1) Frances Helen Pease, Darlington (2) William Edwin Pease, esq., and Ernest Hubert Pease, esq., both of Darlington and Owen Beaumont Pease, esq., of Richmond (3) Howard Pease, esq., and John William Beaumont Pease, both of the City of Newcastle. (4) Thomas Atkinson, gent., and 25 other trustees

Tract issued by the Darlington Local Peace Association, n.d. [20th c.]

Duplicate of D/Ho/X 138

Copy list of visitors to Darlington [monthly meeting] from other meetings between 1830 and 1867, n.d. [20th c.]

List of helpers with [the publication of ?] A diary for the thankful-hearted, n.d. [20th c.]

A. Ruth Fry: Why I am a pacifist, September 1958

List of subscribers, with amount subscribed towards the enlargement of the churchyard in the parish of Darlington, 9 October 1818

Report to the committee of Darlington Mechanics' Institute for the year 1854, 9 March 1855

Notice of the annual general meeting of the members of Darlington subscription library on 3 July 1855; also including a list of subscribers and rules concerning the election of a committee, 7 June 1855

Letter from the secretary of Darlington Board of Health to John Pease, esq., member of the New Market Plans' Committee, giving particulars of the estimates submitted for the building of the new covered market in Darlington, 24 July 1860

Copy of report sent by Messrs. Pritchett and Sons to Darlington Board of Health, outlining the estimate and specifications for the proposed covered market in Darlington, n.d. [1860]

Circular letter from the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway to John Pease regarding the sale of shares in the company following the refusal by the Committee of the House of Commons to accede to the clauses of a bill for the company's amalgamation with the Stockton and Darlington railway, 12 August 1861

Receipt issued by Darlington Polytechnic to J[onathan] B[ackhouse] Hodgkin for money collected in aid of the Polytechnic, 6 June 1870

Rules of Darlington University Extension Society, March 1888

The Topeka Daily Capital, ('J.B. Hodgkin' pencilled on front), 13 March 1900

Extract from The Tribune, 15 January 1906 (1 paper, printed) HODGKIN FAMILY John Hodgkin = Elizabeth (Eliot?) 1766-1845 John Hodgkin = (1) Elizabeth dau. Luke and Mariabella Howard 1803-1836 Thomas Hodgkin = Sarah Frances Scaife 1800-75 (2) Ann dau. Jonathan and Hannah Backhouse, 1815-45 1798-1866 (3) Elizabeth dau. Joshua and Eleanor Haughton 1818-1904 (Dr. of Medicine) m. 1850 no issue (1) (1) (1) (1) (2) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) John Eliot Thomas Mariabella Elizabeth Jonathan Backhouse Wilfred Ellen Alfred Ann Howard Alice Mary Hodgkin Hodgkin b.1833 1834-1918 Hodgkin Haughton 1852-1874 Hodgkin b.1855 Hodgkin b.1860 1831-1913 1843-1926 Hodgkin 1854-1900 b.1857 1851-1909 = = = = = = Jane Lucy Edward Fry Alfred Mary Anna Pease Sarah Charlotte Waterhouse 1840-1928 Pease d.1929 Jonathan Edward Henry Theodore Harold Olaf Ronald Hodgkin Mary Hodgkin Hodgkin Hodgkin b.1880 b.1882 b. 1875 b.1877 b.1879