Catalogue

Verses addressed by Isabella Forster (later Widdrington) to her sister Eliza Mills, 1765

Letters from Isabella Widdrington of Hauxley (Northumb.) to Mrs. Mills, family matters and ordering of wine, 1777 and n.d.

Copy letters from Henry F. Mills at Westminster School to his mother, 1777, 1783-1784. Originals sent to Westminster 1954.

Letter from H. Perkins to Mrs. Mills describing coach journey via Beverley to London, 1781

Letter from her sister to ?Mrs Mills. Signature cut off, n.d.

Letters from Robert W. Mills to his sister Jane at Willington. Dated successively from London, Newport and Cowes, Spithead, Captetown, Simonstown near Captetown, Sarat near Bombay. Describing regimental and colonial life, 1793-1802

Letters and papers re Major General Robert W. Mills' military career, inc. copy letter of recommendation to the Horse Guards c. 1813; expenses claim form 1814; circular letter and minutes re formation of the General Military Club 1815; and letters and copies re Mills' application to Lord Fitzroy Somerset for restoration to full pay, 1830-1851

Copy letter from William Mills to his father Henry Mills, written after the battle of Algiers and describing the battle, 1816

Letter from Henry Mills of ?Nutwell to Mrs. Mills of Willington re state of mind of a female member of the family, 1822. Also letter from ?T. Preston of 25 Princes Avenue,. Liverpool, to 'Fanny' re same, 1906

Political papers, inc. song 'Bob Goodfellows Mare' 1827; draft motion for presentation of loyal address from the County on the accession either of George IV or William IV; toast list and copy of Chairman's address at public dinner for W.R.C. Chaytor (newly elected M.P. for Durham City), 1831; broadsides in North Durham election, 1837, and Durham City election, 1843; mock resolution of South Durham barbers not to shave Chartists and Tories except at double fees, n.d.; copy of obituary notice of Matthew Russell of Brancepeth Castle, MP., n.d. (1850)

Letter, C.S.F. of Sherburn House to Mrs. George Taylor of Witton-le-Wear, re Tractarian controversies, with refs. to Newman and Pusey, n.d. (post 1835)

Certificate of admission of William Forster Mills of Westmorland Lodge, Wimbledon Park, Surrey, as a solicitor of the Supreme Court, 1883

'Letters and papers on the genealogy of the Mills, Forsters, and allied families, inc. copy of will of William Forster of Willington, 1595, 1904, 1953-1955 and n.d.