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| ref no. | NCB 01/JB | ||
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| Date | 1796, 1843 | ||
| Era | Victorian (1837 to 1901), Hanoverian (1714 to 1837) | ||
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National Coal Board – John Buddle papers (part 2) records
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| NCB | National Coal Board | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB | John Buddle papers | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 800-1414 | Correspondence, in alphabetical order of writer (continued) | Correspondents J-T This series is continued from NCB 01/JB National Coal Board – John Buddle papers (part 1) This series is continued in NCB 01/JB National Coal Board – John Buddle papers (part 3) | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 800 | Johnson, Mark (Ash [Esh]) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 800 | 1 letter | Requesting help in finding a situation through Buddle’s connections with Lord Stewart and others; has been a schoolmaster for 40 years but earns a poor living as the farmers keep their children at home to work; mentions that he and two sons are free- holders and that he voted for Sir Henry Hardinge at the last election, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 801-804 | Johnson, R. (Byker; Berwick) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 801 | 1 letter | Refusing to support appointment of John Gray as surgeon to Heaton colliery in succession to Burnett (Buddle’s brother-in-law) as had disapproved of Burnett’s negotiations for the sale of his business; instead reinstating Thomas Leighton, a former surgeon to the colliery, 1817 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 802 | 1 letter | Re coming-of-age of Lady Stewart, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 802-803 | 2 letters | Re business matters, 1821, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 803 | 1 letter | Re meeting with “your two Jarrow delegates” and problem of size of peck, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 804 | 1 letter | Asking Buddle to use his influence to help his niece’s husband, C. Parker, obtain post as surgeon to Jarrow colliery, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 805 | Johnstone, Thomas B. (Edinburgh) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 805 | 1 letter | Thanks for letters of introduction to Professor Jameson and Mr. Rose, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 806 | Jones, W. W., Lieutenant (Hay Hill, Co. Gloucester) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 806 | 1 letter | Requesting extension of a loan, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 807-812 | Joplin, Thomas (Newcastle) [Agent, Norwich Union Insurance Society] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 807-811 | 5 papers | Enclosing circular from G. Waldie, chairman, to the directors of the Newcastle committee, re organisation of its affairs, desirability of a fire-engine in the town, etc., 1821 [Buddle being a member of the committee?] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 812 | 1 paper | Enclosing printed proposals for a public bank, with note re Londonderry’s “very business-like view of the question, for a lord”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 813-814 | Kensington, Lord (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 813-814 | 2 letters | Ordering coal for shipping to Blakeney, Co. Norfolk, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 815-816 | Kentish, Dr. | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 815 | 1 paper | Copy letter from Buddle, answering queries re his mode of treating burns “as communicated in an essay addressed to the coal owners of this country in 1793”, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 816 | 1 paper | Answers by Buddle to Kentish’s queries, enclosed with above, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 817 | Kidson, John (Sunderland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 817 | 1 letter | Re private financial matter, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 818 | Kinloch Maturin, C., Miss (Theatre Royal, Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 818 | 1 letter | Announcing her Benefit performance, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 819-846 | Lamb, Humble (Ryton, Edinburgh) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 819 | 1 letter | Requesting advice on whether to leave “our unfortunate piece of coal at East Percy” for the present; reference to Reeds depending too much on the assistance of “ducal Prussia” [alluding to banking?], 1816 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 819-846 | Re colliery and coal trade affairs, 1816 – 1832: | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 820 | 1 letter | Sending a letter to be shown to G. Dunn – “this I think will bring the point to issue”, 1818 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 821 | 1 letter | Re his refusal to sign a lease for his portion of Grand Lease colliery, because of inclusion of outstroke covenant; his powers in the concern; his attitude re Crawcrook and his unwillingness to allow Mr. Dunn to monopolise the coal there, 1818 [The enclosure mentioned in NCB I/JB 820?] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 822 | 1 letter | Note requesting Hall’s opinion of Croft’s farm, and recommending a Trevithick engine for Elswick – “I fear there is no chance without one. Losh and Sorsbie will furnish metal for coals, having made that arrangement with the fitters”, 1819 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 823 | 1 letter | Re moneys due and need for Buddle and Joe [Lamb] to help in waging the battle, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 824 | 1 letter | Urging need for Elswick to be free of the regulation – “we shall have the pleasure of seeing what the powerful ambitious lads of the Wear can do in the free trade ” P.S. “I find the clerks in our office are all in third share paid by Dm. Main, Wallbottle, and Elswick … I wish we had our establishment distinct for it now becomes a very serious matter to us all … “, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 825 | 1 letter | Re rumours that Elswick “is a valuable concern” etc. – “as we are likely to be plagued with such remarks let us put her up to public sale and meet fair investigation and shrink from nothing”; and re selling prices (Cramlington, Backworth, etc.), 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 826 | 1 letter | Re tactics (for unspecified object) concerning coal trade, etc., 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 827 | 1 letter | Mentioning his being “one of the great unpaid”. “I think an umpire on the Wear should decide the diff[eren]ces of the Tyne and an umpire (coal owner) on the Tyne decide the diff[eren]ces of the Wear’.”; and requesting advice whether a young pitman’s earnings should be sufficient to support his mother, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 828 | 1 letter | Re fears that unlimited monthly vend for inferior collieries will damage Elswick; “if we have not a proper regulation we had better have none, as it will only disquiet and vex us to see ourselves outwitted by .. knaves”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 829 | 1 letter | Regretting his absence, but instructing Buddle to summon him back when necessary, in connection with arranging the regulation, prices, etc., 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 830 | 1 letter | Re Percy and Elswick vend and quantities, danger of allowing their clerk to draw bills and cheques: “I feel quite uncomfortable about it and regret that I was ever induced to enter the concern …” ; re health and education of his children in Edinburgh; reference to “Canning’s vapouring absurd frothy speech may ultimately involve us in a war with the despots” in Portugal, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 831 | 1 letter | Commenting on regulation quantities; hopes for strict adherence to monthly quantities; re state of coal trade; re his son’s medical training at Edinburgh, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 832 | 1 letter | Note re a meeting to arrange quantities, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 833 | 1 letter | Re “our last meeting with the Wear lads and the precipitancy of our president or chairman in concluding the treaty’; re Tyne and Wear trade; and lectures on coal, geology, etc. he is attending at Edinburgh, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 834 | 1 letter | Re colliery financial matters: “I am sorry that all we put in makes no impression and that the factors accounts get worse instead of better The fitter has brought such misery upon us in this affair that I am often very uneasy about it … “; re dangerous power of the clerk to draw bills and cheques, and re necessity of “selling the coals at a price and by no means to push the freighting system”; re clerk’s salary; asks Buddle to consider the question of the Percy renewal ready for forthcoming interview with the duke [of Northumberland’s] commissioners; and re unwisdom of not having a proposition (“as to the paying back of the difference between the 80 and 60”) signed at the last meeting with the Wear Committee, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 835 | 1 letter | Re colliery financial affairs; “I greatly fear the fitter has settled several of them [the debts] for us already by balancing them with his own private transactions …”; “I think from what you say of the Wear, we have been premature in the regulation …”; “Elswick has really been a sad affair”: was persuaded by Buddle against his own opinion; re factors to be considered in connection with renewal of Percy lease; and re lectures at Edinburgh, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 836 | 1 letter | Re Buddle’s visit to London, and reference to Lord Londonderry’s affairs; “I never can bring myself to think that the marquess would like to dissolve partnership with you .”; re coal trade: need for justice to be done to North Piddington [Pittington], quantities, prices, consequent competition from Scotland, Stockton and Wales; reference to Wortley and Benwell; requesting opinion on Percy lease, and discussing prospects of the colliery: possibility that it would be wiser to “for ever quit the great man and his advisers”; reference to Portugal affair and Canning’s troops there, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 837 | 1 letter | Requesting opinion on his answers to “the commissioners’ 8 clauses”; reference to Lord Londonderry (“I was convinced the marquis would not quit his riflemen”) and to coal trade regulation, including “Piddington” [Pittington], 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 838 | 1 letter | Re answers to “the Commissioners”, for approval by Buddle and the other owners; “I fear from what you say that Lord L. will not long hold with the Trade … the Trade cannot blame you … consequently I should say there is no cause why you should give up a beneficial situation for fear of tarnishing your character”; re state of the coal trade, and threat from coal-field opening up “under the magnesian limestone all the way to Stockton”; reference to using the old Backworth pit “if trade breaks loose and quantity is required”; allusions to Earsdon affairs and Elswick; mentions death of Buddle’s mother: “you have a clever and amiable sister left to manage and take care of you”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 839 | 1 letter | Re colliery affairs -expediency of working the Duke rather than the Bewick coal in Flatworth pit; and re coal trade affairs and regulation; oppressive terms of new lease ; “I trace all this to letting H.J. have so easy an outstroke from Backworth, he never knew the difficulty that those are exposed to in winning a colliery”; re remarks to be sent to Commissioners, with alternative of going direct to the duke [of Northumberland], and mentioning Percy and Elswick colliery affairs, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 840 | 1 letter | Re colliery affairs -question of working the Bewick coal; “I do not at all regret you have not accepted our offer of Backworth pit; had it been any other set of men who wished to invade the heart of our position, I would willingly have given them £500 a year to have kept away and I think it is better for all parties that we are kept clear and distinct ..”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 841 | 1 letter | Re Backworth affairs; reception of their letter by Hugh [Taylor? (agent to duke of Northumberland)] and attitude of the duke, etc., 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 842 | 1 letter | Re colliery financial affairs and undue power of the clerk, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 843 | 1 letter | Requesting a situation for Mr. Curwen’s nephew, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 844 | 1 letter | Re recovery of Buddle’s health: “I think you ought now to quit the slavish and dangerous part of the profession and not to go regularly down the pits any longer”; re Percy colliery progress and efficiency of “old Sammy”; dismal state of trade and operation of regulation: “they wish to make themselves believe that there is a regulation in the trade, but the fact is every one is left to put his own construction of the matter”; re profits from Elswick going only to Lord Wharncliffe; references also to Crawcrook (including Pearson’s financial difficulties), Backworth, Percy and Haswell collieries; re meeting to discuss donation to opponents of Birmingham rail-road (- decided against: “if I had coal property in Warwickshire I should think it very unjust to be prevented”); mentions successful treatment of cholera at Percy; re binding arrangements and money; re competition from Stockton; requesting support for a candidate in the Infirmary election, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 845 | 1 letter | Re death of Sammy Cooper – “this leaves [Percy colliery?] without a head and in great difficulty”; requesting Buddle to approach Lord Wharncliffe for reduction of [Elswick] rent; re Pearson’s financial difficulties (mentioned in connection with Crawcrook) ; hope of recovery in trade, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 846 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle’s help to find a fitter a job in the colonies, at the Cape or Ceylon (now Sri Lanka); “We made our banksmen and all bound officers at Percy leave the union but the men are very assuming and there is almost a certainty of a strike”; re answer to men’s demands at Elswick; re rumours concerning sales of shares in Hetton; re attempts to deal with water in his colliery [unspecified]; re apparent financial difficulties at Sheriff Hill, and of Bob [of Masten?]; re Carlisle railway and unjust treatment of property; re the wonderful engine at Cornwall; recommends Buddle not to return [from London] to get involved in the conflict with the men, for fear of bringing back his old complaint: “what is the use of your slaving yourself to the end of the chapter … and heaping up riches and knowing not who shall gather them”, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 847-863 | Lamb, Joseph (Newcastle; Sunderland; London; Selaby) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 847 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle to find out bank interest rates during his visit to Edinburgh: probably 4%; and recommending “the famous chemical lecture” there by Dr. Cope, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 847-863 | Re colliery and Coal Trade affairs, 1821 – 1843: | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 848 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle to send information on Heaton colliery to Aubone (?); foreseeing rise [in price] of coal at market if restriction is adhered to; 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 849 | 1 letter | Re a colliery matter [Crawcrook?] concerning Pearson, and a claim by Wheatley; and re Hughes being most anxious “for us to cross”, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 850 | 1 letter | “I am happy to find Silver tongue and Plausible are not to fight, and that the Great Henry is brought to reason … “, and re trying to bring Walker to terms, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 851 | 1 letter | Has written to Waldie and Walker “and I trust the slave driver will not make us under the necessity of putting Pontop to death .. yet if she gives battle she must die”; listing collieries that should rise or reduce [under the regulation?] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 852 | 1 letter | wondering if “the Hetton dogs can be brought to terms”; re near completion of coal trade arrange-ments on the Tyne, listing the committee members [including self and Buddle] and mentioning non-election of Waldie; “Pontop is convalescent … “, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 853 | 1 letter | Re the coal trade basis arrange-ments and state of trade, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 854 | 1 letter | Re an ultimatum from Wartley and recommending acceptance of his terms; re Waldie wanting to sell Sheriff Hill; and recommending giving out a supplementary vend if the market keeps high, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 855 | 1 letter | Arranging to meet in London, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 856 | 1 letter | Re death of Waldie in connection with making a valuation; bad state of trade: “are we free in the trade yet or ruled as heretofore by the Committee?”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 857 | 1 letter | Re coal trade regulation: “The delegate of Elswick [Buddle] has the eyes of the trade upon him … I wish you to shew fight nobly on the occasion. Some of the trade are in tears at their prospect and they blame Elswick … Now my argument is that our new winning at Elswick like Woodside Wall send should be left out of the regulation … The regulation seems broken down by the fall of the prices of the best … An explanation must be given why we have gone over without leave and you can give it … But I wish . that you will prepare yourself for this very formidable meeting”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 858 | 1 letter | Re the regulation, need for Elswick new winning to have a bonus “or how can she be suffered to perish by her forbearance”; requesting contribution towards payments due from Elswick. Requesting opinion on what should be done by the trade: “liberty will suit Elswick, Sheriff, and Walbottle”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 859 | 1 letter | “The factors may be whipped together to do the business better. But the trade will never do well for a long period without regulation. However I like the free trade rather than a limited low quantity as I once suffered under at Walbottle”. “Crawcrook affairs will be tedious and a long battle with Croft must take place. If we make our peace, perhaps it is ten years too soon to open the coal out’. ‘. “, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 860 | 1 letter | “I hope you will be the friend of Walbottle and Elswick in the regulation and get each 24,000. Much less than that would be fatal to our interests”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 861 | 1 letter | Invitation to dine with Silvertop, and requesting some of the Marquis [of Londonderry]’s coal for a fitter, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 862 | 1 letter | Re arrangements to view Seaton, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 863 | 1 letter | “The Seaton Delaval seam now looks very promising. The Company are anxious for your opinion as to the propriety of putting down the two northern pits in order to be prepared for extra work if the foreign trade requires it”, 1843 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 864-882 | Lamb, Warren Maude (Selaby Hall; Newcastle; Fatfield; Elswick and Tynemouth, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 864 | 1 letter | Informing Buddle that “B…ge will join us if you can make out a case that meets with the approbation of the Company … He will also see Brandling when you think proper …”, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 865 | 1 letter | “I have just seen Bainbridge who expects to see Brandling and Hill this week. He thinks if the former once had a rent from us, the whole of Gosforth would follow . .”, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 866 | 1 letter | Re helping Hodgson [John Hodgson, 1779 – 1845, historian of Northumberland] with engravings for his History of Northumberland; and suggesting names [for his coal?], 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 867 | 1 letter | Re state of coal trade and prices; re meeting the trustees who hold the Barmoor [Ryton] and requesting advice on price to offer them, and re problem of cost of railway; giving figures re imports of coal into London, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 868 | 1 letter | Recommending R. Heppell to be placed on full-pay establishment of an under viewer, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 869 | 1 letter | Re Beaumont colliery and meeting Buddle’s wishes concerning it; re Buddle’s forthcoming meeting with Wortley; “observe the colliery is now paying off her debts and really doing nobly, therefore make the best of it you can as I am convinced … that she will redeem herself and must be continued”, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 870 | 1 letter | Returning his uncle’s letter “which I really think the most unfriendly and unhandsome production I ever had to do with” re reducing his establishment, ceasing to live in Newcastle, his debts, etc., 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 871 | 1 letter | Thanking Buddle for his kindness, and complaining re his uncle’s attempts to make him live in the country at Fatfield, “like his son Warren who has no business”, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 872 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle’s advice re education of his son Warren: he is now reduced to poverty but hopes that through Buddle’s interest with Lord Londonderry his son might be got on the foundation of Winchester or Charterhouse, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 873 | 1 letter | Repeating request for help re his son’s education and care of his daughters, and for use of Buddle’s influence with his brothers, especially Joe; his servants about to leave; promising reform of his mode of life if he could fine “a decent and honorable livelihood”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 874 | 1 letter | “Captain Stamp has got me the names of ten of Lord Lowther’s most intimate friends in Westmorland to a letter directed to him and to his brother Col. Lowther in order that I may obtain the situation of consul or some other situation under government”; requesting Buddle to ask Joe [Lamb] to get a letter to the duke of Northumberland or Mr. Liddell, M.P., or Mr. Ellison, M.P.; re his poverty; “Humble’s fine lectures on Christianity do little towards educating and feeding seven children”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 875 | 1 letter | Hoping Buddle and Humble will find him some little situation, as he has been out of work for 8 months; his son Warren’s education costs £65 p.a., 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 876 | 1 letter | Re reluctance of his brothers, especially Humble, to support his approach to M.P.s; Sir R. Hawks and some other gentlemen who took a distinguished part in the late election for Northumberland” have promised to sign his memorial to the M.P.s; asking Buddle to help to gain the duke of Northumberland’s aid with Mr. Canning; wonders if he could obtain situation of Secretary to the Coal Trade “until something more desirable could be obtained for me”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 877-882 | 6 letters | Complaining re his poverty and re Humble Lamb’s attitude, and appealing for help, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 880 | 1 letter | Hoping for job as cork factor or on coal exchange; “Humble is quite poisoned against me”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 883 | Lambert, J. (Alnwick, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 883 | 1 letter | Re unpaid dividends due to him by W. Russell and Company, Wallsend, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 884 | Lambert, Richard (Partnership Office , Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 884 | 1 letter | Re a colliery matter (“As the partners have given up all the wayleaves, they consider themselves as having nothing more to do with them. The whole matter between the parties is to ascertain the sum to be given by the Pontop and Tanfield owners for the use of the materials …”), 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 885 | Lambton, J. G., 1st Earl of Durham (Lambton Hall) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 885 | 1 letter | Note re a rumour he has heard; “if the parties understand their own interests … they will accept our terms”, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 886 | Lambton and Company (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 886 | 1 letter | Passing on a request for help for Mr. Smith, recommended by their Edinburgh bankers – “we have no means so satisfactory as submitting the letter to your inspection”, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 887 | Laws, William (Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 887 | 1 letter | To Hugh Taylor [forwarded by him to Buddle] re balance due by Buddle, after previous payment from “His Grace’s office”, for repairing farmhouse and homestead at Overacres, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 888 | Lawson, Sir Henry (Brough Hall, York) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 888 | 1 letter | Referring Buddle to his nephew – Silvertop to reach an agreement, 1811 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 889 | Leadbitter, R., solicitor (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 889 | 1 letter | Arranging date for Brinkburn reference (involving also Hugh Taylor, and Mr. Lambert, acting for Major Hodgson), 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 890 | Leadbitter, Thomas (Hexham, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 890 | 1 letter | [To Buddle senior?] Arranging to meet, 1796 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 891-892 | Lee, – (Seaham Harbour) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 891-892 | 2 papers | Re payment of Messrs. T. and W. Smith’s account [enclosed] for repairing the “Mary and Ann”; [account addressed to “John Buddle and owners of the “Mary and Ann”], 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 893 | Leveson-Gower, George Granville; marquis of Stafford [1758 – 1833; later 1st duke of Sutherland] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 893 | 1 letter | Arranging for Buddle to meet his agent to reach a settlement, 1814 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 894-895 | Liddell, Matthew (Newcastle; Benton Grange, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 894 | 1 letter | Re breach of agreement with Newcastle Corporation re working through barrier by Mr. Sanderson of Jesmond colliery, and requesting meeting re consequent termination of agreement, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 895 | 1 letter | Estimate of coal worked by Elswick colliery from Cook son’s royalty, and promising to mention Buddle’s request (to work more of Cookson’s coal) to the present lessee when ownership question is settled, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 896-898 | Liddell, Thomas Henry (1775 – 1855), 1st Baron Ravensworth (Ravensworth Castle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 896 | 1 letter | Acknowledging report on Tyne and Wear coal-owners’ meeting, and re refusal of Team colliery to agree to regulation – has mentioned it to his lessee, Mr. Burdon, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 897 | 1 letter | Re conclusion of Trade regulation, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 898 | 1 letter | Requesting one or two men to act as guides to show H.R.H. the duke of Cambridge the Victoria Bridge, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 899 | Liddell, Thomas Henry; (1797 – 1878), 1st Earl of Ravensworth (Eslington, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 899 | 1 letter | Invitation to Mulgrave Castle, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 900 | Lindesay, George (North Shields, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 900 | 1 letter | Re his plan for ventilating pits by means of two air pumps at the top of the shafts, worked by an engine or a windmill, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 901 | Lindley, Robert (London) [1776 – 1855, “the greatest violonchellist of his time”] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 901 | 1 letter | Accepting invitation to live at Buddle’s house while in Newcastle, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 902 | Littleton, G. C. (Wynyard) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 902 | 1 letter | Acknowledgement of receipt of safety lamp “which in my neighbour- hood will be a curiosity. I lighted it on arrival and suspended it in the drawing room”, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 903 | Livingston, William (Wemyss colliery, Scotland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 903 | 1 letter | Reporting on mining progress, 1820 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 904 | Lock, Elizabeth (Heworth Grove) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 904 | 1 letter | Re her uncle’s affairs and requesting Buddle’s intervention, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 905 | Lock, James (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 905 | Request on behalf of Lord Carlisle and Colonel Coulson to survey and report on the mines belonging to the latter at Blenkinsop, in the occupation of Lord Carlisle, 1827 (1 letter) Londonderry, Lord and Lady: see Vane-Stewart, Charles William | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 906 | Longmire, John B. (Applethwaite, Westmorland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 906 | 1 letter | Declining to go to South America, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 907-908 | Longridge, Michael (Bedlington Iron Works, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 907-908 | Copy letter from Buddle requesting quote for malleable iron rails, giving conditions; and reply, 1821 (2 letters) Lonsdale, Lord: see Lowther, William | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 909-910 | Loraine, William (Lumley Thicks) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 909-910 | 2 letters | Thanks for opinion on Houghton pit, and requesting meeting, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 911 | Losh, James (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 911 | 1 letter | Note introducing Mr. Brandreth, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 912 | Losh, William (Point Pleasant, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 912 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle’s consent, after trials at Wallsend, to trying new plan of placing engine boilers at Percy Main; H. Lamb willing if Buddle agrees, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 913 | Lowrie, William (Coxlodge, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 913 | 1 letter | Requesting help in obtaining work as a pitman, as rent for house and school is £12 but his wife is too poorly to teach any longer, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 914-915 | Lowther, William; 1st earl of Lonsdale (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 914 | 1 letter | Invitation to meet while in London, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 915 | 1 letter | Draft letter from Buddle, requesting help for Warren Maude Lamb’s application for consulship abroad, after “the loss of his fortune in the coal trade”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 916 | Lushington, J. (The Vicarage, Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 916 | 1 letter | (To Buddle senior?) Requesting plan of Benwell lordship re negotiations with Mr. Clayton for lease of coal under the glebe lands, 1797 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 917 | Lyell, Charles (Newcastle) [later Sir Charles Lyell; 1797 – 1875, geologist] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 917 | 1 letter | Requesting repeat of information and description given by Buddle in papers, “which were full of matter quite new to me”, on movements due to pressure in mines, 1838 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 918-919 | McDonnell, Edmund (Glenarm Castle, Antrim) [Londonderry trustee; step-father of Lady Londonderry] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 918 | 1 letter | Re legal affairs (claim by Hudson and Fenwicke against Lady Antrim concerning trees on the Long Newton estate bought from Sir Henry Vane); requesting help in finding a viewer, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 919 | 1 letter | Requesting advice where to buy coals at Whitehaven, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 920 | McIntyre, James (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 920 | 1 letter | Re Mrs. Buddle [mother] losing strength and memory, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 921 | Mackreth, Miss Harriet | See also: Library Pamphlets Vol B 27/9 [unbound] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 921 | 1 letter | Sending a miniature of the late Miss Buddle [Buddle’s sister], 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 922-924, 926-929, 931-936 | Mackreth, Robert Junior (1798-1881), London | See also: Library Pamphlets Vol B 27/9 [unbound] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 922-924 | 3 letters | Re Robert Atkinson’s [Buddle’s nephew] musical education in London under Nicholas Mori (1797 – 1839) violinist and leader of Philharmonic Orchestra or H. Gattie, mentioning cost of rent and food in London, charges for lessons, journey there by sea, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 926-929 | 4 letters | Re proposed visit to the continent for forthcoming publication of sketches in lithography; mentioning subscriptions to it, including by the Grosvenor family and requesting Buddle to gain that of duke of Northumberland, and other private and musical affairs, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 931 | 1 letter | Requesting help in gaining Lord Londonderry’s influence with the marquis of Camden to obtain post in the tellers office in the Exchequer, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 932 | 1 letter | Re musical matters (tenor for sale, and performance by De Beriot), 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 933 | 1 letter | Re sending a copy of a report of proceedings, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 934 | 1 letter | Re sending the Seaham pictures to London “by my Lord’s desire as he wishes to shew them to his friends to let them see the progress made in the harbour. I think it possible he may show them to the king . .”, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 935 | 1 letter | Re miniatures of Lady [Londonderry] and Lord Seaham by Harriett [his daughter?], 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 936 | 1 letter | Re visiting Penshaw, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 925 | Mackreth, Robert Senior (1766-1851), Newcastle | See also: Library Pamphlets Vol B 27/9 [unbound] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 925 | 1 paper | Re invitation to ‘Court of Apollo’ to play music with W. Atkinson, 4 April 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 930 | C[harles] Tennyson, Cheltenham | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 930 | 1 paper | to Robert Mackreth Senior regarding payment from Buddle, 27 July 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 937-938 | Macwhirter, L. M. (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 937 | 1 letter | Re restoration of “the doctor’s” health, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 938 | 1 letter | Requesting that Buddle “will try to convince [Dr. Mac?] that his system of living must ruin his reputation in town and I am afraid will also lead him to end his days in a lunatic asylum … otherwise … I shall be obliged to leave him”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 939-940 | McWhirter, Dr. T. (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 939-940 | 1 letter, 1 paper | Recommending means for avoiding established gout (details of diet, habits, etc.) and enclosing a prescription, 1822 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 941-944 | Maddison, George (Birtley; Brandon) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 941 | 1 letter | Re arrangements for boring through the Grey seam at Arcot pit, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 942 | 1 letter | Sending specimens of coal from Great Cramlington, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 943 | 1 letter | Re boring progress at Newton and Brandon, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 944 | 1 letter | Re Mr. Russell wishing to give up the boring at Brandon, and re boring at Pittington, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 945-946 | Magrath, Thomas (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 945 | 1 letter | To Lord Lonsdale, re his improved safety lamp, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 946 | 1 letter | Note arranging to meet re his safety lamp, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 947-949 | Maltby, Edward; bishop of Durham (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 947 | 1 letter | Re proposed coal tax – has heard that a vigorous and united effort might result in a reduction, and urging the coal trade to unite for such a compromise, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 948 | 1 letter | Draft reply from Buddle, re probable effects of the tax and agreement of coal-owners to M. Bell, M.P.’s suggested compromise; and re a paper by the coal-owners Committee, subsequent on report on employment of women and children in mines, explaining more fully that women are not employed in Durham and Northumberland, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 949 | number not used | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 950-955 | Marreco, A. J. F. (Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 950 | 1 letter | Re “introducing your steam coals for the supply of our river navigation here”, and promising a present of oranges “of a kind that does not often go to England – they are called tangerinas”, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 951 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle to engage a viewer for a colliery company for working Mr. Jacuito Dias Damajio[?]’s coal on the Tagus near Lisbon, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 952 | 1 letter | Copy reply from Buddle, recommending Michael Forster, former viewer and manager of Butterknowle colliery before its failure; and re depressed state of coal trade: “our Prime Minister Sir Robert has lit our candle at both ends” (export coal tax and income tax), 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 953-955 | 3 letters | Re final arrangements and arrival of Forster, 1842 See also: NCB I/JB 511-512 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 956 | Marshall, Edwin (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 956 | 1 letter | Requesting help in finding a country situation, as he wishes to leave his father’s printing and bookselling business, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 957 | Marshall, Henry (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 957 | 1 letter | Requesting employment as plumber and brass founder for Londonderry collieries, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 958 | Marshall, J. and M. (Blyth, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 958 | 1 letter | Requesting payment of a bill and offering to supply timber and cordage for Heckburn [Hebburn?] colliery in return for coal, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 959-962 | Martindale, John (Flatts) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 959 | 1 letter | Re Coal Trade affairs – re returns to be submitted by coal-owners and a proposed subsequent meeting between the Tyne and Wear committees, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 960 | 1 letter | Re state of the coal under Mr. Davidson’s Pelton estate, and history of mining in that area, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 961 | 1 letter | Business note re Coal Trade matters, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 962 | 1 letter | Note postponing meeting, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 963-966 | Mascall, Francis (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 963 | 1 letter | Requesting advice on lease to Hetton Coal Company of coal under his father’s estate at Eppleton, giving details of negotiations with Mr. Mowbray, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 964 | 1 letter | Copy reply from Buddle, explaining his opinion of Mowbray’s letters as “a mere shuffle”, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 964A | 1 letter | Copy letter from Buddle, and reply, | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 964B | 1 letter | Re wayleave at Eppleton for the projected Seaham railway, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 965 | 1 letter | Mentioning Buddle’s illness, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 966 | 1 letter | Re a tentale account and colliery plan, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 967 | Mason, John (South Shields) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 967 | 1 letter | Explaining that he is not applying for post as surgeon to Hebburn (on death of Mr. Leighton) because “I am aware how much the interest of Mrs. Burnett [Buddle’s sister] is implicated in Mr. Mclntire’s prosperity … nor would I give you the pain of denying me your influence …”, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 968-973 | Maude, Jacob (Selaby Hall; Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 968 | 1 letter | Re good news regarding the Backworth engine, and hope of favourable termination to the duke’s litigation; requesting a situation for a brother of Captain Stamp’s, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 969 | 1 letter | Re possibility of obtaining a post as one of Lord Stewart’s fitters at Sunderland for his son Warren Maude, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 970 | 1 letter | Copy letter from Buddle, requesting financial help for “friend Warren” [Jacob Maude’s nephew?]; and re bad state of coal trade and forthcoming meeting between Tyne and Wear committees to attempt to make an arrangement, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 971 | 1 letter | Requesting information about Warren’s financial position, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 972 | 1 letter | Re his conversation with and advice to Warren, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 973 | 1 letter | Requesting help re the Percy lease and giving reasons why favourable terms should be granted by the duke [of Northumberland] through his agent, H. Taylor, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 974-975 | May, Robert (Stockton; Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 974 | 1 letter | “… I return you thanks for the support which I have had from you for five years, by way of charity … but at the same time I feel I have been treated with too much contumely. You might have made of me a good servant, had you emancipated me from obligations to other people, but that you never did”; re “trotting and tramping” in Buddle’s service; “… since I came to you I have been under a system of terror…”, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 975 | 1 letter | Re attempts to contact Buddle, and asking “whether it be possible or not that I may ever return to my old situation”, and re working at either the Coal Trade Office or at Wallsend, “for I dread .. the thoughts of having to walk another winter … I would prefer my old situation before any other, except in some few things which you could easily remove ..”, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 976-978 | Melville, John (Edinburgh) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 976-978 | 3 letters | Re colliery and legal affairs in connection with court case over Colonel Fullarton’s Bartonholme colliery [q.v.], 1841, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 979 | Millner, Charles (Lambton) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 979 | 1 letter | Requesting testimonial as to Mr. Fill’s eligibility for post as Dean and Chapter’s bailiff at South Shields, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 980-984 | Mills, Colonel B. M. (Brancepeth, Willington) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 980 | 1 letter | Re Mr. Russell going to London on parliamentary business, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 981-982 | 2 letters | Re forthcoming visit to Brancepeth Castle of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, and requesting “the old gunner and one or two intelligent men” to avoid accidents by “our awkward squad”; mentions arrival of Mr. Russell at Malta and visit of Mr. Tennyson to Brancepeth, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 983 | 1 letter | Re death of Lady Drummond; and re coal trade – “I should imagine there must be a considerable deficit in the returns from the coal speculations on the estates. I can speak to a certainty being myself minus nearly £300 – and a very small landowner – and all others are in proportion in a similar state”, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 984 | 1 letter | Invitation to meet Sir Gordon Drummond [1772 – 1854, general], 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 985 | Mills, James (Rushyford) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 985 | 1 letter | Requesting particulars of Stanhope Railway, and information on Pontop Pike colliery for a friend who has been applied to for financial help for the colliery, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 986-987 | Milne, A. (Office of Woods and Forests) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 986 | 1 letter | Request, on behalf of the Commissioners of Woods, to view the Forest of Dean coalfield and to report on best measures for working and prescribing limits, and on value of the crown’s interest, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 987 | 1 letter | Hopes that before proceedings in Dean Forest concerns can be resumed, Buddle will inspect some of the principal works there and advise on amounts of royalty to be asked; “we would of course prefer to leave this to be settled by the Commissioners under the Act, but we shall be much pushed by Mr. Protheroe and others … and very likely by the Committee to whom our Bill may be referred … ” , 1837 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 988 | Mitchell, William A. (“Tyne Mercury” Office) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 988 | 1 letter | Requesting a loan to finance enlargement of the “Tyne Mercury”, in the face of competition by other newspapers, “especially as some of a neutral description have lately started up as commercial speculations”. “It was my wish some years ago to make the “Tyne Mercury” as much more efficient as possible for the party with whom and for whom I have always contended … and conscious that I had many political friends, and being perfectly aware that I was well known as the determined and inveterate opponent of toryism and everything appertaining to it, I fearlessly took the “Tyne Mercury” into my own hands”; but is now forced to apply for help to “the most staunch supporters of the principles to which I shall ever be found to adhere”, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 989 | Moncrieff, R. S. (Dalkeith, Midlothian) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 989 | 1 letter | Inquiring re size of pumps permissible at Cowden colliery in the light of Buddle’s award on the New Mills level; with Buddle’s draft reply, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 990-991 | Monro, Henry (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 990-991 | 2 letters | Sending an air for the ‘cello that Buddle asked him to write, and re writing a “system of harmonic sounds” for the ‘cello, 1821, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 992-996 | Morriss, Thomas (Washington; North Hetton; Croft, York; Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 992 | 1 letter | Re Mr. Wade at Washington colliery expecting to vend on same basis as Lord Ravensworth and Partners and Mr. W. Lamb; [signed “for William Russell, Esq. and Co.”], 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 993 | 1 letter | Enclosing Mr. Gregson’s opinion re sinking new pit at North Hetton colliery, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 994 | 1 letter | Arranging to meet to consider how the North Pittington coal must be joined to the present North Hetton colliery, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 995 | 1 letter | Giving figures re Stockton vend, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 996 | 1 letter | Giving proposed terms for Partnership Coal or Mount Grounds [near Usworth] offered to William Russell and Company (with plan) and for William Russell’s freehold coal to Lord Ravensworth, 1836 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 997-1010 | Morton, Charles | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 997 | 1 letter | Enclosing list of queries “if you were to be examined on the Patent Slip Bill”, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 998 | Confident of the Reform Bill passing even without creation of peers; but “I am most anxious that they should create a large batch even after the bill shall be passed; the present men’s continuance in power will always be extremely precarious without a large infusion of liberals into the upper House”, 1832 (political affairs) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 998 | Has sent his police project to Lord Durham, to whom Buddle is to explain it more fully; Lord Grey will consider it, 1832 (proposals to improve police and magistracy) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 998 | Re “that wild scheme [the Hartlepool Railway?] proposed by that crazy devil Tennant” [Christopher Tennant of Hartlepool, d. 1839] financed by false pretences; has recommended opposition to it in Committee to Lord Durham – “I hear the Quakers on the Darlington railway are well inclined to do so”, and hopes Lord Londonderry will join as “it will make a material difference, should this project succeed, in the colliery property of these noblemen”, 1832 (railways) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 998-1010 | Morton, Henry [agent to the Earl of Durham] (13 letters) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 999-1000 | The Birmingham and Hartlepool Railways: re Thomas Redhead trying to muster Coal Trade opposition to the Birmingham Railway, while acting as a solicitor for the Hartlepool Railway which “would be more injurious to the Coal Trade than the Birmingham could be under any circumstances”, and asking Buddle to see him while they are in London; has been in touch with Hunter and Lord Londonderry re opposing the Hartlepool scheme, 1832 (railways) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1000 | Mentions his “memoir” on stipendiary magistrates, and urges Buddle to see Lord Durham about it while they are both in London, 1832 (proposals to improve police and magistracy) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1000 | “There is to be a grand muster tomorrow at Boldon Fell of all the pitmen upon both rivers – no one seems to know the object of the meeting – it is conjectured … that it is to stick of the “Lead Grovers”. I think they dare not attempt this point. I have 12,000 chs. of coal laying at bank, therefore if they will stick a month or even 6 weeks it will be a perfect godsend to us”, 1832 (unrest among pitmen) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1000-1001 | Re an accusation made against him by “your fitters” and denying he has broken the regulation re measure or price; the coal-owners must not quarrel with each other for the next three years; “but really there is no dependence on the Hettonites – they are a rope of sand and a backsliding generation from beginning to end”; re Wood [?] abdicating from Hetton and joining Backhouse in the Black Boy colliery; enclosing copy of letter to Redhead re Hetton Company’s breach of the regulation, 1832 (Coal Trade affairs) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1002 | The meeting was numerous and short; – “the names of the men were called over as soon as they arrived upon the ground, this being done they marched off again”, 1832 (unrest among pitmen) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1002 | Re Coal Trade meeting re breach of regulation by Redhead and the Hetton Company, and threats by Morton and by Hunter to follow suit if he persists; enclosing statement of Wear vend, 1831 – 1832; 1832 (Coal Trade affairs) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1003 | “Get Lord L. to oppose the Hartlepool railway with might and main, it will ruin us all if it be carried …”, 1832 (railways) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1003 | Re agreement reached with Lord Chesterfield [? Redhead] to adhere to the regulation; “try to keep your vend nearer the mark this month. have no wish to press you at present”, 1832 (Coal Trade affairs) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1004 | Urging Lord Londonderry not to be afraid of expense [apparently re opposing the Hartlepool railway]; Clarence railway had voted £200 to oppose it but Blanchard is supporting Tennant; “this shows most clearly how all these public railway works etc. are got up to serve private purposes …”; Lord Londonderry and Lord Durham must not oppose it publicly but “under other colours”; Lords Wharncliffe and Ravensworth ought to assist with £200 each; “every-thing depends upon keeping our intentions private”, 1832 (railways) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1004 | Re binding at Lambton and Newbottle, and re Chesterfield submitting to the demands of his men [at Hetton], 1832 (unrest among pitmen) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1004 | Requesting an outstroke from Sherburn House, and a wayleave, 1842 (Coal Trade affairs) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1005 | Mr. Cartwright of Norton advises them to persuade M.P.s to take up the cause in Committee and he and Mr. Raisbeck urge presence of Morton and Buddle in London to provide information to lawyers and communications between them and our masters”, etc.; re threat of new collieries being opened if the measure succeeds, 1832 (railways) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1006 | Only about one quarter of the collieries have engaged their pitmen; “… provided the coal owners are only firm and united, the matter may be decided in favour of the master most triumphantly – if they chuse to yield to the men, they will fall under their dominion for another year”; re situation at Lambton, Newbottle, Gosforth (“Mr. B(randling) has acted with more spirit than any man in the Trade”), and Hetton, where the workmen demand the resignation of “the papist Dunn”, 1832 See also: NCB I/JB/1188 (unrest among pitmen) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1006 | Re impossibility of maintaining the regulation: “I have done much … to keep peace but in vain – the overs yesterday on the Wear must cause an instant explosion”; was prepared “to wink at your trespass”, but the Hetton Company’s behaviour unpardonable; has asked Brandling to call a meeting of the two Committees to consider the matter; has given orders to sell freely, though will not lower the price or increase the measure; acts unwillingly, “but as an agent I stand in a very delicate situation”; urges Buddle to restrain Hunter, 1832 (Coal Trade affairs) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1007 | “You and I have frequently discussed the state of the magistracy and police in these districts … and pronounced upon its incompetency, its inadequacy in the present times … and no one will deny that the late stick [strike] fully confirmed these observations …” and urging Buddle to see Lord Durham about his plan for establishing stipendiary magistrates, after altering it if he wishes, 1832 (proposals to improve police and magistracy) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1008 | Invitation to Lambton for visit of Miss Martineau [Harriet Martineau, 1802 – 1876, writer], 1833 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1009 | Re proposed tax on coals – “has thrown this district into great consternation”; Buddle, Donkin, “Robin”, and Joe Pease deputed to petition Peel against it; re a long meeting and threat to regulation; recommends an alliance and sub- regulation among the best collieries; at present “the worst and most gloomy prospect for us that I have ever seen in the Coal Trade”, 1842 (Coal Trade affairs) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1011-1015 | Morton, Samuel (Edinburgh) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1011-1015 | 5 letters | Re supplying cart components, etc., 1821, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1016 | Mould, Nicholas (Hebburn) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1016 | 1 letter | Re his family circumstances and requesting Buddle to intervene with the owners to prevent eviction from his colliery house, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1017-1025 | Mowbray, Arthur (Sherburn, Durham, Newcastle, Eppleton, Hetton) | [colliery manager, 1813 – 1819 during wardship of Frances Anne Vane-Tempest; succeeded by Buddle] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1017 | 1 letter | [To Buddle senior?] Mentioning Mr. Bewicke [Thomas Bewick, 1753- 1828, wood-engraver] beginning work at Bampton (co. Westmorland); William Weardale wishing to rent a seam of coal in Willey Bridge Farm near Bedlington; and reporting on the Bedlington mines for the bishop, 1798 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1018 | 1 letter | [To Buddle senior?] Mentioning visit to Stanton (co. Northumberland) “where you poor fellow are boddering on with the colliery”; reporting to the bishop about “our proceedings at Bedlington”; valuation of Silvertop’s estate at Hartbushes; Bewick’s proposed engravings; Eighton Banks quarries and paying “you poor fellows at Witton le Wear for the road” etc., 1798 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1019 | 1 letter | [To Buddle senior?] Arranging for self, Buddle, Mr. Tayler of Beamish and Mr. Dobson of Ravensworth Castle to trace the line of boundary on Blackburn Fell, at request of Sir Henry Vane, 1798 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1020 | 1 letter | [To Buddle senior?] Enclosing George Pearson’s opinion on ownership of the mines according to the division deed of East Sleekburn commons, and re purchase of coal or land, under the Land Tax Act, 1799 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1021 | 1 letter | Copy letter from Buddle senior, recommending that “his lordship” [the bishop of Durham?] sell, for the purchase of the land tax, the coalmines of Bedlington, with waste, plankage, etc., “which would the better conceal for the present any design as to the grand object on the tapis. These you could purchase, I presume, on moderate terms, as they afford little emolument to the See of Durham, and I think no bidders likely to come forward except Sir M[atthew] W[hite] R[idley] .. Was this accomplished, the business would put on a most promising aspect for establishing an eligible and very extensive tract of coal ground … I should be very happy on any opening being likely to take place of a colliery here to introduce my son to a small share therein, as he is now from practice etc. fully competent to see justice done in such a weighty engagement’; 1799 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1022 | 1 letter | Re Hetton Company workings entering Mr. Mascall’s coal, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1023-1024 | 2 letters | Inquiring re proposed harbour at Seaham, for a correspondent who wishes to involve himself in some public works, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1025 | 1 letter | To Lord Londonderry: fears that meeting at Chester re Coal Trade regulation may lead only to “another body without a head” and “an excess of vend from the ‘Tyne as has lately been experienced”; his views on regulation unchanged; any resolutions should be explicitly stated in writing; the cloud that has been gathering over the coal trade for two or three years requires deliberate enquiry by the coal owners, 1834 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1026-1027 | Murchison, Roderick Impey (London) [1792 – 1871, geologist; knighted 1846] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1026 | 1 letter | Invitation to meet J. Tayler, “the chief of Cornish miners”, and some other geologists, while in London, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1027 | 1 letter | Note accompanying copies of “my last discourse’ for the Natural History Society of Newcastle and its secretary, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1028 | Murray, R. (on behalf of Newman, mathematical instrument maker) (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1028 | 1 letter | Re despatch by ship of 24 lamps, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1029 | Nesfield, Rev. W. (Brancepeth) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1029 | 1 letter | Introducing Mr. Aspull (“as I regard you as an amateur de la musique of the highest class”) brother “of the most extraordinary boy that ever appeared in the musical world . .” [George Aspull, 1813 – 1832, musician, child prodigy] ; mentions forthcoming concerts by him at Newcastle and Edinburgh, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1030 | Nicholson, John | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1030 | 1 letter | Requesting a Galloway “to go with the milk”, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1030A | Oliver, R. (Pensher) [Londonderry agent] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1030A | 1 letter | Re sending rails, logs, and wood for houses at Seaham, and providing lodgings for 20 men at Bensons Farm, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1031 | Ord, William, M.P. (Whitfield, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1031 | 1 letter | Answering an application from the lessees of Fenham coal for a rent reduction or a reference, and re terms of the lease and the difficulties of Benwell colliery, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1032 | Ormston, Robert (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1032 | 1 letter | Invitation, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1033 | Pagit, Ellen (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1033 | 1 letter | Requesting support for her husband’s application to be colliery surgeon, on death of Buddle’s brother [in-law], and promising his attention to “the interest of your sister and [her] child”, 1817 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1034-1036 | Parker, C. (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1034-1035 | 2 letters | Requesting Buddle’s presence in London in connection with the Committee [House of Lords?] on the Stanhope and Tyne Bill, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1036 | 1 letter | Re payment of Buddle’s account against the Pontop and South Shields Railway Company, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1037-1038 | Parkinson, J. (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1037 | 1 letter | Requesting information about Colonel Braddyll and his colliery, in connection with his application for a loan, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1038 | 1 letter | Copy reply from Buddle, re Braddyll having “greatly embarrassed himself” by building an enormous house at Conishead Priory (Lancashire) and re prospects of South Hetton colliery in which he holds shares and owns part of the royalty: new winning has good long-term prospects, but extraordinary difficulties and enormous expense in sinking, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1039 | Paterson, John (Brancepeth Castle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1039 | 1 letter | Re disputes with the plumber, Marshall, over work at the castle, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1040 | Patrick, George (Durham) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1040 | 1 letter | Re Lord and Lady Londonderry’s entitlement to recommend patients to the Durham infirmary, being subscribers to it, and re recommending a freeman in their names, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1041 | Pattinson, H. L. (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1041 | 1 letter | Note accompanying a publication issued by the lessees of the Consolidated Mines in Cornwall, concerning refusal of their landlords to renew their mining lease, 1838 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1042 | Peareth, Mrs. | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1042 | 1 letter | Sending a copy of a letter relating to a conveyance of part of the Hylton estate, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1043 | Peasall, James (Coal Exchange, London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1043 | 1 letter | Giving amounts of Welsh culm imported into London, 1825 – 1829, 1830 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1044-1048 | Pease, Joseph, M.P. (Darlington) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1044 | 1 letter | As a partner in St. Helen’s colliery, acknowledging award re Brusselton, and giving details of differences between previous negotiations and the award – “we have made a bad business of this reference”, 1836 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1045 | 1 letter | Business note, 1838 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1046 | 1 letter | Requesting copy of Seaham Harbour regulations, in connection with forthcoming opening of docks at Middlesbrough; and re “this heavy blow at our foreign coal trade”, 1841 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1047 | 1 letter | Accepting offer of a bloodhound puppy, and re oversea coal duties and attitude of M.P.s to them, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1048 | 1 letter | Re coal tax, rejecting idea of compromise suggested by “some of our parliamentary supporters”, contesting reasons given for the tax, and describing the state of the coal trade, unemployment, “a marine rotting in our rivers and harbours”, etc., 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1049-1072 | Peile, John (Whitehaven, Cumberland), [Agent to Lord Lonsdale] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1049 | Enquiring re experiments with Union Moving Steam Waggons, and re binding (including new binding period); re state of coal trade, explosion in Hewgill colliery (describing workings and cause of accident), 1815 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1049-1072 | 24 letters | Peile, John (Whitehaven, Cumberland), [Agent to Lord Lonsdale] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1050 | Mentioning accident at Heaton, and arranging a visit, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1051-1054 | Requesting advice re fire in Croft pit from which he fears “the most alarming consequences”, reporting on progress of efforts against it, and requesting an under-viewer and a waste-man as “the overmen we have are all ignorant in these matters”, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1054 | Mentions accident at Sheriff Hill, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1055-1058 | Re death of William Heppel in an explosion in William pit, describing the circumstances and re providing for his widow [Heppel apparently one of the men sent by Buddle], 1815 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1056 | Mentioning Buddle’s success at Heaton, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1057 | Mentioning Sir Humphrey [Davy] ‘s attempts to find a substitute for steel mills, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1058 | Re mining affairs – installation of dam doors in William pit, etc.; inquiring again re “travelling engine” and endeavours at Heaton; requesting opinion of the substitute for steel mills that Sir Humphrey Davy is rumoured to have made; mentioning death of “little Anne” [Buddle’s niece?], 1815 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1059 | Re wire gauge made to Sir Humphrey’s directions at Kendal; “our use of the lamp is most satisfactory and a Davy is at all times considered perfect security with our men”; re ordering a “travelling engine” from Mr. Crowther, and re obtaining drawings for underground engines, etc.; mentioning sailors’strike, etc., 1816 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1060 | Re Irish coal trade; mentioning coal duties and a winning at Saltern, and family news, 1823 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1061 | Re discharge of fire-damp in William pit and requesting advice on clearing it, for example by building a chimney to contain a furnace; re progress of Saltern [?] winning, 1823 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1062 | Re St. Bees affair and inquiring about Mr. Dunn of Gateshead, a coal viewer, involved in it; William pit working again, describing measures taken to improve the ventilation; state of coal trade “something short in quantity, so many vessels in the summer gone on timber voyages”, 1823 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1063 | Re explosion in William pit; re prejudice of workmen against innovation of pillar working; “indeed our pitmen are a most ignorant race, few of them are regularly bred and the majority composed of Irish and other trampers”; requesting two overmen and two deputies “from your numerous band” with experience in pillar working, and inquiring re locks for the Davy lamps; mentions Buddle’s visit to Ireland, 1823 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1064 | Describing wages and perquisites of overmen etc. at Whitehaven; and requesting information on the duties of overmen and deputies, 1823 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1065 | Re forthcoming arrival of Thornton, an overman, and acknowledging Buddle’s help in engaging him; commenting on explosion at Rainton; re new system of ventilation proposed by a Mr. Lester – “he seems very angry in not being acknowledged by the Trade” – but his theory unpracticable; “Lester appears to us something in Ryan’s way”, 1823 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1066 | Asking Buddle to appoint a third person to arbitrate between himself (on behalf of Lord Lonsdale) and Mr. Dunn (for the Attorney-General) in the St. Bees’ case (Buddle himself being ineligible through having been occasionally employed there), 1827 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1067 | Requesting postponement of termination of arbitration in the St. Bees case, 1827 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1068 | Has applied to lord Lonsdale “to be released from so delicate and irksome task”, suggesting replacement by Buddle; and re question of rent to be decided, 1827 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1069 | Note from Matthias Dunn [attached to above] re St. Bees affair, 1827 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1070-1071 | Arranging to visit Buddle to discuss the St. Bees affair, 1827 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1072 | Requesting; Buddle to visit Lord Lonsdale to give him advice on St. Bees, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1073-1077 | Peile, Williamson (Whitehaven, Cumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1073 | 1 letter | Re St. Bees colliery affair, requesting Buddle to call on Lord Lowther to advise him on it; reference to executions at Bristol, involving a Captain Warrington and magistrates (shortly after Buddle’s. visit there-, by way of Liverpool) ; reference to cholera at Wallsend and Percy Main; “wordy-warfare” with the pitmen; offer of a share in Scremerston colliery; and Buddle’s visit to London, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1074 | 1 letter | Re St. Bees affair; re Buddle’s account of a meeting of the Geological Society ; “the praise of such a man as Mr. President Murchison [q.v.] is really a feather in our Society’s cap”; mentions N. Wood surveying a small trespass by one of Lord Lonsdale’s lessees, and state of Newcastle coal trade; pitmen’s meeting on Boldon Fell “but the trial of the Waldridge rioters will have its weight with them”; re elopement of James Rankin; reference to Buddle’s health, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1075-1077 | 2 letters and plan | Re flooding by sea at Workington colliery, enclosing plan showing position of crater; mentions Buddle pit; suspects colliery plan was incorrect; re associated dispute between Buddle and Matthias Dunn re cause of flooding; Dunn accusing Buddle of trying to oust him from the management and “taking the money out of country gentlemen’s pockets”; re state of Whitehaven coal trade and beginning of new winning there, 1837 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1078 | Pemberton, George (Sunderland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1078 | 1 letter | Congratulations on recovery from “alarming illness”, and requesting advice re coal on the part of his estate he is planning to sell, 1837 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1079 | Pemberton, John (Barnes [near Sunderland?]) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1079 | 1 paper | Invitation, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1080-1081 | Percy, Hugh, 3rd duke of Northumberland (1785 – 1847) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1080-1081 | 2 letters | Copy letter from Buddle requesting consultation on new harbour arid railway at Hartlepool which “cannot fail to prove highly injurious to the Coal Trade”, and note from the duke arranging interview, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1082-1085 | Philipps, T. (Office of Woods, London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1082-1083 | 2 letters | Re John Atkinson’s salary as Deputy Gauller {?) in Dean Forest, 1841 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1084-1085 | 2 letters | Copy replies from Buddle, 1841 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1086 | Phillips, Sir Thomas (London) [1801 – 1867, mayor of Newport, Monmouth; owner of coal mines in Monmouthshire and large landed estates in Wales] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1086 | 1 letter | Inquiring whether Buddle would take on as his pupil for 6 to 12 months the son of a colliery owner in Monmouthshire, with a university education, to give him practical knowledge of mining, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1087 | Pile, E. (Dunston) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1087 | 1 letter | Recommending a saddler (formerly employed by Sir T.H. Liddell and partners at Dunston), 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1088-1133 | Pitt, William Morton, M.P. (London; Cheltenham, Gloucester; Kingston, Swanage, Dorset) [owner of Tan field Moor colliery, q.v.] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1088 | 1 letter | Re success of Buddle’s attention “to our concerns”, giving carte blanche in negotiations with Mr. Clayton, and reference to calling on Lord Bute (“but not single-handed”) and settling a way-leave matter, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1088-1133 | Re financial, Coal Trade, agricultural, taxation, and business matters : | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1089 | 1 letter | Re negotiations with Clayton, including wayleave and supply of hay and corn; requesting information on dispute between Chancellor of Exchequer and northern coal owners and re possibility of seeing Robinson about it; brief references to business matters, and ordering cargo of coal from Tanfield Moor to Weymouth, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1090 | 1 letter | Re complaints about conduct of London coal meters, etc., especially on Tanfield Moor coal, including by Eddington, who is publishing a pamphlet [probably R. Eddington, q.v., author of “A Treatise on the Abuses of the Coal Trade …”], 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1091 | 1 letter | Re practicability of exporting coal to the western ports (including Weymouth) : “it was however worth trying the experiments”; mentions difficulty of persuading the public that abuses in coal trade are erroneously attributed to coal owners; mentions Bushblades enterprise, and negotiations for wayleave, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1092 | 1 letter | Note re colliery returns and financial matters, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1093-1095 | 1 letter | Re cost of freight of the ‘Delight’ to Weymouth enclosing accounts, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1096 | 1 letter | Re financial matters, and inquiring re effects of dissolution of the coal trade Regulation, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1097 | 1 letter | Note urging riced for Regulation, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1098 | 1 letter | Alluding to a decision at York Assizes, etc.; ‘ I shall hope to receive the new copies of those few letters of yours which I sent you some months ago, as they were not in a state for binding up in volumes”, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1099 | 1 letter | Re financial affairs and family news, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1100 | 1 letter | Re minor business and financial matters, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1101 | 1 letter | Mentioning favourable prospects in Bushblades, improvement needed to a steam engine, Buddle’s reports re wrecks on North East coast, Mr. Wheatley’s rent arrears, frustration of Buddle’s intention re Moody’s Quay, etc., 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1102 | 1 letter | Expressing gratitude for “your extraordinary exertions in my concerns”, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1103 | 1 letter | Note mentioning own involvement in Quarter Sessions, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1104 | 1 letter | Re financial matter, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1105 | 1 letter | Re price of coal, and possibility of return cargo of clay [from Weymouth?], 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1106 | 1 letter | Re favourable prospects; longs for “emancipation from the thraldom of the limitation of quantity”; re gaining access to the river [Wear?] below bridge and thus becoming independent of keels but “we must follow the Marquis of Bute etc. and can … do nothing of ourselves”; re arranging cargo of coal to Weymouth and return cargo of clay, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1107 | 1 letter | Mentioning renewal of wayleave with Lord Ravensworth, financial matter, and inquiring re taxes payable for Tanfield Moor, etc., 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1108 | 1 letter | Re ending his parliamentary career after 45 years service; mentioning a creep in Bushblades, arrangements as to the Marquis of Bute and an engine, and as to wayleaves, etc., 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1109 | 1 letter | Mentioning wayleave concerns, etc.; re ending his parliamentary career, and his “grand schemes of selling land and diminishing debts”, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1110 | 1 letter | Mentions deplorable state of coal trade; re financial affairs; re decline in public confidence; price of corn, oats, sheep, cattle, wool; pleased with wayleave negotiations, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1111-1114 | 4 letters | Re financial affairs, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1115 | 1 letter | Complaining of quality and price of coal shipped to Swanage, as compared to those sent to Weymouth from Sunderland, and inquiring re supplying coals to a hotel, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1116-1117 | 2 letters | Re shipping coal to Swanage and assessed taxes return for Tanfield Moor colliery, mentions negotiations with ministers re the coal trade, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1118 | 1 letter | Re arrangements for shipping coal, suggesting the hotel proprietor buys as a coal merchant, and explaining method of discharging coal; re depression in [Tanfield Moor] coal due to low-priced small coal on the market; mentioning longstanding negotiations [for wayleave?], 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1119-1121 | 2 letters | Business and financial matters, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1122 | 1 letter | Re his financial position and completion of building works at Swanage, and asking advice re finances, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1123 | 1 letter | Re financial affairs, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1124 | 1 letter | Recommending a candidate for the office of schoolmaster at the Newcastle Grammar School, the Rev. George Mortimer, giving outline of his career [1805 – 1871, schoolmaster and divine; headmaster of Newcastle Grammar School, 1828, etc.], 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1125 | 1 letter | Re apparent possibility of Mortimer being successful; high price of corn; financial affairs, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1126 | 1 letter | Re financial affairs, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1127 | 1 letter | Agreeing to Buddle’s recommendations and re financial affairs, 1831 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1128 | 1 letter | Re organising his papers, and inquiring re monthly [colliery] abstracts, 1831 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1129 | 1 letter | Re Buddle’s health; cholera epidemic -“it has seemed to me from the beginning that the system has been, either to deny the existence of the malady totally, or at least to endeavour by every possible means to keep the south as little acquainted with particulars as might be, probably with the object of preventing, as far as the northerns could contrive, any impediment in trade …”‘; and re financial affairs. “As to politics, I do not think so sanguinely of Reaction as some do, but upon the whole I think, in the south, the state of irritation in general is decreasing, and many of the inferior order are by no means sanguine in their expectation of seeing realized the golden prospects held out to them, and suspect mischievous designs in the Ultra Reformers. Some say, they had confidence in their old connections, and they have doubts as to their new professed friends”, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1130 | 1 letter | Re financial affairs; mentioning cholera epidemic, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1131 | 1 letter | Re importing coal to Swanage; requesting opinion on coal trade and desirability of exporting Tanfield Moor coals to Dorset ports; inquiring whether he should keep old vouchers; financial affairs; death of Mr. Clayton; inquiring whether any chance of restoration of the Golden Age of the coal trade, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1132 | 1 letter | Re “this continuation of distress”, and re financial affairs, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1133 | 1 letter | Re financial affairs and death of a Mr. Hardy, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1134-1135 | Plummer, Matthew (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1134 | 1 letter | Giving details of duties payable on coal imported into France; and re decline of coal trade to Holland due to their protective duties, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1135 | 1 letter | Re supplying sherry and requesting return of casks, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1136-1137 | Poole, Vernon (Rugeley, Stafford) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1136-1137 | 1 letter | Re obtaining a supply of brine, and paying an account, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1138-1140 | Potter, Addison L. (Newcastle) [Co-partner in the Stella Coal Company] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1138-1140 | 3 letters | Re auditing colliery accounts (West Towneley and Stella Coal Company) and proposing changes in the management of Towneley fitting department, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1141 | Potter, Edward (South Hetton colliery) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1141 | 1 letter | Note accompanying an enclosure, 1841 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1142 | Potter, W. (Wallbottle colliery, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1142 | 1 letter | Enclosing pit and shift bill and requesting advice, “as our trusty counsellor”, on proceeding with Duke pit, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1143-1150 | Potts, James (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1143 | 1 letter | Re financial matter, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1144 | 1 letter | Re Coal Trade elections and allusions to those involved, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1145-1149 | 4 letters | Re Coal Trade affairs, meetings, regulations, relations between Tyne and Wear, etc., 1825 – 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1150 | 1 letter | Calculations re “the discharge of fluids through pipes”, etc., n.d. | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1151 | Potts, Thomas (for J. Priestman) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1151 | 1 letter | Request to view fire clay drift; mentions he had been Buddle’s servant from his youth, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1152 | Prattman, W. L. (Copley Lodge, Staindrop) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1152 | 1 letter | Invitation, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1153 | Price, Joseph (Gateshead) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1153 | 1 letter | Invitation to inspect one of his patent boilers driving the engine at Messrs. Abbot’s works in Gateshead, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1154-1155 | Probyn, Anna (Mrs. John Probyn) (Huntley, Gloucester) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1154-1155 | 2 letters | Invitations (including to a four day music meeting), and personal news, 1840, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1156 | Prosser, Thomas (Wynyard) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1156 | 1 letter | Re death of George Hawkes’ brother and requesting instructions, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1157 | Rainy, Alexander | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1157 | 1 letter | Requesting interview re coal concerns, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1158-1160 | Ramsey, James (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1158 | 1 letter | Invitation to meet Dr. McWhirter’s mother and brother, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1159-1160 | 2 letters | Re payment for Lord Londonderry’s portrait, frame, etc., and re exhibiting it, 1834 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1161 | Ramsay, Thomas (Scotswood, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1161 | 1 letter | Requesting opinion on his new design of a railway, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1162 | Randyll, J. (Wingate Iron Works, Sedgefield) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1162 | 1 letter | Requesting help in finding employment, giving details of career, etc., 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1163 | Rankin, Ann (Forth) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1163 | 1 letter | Returning a loan, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1164 | Rankin, Mrs. | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1164 | 1 letter | Invitation to meet Mr. Mackreth’s family and for music, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1165-1172 | Rankin, Robert (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1165-1172 | 8 letters | Re Hebburn colliery lease, involving negotiations with Hebburn owners, Mr. Ellison, and Mr. Easton, 1823, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1173-1174 | Rankin, Robert, junior (Bristol) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1173-1174 | 2 letters | Re Buddle’s paper on the Jarrow explosion for Bristol literary and Philosophical Society, inquiring re colliery ventilation; and re private and musical affairs, 1832 See also note added at end of NCB I/JB 1177 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1175-1177 | Rankin, Thomas (Bristol) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1175-1176 | 2 letters | Invitation, travelling instructions, etc., re Buddle’s visit to Bristol; with note added by Jane Rank in to Miss Buddle, 1831, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1177 | 1 letter | Description of Bristol collieries, prices, terms, etc.; with note added by Robert Rankin re Buddle’s paper on the Jarrow explosion, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1178-1179 | Rate, James (Byker; Heaton, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1178 | 1 letter | Pious poem on death of Burnett [Buddle’s brother-in-law, Whitfield Burnett], 1817 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1179 | Pious letter re Buddle being “dangerously ill”, etc., 1826 (1 letter) Ravensworth, Lord: see Liddell, Thomas Henry | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1180-1189 | Reay, John [Wallsend colliery cashier from c.1805; see Richardson’s History of Wallsend] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1180 | Mentions a meeting at Harrogate with Mr. Tennyson, Col. Grey, Col. Mills and Mr. Gregson, in connection with a letter from Buddle; and appointment of M. Dunn at North Hetton colliery; Buddle’s health and visit to Whitehaven, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1180-1184 | Re cholera epidemic, giving numbers of deaths at various places, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1180-1189 | 10 letters | Reay, John [Wallsend colliery cashier from c.1805; see Richardson’s History of Wallsend] | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1180-1189 | Re Wallsend colliery affairs, including mining progress, vend, etc., and especially: | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1182 | Poor state of colliery accounts, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1182 | Re W. Brandling succeeding to Sir D. Smith’s situation under the duke of Northumberland, pro tempore; Sir H. Herding likely to replace him, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1182-1185, | Re Coal trade, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1184-1185 | Unrest among pitmen and meeting on Boldon Fell, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1184-1185 | Re a viewers meeting – “the general opinion seems to be, that the pitmen are a great deal cooler and more submissive, but whether this be real or only feigned I have my doubts”; viewers’ opinions of Pitmen’s Union, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1185 | Meeting of Board of Health, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1185 | Mentions “large new silk flags” carried by several of the collieries to Boldon Fell meeting; and trial of pitmen for “the outrage at Waldridge Fell”, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1185-1189 | Binding, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1186 | Requesting advice re binding, in light of viewers’ intentions of reducing prices [wages] at some collieries; death of Samuel Cooper of Percy Main colliery, from cholera; shooting of John Jopling of Hartley, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1187 | Re the binding – “I may say it is just such a weeding as you would like”, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1188 | Re Coal trade, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1188 | Re feeling amongst pitmen at the two Hetton collieries against M. Dunn, 1832 See also NCB I/JB 1006] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1188-1189 | Trouble between Mr. Atkinson and the Heppell family, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1183, 1186 | Trouble between Mr. Atkinson and the Heppell family, 1832 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1190 | Redhead, T. W. | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1190 | 1 letter | Re sending a copy of a Bill and some of Col. Page’s pamphlets for Lord [Londonderry]; suggests asking Lord [Londonderry] to obtain House of Commons Special Committee report on steam carriages, in connection with a company which has been formed to apply for charter of incorporation for steam carriages on turnpikes and offers to prove “the uselessness of disturbing property to form a railway”; and requesting copies of House of Lords Committee reports on coal trade in 1829 and 1830; 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1191-1195 | Redhead, W. (Newcastle; Durham) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1191 | 1 letter | Requesting a meeting for “the major”, to discuss the reception of Lord and Lady Londonderry on 13 February, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1192 | 1 letter | Requesting mediation by Buddle as to his salary as manager, etc. of Cassop and Cassop Moor collieries since 1838 – 1839, when sinking began, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1193-1195 | 3 letters | Copy replies from Buddle, requesting more information, and giving his conclusions, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1196-1207 | Reed, Archibald (Newcastle) [Mayor of Newcastle] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1196 | 1 letter | Re Ayton estate near Chester-le-Street, next to Lord Stewart and Mr. Lambton’s property, and its owners, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1197 | 1 letter | Soliciting business for his son Arthur’s business, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1198-1207 | 10 letters | Re invitations and arrangements for Lord and Lady Londonderry and Lord Ravensworth to attend the Mayoress’s ball and the duke of Northumberland’s dinner during Assize Week; for Lord and Lady Londonderry and the duke of Wellington to dine at the Mansion House; and for Buddle and his sister to attend the Mayoress’s ball, a dinner to meet the bishop of Durham, etc., 1826, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1208 | Reed, Francis (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1208 | 1 letter | Printed circular re his clothing business, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1209 | Reed, Stephen (Newcastle) [coroner] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1209 | 1 letter | Requesting information, plan, and evidence re accident at Heaton colliery, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1210-1212 | Reed, S. (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1210-1211 | Requesting employment for son who wishes to become a viewer, enclosing testimonials from Durham university and the Middlesbrough dock engineer, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1212 | 3 letters | Requesting an interview re Pontop colliery for Robert Taylerson (?), 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1213 | Rennie, John (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1213 | 1 letter | Introducing a Mr. Walker who wishes to see the improvements in northern mines; has been recommending “your Painshaw quarry” and advises keeping prices low until it is well known, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1214 | Rennison, John, and Owen, Robert | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1214 | 1 letter | Announcing establishment of Scientific and Mechanical Institution at North Shields and requesting patronage, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1215-1216 | Richardson, Edward (West Hendon) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1215 | 1 letter | Re alterations in agency and management of Derwent colliery, now that the Stanhope and Tyne Railroad Company no longer connected with it, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1216 | 1 letter | Copy reply from Buddle, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1217 | Richardson, Sophie (North Shields, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1217 | 1 letter | Re death of her father, a friend of Buddle’s; her precarious financial situation, and hopes of her brother succeeding to her father’s job, with an allowance for herself out of his salary, 1824 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1218-1220 | Richardson, Thomas (Sunderland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1218 | 1 letter | “My brother E. Backhouse tells me that your conversations are not confined to mere matters of banking business … It is from him that I understand thou hast paid some regard to the writings of our Friends”, and is therefore sending publications by J. J. Gurney of Norwich; and re a fossilised crocodile found at Whitby, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1219 | 1 letter | Suggesting addition of a polished reflector to Davy’s safety lamp, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1220 | 1 letter | Requesting some of spare tubs at Lord Londonderry’s staith, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1221 | Richardson, W. (Newcastle?) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1221 | 1 letter | Abusive and threatening letter re alleged slander by Buddle and referring to “those widows and orphans of imprudence at Heaton and Sheriff Hill”, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1222 | Richmond, Robert (Durham) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1222 | 1 letter | Acknowledging payment of account due to firm of Ewbank and Ord, 1808 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1223 | Riddell, Sir John Buchanan (Riddell, co. Roxburgh) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1223 | 1 letter | Asking Buddle to send someone to view his unprofitable colliery at Rimpside or Swindon (co. Northumberland), 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1224-1227 | Robinson, James (Chester-le-Street) [occupier of tannery owned by Buddle] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1224-1227 | 4 letters | Re payment of rent, and soliciting colliery orders for leather, 1833 – 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1228-1232 | Robinson, John (Newcastle; Tughall, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1228 | 1 letter | Asking Buddle to accompany him to Durham on a business matter, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1229-1232 | 4 letters | Re building an engine, giving prices of lime, stone, bricks, and sinking, etc., 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1233 | Robinson, Rev. (Wereham, Norfolk?) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1233 | 1 letter | Copy letter from Buddle: has forwarded his letter to the Wallsend overseers, and re subsequent Vestry Meeting’s decision re allowance to L. Salmon “until bread corn falls to its ordinary price”, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1234 | Robson, John (Hetton colliery) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1234 | 1 letter | Requesting information re terms for lease of East Edmondsley coal, Buddle being the viewer for the lessors of two-thirds of the coal, 1838 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1235 | Robson, Jonathan (Gateshead) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1235 | 1 letter | Brief specification and estimate for engine to pump water and draw coals, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1236 | Robson, R. (Alnwick Castle, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1236 | 1 letter | Requesting further help for Mrs. Wadman to obtain her papers, “acknowledging as they do her claim from the highest authority to temporary relief from the Compassionate Fund”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1237 | Roscoe, Edward (Liverpool) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1237 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle to view his colliery, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1238 | Rosear, E. (Pistill, Flint) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1238 | 1 letter | Request to survey and value Dee Bank colliery, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1238A | Royal Society (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1238A | 1 letter | Acknowledging receipt of synopsis of coal seams, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1239 | Russell, James (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1239 | 1 letter | Requesting interview re “Mr. Selly’s colliery business at Unthank near Berwick which you viewed in 1809”, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1240 | Russell, R.G. (Birmingham) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1240 | 1 letter | Requesting support for application for job as under-viewer on the Continent, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1241-1244 | Russell, Matthew (Hardwicke; Brancepeth) [1765 – 1822; of Brancepeth Castle] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1241 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle’s mother or sisters to buy him feather beds, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1242 | 1 letter | Requesting a Galloway for a soldier who lost an arm at Waterloo and intends to start a coal merchant’s business to supplement his 10d. a day pension; and hoping Buddle’s Staffordshire report will convince people outside the coal trade “not officiously to interfere with what don’t concern them”, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1243 | 1 letter | Invitation to go shooting at Brancepeth and to discuss the state of the collieries, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1244 | 1 letter | Congratulating Buddle on his appointment as manager of Lord Stewart’s collieries, and recommending a man for an office, 1819 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1245-1246 | Russell, William (Durham) [1734 – 1817; father of Matthew Russell, above] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1245-1246 | 2 letters | Electioneering: re Buddle getting people to Durham, including “the Shields votes”, etc.;. on back of 1246: notes of names of men to go to Durham, and other comments re electioneering, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1247-1249 | Russell, William [1798 – 1850; son of Matthew Russell, above] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1247 | 1 letter | Note sending two brace of game, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1248 | 1 letter | Re coal trade matter, involving Gregson and “my uncle” [Charles Tennyson (?) q.v.] re regulation for N[orth] H[etton] colliery, 1834 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1249 | 1 letter | Note re uncle’s visit, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1250-1251 | Ryan, James (Dudley, Worcester; Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1250 | 1 letter | Awaiting “fulfillment of the promise made to me … it is a matter of serious import to humanity … I am ready to act on Hebburn pit,” 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1251 | 1 letter | printed circular to Northern coal owners, re his success in improving mine ventilation, his rejection by the North East in 1806, and unfair report on his work in Staffordshire in 1815; with testimonials from W. Shirley (Earl Ferrers) etc., 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1252 | Salmon, Thomas; solicitor (South Shields) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1252 | 1 letter | Re winding up the affairs of Jeremiah Archer, shipowner, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1253-1257 | Sanderson, R. B. (Newcastle; Biddlestone and West Jesmond, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1253-1257 | 5 letters | Re colliery affairs and state of coal trade, 1826 – 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1258 | Saunders, Charles (North Shields, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1258 | 1 letter | Requesting support for application as surgeon at Jarrow and Hebburn collieries, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1259 | Scepaux, the conte de (Lambton) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1259 | 1 letter | Re appointment of J. Piecock of Denton as Mr. Lambton’s land steward, Lambton’s proposed bridge, and “the gentleman who hath taken out a third patent to convey coal waggons with a steam engine hath been in this country. His engine instead of drawing push before it the waggons and I am told it is not upon wheels”, 1813 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1260 | Scott, John (Halbeath colliery, Fife) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1260 | 1 letter | Requesting advice re high pressure pumping engines, as used near Newcastle, especially 100 h.p. one at Backwell, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1261-1263 | Scott, Hugh (Mertoun, Berwick) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1261 | 1 letter | Requesting advice re borings made by one Hogg (a field preacher) and Oswald at Lindean Burn, Bowden Moor, and Kello Burn (co. Roxburgh?), at instigation of “some persons … chiefly of the class of shopkeepers and farmers, not satisfied with what had been done in search of coal in this part of the country”, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1262 | 1 letter | Copy, Buddle’s reply, doubting veracity of boring results, and denying any knowledge of Hogg, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1263 | 1 letter | Requesting information on “your improved iron railways … for it does not seem that our Scotch engineers have much, if any, practice in these matters;’ 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1264 | Scott, J. | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1264 | 1 letter | Requesting names of best makers of high pressure steam engines, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1265 | Scott, Rev. R. H., curate of Gosforth (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1265 | 1 letter | Soliciting support for application to be chaplain to the [Newcastle?] Infirmary, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1266 | Scruton, R. (Durham) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1266 | 1 letter | Re Mr. Reay taking over the superintendence of Hetton colliery, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1267-1270 | Scruton, Walter (Durham) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1267 | 1 letter | Note arranging to meet, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1268-1269 | 2 letters | Requesting Buddle to recommend a colliery accountant to inspect Hetton colliery accounts, up to the time he and other shareholders sold out, in connection with a forthcoming arbitration, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1270 | 1 letter | As Deputy Clerk of the Peace, arranging for Buddle to take oaths [as J.P.?] in court, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1271 | Selkirk, A. (Workington, Cumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1271 | 1 letter | Re accident at Workington colliery and his subsequent dismissal, and requesting Buddle’s intervention with Mr. Curwen or his help in finding another job, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1272 | Selkirk, Ann (Kibblesworth) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1272 | 1 letter | Requesting employment for her husband, having “lost all the money he realised at Workington”, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1273 | Sewell, J. (St. Anthony’s, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1273 | 1 letter | Giving testimonial for Lancelot Redhead, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1274 | Seymour, Thomas (Mountmoor colliery) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1274 | 1 letter | Re sending a horse to Buddle, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1275-1283 | Sharp, Sir Cuthbert (Sunderland; Lumley Thicks) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1275 | 1 letter | Re “Commission business” (salaries and election of comptroller, receiver of river duties, collector), 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1276 | 1 letter | Requesting help in obtaining fossilised leaves, ferns, etc., 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1277 | 1 letter | Re appointment of two fitters, and expressing hope that they will eventually be admitted “into that chosen band” of Lord [Londonderry] ‘s fitters, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1278 | 1 letter | Allusion to “looking after the stray sheep”, etc., 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1279 | 1 letter | Re fitters, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1280 | 1 letter | Re reluctant agreement to visit Wynyard; and Re “a special commission to lay down moorings higher up the river, for really there is no space left and the certainty of an encrease must drive us to our shifts”, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1281 | 1 letter | Allusion to returning home “with our tails between our legs”; “one of my party said that a certain person (nameless in a letter) was bloody awful’, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1282 | 1 letter | Re death of Croudace [viewer to Lambton]: hopes that Mr. Lambton, “whose confidence he enjoyed”, will help his family, and requesting advice re indenturing the third son to a viewer, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1283 | 1 letter | Referring to a meeting of all parties and to a deputation to meet “my Lord”; “we have no troops here worth a charger – we want life and spirit, these mixed things are good to nought”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1284 | Sheppard, Jane (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1284 | 1 letter | Enquiring on behalf of a Mr. Feetham whether Lord Londonderry “intends raising money on the estate on Lord Seaham’s coming of age, and also if the Marquis is in cash just now?”, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1285-1286 | Sheppard, Thomas | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1285-1286 | 2 letters | Re order for a coat from Buddle, acknowledging a remittance, and minor private news, 1825, 1834 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1287 | Shevill, F. (Sunderland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1287 | 1 letter | Re legacies due to his nieces under the will of their late uncle, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1288 | Shevill, William (Monkwearmouth) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1288 | 1 letter | Re winding up accounts of the late Robert Atkinson, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1289 | Shorter, Eliza (Swansea, South Wales) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1289 | 1 letter | Requesting help to find her son a situation, preferably in agriculture, “knowing your extensive connections”, 1820 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1290-1296 | Sibbit, John (Berwick) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1290-1291 | 2 letters | Re Buddle visiting the colliery, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1290-1296 | Sibbit, John (Berwick) Mostly re Unthank (Northumberland) colliery affairs: | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1292 | 1 letter | Requesting interview for Mr. Russell re renewal of lease, and re new winning, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1293 | 1 letter | Mentioning proposed Berwick and Kelso railroad, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1294 | 1 letter | Comparing high pressure engine with Bolton and Watts’ for new winning, and requesting opinion based on experience with engine at Lord Londonderry’s collieries, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1295-1296 | 2 letters | Re progress of new winning and laying a railway, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1297-1302 | Silvertop, George (London; Newcastle; Minsteracres, Northumberland; Darlington) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1297 | 1 letter | [To Buddle senior?] Re inability to attend a meeting of the Ryton Association, and giving text of a letter from Lord Darlington to be shown to it [viz, recommending Silvertop’s proposal to Dundas for “raising armed associations”, and promising to send arms for 80 men, “but you must apply to General Musgrave for a person to train you, who has received instructions from the Duke of York respecting those matters … The situation of your country and the circumstances attending it are such as warrant me in the recommendation of your proposal, although I have rejected three others that were in small inland situations”], 1798 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1298 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle [senior?] to fetch title deeds relating to the writer’s grandfather’s purchases of farms at Minsteracres, as Lord Walsingham wants to examine them, 1802 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1299 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle to forward draft colliery lease (J. Lamb’s brother to writer), 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1300-1302 | 3 letters | Social notes, 1822 – 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1303 | Silvertop, J. (Minsteracres, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1303 | 1 letter | [To Buddle senior?, Bushblades] Order to bring Lord Mounstuart’s account over, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1304 | Simpson, Rev. W. (Tanfield) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1304 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle to remind W. M. Pitt about contributing to parochial subscription to obtain Queen Anne’s Bounty for curacy, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1305 | Smart, Joseph (Whickham) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1305 | 1 letter | Soliciting work as a wood valuer; already employed by Buddle in an exchange at Benwell, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1306 | Smith, Eliza (Mrs. John Smith) (South Shields) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1306 | 1 letter | Requesting situation for her husband, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1307-1308 | Smith, Henry (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1307 | 1 letter | Writing as chairman of committee of inhabitants of London: sending resolution re repeal of coast duty on coals and requesting Buddle to bring it before northern coal owners, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1308 | 1 letter | Copy reply from Buddle re action taken, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1309 | Smith, John; vicar of Newcastle | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1309 | Requesting name of donor of coals to a hospital, 1825 (1 letter) Smith, John See: NCB I/JB 1684 – 1731 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1310-1314 | Smith, Joseph (Corn Exchange, London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1310 | 1 letter | Copy letter from Buddle: re purchase of windmill for grinding corn for colliers and intention to start business in a small way in the corn trade; requests information on availability of rye, as flour is expensive and coal owners have to supply pitmen with rye; also mentions fatal explosion at a colliery near Wallsend, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1311 | 1 letter | Re shortage of rye, and prices (including latest cargo from Prussia at 74s.); availability of kiln-dried barley, suitable for bread, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1312 | 1 letter | Copy reply from Buddle: regrets shortage of rye; re aversion of labouring people to barley bread, despite coal-owners’ attempt to introduce it in (17)95; 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1313 | 1 letter | Re price rises for grain, and possibility of sending a cargo of barley, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1314 | 1 letter | Copy reply from Buddle: acknowledging receipt of quotation for barley, but declining to order because of cost, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1315 | Smith, M. (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1315 | 1 letter | Requesting help in finding a job as a coalweigher, or in obtaining a letter of recommendation to Colonel Rowan (one of the Commissioners) from Lord Londonderry or Sir H. Hardinge, in order to obtain a job in the “police force”, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1316 | Smith, Thomas (Bowes House) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1316 | 1 letter | Arranging a time for Buddle to go down the pits, 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1317 | Smith, Thomas; alderman (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1317 | 1 letter | Re possibility of visit by Lord Londonderry and Lord Stewart to Newcastle, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1318 | Sobers, William (Penshaw) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1318 | 1 letter | Re his improved method of making corves, and requesting loan of £10 to obtain a patent, 1806 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1319-1346 | Sopwith, Thomas [1803 – 1879, mining engineer] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1319 | 1 letter | Re woodworking (making a frame for Buddle) and requesting consultation on his forthcoming book on mining plans, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1319-1346 | Sopwith, Thomas [1803 – 1879, mining engineer] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1320 | 1 letter | Re Office of Woods (Dean Forest) business – Mr. Prothero agrees to a survey but not a plan of his mines – “he will evidently bother the Commissioners ere any kind of reasonable reform can be effected”; has examined ms. evidence, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1321 | 1 letter | Sending some professional observations for approval, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1322-1324 | List of papers enclosed, including report on proposed line of new road from Newcastle to Otterburn, n.d.; printed circular re his Practical Treatise on mineral plans, etc., 1833 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1325 | 1 letter | Re destruction of his woodworking shop by fire, and his proposal by Buddle as member of [Institute of Civil Engineers?], 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1326 | 1 letter | Re Exchequer grant to complete Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and possibility of introducing Bill for Durham Junction; meeting of civil engineers; requesting Buddle to read proofs of his forthcoming work; and re respect he had for Buddle even before they met, etc., 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1327 | 1 letter | Testimonial for a Charles Morton, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1328 | 1 letter | Re Forest of Dean business – survey of mines, describing his methods, Mr. Prothero’s attitude, etc., 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1329 | 1 letter | Re Forest of Dean business – “the tug of war is hardly begun”; a case involving Mr. Prothero and Cheltenham Coal Company; Prothero and sons approval of Commission; Mr. Probyn convincing the Free Miners of good intentions of the Commissioners, etc., 1838 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1330 | 1 letter | Alluding to matters of patronage, and re a story “of your having won a very large sum of money at Crockford’s when tipsy with my lord”, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1331-1332 | 1 letter | Re death of a daughter, and re matters of patronage (involving Mr. Gower and the New Zealand Company, and Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital through Mr. Milne and Lord Lincoln, at request of Sir Henry Browne), 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1333-1334 | 2 letters | Re Mr. Scott’s survey of Seaham Harbour, and re Mr. Potter’s request for a testimonial for Thomas Hughes [re his “superintending the engineering works on the River Tyne under Mr. Anderson … upwards of one half of the new quay of this town made entirely under your direction”], and enclosing his own testimonial for Hughes, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1335 | 1 letter | Re Dean Forest: sending an answer [to a memorial by J. Harris?] re extending the award or withholding rights to unallotted coal according to priority of application, with diagram of coal awarded to and asked for by Harris, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1336 | 1 letter | Re completion of Scott’s survey of Seaham and re meeting Mr. Walker concerning it, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1337 | 1 letter | Re Walker’s requirements for Seaham plan; meeting with Mr. Milne [Office of Woods?] during which “I fully acquainted him with the value of having a fixed appointment as a sort of nucleus in ones profession and he entered very kindly into the subject upon which I am to have an interview with my lord”; re knighthood for de la Beche; and re choral concert at Exeter Hall attended by Wellington, Prince Albert, etc., 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1338 | 1 letter | Re Dean Forest – failure of his attempt to gain increased salary for John Atkinson [q.v.]; coastal survey in connection with plan of Seaham; people he has met in London, and mentioning Ebbw Vale business, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1339 | 1 letter | [Apparently answering query by Buddle] Re Sir Thomas Philips [q.v.], 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1340 | 1 letter | Re Walker’s map of the coal-field, and mentioning Ebbw Vale business, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1341 | 1 letter | Re Walker’s map, election of R. Atkinson as a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, and mentioning Ebbw Vale business, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1342 | 1 letter | Re excessive charges made by Mr. Forster for surveying Mr. Cheney’s mines; and re success of Dean Forest and other geological models with Prince Albert, Lord Northampton, and Dr. Buckland, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1343 | 1 letter | Re completion of map of Newcastle coal-field and its distribution with pamphlets, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1344-1345 | 1 letter | Re problem of disposing of surplus stocks of Leithart’s book on mineral veins; re Mr. Milne [Office of Woods] – “I shall be very glad if his good feeling ever goes the length of shoving me into a receivership which I value not so much on its own merits as for the sort of fulcrum which an appointment of this kind would be in my profession, which in respect of desultory engagements seems almost at a universal and general stand still”; re Prothero’s position; mentions Buddle’s forthcoming visit to Edinburgh and own visit to Cumberland, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1346 | 1 letter | Re a report on a property containing coal, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1347 | Sopwith, T. and J. (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1347 | 1 printed paper | Notice re monocleid writing cabinet on show, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1348 | Sorsbie, Benjamin (Hetton colliery) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1348 | 1 letter | Re payment of an account, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1349 | Soulsby, Thomas (Ballast Hills, Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1349 | 1 letter | Re Buddle’s instructions that two of the wrights have to leave Elswick colliery and possibility of his being employed at Messrs. Hawkes’ foundry if he is one of them, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1350-1354 | Spence, William (Sunderland; Seaham Harbour) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1350 | 1 letter | Re great improvement in prompt sailings since introduction of steam boats on the Wear three years ago, and mentioning supplying ship’s colours to Buddle, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1350-1354 | Re shipping affairs: | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1351-1353 | 2 letters | Re insurance of the “Lord Seaham”; its current voyage; request through R. Forster for the “Lord Seaham” to take Bradyll’s first cargo from Seaham; and re a fire and firewatching precautions in the dock, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1354 | 1 letter | Account of money due to Captain Spence from Buddle for four voyages of the “Lord Seaham” from Portsmouth and Plymouth, and re storm damage to ships in the South Harbour, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1355-1358 | Stable, G.W., solicitor (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1355-1358 | Business notes re an affidavit concerning Washington colliery, execution of a deed of exchange and his authorisation for building a cottage, arranging a meeting between Buddle and Donkin in London, and a payment by Mark Lambert of interest due to Buddle, 1821 – 1833 (4 letters) Stafford, marquis of: see Leveson-Gower, George Granville | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1359 | Stanger, C. (Killingworth, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1359 | 1 letter | Musical invitation, 1825 See also: NCB I/JB 1371 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1360-1363 | Stanton, John (Benwell colliery, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1360 | 1 letter | Condolences on a death [Buddle’s mother?], enclosing an account, and re complaint by William Surtees of brassy coal, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1361 | 1 letter | Re stock and farm accounts: “I wish I could shew you this account more to your satisfaction”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1362 | Giving date and term of Fenham coal lease (September 1824: 21 years), 1827 | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1363 | 1 letter | Re burst boiler at Edward pit; has also notified Mr. Surtees and Mr. Dunn, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1364-1366 | Stephens, John, Inspector of Police (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1364-1366 | 3 letters | Re arresting Ralph Armstrong in Scotland for the murder of Nicholas Fairless [NCB I/JB 1364 addressed to Lord Londonderry], 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1367-1369 | Stephenson, George (Tapton, Derby) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1367-1369 | 3 letters | Notes re meeting Buddle, with Mr. Woodhouse and F. Foster, re Pendleton colliery, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1370 | Stephenson, Robert (Westminster) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1370 | 1 letter | Arranging to meet (leaving London on Sunday evening by the mail train, arriving Newcastle on Monday mid-day), 1841 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1371 | Stanger, Dr. C. (Moresby Hall, Cumberland) [Christopher Stanger, 1759 – 1834, physician?] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1371 | Invitation, with references to musical activities, 1831 See also NCB I/JB 1359 (1 letter) Stewart, Charles William: see Vane (formerly Stewart), Charles William | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1372-1374 | Stobart, Henry (Tynemouth Castle, Northumberland; Pelaw; Etherley) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1372 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle to approach Lord Londonderry to obtain Sir Henry Hardinge’s support for his application to be Barrack Master at Newcastle; giving details of his army career (including the American war, disturbances of 1819) and mentioning he and his father, brother, etc. are Durham freeholders, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1373 | 1 letter | Arranging meeting re Lumley Castle coal, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1374 | 1 letter | Arranging to show Buddle a profit and loss account, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1375 | Stobart, William (Pelaw House) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1375 | 1 letter | Requesting a meeting re “the Washington concerns”, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1376-1383 | Stoddart, Andrew (South Shields) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1376-1378 | 3 letters | Re renewing leases on two premises in South Shields belonging to the executors of the late Robert Atkinson, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1379-1382 | 4 letters | Re purchase of land at Wallsend by Buddle from Mr. Cuthbert and alternative of paying for colliery damage, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1383 | 1 letter | Requesting payment of out-rent and rent charge in lieu of tithes due to Dean and Chapter, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1384 | Storey, George Strum (Arcot, near Cramlington, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB 01/JB 1384 | Requesting consultation re coals from this estate”, 1823 (1 letter) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1385 | Storey, Henry (Stockton) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1385 | 1 letter | Offering his geological specimens from Dorset to “the Society” at Newcastle; reference to Buddle’s ill-health, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1386 | Straker, John (Kells Field, Cumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1386 | 1 letter | Applying for situation of viewer of Sheriff Hill colliery, Buddle being one of the proprietors, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1387 | Straker, John (Cramlington colliery, Northumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1387 | Re letting the Low Main coal under the Fenham estate to the owners of Elswick colliery, 1837 (1 letter) Strathmore, Earl of: see Bowes-Lyon, John | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1388 | Sturry, Ann (Howden) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1388 | 1 letter | Re private affairs, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1389 | Surtees and Company (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1389 | 1 letter | Acknowledging receipt of payment, 1835 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1390-1391 | Surtees, A. (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1390 | 1 letter | Sending his father’s opinion on proposed regulation, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1391 | 1 letter | Re giving up a colliery lease, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1392 | Surtees, John | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1392 | 1 letter | Requesting efforts to “free me from the smoke of your engine” [at steam mill], 1800 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1392 A-1395 | Surtees, William (London; Weymouth, Dorset) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1392A | 1 letter | Appointment of Buddle’s brother-in-law as surgeon at Benwell colliery, reward for Sir H. Davy, state of harvest, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1393 | 1 letter | Promising support for Mr. Gray as successor to Buddle’s brother-in – law Burnett [as colliery surgeon], 1817 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1394-1395 | 2 letters | Requesting advice re Benwell colliery, Mr. Dunn having offered him his shares in it, and mentioning negotiations by the owners with Lord Ravensworth and partners for coal under Whickham haughs, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1396-1398 | Surtees, W., junior (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1396 | 1 letter | Message from his father re arranging to meet, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1397 | 1 letter | Requesting opinion on Benwell colliery, re his father’s proposal to make out the new lease in his and his brother Aubone’s names, and “poor Crosier’s” share in it being up for sale, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1398 | 1 letter | Thanks for Benwell valuation, and requesting personal opinion on the colliery; references to Mr. Adair and Mr. Ord, and own opinion of present unprofitable nature of Benwell; mentions “the duke’s” visit to the north; on behalf of his father, reminder that “on all former occasions the Committee for the Coal Trade has allowed the collieries above bridge to exceed the limited vend in [November and December] as when a severe frost occurs and the river is frozen the collieries above bridge cannot get the keels to work”, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1399 | Swan, Robert (Percy [colliery] office, Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1399 | 1 letter | Sending Mr. Waldie’s observations “that he is sorry to find the price of Russell’s coals is still 30/-, that if you will raise them to 31/- he will continue B. and Co.’s at their present price … ,” and pointing out importance of following this suggestion in view of considerable number of ships expected, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1400 | Swinburn, W. (Workington, Cumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1400 | 1 letter | Requesting Buddle to supervise unloading of a piano at Newcastle en route for Workington, and re deployment of colliery engines at Workington, 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1401 | Swyer (?), R. (York Hotel, Manchester) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1401 | 1 letter | Reply to query whether £10 mistakenly used to pay hotel bill, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1402 | Talbot, Lord (Ingestre, Stafford) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1402 | 1 letter | Re salt borings and obtaining brine; requesting advice, 1840 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1403 | Tap and Company | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1403 | 1 letter | Specification and estimate for building “a good plain chariot” (with silk cushions, carpet, venetian blinds, brass mouldings, black lamps, cypher on the door, etc.), 1832 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1404 | Tappendin, F.W. (Newcastle) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1404 | 1 letter | Inquiring [on behalf of Sir William Lawson?] as to terms on which Mr. Dunn leases coal under “the County Closes” and whether he definitely intends relinquishing it; mentions that the Newcastle and North Shields Railway company had considered buying it, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1405 | Tate, Jane (Moresby Hall, Cumberland) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1405 | 1 letter | Invitation, while Buddle at Whitehaven and her uncle, Dr. Stanger, at Moresby, 1831 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1406 | Taylor, George (London) | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1406 | 1 letter | [Headed “Talacre”] Expressing gratitude for help given to self and Mr. Chappelow in their dispute “with this company”, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1407-1414 | Taylor, Hugh (Newburn, Earsdon, Benton, Northumberland) [mining engineer and viewer] | |||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1407 | 1 letter | Re obtaining two men to view Backworth; (“there are doubtless many suitable men as to competency, but as the ramifications with regard to particular interests are so extensive, I am unable … to fix upon any …;), 1815 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1408 | 1 letter | Re bringing subject of coals from Earsdon drifts before the Committee, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1409 | 1 letter | Requesting valuation of Moat Estate at Elsdon by “your steward at Overacres”, 1823 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1410 | 1 letter | Retaining Buddle as referee for [the duke of Northumberland] in arbitration of trespass into his royalty from Brinkburn colliery, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1411 | 1 letter | Giving Mr. Clark’s opinion re quantity allowed to Benwell colliery under Regulation and Propriety of signing the rules on Mr. Surtees’ behalf, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1412 | 1 letter | Requesting copy of colliery plan in connection with renewal of Percy colliery lease, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1413 | 1 letter | Re request to become umpire in St. Bees (Cumberland) case but envisaging same objection to self as to Buddle, viz., having been employed by the school there when evidence given to Commission two years previously, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| NCB I/JB 1414 | 1 letter | Re own and his brother’s conviction of need for a “broad-bottomed regulation”; the Tyne, Tees, Hartley and Blyth are ready, but a move is needed by the Wear; doubts expediency of any temporising measures; mentions effect on next binding on Tyne, 1834 |
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