A bound collection of papers relating principally to railways and the Society of Friends, arranged roughly in chronological order, 1817 – 1837, and containing the following: Extract from the Durham County Advertiser containing a report of a shipwreck at Seaton Cleveland, 4 February 1815 Notice to the creditors or mortgagees of the tolls of the Darlington to West Auckland Turnpike, 24 February 1819 Circular concerning the Stockton and Darlington Railway Bill, n.d. c.1821 Report relative to Lines of Railway surveyed from the ports of Perth, Arbroath and Montrose into the Valley of Strathmore by Robert Stephenson, 1827 Memorial regarding the propriety of opening the valleys of Strathearn and Strathmore by means of a railway or canal, by Robert Stephenson, 1820 Report by Robert Stephenson on the Roxburgh, Selkirk etc. railway, 22 May 1821 Extract of the minutes of a general meeting of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Co., n.d. 1822 Circular about a charity connected with Ackworth School, North Riding of Yorkshire, January 1833 Letter from the agent for the committee of Ackworth school to Thomas Ventress, Stockton-on-Tees, concerning aid from the school fund to Ventress’ son, 6 October 1824 Circular re the Friends marriage portion fund, 1 February 1825 Circular about a proposed agricultural school at Hayes, Middlesex, 27 July 1833 Circular concerning the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity, January 1820 Circular re the Central Society of Education, n.d. 1830’s Letter from John Edmond Sutton, Greystoke, Cumberland, to Joseph Pease, London, calling his attention to the inhabitants’ petition re tithes, 9 February 1833 Circular about Dr. Peacock, 22 March 1824 Circular about the business affairs of Thomas Horner, Darlington, 22 March 1827 Minutes of the annual meeting of Friends, 1828 Fifteenth report of the committee of the Friend’s loan fund, 1829 Resolutions passed at a meeting of the Darlington East India Association, 1829 Prospectus of the Friends Academy, Darlington, n.d. 1830’s Circular about the British and Foreign Seamen and Soldiers’ Friend Society, October 1832 Circular to Wesleyan Methodists, numbers I and II, 31 January – 27 February 1830 Circular about cholera, 18 November 1831 Extracts from the Glasgow Herald concerning the Edinburgh, Glasgow and Leith Railway, 16-30 January 1832 Laws of currency, letter number XII, 10 January 1834 Circular from the General Baptist Missionary Society, 10 March 1834 List of objections to the bill for establishing a general register of all deeds etc. affecting real property in England and Wales, n.d. 1834 Advertisement for an establishment to protect agricultural property from fire, 21 January 1835 Election notice from Joseph Pease, 13 January 1835 Reason against the Sheffield and Rotherham Railroad Bill, 1835 Epistle of council from the yearly meeting of Friends to the quarterly and monthly meetings, 1835 Resolutions concerning the proposal to build the Great North of England Railway, 27 November 1835 Minutes of the committee of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, 20 October 1835 Circular publicising the work of the Foulah Mission in West Africa, 7 November 1835 Circular concerning the proposed Manchester and Cheshire junction railway, 24 December 1835 Prospectus of the Statistical Society of London, 23 April 1834 Circular proposing the establishment of a lunatic asylum at Northwoods, Bristol, 8 August 1835 Circular re the Protestant Association of Ludlow, Shropshire, 22 September 1835 Advertisement for a water purifying machine, n.d. 1835 Circular from Edward Pease denying allegations made by Dr. Peacock, 15 January 1834 Copy of two letters dated 1 May and 20 August 1835, from Joshua Field to Samuel Hall about the new condensers on the Ramsgate steam packet, n.d. 1835 Leaflet entitled Circumstances favourable to the Stability of Government and to permanent alliances between different states, n.d. 1835 Copy of a letter dated 31 January 1835 from W. Cubitt, London to W. Hedger, Port William, Wigtonshire, reporting on the possibility of establishing a harbour, n.d. 1835 Appeal for subscription towards building a church at Middlesbrough-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, 22 December 1836 Extract from the Scotsman re the Irish Church question, n.d. 1836 Report of the provisional committee of the institution at Brookfield for the education of the descendants of Friends, 1 April 1837 Leaflet defending Quakerism, May 1837 Circular supporting Mr. Johnson’s application for the chair of chemistry at University College, London, 4 May 1836 Leaflet concerning Samuel Hall’s new condensers, 1837 Resolutions of the building committee of the Darlington New Church, 18 September 1837 Report of the committee of the Darlington Library for July 1837 Leaflet concerning the persecution of the Catholics, n.d. 1837 Circular attacking the new Poor Law Bill, n.d. c.1837 Handbills expressing various views re the payment of church rates by dissenters, 1837 Form of appointment of proxy for a meeting of the proprietors of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, n.d. 1837 On the Decrease of Capital Punishment, 19 April 1837 Advertisement for a book of Scottish songs, 19 October 1837 Advertisement for the Imperial Life Assurance Company, n.d. 1837 Letter of introduction for the bills of exchange circulated by Hammersley and Co., London, 8 June 1820 Circular about the dairy system of London, n.d. 1830’s Drawings of pumping equipment and storage tanks, n.d. 1830’s Catalogue of British Birds, n.d. 1830’s Treatise by Charles Whitlaw on the management of dairies in London and Holland, n.d. 1830’s Letter to the editor of the Liverpool Chronicle on combatting vice, 4 August 1834 Circulars from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, n.d. 1830’s Abstract of a petition for the repeal of the duty on marine insurance, n.d. 1830’s Circular re the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, n.d. 1830’s Advertisement for the Metropolitan Life Assurance Society, n.d. 1830’s Articles concerning slavery, n.d. 1830’s Advertisement for emigration to Australia, n.d. 1840’s Advertisement for the steam packet between London and the south coast ports, 1837 Hints for the reduction of taxation by the Profitable employment of the surplus labour and capital of the country, n.d. 1830’s – From:Miscellaneous