| Description | Modern foliation in pencil. AW = Alfred Wallis, DM = Derby Mercury
f1r Signature of Alfred Wallis with copyright note
f1v Cutting of death notice and note on Llewellynn Jewitt
f2r&v Exhibition Committees [1870] and list of guarantors [printed]
f3r Ground plan of exhibition [1870, printed]
f4r Cutting of letter from 'Derby Reporter', notes from 'WB jr' [William Bemrose jr] annotated by AW 'Geo Clulow wrote it' [the letter]
f5r&v Cuttings of press reviews of 'Pottery and Porcelain of Derbyshire'
f7r Letters from Alfred Madeley, Sec. to Exhibition Committee, 9 Sep 1870 reporting complaint of Mr Haslem about 'Pottery and Porcelain of Derbyshire'
f8r&v [Wm Bemrose] to AW re Haslem's complaint with AW's comments re Thomason [joint manager of Derby factory, 1826-1848, Haslem's uncle]
f9 Blank
f10r Wm Bemrose to AW: notice of meeting of Exhibition Committee, 19 Sep 1870, annotated by AW 'complaint ordered to lay on table and subject dropped'
f11v Illustration of Derby China Works annotated 'entirely imaginary AW'
f12r Title page [printed]
f13r Minute inviting AW and Hon Sec to prepare publication
f14r Note of copyright by AW
f15r Note of 'pedestrian feat' from DM, 15.3.1820
f16v Photographic print of Derby exhibition, [1870]
f17v Note on Alderman Thomas Clarke's family
f18v Extract from 1841 census of ceramic employees in Derbyshire; note of court action, Bloor v Scott, from DM 24.3.1824
19v Print of Norman pitcher with illustration of same by AW Extract from Farey's 'Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire' [1815] with list of potteries and note on Ticknall China by AW
f22r Extract from Fraser's 'History of Devon' [1794] re Chelsea Pottery
f22v Note on Wm Sayswell 'potman' recorded in Derby pollbook, 1841; cutting [unrelated] from Nottingham Journal, 1790
f24r Extracts from 'Tour of Midland Counties' [1775] re Derby porcelain factory; note by AW on 'three handled pot' with incised inscription dated 1749
f24v Extracts from Lysons 'Derbyshire' [1817] and Pigot's 'Directory' [1818] re Derby porcelain manufacture
f25v Extracts from DM re Christopher Heath, 1774-1815
f27r Note complaining about Llewellynn Jewitt
f28r Letter from Wm Bemrose, Derby to AW reporting
f29v Find in Brighton of a fine 'Hutchinson' vase, 10.3.87
f30v Photographic print of three porcelain figures, Kitty Clive and two dwarf salts, with extracts from Nightingale, 'Public Advertiser', 1764. Also note on Cockpit Hill Pottery marks, Derby
f32r Photographic print of 'Miss Radford's Cockpit Hill beaker' with note on provenance
f32v Notes on Cockpit Hill plates and impressed mark
f33r Note on 'William Duesbury, a Mason'
f33v Copy of advertisement from Public Advertiser, 1756 re Derby porcelain factory; extracts from Derby St Alkmund's parish registers re Andrew Planché; note on 'laying down lambs' produced at Derby factory
f35r Extracts from Derby St Alkmunds parish registers re William Duesbury and family 1756-1787
f35v Extracts from DM of Duesbury family notices 1809- 1815
f36r Note on gilding; note on Flemish origin of Duesbury family
f36v Note on 'boggart'; photographic print of Pegg's Thistle, on a comport painted by Pegg the Quaker
f38r Note on decline of Derby factory; extract from DM 1825 re death of John Keys, with note
f38v Extract from DM, 1814, re Nathaniel Edwards' death, with note
f39v Note on daughter of Samuel Keys; observation of Chaffers and extract re stolen pocket book from DM, 1776
f41r Extracts from DM, 1770 and 1775 re royal and aristocratic visits to Derby factory; note of Duesbury's catalogue of Derby porcelain sold by Wm Christie, 1785
f41v-r Extract from DM, 1788, re sale of imported oriental china in Derby by brothers of Joseph Wright, the artist
f42r Extract from Wm Bray's 'Tour into Derbyshire' (1783) re Derby factory
f42v Extract from DM 1786 re death of Wm Duesbury; extracts from Public Advertiser 1770-1771; extract from Gilpin's 'Northern Tour', 1785, with note
f44r Cuttings re boarding school, Wirksworth 1808 and re bankruptcy of Wm Chawner and Wm Duesbury of Bonsall, colour manufacturers, 1826; extracts from DM 1788 re death of Wm Clarke and advertisement for clerk
f45r Extracts from DM, 1789, re coronation celebrations at Derby factory; note on Miss Chawner's school; extract from John Mawe's 'Mineralogy'
f45v Extracts from Derby St Alkmund's parish registers re Chawner family 1757 and from DM, 1842
f46r Extract from DM re Prince of Wales' order for dessert service, 1788; extract from GM. Woodward's 'Eccentric Excursions,' 1796 re Derby porcelain
f46v Notes re Duesbury family and visits to Derby factory 1803-1816
f48r Extract from DM, 1816, re visit by Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia to Derby factory and cutting re royal patronage, 1842
f48v Extract from DM, 1825, re china service produced by R Bloor
f49r Extract from E Rhodes 'Peak Scenery' (1818) re factory
f51r Cuttings from DM, 1814, 1823 re sales of Derby china
f52r-v Notes on Bloor's ware; wasters; sale of china, 1822; appearance of large warehouse, note on John Haslem
f53r Copy advertisements for Derby china sales, 1822, 1823
f53v Extract re Thomason marriage, DM, 1819; AW's note of his father's opinion of Thomason and on Bloor family; extracts from DM, 1823, 1824, 1825
f54r Memorial card of Jas Thomason d.1864 and advertisement, 1852, for Wm Locker & Co (late R Bloor) china manufacturers
f55r Note on marks on Bow china; forged Harlequin figure, attributed to Derby
f55v Note re earliest ware made at Derby works by G Duesbury
f56r Notes on marks on Crown Derby porcelain figures 'Two stages of inebriation'
f56v Note re use of pottery fragments to fill vault below Breadsall church
f58r-v Notes correcting text by AW including flower painters' room later used by dressmakers as site of Wheeldon's malt warehouses
f59v Extract from G M Woodward's 'Eccentric Excursions' (1797) re Derby porcelain factory; note on earthenware and faience and pair of sceaux decorated by Billingsley and Pegg
f62r Note of Crown Derby marks on tea service in Devon, 1902
f62v Notes and illustration of Crown Derby marks
f63r Small photographic print of edge of Billingsley 'Prentice Plate'
f64r Photographic plate: Derby teapot etc
f67r Photographic plate: Lord Scarsdale's vases
f68r Photographic plate: Lord Scarsdale's china
f68v Illustrations of Derby marks etc
f70r Photographic print; Rodney jug and two chocolate cups with notes on decoration
f70v Note on date of Rodney jug
f71v Note re 'crossed stick' anecdote
f73r Note on colour of early Derby marks with illustrations
f74v Note on sale of Derby service, 1872; note that one mark illustrated is 'imaginary'; extract from DM, 1819, re service ordered by Persian ambassador
f76r Note on marks added subsequently to china
f76v Note on marks on large biscuit figures and on a teacup and saucer
f77v Cutting from DM, 1875, from Sampson Hancock re his continuation of old Derby China factory with negative comment by AW; illustration of Derby marks
f78r Photographic print: 'The Prentice Plate' and illustrations of Sampson Hancock marks
f79r Note on flower painters' room [as above f78r]. Extract from Derby St Alkmund's parish register of marriage of Thos. Simpson, 1757; note on Mrs Alfred Wallis and cutting re Henry L Pratt, landscape and animal portrait painter
f79v Extracts from St Alkmund's parish registers re Hannah Soar, Ann Yates, 1798
f80r Extract from St Alkmund's parish register, 1801 re John Wallis and Sarah Yates; note on Sarah Tatlow; extract from DM, 1812, re Mr T Tatlow, china painter
f80v Extract from DM 1821 re death of John Yates with description of his appearance; note on George Robertson and his son James Robertson, both painters on china; note on drawings owned by George Clutow, and attribution of illustration on Rodney jug
f82r Photographic plate: illustration of 'Prentice Plate' bequeathed by John Haslem to Derby Museum; note on William Wheeldon and his connection with Billingsley
f82v Extracts from Derby St Alkmund's registers re Billingsley family 1758-1780, with additional note by AW
f83v Note on Thomas Soar; gilding; extract from DM 1813, 1815, re John Brewer, drawing master
f85r-v Extract from DM, 1816, re death of John Brewer, landscape painter, with note on a 'Miss Brewer'. Note on Robert Corden's portraits on china; extract from Freemasons' Roll, Derby, of entry to Tyrian Lodge of William Corden, 1825
f86r Cuttings from DM 1810, 1826 re WJ Coffee, modeller, who moved to Derby after 1792
f86v Note that John Haslem is source for disparaging remarks about WJ Coffee's skill. Cutting from DM 1825 re 'Mr Webster, flower painter, Castle Street'
f88r Culting re 'New China Works' established by Messrs Cocker and Whitaker, 1826; extracts from Derbyshire Directory, 1827-1829, re George Cocker, 'Ornamental Porcelain Manufacturers', Friargate; note on 'Three Steps of Inebriation'; extract from DM 1809 re 'Statue of Aesculapius modelled by Mr Coffee'
f88v Copy of 'New China Works' advertisement [as above f88r] note by AW of figures made by Cocker; extract from DM of sale of china, 3-5 May 1826
f89r Critical comments by AW on Jewitt's supposed sources
f89v Cutting re sale of Derby china, 3-5 May 1826 [as above f88v] extract from DM re theft from John Blood, china painter, 1786; cutting re 'Old Derby China factory' [1889] and James Rouse
f90r Cutting 'A relic of the Derby China Works' re John Whitaker [1874] by John Haslem
f91r Copy advertisement and cutting from DM 1777 re sale of plaster moulds etc at Wirksworth
f91v AW's comments on Jewitt's use of Pinxton history; extract from Farey re Pinxton factory (1815) note on 'china-money' [ ? ] in use at Pinxton factory
f92r AW's notes on Wirksworth china, with illustrations
f92v Photographic plates (2) of Pinxton china
f93v Extracts from DM, 1813, and later re notes Chesterfield Pottery, Brampton Pottery and Melbourne Pottery
f94r Printed letter from Wm Bemrose to AW re collection from 1870 exhibition of loans
f95r Extracts from DM, 1822, 1824 re Ticknall Pottery, Brimington Pottery; cutting from DM, 1811, re death in London of Paul Chadwick, potter, formerly of Crich
f95v Extracts from DM re Church Gresley pottery 1795, Belper Pottery, 1811; Chesterfield Pottery, 1826
f96r Entry in Derby Freemason's Roll, 1798, of Wm Chapman, Gresley, notes
f96v Photographic print: Nantgarw china owned by Wm Bemrose
f98r Note of Nantgarw marks
f99r Extract from Glower's 'History' re Alfreton Pottery
f99v Notice of Derby china party in Procession marking opening of Derby Arbaretum, 1840 with note by AW of his memory, aged 8, of event
f101r Extracts from DM 1825, 1776, 1812 concerning Chesterfield Pottery, Holmesfield Pottery
f102r Cutting from DM 1897 re 'Value of Crown Derby China' and note of omission of Derby from work on china factories, 1764
f103r&v Letter from W Watkins Old, Monmouth, 1875 re impressed star mark of Derby factory
f104 Copy advert re M Barber, portrait painter, 1817
f105r Illustration of 'Ornamental China, Royal Crown Derby' nd |