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Collapse D4627 - John Joseph Briggs (1819-1876), antiquary and naturalist, of King's Newton - 1837-20th century

D4627 - John Joseph Briggs (1819-1876), antiquary and naturalist, of King's Newton - 1837-20th century

Collapse 1 - Correspondence - 1837-1875

1 - Correspondence - 1837-1875

1-2 - Letters to parents including references to publication of poem, naturist's view of life, illness and leaving work - 1837

3-12 - Letters to members of family, mainly from resorts because of ill - health, including references to visit to Kenilworth (D4627/1/3), Guernsey and Jersey (D4627/1/7-8), his book on Fauna (D4627/1/9), his father's memories of visit to Liverpool docks (D4627/1/10), visit to Manchester (D4627/1/11) - 1840-1849

13-25 - Correspondence: correspondents include James Orton (writer), Spencer Hall, Llewellynn Jewitt with references to research for book on Derbyshire worthies, family, fishing, architecture - 1851-1859

26-49 - Correspondence: correspondents includinglude Jewitt, E Hardinge, Stephen Glover with references to Hardinge family (Lord Donington), archaeological finds, natural history, family including wedding and children, research on Derbyshire worthies, painting at Melbourne, Dunmow Fitch competition - 1860-1869

50-65 - Correspondence: correspondents include Hardinge, Jewitt, Bemrose with references to natural history, family holiday in Scarborough (some letters with letterheads showing hotels, bathing machines), visit to Whitby - 1870-1875

66-85 - Undated letters including parents and wife (D4627/1/66-75) with reference to poetry, family; Colvile (D4627/1/76) referring to game laws and prosecution; Couper (D4627/1/77) referring to visit to Rowsley by Henry W. Longfellow, American poet

Expand 2 - Family history

2 - Family history

Expand 3 - Personal papers

3 - Personal papers

Expand 4 - Manuscript work

4 - Manuscript work

5 - Newspaper articles, writing as A Naturalist - [1850s-1860s]

6 - The Trent and other poems by John Joseph Briggs - 1857-1858

7 - Natural History of Melbourne

8 - Fauna of Derbyshire Quadrupeds Chapter III (reprinted from The Reliquary) Jul - 1861

9 - Newscuttings

Expand 10 - Memorials

11 - Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Briggs family - 1793-1880

12 - Newscuttings and articles about John Joseph Briggs including extract from diary in 1843 relating grandmother's recollection of Jacobite uprising in 1745 (D4627/12/1) - 20th century

13 - Papers not identified as connected with Briggs - 19th-20th century

14 - Obituary of Thomas Bateman by L. Jewitt reprinted from Derby Telegraph Aug 1861 (D4627/14/1), A "Memory" of the late Thomas Bateman Esq by Llewellynn Jewitt reprinted from The Reliquary Oct 1861 (D4627/14/2), alphabetical list with manuscript additions (? galley proof) addressed to Jewitt (D4627/14/3) - 1861

15 - Manuscript Newscuttings and notes on Florence Nightingale - [1850s]

16 - Printed material relating to Derbyshire people, possibly collected for work on Derbyshire worthies - [18th-19th cent]

17 - Miscellaneous items - 19th century

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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