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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

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