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Add MS 89510/3/3
- Record Id:
- 040-004361974
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004290473
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163713315.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89510/3/3
- Title:
- Travel journal of David Richardson including a trip to North America
- Scope & Content:
- A brown leather-bound journal belonging to David Richardson, Ralph's grandfather, recording details of business trips and holidays with notes, sketches and press cuttings.
The volume includes:
- a description of a visit to London in Mar & Apr 1862 to fix exhibition cases
- a trip to Leeds in Jul 1862, with a diagram of roof girders
- a newspaper cutting pasted in the volume describing a court case against some leather workers
- a pasted in geological map of the South East
- a trip to London via Chesterfield, Leicester and Hitcham in Jul 1862
- a trip to Exeter in Feb 1863
- a trip to Manchester Mar 1864
- a trip to Felton, Apr 1864
- a trip to Grassmere, Jul 1864
- a trip to Exeter and the surrounds, Mar 1865, with a visit to Rough Tor on Bodmin Moor
- printed minutes of a General Meeting of the Great Onslow Consols Mine in Apr 1857 and photographs of mine workings
- a trip to France, Sep 1865
- notes for a proposed trip to America in 1865 which was delayed
- a journey to Liverpool, May 1869, and on board a steamship to Canada and USA
- printed maps of Philadelphia and Boston, together with a fifty cent note
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004290473
036-004343968
040-004361974 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89510 : Ralph Richardson archive
Add MS 89510/3 : Family Papers and Juvenilia
Add MS 89510/3/3 : Travel journal of David Richardson including a trip to North America - Hierarchy:
- 032-004290473[0003]/036-004343968[0003]/040-004361974
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89510
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1862
- End Date:
- 1869
- Date Range:
- 1862-1869
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Unavailable as awaiting conservation
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- User Conditions:
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Richardson, David, director of Elswick Leather Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1835-1913