Morrab Library ARCHIVE index A

Agnes - St. Notes by P. Laws LAW/36

Albums Drew. Autograph Album COL/4

Albums Gee. Christmas Album COL/5

Alwarton Manor 1812 sale particular of the Manor of Alwarton, Penzance & Mousehole

LAN/15

Alwarton Manor History of Manor of Alverton, by Gillian Green HIS/13

Andrews, A.W. Verses. [Mountaineer, Zennor] COL/1

Anecdotes Anon. notebook with local anecdotes c. 1858-82. Mentions Lawrence. Emidy & Billy Frost.

MAN/74

Annandale papers Legal documents 1739-1759 DAW/5

Anthony-in-Roseland, St. Parish Register 1660-1812 REG/1

Antichrist Antichrist Revealed, 1691 of Millenarian documents MAN/32

Appleby, Cedric ]St. Erth historian]

St. Erth archive APP/xxx

Apperley family Pedigree & history TR/3/9 TR/3/13

Archaeology, Industrial, of Cornwall

Notes by P. Laws LAW/17,18

Archer, Andrew - of Tanworth [Warks]

Household receipts & expenses 1693-1701 MAN/34

Armstrong, Judge Scobell

At Nancealverne HEA/3

Artwork 1 Original sketches, drawings See also Blight, Quick, Vibert Hanging or glazed – non-portrait Hanging or glazed – portrait See also Dawson prints

ART/1-14 ART/401-422 ART/601-614

Arundell, William - of Trengwainton

Dispute with William Gwavas over Newlyn pier MAN/36

Ashmolean Museum 1 Mineral specimens supplied by Dr. Wm. Borlase, Arthur MacGregor Borlase’s role in Huddesford’s reanimation of the museum; Arthur MacGregor

BOR/28 BOR/30

Aubrey [later Russell] house, St Mary’s Terrace

3 Deeds of Assignment dated 20/1/1854, 19/12/1919, 11/1/1928

LAN/27

B

Baker family Papers of the Baker family, Tredorwin, Georgia, Nancledra

BAK/xxx

Barham, Thomas Foster – Leskinnick Pz

Letter d/d 29/12/1826 about his subscription to the Unitarian Association

MAN/64

Basset, Gustavus Lambert

Sale particulars [Roskymer Cutter & Roskymer Meneage]

LAN/1

Batten, Joseph Penzance – a sketch LIT/18

Bayliss, Derek Collection of local railway records RAI/4-7

Beckerlegge, John J. Lectures by Newlyn Fish Allocation Committee See also papers presented to

HIS/1 HIS/44 HIS/45

Berry, Rev. P.E.F. – V. of St.Elwyn, Hayle

Album COL/2

Black Prince, The – 1st Duke of Cornwall

Extracts from will & tomb inscription at Canterbury: facsimiles, translations

HIS/34 2 parcels

Blewett, Richard Rodda – teacher, St.Day

Thesis: genealogical study of Cornish Celtic surnames Curnow & Harvey Scrapbook on surnames Another inferior surnames copy with other material

GEN/1 GEN/2 GEN/15

Blight, John Thomas 1835-1911 – artist & antiquarian – in Bodmin Asylum from 1871

Notebooks, sketchbooks, drawings Journals Cromlechs of Cornwall Articles etc. Archaelogical drawings & notes Watercolours Note on Blight’s published works See also art catalogue, Cornish topography, artist index

BLI/1-6,13,14 BLI/7,15 BLI/9 BLI/8-12 COL/12 ART/406,407 BLI/16

Blunden, Edmund Some account of Charles Valentine LeGrice LIT/6

Boase, G.C. – bibliographer

Historical memoranda concerning Penzance PEN/15

Boase, N.A. Family prayers MAN/15

Boase family Paper on G.C., F. & C.W. Boase by J. Hambly Rowe REE/30

Bodilly Bodilly family papers BOD/xxx

Bolitho family A collection of extracts, A.R. C929.72 BOL

BORLASE – see separate pages at end of B entries B: Continued

Borrow, George Was George Borrow a Cornishman? Library lecture HIS/55

Boskenna, St. Buryan WMN cutting with sale details LAN/5

Boson, John – Newlyn Cornish language mss. The Pilchard Rhyme The Ten Commandments Cornish language fragments

MAN/35a MAN/35b BOR/115

Bottrell, William Folklorist BOT/1-2

Boulton & Watt Letters on Cornish engines HIS/46

Branwell material LOAN – estate of Lilian Oldham

Photograph albums, boxes, notes, journals, books [in library stock]. Bronte interest. List in Room 2.

Mobile shelving, bay L.

Bray/Darel Notes from Burke on descent of Bray and Darel families.

GEN/10

Breakwaters Breakwater proposals: Mount’s Bay St. Ives Bay 1857 Memorial with plan of breakwater. Prospectus with projected breakwater.

BRE/1,2 BRE/3,4,6 COL/31 p82 RAI/9

Bridge, Michael Guido – printing for friends LIT/16

Bridger, J.A.D. bookseller, Market Jew St.

Catalogues 1906, 1921-39 Business records

BRI/1 BRI/2-13

British Museum reproductions

Early inscriptions, manuscripts and book illustrations MAN/12 MAN/87

Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte – novelist BRO/1 & 7

Bronte sisters Bronte sisters BRO/2

Bronte/Branwell The Branwells of Penzance BRO/3-6

Buchenwald Camp Parliamentary Report HIS/10

Buryan, St. Missing 1813 survey maps [Mrs. G.C. Green] Photocopies of 16th century petition & map Boskenna sale details 1838 Tithe award Oliver Usticke’s 1706 accounts Parish registers 1653-1812 OPC registers 1813-1907 1841 census

HIS/4 HIS/26 LAN/5 LAN/6 MAN/57 REG/2 OPC OPC

BORLASE

Borlase, Anne 1783-1868, dgtr of Rev. Wm Borlase, married Rev. M.N. Peters

Notebook Cashbook 1831 – entries to 1826 Continental tour 1846

BOR/121 BOR/128 BOR/129

Borlase, Caroline 1738-1825 8th dgtr of Dr Walter Borlase

Effects at the Abbey 1825 with other personal records Letter to her brother George

BOR/126 TR/1/30

Borlase, Caroline Anne 1859-1934 2nd dgtr of John Borlase

Tour journals 1874-1895 Belgium, England, & Wales – with sketches Sketch book Notebook – details of family members Notes on family Copy letters 1727 & 1761

BOR 145-48 BOR/149 BOR/150 BOR/151 BOR/152

Borlase, Christopher 1729-51 4th son of Dr Wm Borlase

Journal & log, voyage to Guinea 1749-50, with drawings Drawings, letters Will 1745, photograph & transcript School exercises Proposed epitaph

BOR/13,14 BOR/15 BOR/24 BOR/117 BOR/185

Borlase, Elizabeth 1729-1801 5th dgtr of Dr. Walter Borlase

Notebook 1748 Family history notes Letter to Rev Wm Borlase Copy of will

BOR/124 BOR/125 TR/1/24 BOR/207

Borlase family – genealogy & history

Borlase pedigree Notes by Eliz. Borlase, c.1800 Descent, names& arms of Borlase. W.C. Borlase Private pamphlet on Descent by HS Tremenheere Taillefer pedigree Notes by Caroline Anne Borlase – 1800 Family history mss., notes, collections Family genealogies,pedigrees Mentions in History of Borlases of Buckinghamshire Borlase pedigree

BOR/27 BOR/125 BOR/143 BOR/143 BOR/143 BOR/150-51 BOR/157-61 BOR/163-70 BOR/188,190 TR/3/11 TR/3/16

Borlase family – images 5 family silhouettes Photograph portraits & Vibert prints Photographs: album & loose, incl. view of Pendeen Manor

BOR/199 BOR/200 BOR/201

Borlase family – letters, papers

Collections Letter 19-9-1747 to Mr Harris, mentions riot in Penzance

BOR/187-91 BOR/192

Borlase family – wills Copy will, Samuel Borlase, 1763 Legal papers, incl. copy wills for Dr Wm [d.1772], Elizabeth [d.1806] & Rev. Geo. [d.1809] Borlase

BOR/119 BOR/207

Borlase, Rev. George 1742-1805, 6th son of Dr. Walter B., Prof. Cambridge

Obituary Letters to Copy of will

BOR/127 TR/1/23,26,30 BOR/207

Borlase, John – 1666-1755, Pendeen

Estate valuation 1718 Estate list Articles left at Pendeen 1723

BOR/101 TR/1/31 TR/1/31

Borlase, Admiral John 1811-95

Case of medals BOR/19

Borlase, John 1829-89, eldest son of Samuel B., m. Lydia Peters

Notebook, mainly property Castle Horneck, rents received 1870-79 1892-94

BOR/139 BOR/140 BOR/141

Borlase, Mary Eady Tour journals 1851, 1854 with sketches & prints BOR/153,154

Borlase – recipes, remedies Collection – Borlase, Castle Horneck to 1788 Other collections

BOR/197 BOR/196,198

Borlase, Samuel 1735-1801, 2nd son of Dr. Walter B.

Daily journal 1758 Will 1763 – incomplete copy

BOR/118 BOR/119

Borlase, Samuel 1798-1866 Castle Horneck, rents received BOR/136

Borlase – travels, tours [full details in Borlase catalogue]

Borlase family Hutchens, Thomas Penneck, Catherine Peters Author unknown

BOR/129,145-48, 153,154 BOR/186 BOR/195 BOR/133-4,177 BOR/178-85

Borlase, Dr. Walter 1694-1776 Castle Horneck

Letterbooks 1745 Ditto 1742-3 Ditto 1752-5 Appointment diaries 1758, 1769, 1774, 1775 Stannary Convocation proceedings 1615, 1688 Other Borlase v. Carne & others, list of special jurors Letters from Dr. Oliver, Bath Letters, incl. his son Samuel’s debts Correspondence, Samuel/Oliver

BOR/16 BOR/103 BOR/102 BOR/104-7 BOR/110 BOR/108-9,111-14 BOR/23 TR/1/13,14 TR/1/11,12,15,22,24,27,28 TR/1/31

Borlase, Dr. William 1696-1772 R. Ludgvan, V. St.Just

Letters – outgoing Letters – received Drawings of Pengersick & Godolphin Memorandum on heraldry Natural history, antiquity Descent, names & arms, his ms. Contributions to meteorology Contributions to the Ashmolean Manuscripts & papers Other extracts, notes etc. Marriage settlement Ms. Appreciation Copy will & probate

BOR/1 BOR/2,3 BOR/5 BOR/8 BOR/6,9 BOR/18 BOR/22 BOR/28,30 BOR/20,25,26 BOR/4,7,10,11,12,17,29 TR/1/31 TR/3/21 BOR/207

Borlase, Rev. William 1741-1812 5th son of Dr. Walter B. V. of Madron

Greek notes 1759, Peterhouse Castle Horneck estate records- work done 1812-13 Other – letters, notes Family letter from his sister Elizabeth

BOR/120 BOR/122 BOR/121,123 TR/1/29

Borlase, William Copeland 1848-99, 2nd son of Samuel Borlase, antiquarian & politician

Borlase papers at Castle Horneck Quarterly Review article Notes on various subjects The Descent, Names & Arms of Borlase… with Hugh Seymour Tremenheere’s pamphlet on questionable conclusions Scrapbooks: parliamentary career 1880-85

BOR/26 BOR/142 BOR/143 BOR/144

Borlase Wm C 1848-99 continued

Press reports of bankruptcy proceedings: J.P. Cornish scrapbooks v. 22, p.82 v. 22A, pp. 34-5, 44-9, 59/60-62 and further related press reports

CO/16 BOR/33

C

Calenick Smelting Works Payments for working expenses MAN/91 Calstock Notes by P. Laws LAWS/10 Camborn [alias Paynter] Camborn pedigree GEN/3 Canals/Navigable Rivers Map for England & Wales with lists of canals & mileages

1894-95 MAP/84

Canorum Conclave #1 Copy 1860 of 1827/28 original LIT/7 Canorum Conclave #2 with copy of J. Hambly Rowe's comments LIT/7a Carne - Miss Elizabeth British shells - with pen & ink sketches SCI/16 Carne - Miss E. #2 Biographical details SCI/16A Carne - Mr. / Penzance Hounds

Settlement d/d 15/7/1822 of hare hunting dispute with Sir Rose Price

HIS/20

Castle Horneck: Borlase papers

Quarterly Review article W.C. Borlase Work done 1912-13 Rents received 1861-65 Rents received 1870-79 Rents received 1892-94 Property notebook Legend of House inventory Book inventory 1913 Rare mosses at (letter 1931) Queries on the older history of the estate Plan of Inventory 1720 Inventory & valuation on death of Rev. Walter Borlase 1776

BOR/26 BOR/122 BOR/136 BOR/140 BOR/141 BOR/139 BOR/162 BOR/172 BOR/173 BOR/174 BOR/175 BOR/176 TR/1/31 BOR/207

Chandos - Duke of Legal papers 1770-1801 DAW/10 Charles – King #1 Engraving by W. Hollar of Charles I on horseback

Reproduction of his 1642 letter of thanks to the Cornish people

MAN/1 MAN/82

Charts English Channel + Bristol & part of the St. George's Channels St. Ives to Dodman Point

MAP/2 MAP/20

China - war in Map of 1842 illustrating the war in China MAP/39 China Clay Notes by P. Laws LAW/9 Chirgwin & Son family/business records CHI/xxx Clark - David & Rosemary Donors of the Vibert collection of prints & family

silhouettes VIB/1-52

Clowance Clowance estate sale 1919 LAN/29 Colchester Siege of Colchester by Fairfax 1648 DAW/1

Colenso - Phyllis Notes on villages & antiquities in Cornwall LAN/3 Colenso - William 1811-91, b. Penzance. Missionary, printer & botanist.

2 manuscripts - a paper of botanical recollections & a letter of 8 pp to the Library. With a brief biography. Stray thoughts on W. Cornwall & on Cornish botany. Other Colenso papers.

MAN/90 MAN/90

Columb Major - St. Parish Registers REG/3 Columb Minor - St. Parish Registers REG/4 Commins - Thomas Memoirs HIS/2 Common Condition Ms. comedy - no author MAN/2 Consulat de France - Vice 1863 statement about bad produce sworn before Vice

Consul PEN/32

Cookbooks Recipes [c. 1690] Recipes and remedies [C 17 & 18th] Recipes & remedies [C19th] Recipes & remedies etc. [C18th] Recipes & remedies etc. [C19th & 20th]

MAN/1 MAN/34 BOR/196 BOR/197 BOR/198

Corin 1995 note by John Corin about his grandfather & great-uncle. See also 1869 indenture

PEN/55 PEN/54

Cornish Directories 4 directories: Bailey’s 1783; Universal 1791-98; Pigot 1823-24; Slater 1852-53

Cornish language The Pilchard Rhyme & The Ten Commandments; Boson Fragments – Gwavas Essays on by Victor [1817-91] & Victor Pentreath [b. 1859] with glossaries Fragments – mainly Boson

MAN/35A-B MAN/36 MAN/58 BOR/115

Cornish - John Batten 71 scrapbooks of local newspaper cuttings + index COL/16 Cornish - Thomas [solicitor; town clerk Pz; antiquary; naturalist]

Letters COL/3

Cornish concert programmes

collection ORCH/7

Cornwall - Engravings Album of map of Cornwall 1895 & 117 engravings ART/130 Cornwall County Council History of Cornwall exhibition catalogue

Other records - mainly education HIS/3 HIS/30

Cottell Cottell pedigree GEN/4 Cottle - June poem LIT/14 Couch - Johnathan [surgeon & naturalist of Polperro]

Natural History Medical abstracts Other Johnathan Couch and the Cornish fauna

COU/1 COU/2 COU/3&4 COU/5

County Maps [historical] Gloucestershire – Speed – 1610 Leicestershire – Speed – 1610 Essex – Norden/Speed – 1611 Devonshire – Blaeu – 1645 Huntingdonshire – Bowen – c. 1750

MAP/2 MAP/3 MAP/4 MAP/6 MAP/10

Courtney Courtney's book of memoranda - births & deaths in Cornwall

MAN/29

Courtney - M.A. [folklorist]

Cornish Feasts and Folklore - author's corrected copy MAN//18

Cressett Ms. book with records of the Cressett/Aston families and notes on Earls

MAN/41

Cubert parish registers REG/5 Cunnack - Mr. Receipts 1848-67 for land tax + water rent etc. PEN/16 Customs Records Copies of 18th century customs records for Penzance St.

Ives & Scilly HIS/52

D

Dale - Bill Heamoor archive - including Madron HEA/xxx Daniel - Alexander [Laregan Penzance]

Ms. books with extracts from the Daniel manuscripts MAN/42

Davey - John Astronomical tables SCI/13 Davy - John [army doctor & biographer of Sir Humphry]

Letters Notebooks

DAV/2 DAV/3

Davy - Lady Jane Letter and account books DAV/4 Davy - Sir Humphry Prince Regent's Warrant concerning award of Baronetcy

Photocopy of lost letter 11/8/1818 to Charles Hatchett DAV/1 ARC/7B

Dawson – Thomas Manuscripts & other papers Deeds and writs Correspondence & other records Napoleonic collection Peers of the Realm

DAW/1-17 DEE/xxx LIB/21 NAP/1-15 PEE/1-26

Deeds and writs Collection DEE/xxx Devon law precedents Ms. copies of legal documents from Exeter & E. Devon MAN/20 Dodds - Pam William Borlase and the arts - lecture BOR/31 Drew - Gladys [53 Morrab Road Pz.]

autograph album COL/4

Dunheved (Launceston) / Harvey

Indemnity against claim to dower 1785 LAN/20

Dunn - James Copies of two 1813 letters to his wife while prisoner of war in France. Believed to have been on the "Hopewell". See LIB/23.

LIB/24

E

Easter Book St. Just Easter Book - contains the Laudable Customs MAN/31 Eastoe - J.B. 2 volumes of newspaper cuttings on the life and death of

Louis Napoleon COL/17

Ecclesiastical Maps #1 Exeter Diocese - archdeaconries and deaneries MAP/80 Ecclesiastical Maps #2 England & Wales - ecclesiastical divisions + episcopal

jurisdictions and patronage MAP/83

Edwards - John Passmore Life and works: lecture notes papers prints photographs LAW/8 & 25 Egypt & the Sudan Map presented with "Egypt: descriptive historical and

picturesque MAP/85

Elizabeth - Queen facsimile of writing MAN/15 Emidy - Joseph Antonio [musician]

Archive: programmes & cuttings. Includes The Tin Violin. Grave listing. references p. 21

EMI/1-5 MAN/74

Erth – St 1842 Tithe Award Copy of reduced Tithe map History; farms; names; institutions; etc. 1841 census

LAN/7 MAP/53 APP/1-17 OPC

Exeter Album of maps prints etc J. Hooker’s 1587 town plan of Exeter

COL/11 MAP/1

Expelled ministers Expulsion of James Everett & Samuel Dunn & William Griffiths from the Wesleyan ministry 1849

HIS/39

F

Falmouth Notes by P. Laws LAW/11 Ferns pressed ferns SCI/10 FIsheries 1884 West Cornwall Fisheries Exhibition:

Catalogue Cuttings etc.

COL/ 16 vol. 41 16 vol. 20

FIshing Grounds Fishing grounds of Mount's Bay MAN/71 Folklore Folklore in Cornish: report of address by R. Morton Nance NEW/11 Forbes - Stanhope A. 1935 lecture "Some Story Pictures" with Newlyn

recollections LIB/42

Forbes - Sir John #1 Notes and papers on Meteorological tables for Penzance

SCI/3 SCI/12

Fox - John - Vegetable Cream

1820's printed advertisement MAN/65

Furly 1789 sailing notice from Southwark to Falmouth & Penzance

MAN/66

G

Gale - Hugh A Walk around Penzance PEN/51 Garstin - Crosbie Ms. Of Penhale Trilogy and short stories GAR/1-4 Garstin Family [LOAN] Mss. Proofs Letters & family memoralbilia: cataloged

separately for Norman NG; Douchie DG; Crosbie CG; Lilian LG; Denis DNG; Alethea AG; and family GF0.

Gas in Penzance Notes from a PhD thesis on the gas industry in SW England PEN/33 Gee - Alfred [missionary] Christmas album COL/5 Geological Survey Maps Land’s End district 1866

Cornwall – 10 areas 21 maps 1951-75 MAP/39 MAP/40

Geology of Cornwall 5 articles on the geology of Cornwall SCI/1 Geometry & Navigation Ms. volume in English. Local inscription & sketches. MAN/7 Germaine - Lord George Colonial Despatch 1780 DAW/8 Gerrans Parish Registers REG/6 Giddy - Edward Collins [son of Thomas]

Meteorological observations SCI/14

Giddy - John [grandfather of Davies Gilbert]

Connection with Calenick Smelting Works MAN/91

Giddy - Thomas [father of Edward C.]

Ms. Memoranda and extracts from the Borough Archives PEN/27

Girls' Welfare Archive 1908-2005 of the Penwith Association for Girls' Welfare [earlier the Preventive and Rescue Society]

PAGW/1-38

Godolphin Family tree for Godolphin and Paul GEN/13 Goeldi - Dr. Emilio A. Amazon BIrds SCI/11 Gogh - Van MOR/ART/

236 Goldsmith - Lt. Hugh Colville

Exxpenses in replacing the Logan Rock MAN/79 & 79A

Goninan Goninan family tree GEN/12

Gorsedd - Cornish Booklet rules notes etc. The Gorsedd Prayer

JEN/10-13 MAN/14

Graham - Winston Cuttings and memorabilia LIT/17 Greek Text Ms. Greek text on unidentified subject MAN/9 Green – Gillian Gertrude [formerly Lord of the Manors of Alverton & St. Buryan]

History of the Royal Manor of Alverton History of the Ecclesiastical Manor of St. Buryan

HIS/13 HIS/14

Green - Iris M. Manuscript of "Posing the Model" LIT/13 Green - Joseph J. [editor] "Quaker Records" extract GEN/9 Greenham Common Memoir [1982-85] by Martha Street HIS/42 Gulval #1 Tolver estate property sale at Long Rock [later petrol

station] Parish Registers 1598-1937 OPC Registers 1800-1905 1841 census History of parish by Rev. F.W. Warnes – 1937

LAN/31 REG/7 OPC OPC WAR/1

Gwavas – William of Penzance

Documents mainly on the Arundell/Gwavas dispute over Newlyn pier 1732-35; Gwavas owned the Paul fish tithe Cornish language fragments

MAN/36 MAN/36

Gwinear – St. Parish Registers REG/8 Gwithian Parish Registers REG/9

H

Halliwell -Charlotte [d.

of James Orchard]

Sketches in and around Penzance ART/1

Halliwell - F.E.

[author; historian;

critic]

Drafts - generally typed - much unpublished –

re Shakespeare & literary criticism

Poems

Fiction

HAL/1-8

HAL/9 & 10

HAL/11-15

Halliwell [-Phillipps] -

James Orchard

Correspondence from & other records

Volume of mss. & fragmentary printed material

presented by J.O.H.

LIB/20

MAN/1

Halsetown OPC Registers 1860-1901 OPC

Harbours in Cornwall Notes by P. Laws LAW/29

Harpur - Caldwell [book

reviewer & eccentric]

Life of a Crank

Animism

Transcript of diaries etc.

"Eclipse" scrapbook

HAR/1

HAR/2

HAR/3

HAR/4

Harris family [of Hayne

in Devon] [John Borlase

m. Lydia Harris]

Letter 18/9/1749 to Christopher Harris describes a

"Skimmingham" riot in Penzance

Pedigree-reputed descent from Edward III

Pedigree 16th c. to circa 1870

BOR/192

TR/3/9

TR/3/12

Harris - John "The Destruction of the Tolmen" LIT/11

Harris - Lydia [d. 1725] Descent from Edward III of Lydia Harris - mother of Dr.

William Borlase

BOR/21

Harvey Pedigree of Harvey of Maen GEN/5

Harvey - John "The Canorum Conclave" LIT/7

Harvey - Joseph

Marrack

Article on his Head Wrightson service overseas 1910-13 HIS/8

Hastings - Lady Flora

[1806-39]

Newspaper cuttings; records; memorabilia DAW/15

Hayle Letters from West Cornwall

Notes by P. Laws with other material

HIS/31

LAW/12

Heamoor Maps of village from 1841

History of St. Thomas' Church

See Dale archive

WAR/8

WAR/9

HEA/xxx

Heath - Henry Penzance seaweeds [early 19th C.] SCI/8

Hedgeland - Rev.

Prebendary –

V. of St. Mary's

Penzance

Catalogues of books

Cuttings

"Umbrella Verses"

Other papers; sermons & etc.

Scrapbook

HED/1-4

HED/5

HED/7

HED/6,8-11, 13

HED/12

Helston Ms of History of Helston by H. Spencer Toy

Notes by P. Laws

HIS/11

LAW/15

Hennuyer - John

[Bishop of Lisieux]

Ms. drama no author MAN/6

Henswood - William

Jory [geologist -

Penzance]

Ms. letters with covers addressed to W.J. Henswood MAN/10

Heron - Patrick 1976 letter to Justin Brooke MAN/77

Heywood - James Local travels 1757 HIS/56

Highet - Alison Letter to Andrew Symons with enclosures - Isaac Foot

and Q [also in COU/6]

LIT/15

Hilary - St. Parish Registers 1671-1812

OPC Registers 1813-1900

1841 census

REG/10

OPC

OPC

Hill - Mrs. Catherine

[Carwillenack near

Helston & Penzance]

Pocketbook TR/3/17

Historic Documents and

Events

10 facsimiles of documents & old newspapers with 7

copies of "The Times" 1793-1815

NEW/1

Hitchens - G.E.

[master mariner]

Service Log Book 1941 PEN/12

Hoblyn Family Family tree

Family records & business memoranda

GEN/14

PEN/38

Hoblyn - W.Treffrey

[genealogist; Illogan]

Pendarves window – Camborne

Plantagenet descent of Cornish families

Hoblyn family tree

Letters from J. Hambly Rowe

Transcriber - parish registers

Trewoofe - notes & plans

GEN/8

GEN/11

GEN/14

MAN/50

REG/xxx

LAN/18+26

&PEN/38

Hollar - Wencelaus

[1607-1677 etcher]

Map & description of Plymouth and its fortifications –

1644

Charles I on horseback - 1644 [with 8 other prints in the

Peers collection]

MAP/5

MAN/1

Holloway - Thomas

[1800-1883]

Papers bequeathed by P. Laws and donated by

D.LeHelyer-Holloway

Typescript note

PEN/60

REE/32

Hondius - Henricus [map

engraver & publisher d.

1650]

Map of S.E. England [possibly one of four covering the

country; Civil War period?]

MAP/7

Hooker - J. Town Plan of Exeter 1587 [extracted from Braun &

Hogenburg "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - Vol. VI - 1618]

MAP/1

Hopetown - Earl of Copy of Act for settling an entailed estate DAW/4

Hopewell Brig Brig "Hopewell" driven ashore at Douarnenez 1810.

Officers & crew prisoners of war. See entries for James

Quick & James Dunn.

HIS/23/24

Hoskin's Narrative Copy of narrative of journey to North America in 1811 by

James Hoskin

HIS/35

House of Commons

Journal

Contemporary copy of 1678 Journal with 1982 letter

from the Librarian to the House

MAN/47

Hudson - William Henry Letter dated 17/7/1922 to "my dear friend" - Mrs. Ethel

Harris of Penzance

LIT/12

Hyndford - Earls of Papers of 2nd & 3rd Earls. Includes: legal action re South

Sea stock; ms. account of journey Moscow-St. Petersburg

in 1748

DAW/3

I

Iago - Rev. William

[antiquary & chaplain of

Bodmin Asylum]

Notes on inscribed stones HIS/15

Innkeepers Notice of liability of HIS/38

Invasion 1595 1995 symposium HIS/48

Ives - St. Plan of harbour and new pier – 1812

Old St. Ives - cuttings on inns taverns rocks & headlands

1839 Tithe Award

St. Ives & West Cornwall Railway - Book of Reference

1860

OPC registers 1832-1903

1841 census

COL/31 p.24

HIS/28

LAN/8

LAN/28

OPC

OPC

J

Jago - Richard Apprenticeship indenture to J.M.R. Corin 1869 PEN/54

Jamaica Deed of High Court DAW/9

James - Henry [small

builder - Newlyn]

Work ledgers 1928-1971 JAM/1-3

Jegede - Tunde

[musician]

see Emidy archive EMI/1-5

Jenner - Henry Handbook of Cornish Language

Kan Nedelek

Story of St. Just

Other

JEN/1

JEN/2

JEN/3

JEN/4-9

Presidential address to Library in 1932 LIB/41

Jersey Family letters to... (1890) MAN/75

Judicature in Parliament Copy of a 17th century treatise MAN/21

Just-in-Penwith – St. 1843 Tithe Award

Vestry Minutes 1800-17

Easter Book 1588-96 [& Transcript by Rev. Canon Taylor

in JRIC vol. 20 1915-21. Photocopy with negatives on

alcove shelf.]

Thomas Woolcock [Boscaswell] notebook

Parish Registters 1599-1812

1841 Census

LAN/9

MAN/17

MAN/31

MAN/72

REG/11

OPC

Just – St. - Story of Sequence in honour of St. Just - words & music by Henry

Jenner

JEN/3

K

Kan Nedelek Ms. score of Cornish Christmas carol - words by Henry

Jenner & music by Peter Warlock [Philip Heseltine]

JEN/2

Kenegie House HerItage listing report LAN/37

Kent - Alan M. The tin violin - play about J.A. Emidy HIS/41

Kinsman - John 1874 Kinsman Catalogue - including particulars of the

Halliwell Compartment and the Dawson Collection

LIB/10

Kitchener - Dr. William See "Recipes and Remedies" which was formerly in his

possession

MAN/49

Kneehigh archive [loan] Green box file & other files; list in Room 2; Mobile bay N

Knight - G.E.O. Journalist and author - retired to Porthleven

"Memorabilia"

COL/6

Knill - John Prevention of wrecking in Cornwall - 1792 HIS/25

L

Lach-Szyrma - Rev.

Wladislaw Somerville -

V. of Newlyn

The Cornish Bishopric HIS/16

Land Tax Redemption 1799 Contract for Land Tax Redemption with John

Rogers for properties in Ludgvan Penzance Madron and

Sennen

LAN/25

Land Use Maps Cornwall - 6 maps - 1970-74 MAP/41

Lanyon - William 1790 Warrant as Searcher and Waiter of Customs MAN/43

Latham - Capt. F. Former borough engineer and surveyor of Penzance PEN/59

Laudable Customs In the St. Just Easter Book MAN/31

Launceston Notes by P. Laws LAW/22

Levan – St. 1838 Tithe Award

St. Levan diary 1711

Dr. Rowe - paper on

Lt. Goldsmith and the Logan Rock

Parish registers 1700-1812

OPC registers 1813-1920

1841 census

LAN/10

MAN/56

MAN/70

MAN/79

REG/12

REG/12

OPC

Levan Diary – St. George Bown Millett's copy of 1711 diary by someone

living at Bosistow in St. Levan

MAN/56

Lizard Peninsula Notes by P. Laws LAW/20

Logan Rock Lt. Goldsmith's expenses in replacing the Rock MAN/79 &79A

London Reduced facsimile of Agas' 1560 London map

Facsimile of letter from the Duke of Buckingham about

the fire of London 1666

LAN/4

DAW/2

Longships Lighthouse Legal action against Henry Smith - the builder - with

details of the lease of the lighthouse

COL/14

Looe Notes by P. Laws LAW/21

Lottery tickets 1801 letter with 2 lottery tickets HIS/22

Ludgvan Wesleyan baptisms 1855-84

1841 census

OPC

OPC

Ludgvan Friendly

Societies

Ludgvan Friendly Society - 1794 printed rules; Ludgvan

Female Friendly Society - 1796 printed rules

HIS/21

Ludgvan Rectory Canon Boscawen's ms. record of plants in bloom -

Christmas 1908 & 1909

SCI/19

M Marazion OPC Registers 1839-1903 - St. Michael's Mount burials

1813-1905 - Wesleyan baptisms 1868-1910 - 1841 census OPC

Mabe - St. Parish Registers REG/13 Madron Dale Heamoor Archive

1841 Tithe Award Tythe fish book Parish Registers 1577-1726 OPC registers history of church [Warne] history of parish [Warne Jewell] history of local government [Warne] Knights Templars & Hospitallers in Madron Poor Law records 1841 census "A Play for Madron" 1932 [Warne] Services & communicants 1768-c.1800

HEA/xxx LAN/11 MAN/33 REG/14 OPC WAR/3 WAR/2+5 WAR/6 WAR/4+REE/137 OPC OPC WAR/7 TR/3/7

Maps Historical [pre-1801] Specialised [estate geological etc.] Other Cornish [non O.S.] Ordnance Survey [O.S.]

MAP/1-13 MAP/25-41 MAP/56-86 MAP/101-126

Marie Louise portrait photocopies of press reports of Dawe portrait sold 1983 LIB/1j Martin V - Pope 1907 copy of 1430 Bull granting a cemetery about the

chapel HIS/18

Mathematical Treatise

Ms. volume in French MAN/3

Mathematiques Pratiques

Ms. text - no author MAN/22

Matthews & Son - engineers

work books 1939-54 PEN/13

Medical manuscript medical manuscript given by Thomas Dawson - sold 1939 - see also query file #14

MAN/88

Medieval church services

medieval church services in English MAN/28

Meek - J.W. & Son - furniture retailers Market Place : records from 1912 MEE/xxx Mensuration of Superficies

Ms. volume in English MAN/4

Merry Maidens The Magazine of Penzance Church of England High School [c.1908-09]

NEW/6

Meteorological records - local

Newlyn. Papers used by Dawn Walker for the local history group - 2003 Penzance. E.C. Giddy's ms. records 1818-30 Penzance. Dr. John Forbes' records 1819-22

SCI/17 SCI/14 SCI/12

Millenarianism Millenarian documents MAN/32 Millett Children's ms. family magazine May 1854 MAN/44 Miners - Hugh Penzance. A Walk Around PEN/51 Mining Districts geological map of the West Cornwall mining district

Plan of Wheal Alfred [St. Erth] 1853 geological map of the St. Just mining district 1857 plan of Wheal Busy - Treskerby & Tolgus - 1861

MAP/31 MAP/32 MAP/33 MAP/34

Miscellaneous extracts drawings & prints

large scrapbook COL/12

Monaghan - Elaine Location of freshwater rhodophyte balkania investiens. Paper uses Ralk's unpublished "Flora".

RAL/6

Morrab House - condition

Work and Council correspondence 1974-82 Tresidder Report - 1983 - photographs Later Hon.Sec's papers

LIB/89 LIB/89A LIB/109

Morrab House - extension

library papers Mr. Myner's papers

LIB/108 LIB/111

Morrab house & gardens - Watson Morrab Gardens file

includes photographs/postcards Copy of 1889 Upcher gardens design Miss Hunter's commonplace poetry book

COL/30 MAP/51 MAN/73

Morrab [Penzance] Library

see MOR/LIB/xxx generally - but especially Minute Books 1964 Sotheby's sale Kinsman & Doidge catalogues James Orchard Halliwell Thomas Dawson Note: files from c. 1973 are numbered from MOR/LIB/76 onwards

MOR/LIB/xxx LIB/1 LIB/7+29 LIB/10-18 LIB/20 LIB/21

Morris - Guido MOR/LIT/16 Morvah 1571 indenture [lease] on Trevighan [Trevean]

Parish Registers 1650-1837 OPC registers 1841 census services & communicants in Morva parish 18th c. land deeds [Trevowhan]

MAN/40 REG/15 OPC OPC TR/3/7 LAN/35

Mosses pressed mosses another collection 19th century

SCI/7 SCI/21

Mostyn – John Armstrong

Post roads - London/Edinburgh 1777 MAP/50

Mount's Bay fishing grounds of MAN/71

Mousehole 1595 invasion conversation piece

HIS/48 PEN/49

Mullion Cornish home of Imre Szanto [properly Szuts] & his wife until they had to move away from the coast during the war. See "Enemy Alien".

MAN/81

Mundy – Peter - Mariner Penryn

Copy of Mundy's 1650 account of Cornwall and Penryn MAN/45

Murdoch House - Redruth

library catalogue LIT/3

Murrin - Thomas H. historical writings - see also Old Cornwall archive HIS/43 Myner - Dennis D.C. Papers. Charitable Trust and proposed extension LIB/108

N Napoleon Bonaparte For the Dawson Napoleonic Collection see NAP/1-14 Napoleon Peter Thorogood Collection NAP/16 Napoleon - Louis 2 volumes of newspaper cuttings on the life and death of

Louis Napoleon COL/17

Naylor - Simon Field culture: Cornish antiquarianism Natural history in Victorian Cornwall

HIS/54 NAT/8

Newlyn William William's "Remarkable Occurencies" Rev. A. Pearson's "Brief Memoir" John Pollard's POW journal OPC registers 1851-1903 Newlyn Trinity 1859-79 Fish Allocation Committee thatched cottages

MAN/61 MAN/63 HIS/19 OPC OPC PEN/49 PEN/50

Newlyn 1891 census records

includes employment information REG/26

Newlyn tidal gauge SCI/18 Newspapers - original Times 1793-1926

London Evening Post 1739 Star 1788 Other [1800-89]

NEW/1+3+4+9+10+12 NEW/9 NEW/2 NEW/7+9+10

Newspapers - facsimile - reproduced

English Mercurie 1558 Weekly Newes 1606 Intelligence 1648 Gazette 1658 & 1666 Times 1798-1815

NEW/1+8 NEW/1+8 NEW/1 NEW/1+8 NEW/8

Nichols - John Printed copy of Exchequer judgment enforcing the compulsory use of Tolcarne Mill

BOR/3 p. 84 + HIS/57

Notes and Queries - Cornish

Newspaper cuttings 1910-13 COL/13

Noye family - Newlyn & Mousehole

1634 lease of property in Mousehole LAN/16

Noye - William - Attorney-general 1631-34

Ms. volume on the rights of the Crown with a register of Parliaments

MAN/46

Nussey - Ellen Ms. note from Charlotte Bronte BRO/1

O Old Cornwall see Penzance Old Cornwall Society Oliver - Dr. William 1695-1764 b. Ludgvan - owned Treneere. Physician & philanthropist

Letters - Dr. William Borlase Letters - Dr. Walter Borlase

BOR/2+3 TR/1//13+14+31

Orchard - C.R. & Jewell - C.H.

Granite artifacts outside the Penzance Library PEN/19

Outport records copies of 18th century customs records - Penzance Scilly & St. Ives

HIS/29

P Padstow Notes by P. Laws LAW/30 Palestine Exploration Fund

Plans etc. of 1867-70 excavations at Jerusalem MAP/81

Map of Western Palestine from 1872-73 surveys MAP/82 Palm Sunday The Procession - words and music MAN/30 Palmer - James Leonard - Journalist

Early newspapers in Plymouth and the West Was George Borrow a Cornishman?

HIS/17 HIS/55

Papal Decree Papal Decree (partial) c. 1340 MAN/48 Paper Chase - The Copies for March 1908 and summer 1909 NEW/5 Parker – Charles W. Borlase - resided 11 Clarence Street Penzance

Two Special Tours: US/Canada 1851 & Crimea 1854; edited by Parker from H.S.T.'s memorials Parker also commissioned typecast versions of H.S.T.'s memorials from "Wesley: Typist Penzance"

TR/2/83H TR/2/83F+G+H

Parliament Letter 1822 on Parliamentary Law and Custom DAW/12 Parson - Country MS. verses to MAN/67 Paul 1841 TIthe Award

1634 lease - Noye family Copy of 1595 entry in the Baptismal Register after the Spanish raid Copy of tithe map Parish Registers 1595-1812 OPC Registers 1813-1904 1841 census churchyard headstones JJ Beckerlegge's copy registers

LAN/12 LAN/16 MAN/19 MAP/54 REG/16 OPC OPC REG/24 REG/25

Paul - William Letter d/d 4/5/1838 from HMS Vanguard off Malta to his sister Kitty (of Gulval) with local illustrations

MAN/62

PavillionTheatre theatre programs - 1950s PEN/47 Paynter - Thomas Plan attempting reconstruction of Trewoofe LAN/18 Pearson - Rev. Albert Brief memoir written he was 100 years old MAN/63 Peers of the Realm Main collection

Supplement of larger plates Additional/residual material with listings of contents with index

PEE/1-23 PEE/34 PEE/25-26

Pendarves Pendarves window in Camborne Church Family pedigree Family tree to Margaret m. Wm. Borlase 1720

GEN/8 TR/3/9 TR/3/14

Pendeen Plan of coast with proposed breakwater Drawing of proposed breakwater 1854 OPC registers 1849-1903 Diary - journey to Silver City Idaho 1874-6

MAP/3 MAP/4 OPC HIS/51

Pengersick Castle History; surveys; fieldwork; deeds of inquisition Wm. Borlase's drawings of Pengersick and - probably - Godolhin Nance - Old Cornwall Vol V p 89

HIS/59 BOR/5

Penneck - Catherine – m. 1777 William Borlase

4 letters 1768 from London to her parents in Gulval other references family letters

BOR/195 BOR/195 BOR/189+194

Penneck family family history 17th & 18th century: Charles P. m. 1712 Lydia - eldest daughter of Walter B.; John P. c 1713-73 of Gulval & St. Hilary Letters & papers - Catharine's 1768 letters + other family records & papers

BOR/159 BOR/195

Pentreath - Frederick - Mousehole

Essay on the Cornish Language with Glossary; see also Bernard Victor

MAN/58

Penryn Notes by P. Laws LAW/26

PENZANCE : see separate pages at end of entries for P

Continuation P Penwith Local History Group - PLHG [loan]

Group archive in boxes ring binders albums. Catalogue with item. Card index - 25 parishes in Penwith 16th-17th century – in alcove

Mobile shelving bay N

Penwith Association for Girls Welfare

Records Earlier names: c. 1908-22 Pz Preventive & Rescue Society. 1922-31 Pz. & District Social Welfare Society

PAGW/1-38

Perranuthnoe Parish registers 1562-1812 OPC registers 1813-58 1841 census

REG/17 OPC OPC

Peters - Lydia N. – b. 1828 – d. of Rev. M.N. Peters – m. John Borlase 1829-89

Tour diaries Europe England Scotland 1846-65 BOR/133-135

Peters - Rev. Michael N. - 1790-1880 – V. of Madron – m. Anne Borlase

Letterbooks 1822-29 Family records & papers

BOR/130 BOR/131-32

Peters - Usticke - letters & papers

collection 17th c. Usticke marriages

BOR/193-94 TR/1/30

Photographs Topographical Portraits see also Art Catalogue Part E - Cornish index

ART/801-06 ART/851-88

Physognomy [Physiognomy]

Ms. notes on MAN/68

Plantagenet Descent Notes by W. Treffry Hoblyn on Cornish families with Plantagenet descent

GEN/11

Playbills Penzance Norwich

PEN/1-3 PEN/4

Plates on various subjects

450 plates arranged by classes ART/307

Polglase - John Diary of sojourn in Natal South Africa 1878-80 HIS/60

Pollard - John - mariner - Newlyn

P.O.W. journal in France 1794-95 with later events to 1828

HIS/19

Poole - Ald. G. - Mayor 1914-20

Penzance of Yore PEN/11

Poor Law Notice of removal under the Poor Law 1933 PEN/21 Pope - Alexander The Grotto at Twickenham LIT/9 Porter Manuscripts For the Porter Ms. given by Thomas Dawson and related

Edwin papers - none of which can now be found LIB/21

Porthmeor Excavations 1933-5 F.C. Hirst HIS/40 Portraits Paintings & drawings

Prints See also Art Catalogue Part D & indices in Dawson prints Photographs See also Art Catalogue Part D Cornish index

ART/601-14 ART/701-56 ART/851-882

Post Roads London/Edinburgh - M.J. Armstrong - 1777 MAP/12 Praed - William Backwell of Trevethoe

Estate sale particulars LAN/1

Praa Sands Leaflet for holiday cottages at Sea Meads PEN/42 Preceptors - College of 1898 certificate MAN/76 Price Family [Trengwainton]

Papers & photographs Notes on [Dale] Hare hunting dispute 1822 Biographical notes incl. establishment in Jamaica

COL/13 HEA/14 HIS/20 REE/26-28

Prints - Topographical Cornwall See also Art Catalogue Part B & indices Not Cornwall

ART/101-31 plus 501-07 ART/201-237

Prints - not topographical

ART/301-313

Prints - portraits see also Art Catalogue Part D indices for Dawson portraits

ART/701-756

Prints - engravings & representations

Various subjects Engravings Life of the Queen & engravings Miscellaneous - incl. some J.T. Blight Collection incl. some historical events

ART/307 ART/306 ART/308 COL/12 MAN/85

PENZANCE Penzance Generally

Playbills 1787-1828 Town Charter - facsimile translation G.C. Boase "Historical Memoranda" Proposed railway with print of Bay and breakwater Occupied premises tax assessments 1898-1910 Penzance Assembly book 1791 Ladies Book Club 1779-1912 Penzance public occasions T.Giddy’s ms. memoranda & extracts from Borough archives Penzance Scientific & Industrial Exhibition 1882 Proposed Borough & Ward changes - 1837 Borough Council minutes 1939-46 Garnier "Rosebud" archive Old records - Borough and Manor of Alverton Charlotte Halliwell's sketches Borough Council accounts A Walk Around

PEN/1-45 PEN/1-3 PEN/7 PEN/15 RAI/9 PEN/20 PEN/22 PEN/23 PEN/26 PEN/27 PEN/29 PEN/36 PEN/43 PEN/44 PEN/45 ART/1 PEN/48 PEN/51

Penzance air raid 1941 letter of appreciation HIS/36 Penzance art group scrapbook of memorabilia PEN/57 Penzance - a sketch Eulogy by Joseph Batten LIT/18 Penzance Bible Christian Church

Official Handbook and Souvenir of Grand Bazaar - 1900 PEN/41

Penzance Borough 1841 Plan of the Borough of Penzance: street layout and major names within 880 yards from the market cross in the Green Market 1841

MAP/52

Penzance - fisheries 1884 West Cornwall Fisheries Exhibition COL/16 vols 20 & 41

Penzance Gazette copy for 15/6/1842 with entry about the proposed enclosure of Trewey Common Zennor

NEW/7

Penzance in Wartime - Hilda Quick

4 mounted coloured prints 2 framed prints 2 pencil sketches

QUI/25-8 QUI/59+61 QUI/42

Penzance - Jews Burial Ground

1844 conveyance: Rogers/Wardens of the congregation of Jews in Penzance of the Jews Burial Ground

LAN/24

Penzance Maps Plan of borough 1841 Penzance c. 1870-81 Reproductions of 25 in. 1880 and 1908 O.S. maps

MAP/52 MAP/61

Penzance mayoralty dispute

verse fragment on 1706 mayoralty dispute MAN/38

Penzance medical manuscript

paper by Dr. Shaikh 1997 on tracts sold by the library in 1939

MAN/88

Penzance Natural History & Antiquarian Society

Minute Books Lists of members Visitors Book

NAT/1-3 NAT/4+6 NAT/5 NAT/7

Penzance Official Guide 1876

Photocopies PEN/58

Penzance Old Cornwall Society (Loan)

Records & proceedings; catalogue in room 2 mobile shelving Bay N

Penzance Old Girls (LOAN)

Records of the Old Girls Association of the Penzance County Grammar School for Girls; list in room 2. Framed photographs with maps.

mobile shelving Bay L

Penzance Orchestral Society

Programmes/cuttings from 1905 [also some other orchestras &events]

ORCH/1-6

Penzance play bills New Theatre 1787-1855 with concert programmes Pavillion Theatre - post war with some other programmes

PEN/1-3 PEN/47+53

Penzance - properties conveyances & leases LAN/2+15+17+21-25+27+32-3 &TRE/1-29

Penzance Registers OPC registers: Anglican Methodist Wesleyan 1805-1905 Penzance Union 1839-41

OPC OPC

Penzance - St. Johns Ambulance

Archive STJ/1-15

Penzance Water Supply wartime (1942-44) information sheet Penzance - Wesleyan ministers

expulsion of 3 ministers HIS/39

Penzance - West Cornwall School

Plan of new buildings at St Clare 1938 memorabilia and records

PEN/39 PEN/52

Q Quarrying - stone – in Cornwall

Notes by P. Laws LAW/31

Quick - Henry "Life and Progress etc." Other verse works

LIT/10A LIT/10B

Quick - Hilda - artist sketchbooks unmounted prints exhibition mounts other unmounted prints fairies and flowers wartime sketches water colours marsh and shore framed works blocks and linocuts

QUI/1-2 QUI/3-15 QUI/16-24 QUI/25-29 QUI/30-41 QUI/42 QUI/43-54 QUI/55 QUI/56-60 QUI/61-73

Quick - James Captain of brig Hopewell lost Douarnenez 1819. Copies of letters to his wife during his imprisonment in France 1810-14.

HIS/23

Q – Quiller-Couch – Sir Arthur

"Q" archive Memories of Q Nicky-Nan; reservist Letter [Highet to Symons} - [also in COU/6] 1919 address "A Library with a Garden by the Sea"

COU/6 COU/8 COU/7 LIT/15 LIB/40

Quintrall [or Quilter] - John

1742 letter concerning naval service record MAN/39

R Rablen - Arthur Wilfred "Cornish Dialect Words" in "John Tonkin's Book" MAN/55 Railways - England and Wales

Map showing all routes approved and also those proposed 1838 Official map 1917

MAP/77 MAP/87

Railways in West Cornwall

West Cornwall Railway Act 1846 Penzance-Truro timetable 1853 Penzance-Truro track layouts pre-1921 Bayliss Collection Thoday Collection Penlea line with breakwater 1830s Notes by P. Laws Surveyed routes to St. Just 1864-98 OS map with line to Marazion

RAI/1 RAI/2 RAI/3 RAI/4-7 RAI/8 RAI/9 LAW/32+34 MAP/60 MAP/108 Add.

Ralfs - John - botanist Flora of W. Cornwall Other material on flora/fungi biographical material

RAL/1 RAL/2-3 RAL/4-5

Rangerstein - R. Local travels 1753-5 HIS/56 Recipes & household preparations

Late 17th century 18th century [once owned by Dr. Kitchener] Inscribed 1878 Castle Horneck 18th century Earlier 20th century

MAN/1 MAN/49 BOR/196 BOR/197 BOR/198

Reddish/Canning Press cuttings & biographical records etc. includes stage career of Mary Anne Canning - mother of George Canning

DAW/13

Redruth 1841 Tithe Award Parish registers

LAN/13 REG/18

Rees - Edgar A. Antiquities Architectural sketches Biographical records Botany Cornish dialect Cornish language Cornwall - history Customs and folklore Penzance Postal matters Pottery and porcelain Smuggling Other - including memorabilia

REE/1-16 REE/17-25 REE/26-38 REE/39/61 REE/62-87 REE/88-98 REE/99-125 REE/126-136 REE/137-145 REE/146-161 REE/162-167 REE/168-177 REE/178-207

Registers Transcriptions of parish registers Photocopies of parish records from the Church of Latter Day Saints [in newspaper room with index]

REG/1-24 OPC

Regles sur la Sintaxe Ms. treatise in French MAN/8 Religious plays Ms. volume in Latin MAN/5 Richards - Glyn The Jill Garnier Scrapbooks - The Rosebud Story.

Newlyn 1937. Supplements the Rosebud Archive [PEN/44]

PEN/45

Roads and Bridges in Cornwall

Notes by P. Laws LAW/35

Roberts - W. - journalist and writer on botany

Scrapbook COL/8

Rosebud Garnier archive of press cuttings PEN/44 Rosehill - Madron Plan 1841

Dr. Chown's Cornish Riviera Sanatorium MAP/25 PEN/40

Rowe - Joseph Hambley Letters - mainly genealogical - to William Treffry Hoblyn 1934 reprint of report on paper about St. Levan

MAN/50 MAN/70

Rowse - Dr. A.L. Memorabilia An introduction to a new edition of Polwhele His student's notebook - Christ Church 1922-3 Chalky Jenkin: llittle cat lost

ROW/- ROW/2 ROW/3 ROW/4

Royal Archaeological Institute

Truro summer meeting June 1973 SCI/6

S Salisbury Papers Cornish references 1599 HIS/50 Saltren Willett Visitors' Books late 19th century MAN/51 Sancreed Parish Registers 1566-1812

OPC registers 1813-1905 Parish vestry and churchwardens' accounts 1841 census

REG/19 OPC OPC OPC

Sarum Offices Sarum Manual Sarum Pontifical Sarum Consuetudinary and Customary Sarum Breviary

MAN/24 MAN/25 MAN/26 MAN/27

Satan - the spirit of darkness

Decaying ms. of the text on a sarcophagus MAN/11

Schools in Cornwall HIS/30

Scilly - Isles of Lecture and other notes by P. Laws Legend of the Holy Vale St. Mary's Parish Registers 1726-1812 OPC registers 1819-1900

LAW/14+29+37 LIT/8 REG/20 OPC

Scobell - George Pender will photocopy HIS/47 Sealed at Edinburgh Unidentified deed MAN/23 Seashells Miss Carne's British Shells SCI/16 Seaweeds Pressed seaweeds - late 19th century

Penzance seaweeds SCI/9 SCI/8

Sennen Copy of 1430 papal bull with right to a cemetery Parish registers 1700-1812 OPC registers 1813-1900 1841 census

HIS/18 REG/21 OPC OPC

Seringapatam Descriptive sketch of capture of fort town and Tippoo Sultan

DAW/11

Sermons Old sermons. Collection of ms. leaflets and sermons [?1676]

MAN/80

Shaftesbury Abbey Ancient confirmation deed LAN/14 Shaikh - Dr. Paper on the 1939 sale of medical tracts MAN/88 Sherwood - Rev. Joseph Copies of 7 sermons preached locally MAN/52 Shipwrecks in Cornwall See John Knill'ss scheme for preventing - 1792 HIS/25 Skimmington Riot Description of in a copy letter d/d 18/7/1749 to Mr.

Harris of Hayne Devon & Kenegy. Writer not given but probably from Dr. William Borlase of Ludgvan to John Harrris - his first cousin

BOR/192

Small - George H. - borough engineer - Oenzance

Comparative water supply statistics OEN/17

Smuggling 18th century customs records HIS/52 Social hygiene Books & pamphlets SCI/20 Sotheby's sale Sale of library books at Sotheby's May 1964 LIB/7+29 Sparrow - Elizabeth Espionage in France in the Napoleonic Wars HIS/52 Stamp Act Ms. account of Lords debate on repealing the Act DAW/7 State papers Cornish references 1547-1598 HIS/49 Stephens - Rev. John R. of Ludgvan

Notebook with tour to N. Devon 1820 and personal notes 1820-25

MAN/53

Stevens - Winifred and Dorothy

Personal papers; memorabilia; photographs STE/1-5

St. John's Ambulance - Penzance division

Archive STJ/1-15

Street - Martha Greenham Common memoir 1982-5 HIS/42 Symons - Olive Mary Librarian 1905-1951. Memorial inscription MAN/83 Stukeley - Dr. William - 1687-1765 - Physician cleric & 1st secretary of the Society of Antiqries

Photograph of portrait - J.S. Wood 1725 BOR/212

Sullivan - Brian [Hayle] Speedbird Service articles HIS/5 Szegedi-Szuts - Istvan - Hungarian artist.

Manuscript of wartime experiences in Cornwall entitled "Enemy Alien"

MOR/MAN/81

T Taillefer - Angouleme Taillefer pedigree

Tower of - ink drawing - reputed origin of the Borlases of Cornwall

BOR/143 BOR/171

Tangye archive [loan - the Minack Chronicles Trust]

Mss.; notebooks; proofs; garden log; scrapbooks; etc - in 5 boxes - list is in Room 2

mobile shelving - bay N

Tavener - J.R. Butcher of 14 Coulson's Buildings. 1885 bill PEN/31 Taylor - Rev. Canon see St. Just Easter Book Thomas - W. Herbert - editor The Cornishman

Memorabilia Scrapbooks: Shot and Shell Scrapbook: Uncle Sam Scrapbook: Prattle Scrapbook: Looking backwards Scrapbook: articles cuttings poems etc.

COL/9 COL/10 COL/21 COL/22 COL/25 COL/23+24+26+27

Thorogood - Peter Napoleonic collection NAP/16 Thurlow - Edward - Lord Chancellor

Opinion on powers of arrest on the Isles of Scilly MAN/37

Tin Stamp Charles Jelbert's plan and section 1778 SCI/15 Tithe maps St. Erth - reduced from the original - 21 sheets

Paul - rolled composite of photocopies of A4 sheets Tithe apportionment in Paul - map in front of Lan12

MAP/53 MAP/54 LAN/6-13

Tolcarne Mills Newlyn Court of Exchequer judgment 1713 Another copy p. 84

HIS/57 BOR/3

Tonken - John of Pensans

1686 account of his claim to have been bewitched and the subsequent trial

MAN/54

Tonkin - John "John Tonlin's Book - 18 November 1831" [?k or l?] includes AW Rablen's "Cornish Dialect Words"

MAN/55

Towednack Parish Registers 1841 census

REG/22 OPC

Toy - M. Spencer - historian and schoolmaster

"History of Helston" final typescript HIS/11

Tregavarah OPC Wesleyan Register 1892-1905 OPC Tremenheere - Hugh Seymour - properties

Plan of Trenugo [Sancreed] Plan of Tolver [Gulval] and Tremenheere [Ludgvan] Plan of Trevore [St. Buryan]

MAP/26 MAP/28 MAP/27

Tremenheere - Hugh Seymour - 1804-93 - son of Gen.. Walter Tremenheere - inspector of schools mines factories etc - author & classicist

Travels - continent - UK: sketchbooks journals diaries Inspection in Midlands 1840 Visits to N. America and Russia 1851-2 Appointment diaries Copy letters from 1827 [iindex for non-family in catalogue] Personal documents Ms. translations from Pindar [publ. 1866] "Memorials of my life" ms. and copy "Memorials of long [full] life" m.s. + typed versions Appreciations - print and type Publications and pamphlets listed in catalogue

TR/2/1-5 TR/2/6 TR/2/7+8 TR/2/9-58 TR/2/59-71 TR/2/72-8 TR/2/79 TR/2/80+81 TR/2/82+83 TR/2/84-9

Tremenheere Family pedigrees - Tremenheere; Apperley; Borlase; Harris; Pendarves; Westfaling; Bernal Penzance Mayor - d. 1643 Births marriages deaths from William b. 1732 to Walter's children

TR/3/9 TR/3/22 TR/3/22

Tremenheere property Deeds & leases mainly 1654-84 19th c. map of the Weeths fields Properties and rents in West Cornwall c. 1840

TR/1/1-10 TR/3/8 TR/3/22

Tremenheere - Sibella Photograph of sampler with name and date 1667 TR/3/22

Tremenheeere - General Walter - 1761-1855

Journal of occurences 1799-1802 Notebook Recollections of Dr. William Borlase Notes in the Life Recollections of by his son Seymour Tour N. Wales 1794

TR/1/34+35 TR/1/36 TR/3/1 TR/3/2 TR/3/3 TR/3/4

Treneere House/estate - photograph Abstract of title; documents from 1875-1927 also LHF 262

HEA/3 LAN/2

Trereife Estate General Ledger 1894-97 PEN/14 Tresidder - P.T. - Borough surveyor 1960-74

Papers - esp. sea defence and the 1962 storm Condition report on Morrab House 1983 related photographs

PEN/59 LIB/89 LIB/89A

Trevail - Silvanus Talk by P. Laws - notes; society papers; Trevail play COL/18 Trevaskis family history GEN/6 Trevighan [Trevean] Morvah

1571 indenture [lease] Coswyn/Trembaghe [Trembath] MAN/40

Trevithick Society Foundation and early years Loan documents from 1724 for properties owned by the Redruth Brewery in Lady [Chapel] Street New Street and Parade Street

LAW/7 TREV/xxx

Trewellard - St. Just Copies of documents 1657-65 of sale of land at Trewhellard and Carnemeale

LAN/19

Trewinnard Coach Coloured drawing - p. 29 Old postcard of coach in barn

COL/12 COL/30

Trewoofe - alias Trove - St.Buryan

Ms. and typescripts concerning Trewoofe W. Trefffry Hoblyn's notebook

LAN/18 LAN/26

Trenick - Michael Memorabilia TRI/1 Trowron - Madron 1724 land indenture LAN/36 Trustees Letters of appointment of Morrab Library trustees LIB/113 Tunde - Jegede - Musician

Player of the Kora [W. African harp-lute] HIS/33

Turk - Dr. F.A. Donated papers - mainly cuttings-genealogy [see Blewett] language

GEN/15

Tyringham - R.W.G. Sale particulars of Trevethoe Estates LAN/1

U Umbrella verses "Umbrella" verses of 1873 - Hedgeland/Hockin/Temple -

abouthowthe Prebendary acquired an umbrella HED/7

Ustick - Oliver - d. 1710 - of Leha - St. Buryan

Copy of 1706 "Accounts Notes and Memoranda". Includes journey to London by his brother

MAN/57

Usticke - Henry - 1720-69 - V. of Breage – m. Mary 2nd daughter of Walter Borlase

Cornish language manuscripts mainly Boson; paper by Andrew Hawke Notebook. Notes & recipes.

BOR/115 BOR/116

Usticke/Peters Family bible pages presented 1783 with birth and marriage dates etc. 17th century Usticke marriages

MAN/69 TR/3/5

V Veale Genealogies of Veale families

Properties in Trevaylor etc; annual values - occupiers - rents - rates etc.

GEN/7 LAN/30

Venning - Mrs. Katherine E. - Boscovean - Heamoor

Personal record of service with the French Army 1915-18 HIS/6

VIbert Collection Collection of prints and silhouettes given by David Vibert and Rosemary Clark Vibert and Rosemary Clark prints [Prout Boule Moyle Greenwood Tonkin] Original drawings [Market Place] Family silhouettes See also Art Catalogue; Cornish Topography; artist index

VIB/1-49 VIB/1-34 VIB/35-58 VIB/39-49

Vibert - John Pope & family Vibert collection See also Art Catalogue indices

VIB/1-49

VIctor - Bernard - Mousehole

Essay on the Cornish Language with Glossary. See also Frederick Pentreath.

MAN/58

W Walke - Bernard - V. of St. Hilary

Transcripts of 3 St. Hilary plays LIT/2

Walker - Dawn Notes on gun batteries in and around Penzance HIS/7 Walking holiday Ms. account of walking holiday in Cornwall 1919 MAN/86 Walpole - Horatio Horatio [or Horace] Walpole - brother of Sir Robert.

Account of medical condition. DAW/6

Warnes - Rev. P.W. Histories plays & maps - parishes and churches of Gulval Madron Heamoor with notes on W. Penwith

WAR/1-11

Watson - Eric Miller Personal documents and records HIS/32 Watson - William C.D. - 1887-1959

Superintendent Morrab Gardens 1929-51; Founder Bard Gorsedd; Herald Bard. Cornish verse.

COL/30

Watt - James - Scottish engineer

Letters on Cornish engines in Wilson papers HIS/46

Wellington - Duke of Cuttings prints song Tributes on death [1852]; descriptions of state funeral

DAW/16 HIS/16

Wesleyan Ministry - Penzance

Penzance expelled ministers 1850-51 HIS/39

West Cornwall Letters from West Cornwall HIS/31 West Cornwall Railway Copy of Parliamentary Act 1846

Penzance/Truro timetable of 30 Oct 1853 Railway prospectus showing proposed breakwater off Penlee Point

RAI/1 RAI/2 RAI/9

Wherry Mine - Penzance Ms. and typescript notes on history and production REE/108 Wilde - Samuel de - artist personal records notes memoranda DAW/14 Williams - Dionysus Frs - Sennen

Mathematical exercises and calculations 1743-44 Letter fragment

MAN/60 MAN/60A

Williams - William - Newlyn

"Remarkable Occurencies or Principal Events" The Wolf sloop in Cornish waters

MAN/61 SCI/4

Witchcraft Volume contains printed tract on John Tonken of Pensans 1686 and notes on witchcraft

MAN/54

Women of Cornwall Song dedicated to the Women’ s Institutes of Cornwall. Words by Herbert Thomas

MAN/84

Woolcock - Thomas Notebook of T.W. of Boscaswell - St. Just. Covers c. 1782-1802

MAN/72

Worden Stereotype printing blocks used by Worden Bros. Marazion

WOR/1-3

Wordsworth Letter TR/2/59

Z Zennor Proposed enclosure of Trewey Common

Parish Registers 1599-1837 OPC Registers 1813-1906 1841 census 1839 Tithe Commutation Award - photocopies of ms.

NEW/7 REG/23 OPC OPC LAN/34

Zophany portrait Portrait of loan to the Truro Museum: correspondence about restoration

BOR/204

October 2012