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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
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