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Archive Sub-collection

DALTON

c1881

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DALTON, ASQUITH ARCHIE

1914-1920

15 photographs, with six negatives (Mar 1918, nd); Photocopied book 'The No-Conscription Fellowship: A souvenir of its work during the years 1914-1919 (nd); Photocopy of Transfer Certificate (4 May 19...

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WATERHOUSE, RICHARD DALTON

1914-1918

Various official papers; Photographs; Medals; Bereavement plaque; Lancashire Fusilier Memorial appeal; Letters relating to his death; Edition of St Mary's Church, Crumpsall, magazine (Oct 1915); Pages...

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Archive Item

Plan of Dalton (Whitley Beaumont estate)

nd [1881]

Showing roads, waterways etc Surveyor: W.J. Dunderdale, Huddersfield Scale: 1 inch : 50 feet

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Sender: Dalton, James (Rev.)

Recipient: Sowerby, James

Letters: 32

Date(s): 15 Feb 1802 - 11 Nov 1815

Location: BC MS 19c Dalton

Note: James Dalton, M.A., F.L.D., Yorkshire naturalist,was also rector of Copgrove near Knaresborough and then of Croft near Darlington. The letters to James Sowerby, naturalist and artist,were sent to his home in Lambeth and contain references to Dalton's wide ranging interests: fungi, birds, lichens, mosses and insects. Dalton orders a microscope from Sowerby and obtains many specimens for him.