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Total number of records: 209
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| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 69 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 53 |
| Letters Database | 20 |
| English Literature | 11 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 5 |
| Quaker Collection | 5 |
| Cookery Collection | 2 |
| Art and Antique Market | 1 |
| John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History | 1 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 1 |
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Name: Dalton Hall
Reference: Carlton Hill B7
Meeting: Rawdon PM 1944-1953
Pages: 42
Name: Dalton, Charles
Reference: Carlton Hill O57
Meeting: Leeds MM 1924-1937
Pages: 154-5
Name: Dalton, Lilian
Reference: Carlton Hill O57
Meeting: Leeds MM 1924-1937
Pages: 154-5
Name: Dalton, Thomas
Reference: Carlton Hill B1
Meeting: Rawdon PM 1700-32
Pages: B86.26-7
Sender: Dalton, Marianne
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Nov [n.y.]
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Category: 17c2 Female
Note: James Dalton's daughter, concerning her "conchological amusements" and asking his advice on the identification of some shells she is sending. Draft reply to her letter on one of the pages from one of James Sowerby's sons.
Plan of Dalton (Whitley Beaumont estate)
nd [1881]
Showing roads, waterways etc Surveyor: W.J. Dunderdale, Huddersfield Scale: 1 inch : 50 feet
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.
Plan of part of Dalton (Whitley Beaumont estate)
nd [1881]
Shows gasworks, roads, waterways etc Scale: 1 inch : 50 feet
Sender: Dalton, Frederick Thomas
Recipient: Shorter, Clement King
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Mar 1911
Location: BC. Shorter correspondence
Sender: Dalton, James (Rev.)
Recipient: Sowerby, George Brettingham
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Apr 1803
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: Second son of John Sowerby and an artist and conchologist.
Sender: Dalton, James (Rev.)
Recipient: Sowerby, James Carle
Letters: 2
Date(s): 20 Nov 1822 - 19 Nov 1824
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: Written after the death of James Sowerby Senior