Volume containing bound enclosure papers for Plawsworth 1769, reports, correspondence and accounts of T.Y. Hall and John Buddle, 1819 - 1835.

Volume containing bound reports and correspondence including reports re Scottish Collieries and technical papers by T.Y. Hall, 1837 - 1866.

Volume containing copy leases, reports and correspondence mainly relating to the estates of P.E. Townley, 1829 - 1841.

Letters to Francis Baker in London or Whickham from William Cotesworth at Gateshead, except where otherwise specified. The letters are concerned with general business and financial matters and are annotated with financial notes on the back.

6 volumes containing copy letters from John Buddle, 10 Dec 1826 - 4 June 1843.

List of Correspondants

Index of names of persons to whom letters are addressed, the number refers to the volume number(s) in which letters to that person can be found.

Abbot, Mr 6

Adamson, Thomas 2

Amory, Samuel 1, 2, 3

Anderson, William 1

Archbold, James 4

Atkinson, John 4, 5

Atkinson, Smart 1

Backhouse, Edward 1

Bagge, William 1

Barnes, Thomas 2

Batfield, Thomas 2

Bowlby, R 1

Brown, Mr 2

Browne, Sir Henry 1

Bruce, Hon James 4

Byers, Mayor 1

Cail, Richard 1

Coulthurst, W.M. 1, 2

Craggon, William 1

Currie, James 1

Daglish, William 1

Davison, Thomas 1, 2, 4

De la Beche, H.T. 2

Donkin Armourer 1, 3

Donkin, Henry 1

Douglas, J.C. 3

Duke, Sir James 4, 6

Duke & Hill, Messrs 5

Easton, James 1

Elliott, George 5

Ellison, C. 1

Evans, Thomas 4, 6

Fairclough & Frost, Messrs 1

Feetham, J. 1

Fenwick, Thomas 4

Flintoff, John 1, 2

Foord, J.B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6

Forster, George 1

Forster, J.A. 1

Forster, P. 5

Forster, Thomas 5

Fox. G.T. 1

Gibson, Jasper 2, 3, 4

Grant, J.F. 1

Gragson, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Gresley, R.A. Douglas 2, 6

Gust, Sir J. 4, 6

Hackworth, Timothy 1, 2

Hall, Thomas Young 3

Harrison, T.E. 2

Hetton Coal Co 4

Hickley, John 1

Humphry, A. 1

Hunter, George 1, 2

Johnson, B & Sons 1

Johnson, F.B. 1, 2

Kell, Thomas 1

Locke, William 1

Londonderry, Lord 2, 3, 6

McCullock, Walter 5

McDonnell, Edward 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Marees, J.A.F. 2, 4

Mascell, F. 3

Maund, John 5

Maynard, Thomas 2

Melville, James M. 4

Mills, Col 1, 2, 3

Mitchell, J.L. 2

Morton, H. 2

Ogden, John 1

Oliverson, Major 6

Parkinson, John 1, 2

Pearse, Joseph 1, 3

Potts, James 1

Rawlings, P 1

Robertson, Alex 1

Robson, John 2

Russell, William 1, 3, 4, 5

Seymour, H. Kerr 4

Sharp, Sir C. 1

Shelley, John 5

Simpson, Thomas 1

Smith, William 1

Sopwith, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 5

Stainthorp, John 1

Stephenson, Robert 6

Talbot, Earl of 3

Taylor, F.B. 2

Taylor, George 4

Turner, Henry 2, 3

Turner, Hessrs 1

Waldie, John 4

Walker & Melville, Messrs 3

Woodhouse, John 6

Wright, John Joseph 3

Letter book containing copy letters from John Buddle to Lord Londonderry re colliery matters, 10 Dec 1826 - 7 Jan 1827, and letter to W.M. Pitt, 25 Dec 1826.

Volume containing memoranda of letters written by John Buddle re Lord Londondery's Trust affairs, includes date of letter, name of correspondant and abstract of the contents of each letter, 4 Oct 1835 - 20 March 1837

Volume containing accounts, minutes and original and copy letters mainly re the discussion of duties on coal transported by canal, 1804 - 1805 and minutes of meetings re the Newcastle-Carlisle Canal, 1794, 1792 - 1805.

In back of volume

Minutes of a meeting re the proposed canal from Newcastle - Carlisle, held at the Queen's Head, Newcastle, 1 Nov 1794. Printed.

Minutes of a meeting re the Newcastle - Carlisle Canal, including the section from Carlisle to Sandsfield, held at Carlisle Town Hall, 29 Nov 1794. Printed.

Volume containing newspaper cuttings and broadsheet re coal trade duties and church practices, 1830 and n.d.

Notebook containing memoranda re Bushblades Colliery including sections of seams and notes of agreements for boring, sinking and working by John Buddle [senior], 1 May 1768 - 22 Jan 1770.

Notebook containing memoranda re Bushblades Colliery as above by J.B. [John Buddle, senior], Jan 1770 - Dec 1773.

Notebook containing estimates for taking and working Bushblades Colliery by tentale [by John Buddle, senior], Christmas 1773.

Notebook containing statement of expences incurred on visits to Sheffield on behalf of the Duke of Norfolk, by [?John Buddle senior], Oct 1773 and April 1776 and report re Sheffield Park Colliery including working costs, coal prices, numbers of men employed and list of mining terms used in the Yorkshire coalfield [1773] with statement of account, 10 Oct 1772 - 10 Oct 1773.

Notebook containing copy agreement between 1. Sir Gilfred Lawson of Brayton, 2. Rev James Musgrave, 3. Robert Shafto of Whitworth, 4. William Russell of Sunderland for a lease of Washington Colliery for 51 years from 21 Dec 1775

Notebook containing notes for a report re Attercliffe Colliery for the Duke of Norfolk including details of the engines, quality of the coal, section of strata, drainage, winning and working costs with queries particularly re drainage, the effects of the colliery on Darnell and Sheffield Park Collieries and working methods addressed to Messrs Buddle and Stephenson by Vin. Ayre, 15 April 1789. Note "here follows the Report tied up with this book" (not included).

Notebook containing a valuation of Derwenthaugh Waggonway made at the termination of the partnership of Lords Mountstuart and Beauchamp, John Silvertop, Thomas Eyre and John Simpson, made by "... Craggs, James Moffit, on behalf of the Lords etc and Mr Simpson, 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22 July 1789".

Notebook containing weekly accounts of coal lead from Old Washington Colliery and rent accounts for Sir Gilfred Lawson's moiety, 1790 - 1795.

Notebook containing statements of data used in settling the claims of the proprietors of Washington New Colliery on the owners for coal used in the engines including account of ironstone sold to the Whitehill Furnace, statement of claims by the lessors, accounts of coal lead, 1785 - 1795 and accounts of coal used in the machines, 1796.

Notebook containing memoranda re Sheriff Hill Colliery including abstract of the lease, sections of seams and working costs for Hope, Fann, Isabella, King and George Pits, Sheriff Hill and Quarry and Rush Pits, Ravensworth and engine and waggonway costs, [?John Buddle senior], 1797 - 1800.

Notebook containing report re Sir John Eden's Estate at West Auckland to determine the boundary between the freeholds and leaseholds to assess evidence in an action of trespass brought by Messrs Dixon, tenants of the Bishop, of coal under the leasehold, including evidence of John Ridley of Helmington, abstract of a lease of Greenfield Colliery and details of the leaseholds, 24 May 1799.