People featured: 0
Collection: Cumberland Papers
Item Number: Add MS 36492 ff.96-97
Repository: British Library
Summary: The first half of the letter discusses business and land management, the second the health of several friends and family. They are afraid that the first drop in temperatures over winter will lead to Susan’s death. He hopes that her sister has no symptoms of decline, though she is distressed and fatigue. John is better, but they are worried about the great effect of the loss if his sister.

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Collection: Cumberland Papers
Item Number: Add MS 36492 ff.47-48v
Repository: British Library
Summary: Richard’s pupils grow strong, eat and sleep well, and have good constitutions. He describes the dispositions of his pupils, including a reference to the temperament of 'the little West Indian' who is described as 'lively noisy and impatient' - the opposite to another pupil. Susan’s health is thought to be worse. Richard has entertained poor families for a ‘Farmers Feast’, and muses on the temperament of women and finding a suitable wife.

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Collection: Cumberland Papers
Item Number: Add MS 36492 ff.209-210v
Repository: British Library
Summary: Understands that George is anxious to hear about the health of Miss Townsend. Loveden’s sister is better following an abscess. Mrs Baxter was at Bristol with her uncle who died a few days ago, and his now travelling home to nurse her friend. He believes George is doing well by attempting keep up his spirits and prevent melancholy.

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Collection: Cumberland Papers
Item Number: Add MS 36492 90
Repository: British Library
Summary: Richard has been dining with Mr Lambert and family, who are considering putting their son under Richard’s care. Richard thinks that Mrs Lambert is very pretty. Their mother complains often but is in better health than Richard can remember.

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Collection: Cumberland Papers
Item Number: Add MS 36492 ff.199-200
Repository: British Library
Summary: Reports a terrible storm, and the terrible conditions of those travelling through it. Bob temporarily lost his eyesight because the lightning was so bad. Hester was thought to have been struck by lighting, and lay motionless for a while – they thought she was dead. Their mother is in good spirits.

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Collection: Cumberland Papers
Item Number: Add MS 36491_343-343v
Repository: British Library
Summary: Richard is grateful for George’s letter, which provides both pleasing and disagreeable intelligence about family and friends. He has ‘some beggarly Complaint’ which has not caused him to be confined or call a doctor. The company of his brother will hopefully cure ‘all Imaginary disorders’.

People featured: 0
Collection: Cumberland Papers
Item Number: Add MS 36491_202-203v
Repository: British Library
Summary: He mounted his horse and had set out to get home but a dramatic change in the weather meant he stopped at a friend’s for breakfast instead. His friend sent him some shoes so he continued the journey on foot. He has spoken to the laundress who says she cannot wash and mend all the items for the price offered. The dinner bell rings so he ends the letter.

People featured: 2
Collection: Cumberland Papers
Item Number: Add MS 36491_146-146v
Repository: British Library
Summary: Richard reports his journey on horseback to Cambridge, through ‘the Rain Dirt and Darkness’. He hopes his brother’s journey into town without him ‘being attackd’. Richard feels the shaking of the journey has done him. The death of the Bishop has disappointed some of Richard’s schemes in life.

People featured: 2
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/22
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: He discusses the ‘dreadful’ Lisbon earthquake. He says he will be glad of John's company to eat venison and sends ‘a pretty Cod’.

People featured: 0
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/14
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Newton reports what he had for dinner and that morning had half a hogshead of drink.

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Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/21
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: He warns Girdler not to burn the letter and sends his razors to grind.

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Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/30
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Newton is unwell and hopes Girdler will come and eat beef with him.

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Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/31
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Being unwell he is confined, ‘a Prisoner’, and asks Girdler to send best wishes to a neighbour. Several calculations on the verso sheet.

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Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/17
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Newton understands Girdler does not do ‘Grocerys’. He invites him for a sober dish of tea and asks if he has asparagus.

People featured: 1
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/33
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: The last surviving letter from Newton. After travelling, Newton is unwell and confined mostly indoors.

People featured: 1
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/19
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: He sends back Girdler’s bowl from the previous night and appears to refer to a possible courtship of Girdler.

People featured: 2
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/13
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: There has been a mistake regarding some breeches, and Newton suggests he is poorly (perhaps hungover) because he enjoyed his friend’s company too much.

People featured: 2
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/4
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Newton hopes Girdler’s cold is better and asks to be sent pigeons as he himself has a disorder.

People featured: 1
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/5
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Newton teases Girdler with the promise of oysters and ask him to send some of the fine sturgeon and currants. He invites him for dinner with another friend, jokingly referred to as ‘the Devil’.

People featured: 1
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/7
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Newton has been ‘out of Order’ and urges Girdler to smoke a pipe of tobacco with him.

People featured: 1
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/9
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Newton complains he is ‘low’ and asks for Girdler to console him.

People featured: 1
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/10
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: Newton feels better for having seen Girdler, and urges him to drink, smoke and engage in ‘Innocent Mirth’.

People featured: 1
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/16
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: He is grateful for the present of hare and will feast on ‘her’ tonight.

People featured: 1
Collection: Newton, Robert
Item Number: L71/24
Repository: Sheffield Archives
Summary: The rain has not stopped and his house is ‘uncovered’. He is ‘distressed’ and requests consolation from his friend.

People featured: 7
Collection: Twining Family
Item Number: MSS 39929, Vol.I, f39-40
Repository: British Library
Summary: Thomas invites his brother to imagine him sitting under a tree with his wife. He develops an extended joke about the personification in his prose of a matter of fact as ‘a great, fat, corpulent man’. He had hoped Daniel’s health would allow him to spend the summer with them, and hopes his spirits incline him to write. To her brother-in-law Elizabeth gives a humorous account of the family, in which she includes the many chickens, ducks and goslings. She gives other news, including the successful raising of money for a coachman – a ‘drunken fellow’ - whose leg was broken.

People featured: 3
Collection: Twining Family
Item Number: MS 39930, Vol.II, 23-24v
Repository: British Library
Summary: Thomas reports on the death of their friend, Dr F, ‘without a groan or a struggle’, as well as the days leading up to this. He remarks on his widow’s exemplary response, due in part to her ‘manly mind’. He expresses both his relief and his grief in terms of weight.

People featured: 0
Collection: Twining Family
Item Number: MS 39930, Vol.II, 21-22
Repository: British Library
Summary: Their friend Dr. F is much worse: he has a poor appetite, weakness and ‘is surprisingly shrunk’. Medicine has no solution. He and his wife also have colds. Thomas has been asked to give a sermon to the Bishop of London on his upcoming visitation, but he is distracted by Dr. F’s condition and does not wish to leave him. He ends with a thought to Daniel’s ‘little boy’.

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Collection: Twining Family
Item Number: MS 39930, Vol.II, f12-13
Repository: British Library
Summary: Thomas is rude about a ‘simple woman’ and refuses to write to her. He then explains that he is not ‘ill’ but ‘unwell’, as fashion dictates, with a bad ‘snot cold’. He reports on poor Dr F, who remains very uncomfortable with swollen glands. He ends by asking Daniel to give him some ‘signs of life’.

People featured: 0
Collection: Twining Family
Item Number: MSS39929, Vol.I, F27-28
Repository: British Library
Summary: A light-hearted letter about a possible visit from Jenner, reporting a discussion with the author’s wife about whether they had enough beds to accommodate him.

People featured: 1
Collection: Lister, Elizabeth
Item Number: ACC/1360/730/13
Repository: London Archives
Summary: Concerning the care and education of Ann Lynsdale, ward of Court of Chancery, allegedly illegitimate daughter of Dr John Taylour. Discussion of allowance to Ann Lynsdale’s mother. She has been ill and would have died if Layton had not given her money.

People featured: 3
Collection: Longsdon family
Item Number: D3580/C/32
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Discusses his and his brothers’ clothes, sending a waistcoat home to be washed and requesting cloth so his pantaloons can be mended.

People featured: 6
Collection: Longsdon family
Item Number: D3580/C/371
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: William is looking forward to visit them. He is relieved that his Father’s leaving of business will remove the cause of anxiety for the harmony of the family. Business is not brisk but he hopes John will be busy soon. Their garden is the source of much amusement. Bessy [Elizabeth jnr] is going to the Hackney assembly this evening; her health is much better and seems in better spirits and of a better mind. A P.S. discusses ‘an extraordinary lad’.

People featured: 4
Collection: Longsdon family
Item Number: D3580/C/521
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: William has made the passage back to America and is now in Charleston, which is quite healthy. He gives some more details about his brother John’s last days before he died of a fever in South Carolina. The case was desperate from the start and John refused to leave the city. He tried to speak the day he died but was unable. He discusses funeral expenses and then reports that he will send to James John's watch and a seal, and a brooch to their Mother. He insinuates that some black servants may have taken other items. Send with it a seal writer gave John and now wishes James to possess. Mr Campbell has received a severe wound in a duel last Saturday.

People featured: 1
Collection: Longsdon family
Item Number: D3580/C/437
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: William’s first letter from America, written the day after he lands in New York. The tedious voyage lasted 65 days and though it was remarkably tempestuous the vessel was very good. He is staying at an inn, in temporary accommodation, and may stay some time because city is full of strangers. He thinks New York generally very pleasant but inferior to Liverpool. He comments briefly on business and then discusses the weather (cool in mornings and evenings).