Beschreibung:

Bagster Family Archive. An archive of Bagster manuscript and printed ephemera, mostly mid-19th to early 20th century, including 8 scrap albums with engravings, verses, biblical quotations, drawings, news cuttings, etc., 19th-century compilers include Ada Eunice Bagster, A. A. Crawshaw, Benjamin Goodman, plus a 221-page manuscript volume of religious thoughts written in the form of a letter by Eunice Bagster, Old Windsor, 13 June 1869, another manuscript exercise book with a fair copy of Recollections of Jane Arthington, a commonplace book of Maria Arthington, Hunslet Lane, May 1856, plus 2 postcard albums, 2 sketchbooks and various loose amateur drawings, a folder of embroidery patterns, 2 penmanship specimen books by Simon Crawshaw, one dedicated to his parents from Wesley Street Academy, Dewsbury, Christmas 1841, the other a manuscript arithmetic exercise book from Bramham College, May 1844, plus other ephemera including letters and correspondence, mostly small folded letters and notes from Bagster family members, plus an unusual gauze-backed rolled letter from J[onathan] Bagster [1813-1872], London, 20 March 1857, to his niece Ada [1849-1941] with moralising thoughts about religious studies and other family members, written on 5 lines across 8 paper membranes, rolled on wooden spindle with tie and cylindrical linen case with Ada's name, unrolled measuring 332 x 7 cm