Letters

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 JHN/1/26
  • Dates of Creation
      Aug 1879-May 1886
  • Physical Description
      JHN/1/26/2 is typescript; 2 pieces; 3 sheets.

Scope and Content

From R[ichard] C[opley] Christie [to JHN]. Topics covered include: a response to a circular request for information about special collections of books in Lancashire and Cheshire [for a copy of this circular see JHN/1/30, see also JHN/1/35, 1/54, 1/65/2, 1/71/1-2, 1/76, 1/78, 1/88, 1/103, 1/104, 1/116]; Christie provides a brief description of his library of c.5,000 books which he hopes one day will return from Derbyshire to Manchester; Christie asks JHN to advise him on which journals ought to be sent review copies of the publications of the Chetham Society, of which Christie seems to have assumed the management.

Dated at: Matlock [Derbyshire] and Staines [Surrey].