Three bundles:
- Manuscript Notes produced by W.H. Burgess on the Newcastle-under-Lyne Meeting House - they form the basis of his article on the history of the house in Vol. V Part 4 of the Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society.
- Documents relating to early nonconformity in Newcastle: newspaper cuttings, printed booklet Civic Service, printed leaflets, letter from G. Pegler to W.H. Burgess.
- Newspaper article pasted onto pages and stapled as booklet: 'Early Nonconformity in Newcastle, No. I, William Durant and his Contemporaries (For the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle)' ['Oct 12th 1878' written in ink at top].