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Add. MS b/35/12 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Barskimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Dated 12th August 1913 - Thanks him for his notes on Penuel and Peniel, but reminds him it was Pethuel they were looking for; her Norwegian friend Mr Heiberg described bonfires in Norway on Midsummer's Eve; is enclosing two accounts of native customs from Behar; Mr Fallowfield, the engineer in charge who starts the engine, describes having wreaths hung about his neck.

Add. MS a/199/12 · Item · 23 May 1876
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

The Abbey House, Bristol. Is fundraising for the Bishop Butler Tower, and asks for the remainder of the money; complains of his inexplicable Dean (Gilbert Elliot), and shares an epigram about him by the Archdeacon of Taunton (George Denison).

Norris, John Pilkington (1823-1891), Church of England clergyman and inspector of schools
SHAF/B/11/2/12 · Item · 9 July 1982
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Typescript copy with tipp-ex corrections, with a few pencil emendations in an unidentified hand. With 22 pages of duplicated playscript inserted at the front, this a slightly different version, with some changes marked with a check mark and a few annotations in the same unidentified hand.

Letter from Francis Beaufort
Add. MS a/201/12 · Item · 16 Jan. 1850
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Admy. - Any papers WW sent to Capt. O. Stanley via the Admiralty would have been forwarded - 'but we keep no account of what merely passes through our hands - Your paper on the tides of the Pacific would be highly interesting to him'.