Scope and Contents 1. Provenance and significance of the collectionThe papers in this collection document the varied interests of several generations of the Barlow family of Thornby, Northants, between c. 1850 and 2015, with some material going back to the 18th century.The collection is of considerable interest to a wide range of research: to social historians, as charting the rise of a yeoman and merchant family over several generations; to political historians, as covering the careers of...

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The diary reflects the life of a young girl whose horizons were limited by social and religious constraints. She was eager for self-improvement and created for herself a series of routines and good intentions, which are inserted into the end of the diary. In the daily entries she often refers to these programmes by a system of capital letters and Roman numerals.

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Personal and family correspondence and papers

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Copies of letters to Plumsteads' clients. Includes alphabetical list of addressees. See C. A. J. Skeel, 'The Letter-Book of a Quaker Merchant, 1756-8', English Historical Review (1916), 137-43.

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The letters catalogued are an autograph collection, gathered (at least in part) by Sir Edward Frys daughter Agnes. Although individually many of them are of limited historical value, being notes of thanks to Fry and his family for congratulations or donations, and social invitations and replies, the letters as a group do throw some light on Frys career: his relations with other judges, his work as an arbitrator, and his zoological interests.

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The dispute, won by the Quaker, turns chiefly upon water-baptism and the resurrection of the body. At the end is a list of names of those present. fo. 1: 'S', '585'. (pencil) hiatus between fos. 10 and 12.