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Signature of Robert Pursglove in black into on paper, from 1569.Letters

We are lucky to have an archive of several hundred letters from Guisborough Hospital and Guisborough Grammar School. Our earliest letter was written in the sixteenth century and signed by Robert Pursglove himself (right), and our general collection of letters goes back to 1710.

Click on the headers below to expand each section. Each letter will open in a new tab or window, depending on your browser settings. If you have trouble opening an item, please email us on ppc.museum@prior.pursglove.ac.uk .

If you are a researcher and you would like to consult the original documents, you can find more information here.

 

Letters of Guisborough Hospital

The east end of a stone-built Victorian chapel of ease with three pointed lancet windows, in a plot of land without headstones and with trees.Correspondence of Guisborough Hospital

Our collection of letters from Guisborough Hospital dates from between 1710 and 1870. Click the links to access the letters for a particular range of dates.

These letters represent incoming correspondence only. Some organisations kept letter books, in which they recorded copies of the letters they sent. The Wardens of Guisborough Hospital do not appear to have done this.

This collection has a very few copies of outgoing correspondence, such as ZJB 7-2-4, which concerns the end of Robert Frankland's time at the school due to his mental ill health (Frankland was confined to a lunatic asylum near York). These copies are in the minority, however, and it seems that most everyday correspondence was not considered important enough to copy.

 

Letters of Sir Joseph Pease, 1886-1900

The Letters of Sir Joseph Pease, 1886-1900

Sir Joseph Pease was the guiding force beind the reconstitution of Guisborough Hospital into Guisborough Grammar School in the 1880s. These letters date from 1886 to 1900, and form an interesting record of the very early years of Guisborough Grammar School.

As with the letters of Guisborough Hospital, we only have one side of the conversation. If a letter book containing copies of outgoing correspondence was kept, it does not appear to have survived.

 

ZJB 7-5-1, 06 November 1886

ZJB 7-5-2, 08 November 1886

ZJB 7-5-3, 13 March 1890

ZJB 7-5-4, 14 March 1890

ZJB 7-5-5, 22 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-6, 25 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-7, 26 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-8, 26 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-9, 27 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-10, 28 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-11, 28 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-12, 29 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-13, 29 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-14, 29 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-15, 30 July 1890

ZJB 7-5-16, 03 August 1890

ZJB 7-5-17, 06 August 1890

ZJB 7-5-18, 08 August 1890

ZJB 7-5-19, 09 August 1890

ZJB 7-5-20, 29 August 1890

ZJB 7-5-21, 09 September 1890

ZJB 7-5-22, 13 September 1890

ZJB 7-5-23, 15 September 1890

ZJB 7-5-24, 17 September 1890

ZJB 7/5/25, undated

ZJB 7-5-26, 22 September 1890

ZJB 7-5-27, 01 October 1890

ZJB 7-5-28, 07 October 1890

ZJB 7-5-29, 09 October 1890

ZJB 7-5-30, 05 May 1891

ZJB 7-5-31, 07 March 1893

ZJB 7-5-32, 14 April 1896

ZJB 7-5-33, 16 April 1896

ZJB 7-5-34, 17 April 1896

ZJB 7-5-35, 19 April 1896

ZJB 7-5-36, 28 April 1896

ZJB 7-5-37, 01 May 1896

ZJB 7-5-38, 06 May 1896

ZJB 7-5-39, 06 May 1896

ZJB 7-5-40, 06 June 1896

ZJB 7-5-41, 08 June 1896

ZJB 7-5-42, 11 June 1896

ZJB 7-5-43, 12 June 1896

ZJB 7-5-44, 13 June 1896

ZJB 7-5-45, 13 June 1896

ZJB 7-5-46, 14 June 1896

ZJB 7-5-47, 07 July 1896

ZJB 7-5-48, 10 July 1896

ZJB 7-5-49, 30 November 1900

ZJB 7-5-50, 10 May 1900

Letters of Sir Alfred Pease

This section holds our collection of letters of Sir Alfred Pease, some of which were written by Headmasters of Guisborough Grammar School.

As with our other letter collections, a letter book was not kept, and copies of outgoing correspondence are very rare.

 

Z181 1, no date

Z181 2, 03 August, no year

Z181 3, 02 September, no year

Z181 4, 09 August, no year

Z181 5, 04 June, no year 

Z181 6, 01 June 1911

Z181 7, 13 June 1911

Z181 8, 05 October 1911

Z181 9, February 1913

Z181 10, 29 July 1913

Z181 11, 31 July 1913

Z181 12, 06 March 1914

Z181 13, 23 September 1916

Z181 14, 02 March 1917

Z181 15, 06 March 1917

Z181 16, 18 February 1919

Z181 17, 10 December 1923

Z181 18, 13 November 1925

Z181 19, 02 January 1927

Z181 20, 14 March 1931

Z181 21, 18 and 23 March 1931

Z181 22, 26 March 1931

Z181 23, 21 July 1931

Z181 24, 29 July 1931

Z181 25, 02 August 1931

Z181 26, 03 August 1931

Z181 27, 04 August 1931

Z181 28, 05 August 1931

Z181 29, 07 August 1931

Z181 30, 10 August 1931

Z181 31, 10 August 1931

Z181 32, 11 August 1931

Z181 33, 26 August 1931

Z181 34, 31 August 1931

Z181 35, 03 September 1931

Z181 36, 28, 29 and 30 September 1931

Z181 37, 11 January 1932

Z181 38, 25 January 1932

Z181 39, 21 January 1932

Z181 40, 21 January 1932

Z181 41, 23 March 1932

Z181 42, 31 March and 01 April 1932

Z181 43, 15 March 1932

 

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