| Description | The collection is small but contains letters, notes and registers of Petty's work. Please note the information concerning arrangment, however. The collection includes:
Two registers of Petty's bibliographical acquisitions
Three volumes of his notes towards his Lancashire flora pieces
Receipts and letters concerning his book purchases, subscriptions
Letters on other subjects.
An anonymous 19th c. volume of manuscript poems (marked 'Chip'),
Religious diary, mostly destroyed,
Book of 19th c. recipes (the earliest dated 1849)
Two notebooks kept at Oxford University in 1922, one on philosophical lectures, the other on Juvenal. |
| Admin History | S. Lister Petty (fl 1878-1919), botanist, bibliophile, was living in 1889 in Chapeltown Road, Leeds, but soon after moved to Ulverston, first at Dykelands and later at 24 Queen Street. He wrote a series of tracts, 'The constituents of the North Lancashire flora: 1597-1893' (1894), published in eighteen parts by a local botanical society. |