THE COLMAN MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION

CONTENTS

Title deeds, Norfolk COL/1/1-203

-Non-Norfolk 204-220

Estate, manorial and personal COL/2/1-51

-Ellis of Northrepps/Rising COL/2/52-110

-Windham, Browne, Amyot and Bennett letters COL/2/111-113

Ecclesiastical and parish COL/3/1-10

Norfolk, County and official COL/4/1-4

Norwich, City and official COL/5/1-36

Gt. Yarmouth, Borough and official COL/6/1-5

Literary, Pious, Musical and Autobiographical COL/7/1-37

-De Hague COL/7/38-42

-Crotch COL/7/43-56

Antiquarian, Topographical and Genealogical COL/8/1-82

-Nonconformist COL/8/83-87

-Fenn COL/8/88-113

-Morant COL/8/114-121

United Friars' Society COL/9/1-204

Brunswick Club COL/10/1

Colman Collections and Norwich School of Artists COL/11/1-51

Colman Family and personal COL/12/1-23

James Bulwer - Hobart papers COL/13/1-42

- Other original documents COL/13/43-114

- Antiquarian COL/13/115-205

- Wodderspoon antiquarian COL/13/206-211

- Personal and parish COL/13/212-227

• <persname>Colman, Jeremiah James, d 1898</persname>
• <persname>Colman, Russell James, d 1946</persname><famname>Colman family of Crown Point, Norfolk</famname>

Records received by Norfolk Record office in 1955 Except 1967 and 1973 COL/1/110-112, 206-208, COL/7/3 1989 COL/12/25

The Collection

The core of the Colman Library, the work of Jeremiah James Colman (d. 1898) and Russell James Colman (d. 1946) was William Enfield's library, acquired in 1878. Collecting policy thereafter was fairly omniverous but manuscript material relating to the religious and cultural history of Norwich and Norfolk, the local history of the area immediately south-east of Norwich where the family's property and commercial interests lay, and family history were important.

It should be noted that manuscript material that has remained with the printed part of the library in the County Local Studies Library (including, for example, manuscript items bound into printed books) is not covered by this list.

J.J. and R.J. Colman do not seem consistently to have recorded the provenance of their manuscript collections, though some acquisitions correspondence was entered in the out-letter books of the family business (see COL/11/42). It is evident that only some of the manuscript holdings are listed in the printed catalogue of the Colman Library, Bibliotheca Norfolciensis (Norwich 1896); these are indicated in the table that follows. The annotated and updated copies of Bibliotheca Norfolciensis kept with the printed sections of the Library in the County Local Studies Library add little further in this respect. Bibliotheca Norfolciensis states that since 1878 material was acquired from the collections of James Bulwer (sale 1879), G.A. Carthew (sale 1883), Daniel Gurney (sale 1881), Lord Stafford (sale 1885), Robert Rising (sale 1885), T.P. Burroughs of Great Yarmouth, and S.W. Rix of Beccles (sale 1894). It seems from COL/11/30,31 that the bulk of the Bulwer MSS was not purchased until 1921, however. Other major acquisitions were MSS of Sir John Fenn, probably purchased at the Frere sale in 1896, and the archives of the United Friars Society of Norwich, acquired before 1926 (COL/9/29). In the following table only immediate provenance is indicated; some of the material had of course previously passed through a number of antiquaries' and collectors' hands. The Wesley MSS were presented to the Methodist Church in 1937 (see COL/7/2(a), COL/11/38, 39).

COL/1/108(a) B.R. Marriner 1921

COL/1/206-208 Robert Rawley 1929

COL/2/25 Bib. Norf. p. 138

COL/2/30-40 probably acquired with COL/2/52-96

COL/2/3(a) Bib. Norf. p. 334

COL/2/52-96 Rising sale 1885

COL/3/1 T.G. Bayfield 1886; Bib. Norf. p. 336

COL/3/4 Bib. Norf. p. 344

COL/3/9 Bib. Norf. p. 345

COL/4/4 Bland

COL/5/2 T.G. Bayfield 1886; Bib. Norf. p. 336

COL/5/11 Bib. Norf. p. 352

COL/5/12 Bib. Norf. p. 360

COL/5/16 Bib. Norf. p. 343

COL/5/17 Bib. Norf. p. 344

COL/5/19-24 S.W. Stevenson; Bib. Norf. p. 339

COL/5/25 Bib. Norf. p. 474

COL/5/28 Bib. Norf. p. 361

COL/5/31,32 Bib. Norf. p. 338

COL/5/34 Bib. Norf. p. 355

COL/5/36 Bib. Norf. p. 355

COL/6/1,2 T.G. Bayfield 1886; Bib. Norf. p. 577

COL/6/3 Bib. Norf. p. 581

COL/6/5 ?A.W. Morant 1882; Bib. Norf. p. 580

COL/7/1, 1(a) S.W. Stevenson; Bib. Norf. pp. 304,343

COL/7/2 Hengrave Hall; Bib.Norf. p. 239

COL/7/9 Bib. Norf. p. 453

COL/7/11 Phillipps

COL/7/12 Bib. Norf. p. 12

COL/7/16-21 Dr. Rigby; Bib. Norf. p. 158

COL/7/29-34 ?Lord Stafford; Bib. Norf. p. 230

COL/7/43-53 Puttick & Simpson 1899

COL/7/27 ?Daniel Gurney

COL/8/10 ?Lord Stafford

COL/8/17 Bib. Norf. p. 366

COL/8/18 Bib. Norf. p. 280

COL/8/25 ?Daniel Gurney; Bib. Norf. p. 78

COL/8/27-28 Bib. Norf. p. 124

COL/8/29 Bib. Norf. p. 479

COL/8/30-35 G.A. Carthew; Bib. Norf. p. 83

COL/8/73-75 Bib. Norf. p. 344

COL/8/88-113 Frere Sale

COL/8/114-121 A.W. Morant 1882; Bib. Norf. pp. 291-2, 580

COL/9/1-204 possibly S.W. Stevenson, save no. 29 which was given by Norwich Castle Museum in 1926

COL/12/4 Bib. Norf. p. 103