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Title
Copy of affidavit of Samuel Washington
Collection

Thirteen manuscript legal documents relating to the estate and property of Anne Lister and her family

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1849-12-18
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (MISC 4150i)
Topics
Lister, Anne, 1791-1840 -- Estate
Walker, Ann, 1803-1854
Legal documents -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Halifax (England)
Lister, Anne, 1791-1840
Genres
Documents
Manuscripts
Notes
Biographical/historical: The Lister family was one of the chief landowning families of Halifax, England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anne Lister, best known for her coded diaries, moved in 1815 to Shibden Hall in West Yorkshire to live with her aunt and uncle. From 1834, she lived there with her lover, Ann Walker. Upon her death in 1840, Lister left Walker a lifetime interest in Shibden Hall; years later Walker was forcibly removed after being deemed insane. After Walker's death the estate passed to Lister's cousin, John Lister, who later served as the first national treasurer of the Independent Labour Party.
Content: Found In: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
Content: In support of facts "in the matter of Ann Walker spinster of unsound mind" under the Lunacy Acts; ink on sewn paper fascicle, 3 leaves.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19337554
MSS Unit ID: 23719
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a4650340-eafa-0138-947e-0242ac110003
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1849: Created
  • 2021: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Copy of affidavit of Samuel Washington" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1849. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d92ffd70-eafa-0138-d976-0242ac110003

Chicago/Turabian Format

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Copy of affidavit of Samuel Washington" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d92ffd70-eafa-0138-d976-0242ac110003

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1849). Copy of affidavit of Samuel Washington Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d92ffd70-eafa-0138-d976-0242ac110003

Wikipedia Citation

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Copy of affidavit of Samuel Washington