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Memo: “These are fired by 80 degrees of Wedgwood’s thermometer."

1790-1819

Memo: “These are fired by 55 degrees of Wedgwood’s thermo.”

1790-1819

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000

['Your father called']

1999-2000

Valentine's day note

Note from Venner Automatic Timer 8551. 1950

Notecard to accompany silver beaker presented to Stephen Hawking by Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan

1 Slip of paper, writing on as follows: “No.. 5, ½ oz copper, to a pound of tin”; “No. 6, ½ oz copper, to a pound of tin, and 2 pound spelter”; “No. 7, 1 lb tin, ½ oz copper, 1 pound spelter”; “No. 8, 1 lb tin, ½ oz iron, 2 pound spelter”

Slip of paper

1790-1819

['Dear Robert']

1999-2000

Handwritten note

1 Piece of paper with writing in French

Piece of paper with writing in French

1790-1819

Note, handwritten by a child, offering assistance to an elderly neighbour during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, UK, 2020.

Note offering assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020

Typed note on temperature variations to interpret smoked glass slides recording of blood pressures.

Typed note on temperature variations

1874

Typed note about setting up a mutual support WhatsApp group during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020

Note about COVID-19 mutual support WhatsApp group

2020

Note from The British Medical Journal relating to the publication of Alfred Swaine Taylor's orbituary.

Note from The British Medical Journal

Notes, headed 'Roller Derby', written by Tony Ray-Jones.

Notes, headed 'Roller Derby'

1972

Note sent to neighbours in Woodbridge offering support to those who may be self-isolating, 2020

Note sent to neighbours in Woodbridge offering COVID-19 support

2020

Note, signed Thos. L Gooch; "Experiment with "Novelty", Rainhill level plane, January 26, 1830"

Note, signed Thos. L Gooch

Rough chip of olive wood, reputed to be from the Garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem, collected in 1903

Rough chip of olive wood

1903

Working note, unsigned related to wedge refractometer. Part of a collection of optical instruments used by Horace Dall.

Working note for wedge refractometer

Handwritten note about smoked glass slides recording blood pressures. It reads ' Box of smoked glass slides with blood pressure graphs, name, date, notes, etc. 1874'

Note

1874

Hand drawn note with two faces inside a heart from side bag of Permobil C350 wheelchair (JW 12/10/2019 #31).

Note from side bag of Permobil C350 wheelchair (JW 12/10/2019 #31)

Note from C. M. S. Depot in Clifton reading ‘supposed to be the ashes of a Buddhist priest’

Note about Buddhist amulets made from human ashes

Note relating to an unknown watch. Maker unknown.

Note

Handwritten note of what is to be published, photographic views from nature in Scotland. By William Henry Fox Talbot, (?) about 1844.

Handwritten Note

1844-1845

GNR delivery note from Peterborough to Bingham dated 19th September 1870. For William Nicholls. Items include hard and soft soap, flannel, pens, hearth stone, ink, note paper and other station equipment.

Great Northern Railway delivery note

1870

Lynton & Barnstaple Railway handwritten note about the day to day events for Barnstaple Fair on 12th September 1923. Written at the manager's office.

Barnstaple Fair, 1923

1923-09-12

Note, "Unveiling of North Eastern Railway War Memorial, York 14th June 1924", 'in the event of the enclosed invitation being accepted a free railway ticket will be issued on application, The station from which the ticket will be required should be stated', 125 x 185mm.

unveiling of North Eastern Railway war memorial York 14th June 1924

1924

Note, card, Lynn and Fakenham Railway Goods Advice Note with a postcard reverse, stamped with a half penny, c.1881

Lynn and Fakenham Railway Goods Advice Note

1876-1886

Caledonian Railway Goods Departmen note about invoice. Dated 10th November 1870

Caledonian Railway goods department

1870

Staff history record of Mr. Frank Shearsmith Fidell on his retirement from the British Transport Commission

staff history record

1955-05-13

Note fron the Railway Clearing House re clearance of parcels traffic from Larne and Stranraer

Railway Clearing House note

19 March 1903

Consignment note for milk to be carried at owners risk, and at reduced rate under terms of agreement, issued by London & South Western Railway Company

consignment note

1912

Paper telephone message reading "Desist in your foolishness", David Shrigley, United Kingdom, 1999-2000. From David Shrigley's mixed media installation. One of a number of copies of the same note to allow for rotation on display. All are torn along the top where they have been removed from a pad.

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000

A handwritten note reading 'Dear Robert, As I am writing these words I am shouting them aloud at the top of my voice, Kind regards, David', David Shrigley, United Kingdom, 1999-2000. From David Shrigley's mixed media installation. One of two versions made for rotation on display. In this example the 'o' in top has been overwritten.

['Dear Robert']

1999-2000

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000

Paper note with a message 'YOUR FATHER CALLED (HE SOUNDED ANGRY)' written on it, David Shrigley, United Kingdom, 1999-2000. From David Shrigley's mixed media installation. One of a number of copies of the same note to allow for rotation on display.

['Your father called']

1999-2000

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000

Advice note for the Lancaster Banking Co to Ulverstone Station for the Furness Railways

advice note

1864

Note, London & North Eastern Railway, prohibition of dogs travelling on the Silver Jubilee train, paper. [Hand-drawn sketch on the reverse]

LNER Silver Jubilee train Rules for Dogs

1935

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000

['Your father called']

1999-2000

[Desist in your foolishness]

1999-2000