Scope and Contents Book titled Poems on the abolition of the slave trade.The book belonged to Mary Anne Rawson, with her book plate in the front reading 'MAR Wincobank Hall, near Sheffield'. There is a pencil note to Mary from George Bennet reading 'Miss Read will please to take care of this beautiful token of my valued friend’s kindness, until it may please God to permit me to have the happiness of seeing her again. Geo. Bennet. Highfield. March 20 1821. The verses...

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Handwritten notes about James Montgomery, taken from from John Griscom’s A year in Europe.

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Handwritten poem by James Montgomery titled 'A Benediction for a Baby'.

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Printed leaflet publicising a public meeting about Moravian Missions, with a handwritten address to 'Joseph Read Esq.' (Mary Anne Rawson's father).

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Cheering Sunbeams: Favourite Hymns by James Montgomery (Edinburgh: James Taylor, [n.d.]). Contains words to 21 hymns.

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Book box [belonging to Mary Anne Rawson], containing printed material, portraits, and letters relating to James Montgomery. Many of the letters are between Montgomery and members of Mary Anne Rawson's family, including herself, her sister Elizabeth and her parents.

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Black and white engraving of James Montgomery, aged 82, titled 'Montgomery… Aged 82. Engraved by H. Adlard from a photograph of the marble bust by William Ellis in the Sheffield General Infirmary'. Printed London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans.

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Leaflet publicising the formation of 'The Irish Aid Society for Sheffield and its Vicinity', established on 22 May 1827. Handwritten address to 'Messrs J. Read & Co., Attercliffe Mills'.

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Handwritten note 'with J. Montgomery’s best respects to Miss Read'.

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Letter from John Holland to Mary Anne Rawson.

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Letter from James Montgomery to Mr. W[illiam] Rawson at Sharrow Head, enclosing a printed newspaper cutting reporting on a Venetian geometrician , M. Scamarella, who claimed to have solved the problem of the quadrature of the circle.

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Letter from James Montgomery and Miss Gale to Mrs. Read and Mrs. Rawson, thanking them for 'their kind gift of strawberries'. Sent from The Mount to Mrs. Read at Wincobank Hall.

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Handwritten poem by James Montgomery titled 'A Benediction for a Baby'.

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Letter from James Montgomery to Miss Eliza Read at Wincobank Hall.

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Letter from James Montgomery to Joseph Read Esq. at Wincobank Hall.

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Letter from James Montgomery to Miss Catherine Read at Wincobank Hall.

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Letter from James Montgomery to Joseph Read Esq. at Wincobank Hall.

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Letter from James Montgomery to Joseph Read Esq. at Wincobank Hall.

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Printed booklet titled 'The Great Word: a poetical meditation', by John Clarke, with a preface by James Montgomery.

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Letter from James Montgomery to Joseph Read Esq. at Wincobank Hall.