Comprises: personal letters, diaries, travel notebooks, legal papers, inventories, etc. of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Records of William Gott's collections of books and paintings; John Ewart's poems; Letters of the Ewart family; Maps, prints and sketches; Notes relating to the history of the Gott family, with souvenirs and newspaper cuttings and copies of Gott family letters in private hands
Gott papers; section 2: family records
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 194
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1750-ca.1941
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 423 items in 7 boxes, with an additional box of uncatalogued material
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Gotts were a prominent Leeds family, and were partners in firms of woollen merchants and manufacturers from 1780 to 1867
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The bequest of Mrs Beryl Katherine (Robins) Gott, of Weetwood Garth, Leeds, 1941
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
Contents listed in Handlists 22 and 22a and the Letters database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/letters/letlink.htm#ms194
Bibliography
See T.F. Friedman: "Aspects of nineteenth century sculpture in Leeds. 2: Patronage of the Benjamin Gott family", in Leeds arts calendar, no.70, 1972, pp.18-25