Manuscript and printed ephemera relating to the work of a Committee to remove the encumbrances on the Unitarian Chapel in Brighton.

Five manuscripts items, 15pp., 4to (4), fol.(1); three printed items, 4to, some with MS. additions. The Manuscripts items are related to the printed and are as follows: a. List of Subcriptions recd towards building the Chapel at Brighton (names and amounts). [1820] - Total, £1591.11-; b. [Fol., partly detached at fold marks] List of subscriptions (name, place, amount, or just town or city for some reason) and donations, Aug. 1834. with crossings out and calculations, and a list including periodicals (as subscribers?); c. List of mortgages, explaining why subscriptions would be invited, 1840; d. ALS, John Todhunter, 1840, with detailed explanation of the situation; e. Explanation of what the subscriptions would need to be spent on (Porch, Vestry, Claims upon the Chapel,etc.), 1840-1, List of donations; Two of the printed items are essentially the same text explaining the cause (removal of encumbrances), explaining the encumbrances (from cost of building 14 years before, detailing a debt to an individual and some mortgages) and ending with a printed list of subscribers, one of which has three names added in MS.; the second item has additional printed names with full details of 39 additional subscriptions in MS (name, place, amount, inc. people in London and D[aniel] Gaskell of Wakefield) and a MS. letter signed by John Todhunter and Herbert Holtham (Secretary of the Committee, see Note below) by which the wider Unitarian public are give the chance to subscribe; the third item is headed New Road Chapel, Brighton, giving the Treasurer's Accounts of Receipts and Expenditure to Aug. 1834, some printed names of subscribers with added names in MS. Note: Holtham, Herbert. An Englishman's journey along America's eastern waterways : the 1831 illustrated journal of Herbert Holtham's travels / edited by Seymour I. Schwartz. (Rochester Museum & Science Center and the University of Rochester Press, 2000) 168 p. -- A reproduction of a journal and pen-and-ink drawings of Herbert Holtham, a Unitarian minister from Brighton, England. The book details Holtham's travels in parts of the Eastern United States, particularly in New York along the Erie Canal, only six years after the completion of the canal.