| Description | Includes:
-Printed annual reports, 1845 - 1851
-A detailed report, dated 11 November 1846, summarising a visit to Nottingham First Day School, the first adult school in the country which was established by Samuel Fox
-Reports of the Annual Meeting of the Friends First-Day School Association, formed c. 1847/8.
Also inserted at the front of the volume (but now packaged separately) are two letters and envelope, dated October 1845 and addressed to the Committee of the Severn Street School, from Edw[ar]d Bird, a Church of England Minister, in which he expresses his opposition to the establishment of a school in his parish for the purpose of teaching writing, which he saw as a secular activity, not to be practised on a Sunday. |