Reference code: GB-0033-ELT
Title: John Ellerton Archive
Dates of creation: 1844-2014
Extent: 1 metre
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: John Ellerton (1826-1893); papers collected by Fabian Robertson.
Language:
English
John Ellerton was born 16 December 1826 in Clerkenwell, London, the elder son of George Ellerton (1776-1844) and his second wife Jemima Frances Ellerton (née Brown; 24 January 1795-1866). Having attended King William's College, Isle of Man, from
Michaelmas 1845, Ellerton studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduated with a B.A. in 1849, and took his M.A. in 1854. On 19 May 1860 he married Charlotte Alicia (b. 27 May [?]; d. 1896), the daughter of William Hart of Brighton, formerly of
Dorking, and they had seven sons and four daughters. Correspondence with Charlotte's sister Catherine Hart is also present in the collection. John Ellerton died on 15 June 1893, at Torquay, Devon.
Ellerton's ecclesiastical career began with his ordination at Chichester, as a deacon in 1850 and priest in 1851. He was curate of Easebourne, Sussex, 1850-1852, then at Brighton and a lecturer at St Peter's 1852-1860; vicar of Crewe Green,
Cheshire and chaplain to Lord Crewe 1860-1872; rector of Hinstock, Shropshire 1872-1876; rector of Barnes, Surrey 1879-1884; chaplain at Pegli, Italy 1884-1885; and rector of White Roding, Essex 1885-1892. Appointed honorary canon of St Albans in
1892, he was never installed.
The author of several theological and devotional works, Ellerton is best known as a hymnologist and hymn-writer.
Correspondence of John Ellerton (1826-1893), clergyman and hymn writer, chiefly with his son, Frank Ellerton, and with William Walsham How the first bishop of Wakefield, with some photographs and printed books. The bulk of the collection is made
up of the John Ellerton and Ellerton family genealogical research papers of Fabian Robertson, and includes many copies of original records still in private hands and photocopies of manuscripts and published works.
Donated by Fabian Robertson, 17 February 2014. Misc.2013/14:42.
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Sub-Librarian, Special Collections (e-mail PG.Library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist
where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
The order of the groups of records has been altered from Robertson's arrangement, but the order of the records within each grouping has been preserved:
ELT 1/1-2: Correspondence with Ellerton, 1857-1892.
ELT 2/1-2: Letters from hymn writers.
ELT 3: Missions.
ELT 4: Original documents of Ellerton.
ELT 5: Miscellaneous original material, copies and modern research papers arranged chronologically and by places of residence of Ellerton during his lifetime:
ELT 5/1: Cumming Street, Pentonville;
ELT 5/2: King William College, Isle of Man (1838-1844);
ELT 5/3: Trinity College, Cambridge (1845-1849);
ELT 5/4: Easebourne, West Sussex (1850-1852);
ELT 5/5: Brighton, East Sussex (1852-1860);
ELT 5/6: Crewe Green, Cheshire (1860-1872);
ELT 5/7: Hinstock, Shropshire (1872-1876);
ELT 5/8: Barnes, Richmond (1876-1884);
For Pegli, Genoa, Italy (1884-1885), see ELT 1;
ELT 5/9: White Roding, Essex (1885-1892);
ELT 5/10: Torquay, Devon (1893).
ELT 6: Letters of condolence received on Ellerton's death;
ELT 7: Obituaries;
ELT 8: Original manuscript of Church Hymns (Annotated);
ELT 9: Hymns and poetry by Ellerton, with articles about Ellerton hymns;
ELT 10: Hymns on Cyberhymnal by John Ellerton;
ELT 11: Ellerton hymns, original and translated, with music;
ELT 12: Church Monthly articles by Ellerton;
ELT 13: Biographical articles, books, publications, sermons referring to Ellerton;
ELT 14: Sermons notebook;
ELT 15: Music manuscript book, containing hymns transcribed by Ellerton;
ELT 16: B.B.C. broadcast, ‘Sweet songs of Sion’, Sir John Betjeman;
ELT 17: Portraits and photographs of Ellerton.
ELT 18: Index of John Ellerton Archive, formerly in the custody of Fabian Robertson, February 2014.
Printed works are listed in the online library catalogue. Correspondence between John Whale and others, and a
colour photograph of an unidentified church interior, found within
One Church, One Lord (PrattGreen 283.4216 WHA) are filed after ELT 18.
Further deposits from other descendants may follow.
A comprehensive index of the collection created by the donor may serve as a detailed catalogue until the collection is more fully catalogued. The index has been annotated to indicate the new numbering scheme.
Many originals remain in private hands.
W.W. How, A. Oxenden and J. Ellerton (rev.)
The children's hymn book for use in children's services, Sunday schools and families (1885).
John Ellerton,
Hymns original and translated (1888).
John Ellerton (ed.),
A manual of parochial work : for the use of the younger clergy / by various writers (1888).
Henry Housman,
John Ellerton : being a collection of his writings on hymnology together with a sketch of his life and works (1896).
D. Campbell,
Hymns and hymn makers (1912).
H. Martin, ‘The day thou gavest: John Ellerton (1826–93), the parish priest whose life was devoted to hymns’,
They wrote our hymns (1961), 118–25.
J.R. Watson, ‘The day thou gavest’,
Hymn Society Bulletin, 158 (Sept 1983), 144–50.
Bernard Braley,
Hymnwriters 1 (1987)
ELT 1 1857-1892
Correspondence with Ellerton.
Paper 3 envelopes
ELT 1/1 postmarked February 1857
John Ellerton poem: ‘Hard by the margin of a lake, A humble curate stood - He thought to skate - permitted by, the “Genius of the Wood”’.
[The curate referred to in the 16 stanza poem is probably Rev. William Henry Hart, who at the time was curate of Hawkhurst, and was in 1860 to become Ellerton's brother-in-law.]
Paper 1f; envelope
ELT 1/2 26 January 1864
Jemima Ellerton at Crewe Green to Catharine Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton: news of children and domestic matters; recounts activities in Yorkshire, with companion Amie - music and prestigitation of the “Great
Wizard of the North” [John Henry Anderson].
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/3 22 June 1865
John Ellerton at Crewe Green Parsonage to his wife Jemima Frances Ellerton c/o William Hart, 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton: birthday wishes to their daughter Katie; book club dinner.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/4 [1860s]
[John Ellerton at Eckington House, Cheltenham to Frank Ellerton]: staying with Hart family; with illustrations of ‘what Papa saw in the train’ (industrial scene; steam train and 6 carriages/wagons; Worcester;
Cheltenham). Fragment of letter.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/5 1 January 1866
Jemima Ellerton at Crewe Green to her daughter-in-law Catharine Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton: walk after church with Lord Crewe, Lady Houghton and her son Robin; Christmas menus.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/6 20 March 1866
John Ellerton at Crewe Green to Catharine Hart: death and funeral of his mother Jemima Frances Ellerton; Annie stayed with Mr Pickering, clergyman of Trinity Church, Ellerton's old schoolmaster, ‘for whom I preached on
Sunday morning’.
Letter stationary with illustration of St Mary's church and the barrow monument at Ulverston, by J. Ferguson and J. C. Armytage, published by D. Atkinson, Ulverton, 1851.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/7 [1867]
[John Ellerton to ...]: travels in Cheshire, staying with the rector of Nantwich; sickness of bishop's wife; gifted
Golden Thoughts form Golden Fountains, sepia edition; “Endless Alleluia” [new] tune; reading with his wife Henry Parry Lidden's ‘splendid’ Bampton
Lectures [The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ].
Paper 2f
ELT 1/8 17 January 1868
John Ellerton at Crewe Green to Catharine Hart: wife's improving health after birth of Charlotte Mary (26 December 1867); Mr Napier met at Alderley, and Elizabethan [sic.] riddles in [
The Demaundes Joyous] (with examples).
Paper 3f
ELT 1/9 8 July 1868
John Ellerton at Crewe Green to Catharine Hart: description of large group of his confirmation candidates being confirmed; plans for walking holdiay on Isle of Man with Monson, Professor Lightfoot, and Robert Martin; projected London meetings
regarding a proposal for a new hymn book, and a different proposal from the publisher Macmillan.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/10 St Thomas' Day [21 December] 1880
John Ellerton at The Rectory, Barnes to Cath[arine Hart in Germany]: family news; the celebration of Christmas in Germany characterised as more sentimental than in England, ‘& I am afraid less realization of what
Christmas is than, with all our faults, we get from our English Church’; with two different translations of an unidentified (single stanza) poem.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/11 13 July 1881
John Ellerton at Pusey Rectory, Faringdon, Berkshire to his son Arthur Ellerton: description of life at the rectory, fishing in the lake, Pusey's library of 20,000 volumes, menagerie of domesticated wild animals (wolf, wild cats, jackal, Corsian
moufflons, silver pheasants).
Paper 2f
ELT 1/12 19 July 1881
John Ellerton at Pusey Rectory, Faringdon, Berkshire to his son Arthur Ellerton: refers him to ‘important’ review of JE's notes on
Church Hymns in the Literary Churchman, which ‘is very flattering’.
Paper 4f
ELT 1/13 10 and 12 June 1882
John Ellerton at Dieppe, France to ‘Beloved Jumbo’ [?Arthur Ellerton]: describes places visited around Dieppe.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/14 19 August 1883
Frank Ellerton at The Rectory, Barnes to his brother Arthur Ellerton, [poste restante, Thun, Switzerland]: visit to Dorking; uncles John and Charles, the latter sending roses and magnolia to Barnes; mother's visit to Moorsons [near Crewe]; large
apple crop necessitates clearing out attic as a store; rowing trip on Thames.
Letter found in same envelope as ELT 1/15.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/15 22 August 1883
John Ellerton at The Rectory, Barnes to Arthur Ellerton, poste restante, Thun, Switzerland: theft of neighbour's silver; reports illness of Annie, visited in Leeds; evening visit to House of Commons,
21 August 1883, describing Gladstone at Question Time and subsequently, ‘sat down with tremendous cheering’.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/16 26 June 1884
John Ellerton at 6 Westover Villas, Bournemouth to Arthur Ellerton at The Rectory, Barnes: allowance, and educational progress and plans; JE convalescing in Bournemouth, awaiting news of overseas chaplaincy.
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/17 25 August 1884
John Ellerton at The Rectory, Barnes to Catharine Hart, Post Office, Ilkley, Yorkshire: advice on sightseeing - Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Whitby etc.
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/18 20 October 1884
John Ellerton at Pension Masson, Veytaux, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland to Catharine Hart: hotels in Veytaux, and nationalities of visitors; English Church, and chaplain Sankey; children's activites; daily life in the Pension.
Paper 4f
ELT 1/19 1 February 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton: visit to Crewe Green; news from Maurice on H.M.S. Sultan; request to find two books on Essex at the Bodleian Library.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/20 postmarked 15 February 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 8 St John's Street, Oxford: jocular “White Roding Chronicle”, with domestic and parochial news.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/21 6 March 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 8 St John's Street, Oxford: three days with Hymns Ancient and Modern (HAM) Committee, S. J. Stone present, and describes H. Twells.
Paper 3f; envelope
ELT 1/22 16 March 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 8 St John's Street, Oxford: source of Wordsworth quotation sought [ ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’]; queries origin of metaphoric use of
‘Jordan’ for death.; family coat of arms.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/23 postmarked 20 March 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 8 St John's Street, Oxford.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/24 6 May 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College:
Twilight of Life; Walker and Constable paintings viewed at the National Gallery.
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/25 8 May 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/26 12 May 1886
John Ellerton at 38 Clifton Terrace, Brighton to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: staying with Charlotte Ellerton's family; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) Committee meeting, Canon Hole and Diocesan histories of colonial
churches; Holman Hunt artworks viewed.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/27 22 May 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: Brighton visit, describes diving feats at the pier; interior redecoration at White Roding.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/28 27 May 1886
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: news of death of Charlie Puckle on a mountain; Fanny Bateman.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/29 14 February 1887
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: Bodleian Library enquiry concerning editions of translations of
De imitatione Christi.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/30 23 February [1887]
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton.
Paper 1f
ELT 1/31 2 March 1887
James Mearns, curate of Cholesbury, near Tring to [John Ellerton]: enquiry concerning ‘King Alfred's Hymne’; with research instruction from [John Ellerton] to [Arthur Ellerton].
Paper 2f
ELT 1/32 14 June 1887
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: week at Malvern; family news.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/33 29 July 1887
John Ellerton at Old Brathay, Ambleside to Arthur Ellerton at White Roding: domestic details of shopping, and household payments.
Paper 1f; envelope
ELT 1/34 1 August 1887
John Ellerton at Old Brathay, Ambleside to Arthur Ellerton at White Roding: reports Rawnsley's speech at Hawkeshead School speech day, reminiscences of Wordsworth, Tennysons and the Lake poets; rushbearing, only at Ambleside and Grasmere now.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/35 3 October 1887
John Ellerton at Sedgley Vicarage, Dudley to Arthur Ellerton at White Roding: describes rough and rowdy singing at Dudley and the very large congregation.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/36 8 November 1887
John Ellerton at 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: reports on 10-day mission in Duffield (22 October-1 November).
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/37 21 November 1887
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: Arthur's education, advising he work harder.
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/38 8 December 1887
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton: recounts meeting at Chelsea with Eyton and his wife; Blunt on Vereshchagin paintings, and Tolstoy; mislaid hymns manuscrips.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/39 23 January 1888
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: advice on course of study; hymns ready to go to Keegan Paul the publishers, including a new hymn for St Matthias's day.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/40 13 February 1888
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: Boys Brigade; HA&M with White and Canon Mason; Kegan Paul decline to publish hymns, considers Selwyn Wells Gardner as alternative.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/41 27 April 1888
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: anticipates Arthur's meeting with the Bishop of Colombo, advising a career path in the Church of England beginning with an English parish; describes amendments to various
hymns and their tunes, ‘For all the saints’ , ‘On the resurrection morning’ , et al.
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/42 26 May 1888
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College: hymn by Merrick; requests a copy of ‘Salus mundi qui nasceris’ [ ‘Mundi salus qui nasceris’ ] from the Parisian
missal at Bodleian Library; visits Swanage in July; London visit planned on 5 June to work with Corby White.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/43 4 June 1888
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College, Oxford: found ‘Mundi salus qui nasceris’; description of wedding.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/44 20 May 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton c/o Reverend J. T. Nance, Polstead Rectory, near Colchester: report of a performance of Macbeth, starring Irving and Terry; reviews Farrar's
Lives of the Fathers.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/45 22 June 1889
John Ellerton at 35 Clifton Terrace to Arthur Ellerton at St John's College, Oxford: journey from White Roding to Chelmsford by brake and wagonette, then by train via Liverpool Street and London Bridge to Chichester; stays with Housmans; garden
party at Bishop's Palace; Dean speaks about the
Manual of Parochial Work; drives to West Hampnett through Goodwood, Bosham; train to Brighton; preaches at Lodsworth for Dedication festival.
Paper 5f; envelope
ELT 1/46/1-2 15 July 1889
John Ellerton and Katharine A. Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton, c/o W. M. Ellerton R.N., H.M.S. Seaflower, Portland: family movements; enclosing letter from sister KAE, describing Folkestone stay, visiting Wakefield and Merriman
families; mother at Stannington Vicarage, Cramlington.
Paper 3f; envelope
ELT 1/47 21 October 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 34 Walton Crescent, Oxford: lecture by Miss Theresa on Savonarola; plans for Arthur's preparation for ordination, with prospect of an appointment at Durham with [Edward] Welch.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/48 6 and 9 November 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 34 Walton Crescent, Oxford: Arthur's preparation for ordination, advising Bishop Auckland rather than Cuddesdon; review of Savonarola lecture.
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/49/1-2 5 and 7 November 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 34 Walton Crescent, Oxford: further arguments in favour of Bishop Auckland, particularly in view of a letter from Welch there making an offer to AE provisional on his passing his degree this
term (enclosed).
Paper 6f; envelope
ELT 1/50 15 November 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 34 Walton Crescent, Oxford: relates decision by SPCK not to revise
Church Hymns for now.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/51 10 December 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 34 Walton Crescent, Oxford: offers congratulations; news of a trial at Dunmow.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/52 11 December 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton: preparations for Hinstock then Bishop Auckland; Band of Hope song requested for inclusion by SPCK.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/53 18 December 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at Hinstock Rectory, Market Drayton: preparing lecture on Athanasius.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/54 23 December 1889
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton: birthday wishes; anticipates Arthur's ordination within the year.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/55 8 February 1890
John Ellerton at 35 Clifton Terrace to Arthur Ellerton at White Roding: Arthur to spend time at Shepton to read and prepare for ordination; visiting the sick; mission work.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/56 10 April 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at The Rectory, Shepton Beauchamp, Ilminster: reports attendances at services, depleted due to to barley sowing being in progress; Frank Ellerton's acceptance of Bishop Ingram's offer of the
Bromborough curacy, Birkenhead; doubts his attendance at ordination at Wakefield is affordable.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/57 Easter Eve [5 April] 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Catharine Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace: church and family news.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/58 12 April 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Catharine Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton: rose windows; news of Frank Ellerton's appointment to Bromborough curacy, Canon Fielden the Rural Dean.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/59 24 April 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Catharine Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton: offers advice to Miss Young, a friend of CH's, on the manuscripts submissions procedure to the SPCK General Literature Committee, and encloses a covering letter to
Reverend E. McClure (not present).
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/60/1-2 30 April and 4 May 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Catharine Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton: plans for publication of a short work, meditations on the Communion, to be printed at the Archdeacon's suggestion; encloses a reply from McClure to his letter
concerning Miss Young's manuscript submission.
Paper 3f; envelope
ELT 1/61 17 May 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton, c/o Reverend A. Lethbridge, Shepton Beauchamp: Arthur's Si quis, giving notice of his intention to take holy orders, to be read at church the next day.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/62 30 May 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at The Vicarage, Halifax: Arthur to be ordained as a Deacon on Trinity Sunday; offers advice on visiting the sick.
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/63 9 June 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: attends Quiet Day at St Denys, Southampton; meets Basil Wilberforce.
Paper 3f; envelope
ELT 1/64 30 June 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: advice on dealing with Roman Catholics applying for counsel.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/65 15 July 1890
John Ellerton at Lidworth Vicarage to Charlotte Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace: advice on travelling to France.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/66 30 July 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: reports death of two children holidaying from Haggerston, London, and one local infant from diptheria; disease control, and impact on local community and Ellerton family;
reports his appointment as Diocesan Inspector of Schools.
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/67 14 August 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: bell ringers excusion to Clacton; Essex folk songs sung by John Brown, including one on the “Red Barn” murder.
Printed enclosure: S.P.C.K. “Memorandum on the Society's relations to authors, drawn up by the sub-committee appointed to consider the charges made in Mr. Besant's pamphlet”, 25 July 1890 (corrected by hand from
1889).
Paper 3f; 2f; envelope
ELT 1/68 2 September 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: offers advice to a friend of Arthur's regarding a tract on spiritualism; Maurice on short leave from H.M.S. Nautilus; wife visits Broadstairs; new gardener at White
Roding rectory, an army pensioner; comments on vacant bishoprics.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/69 13 October 1890
John Ellerton at Crewe Hall, Crewe to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: JE staying with Lord Crewe; remarks on contents of Crewe library.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/70 30 October 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: requests reaction to
The Great Indwelling; thoughts on the relation of Holy Communion to the Spiritual Life, particularly first chapter; W. M. Moorson commends AE's appointment under [Joshua] Ingham Brooke, [Archdeacon of Halifax].
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/71 6 November 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: visit to Bayfordbury, viewing Kit-Cat pictures and the autograph manuscript of the first book of Milton's
Paradise Lost.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/72 6 December 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: news of family and friends.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/73 8 December 1890
John Ellerton to Arthur Ellerton: offers response to
Church Times application of the term ‘virtualism’ to JE's work.
Paper 2f
ELT 1/74 17 December 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Catharine Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton: offers thanks for birthday present of a shaving case; celebrated anniversary lecturing on St Leo; notes deaths of ‘the five greatest
theologians in Europe all taken away this year’; welcomes news of positive reception to book among ‘the dear St Nicholas people’ [at Brighton].
Paper 4f; envelope
ELT 1/75 18 December 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: illness of Lord Crewe feared his last; lists books given to JE for his birthday; discusses Church of England prospective appointments, and Home Rule; requests news of
AE's lecture
4f; envelope
ELT 1/76 22 December 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: sends birthday wishes; plans to circulate a printed sonnet among his friends at Christmas rather than a ‘stupid and ugly’ card (see ELT
5/9).
2f; envelope
ELT 1/77 5 January 1891
T. L. Claughton (formerly Bishop of St Albans) at Danbury Palace, Chelmsford to John Ellerton: offers thanks for JE's Christmas sonnet.
2f
ELT 1/78 9 January 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: offers thanks for AE's Christmas present, listing books received, including Gladstone's
The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture; local skating; reports first reaction to JE's “Lives of Hymn Writers” [series].
2f; envelope
ELT 1/79 20 January 1890
John Ellerton at White Roding to Catharine Hart: provides details of
Christ's Folk in the Apennine by Francesca Alexander, and other works.
2f
ELT 1/80 22 January 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: uncertainty over location of AE's registration of birth, Nantwich or Crewe.
1f; envelope
ELT 1/81 23 January 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: recounts deaths of two women at Maidstone, church helpers and known well by George [Rodwell].
2f; envelope
ELT 1/82 postmarked 24 January 1891
Addressed by [John Ellerton] to Catharine Hart at 35 Clifton Terrace, Brighton.
envelope
ELT 1/83 31 January 1891
H. B. Ellerton at Sempam, Pahang, [now in Malaysia] to his mother Charlotte Ellerton: recounts encounter with tiger, and losing the path in the jungle during a journey to Sega; stays with Hutchinson.
2f
ELT 1/84 4 February 1891
H. B. Ellerton at Sempam, Pahang, [now in Malaysia] to his mother Charlotte Ellerton: news of Hutchinson and Harvey, in his party, and of J. Prinsep, and [?Gebon] sending three eldest girls to Fuzhou.
2f
ELT 1/85 12 February 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: School Board activities; revising Church of England Temperence Society Hymnbook.
4f; envelope
ELT 1/86 18 February 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: responds to AE's criticism of Church Missionary Society in Palestine, comparing it to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
2f; envelope
ELT 1/87 20 February 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: reports Chattie ill with gastric fever; visit to Barnes, where Murray the curate whoed JE a ‘wonderful’ book by [Richard W.] Randall on
retreats [
Addresses and Meditations for a Retreat (1890)].
2f; envelope
ELT 1/88 3 April 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: moat at White Roding rectory; plans to attend AE's ordination; perparations for conference at Hertford.
2f; envelope
ELT 1/89 13 April 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: moat at White Roding rectory; AE's ordination on Trinity Sunday; JE to attend a Quiet Day at Hednesford for Rugeley Deanery on 21 April, then on to Derby to new house of
Fanny; short holiday in Ramsgate, visiting Ebbsfleet Minster.
2f; envelope
ELT 1/90 23 September 1891
John Ellerton at White Roding to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: Day School paper [?by AE] to be sent to Archdeacon B. F. Smith; JE to spend a week at Crewe over Michaelmas; Church of England Temperence Society hymnal in abeyance.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/91 11 November 1892
John Ellerton at Rosemont, Torquay to Arthur Ellerton at 17 Clare Road, Halifax: describes new home and family living arrangements; reports award of a pension; Maurice's appointment to H.M.S. Blake on North American station; promises to discuss
AE's lecture on hymns.
Paper 2f; envelope
ELT 1/92 [before 1831]-1917
File of miscellanea: correspondence (some apparently only preserved as autographs); theological notes (not all in JE's hand); prayers; hymn texts and music; poem ‘O, Love's a bitter thing to bide’ by James Hogg;
copy OUP publishing licence (1917); list of 32 hymns, with notes on each, from
Hymns Ancient and Modern‘for want of poetical or lyrical excellence, from obscurity or poverty of thought, or other causes, unconnected with theology, unsuitable for permanent use in the
Church Hymn book of the future’; report to the Committee of Convocation of a meeting at Hymns Ancient and Modern to consider the suggestions of the Committee, with manuscript and printed list of suggestions (1892); two riddles,
“My first conveys the Irish lass to Ballyshannon fair”, and “And ye, the spawn of old Glendow'r”; poem, with pressed Forget-me-not, “Welcome - little tender
flourit!” by A.L.M., Stor[r]ington; arguments in favour and against an authorized hymnal; riddle, “Sir Hilary charged at Agincourt”; obituary and commemorative hymn sheet ( “How sweet
the hour of closing day”) for Hon. Rev. Littleton Powys, rector of Titchmarsh; pencil sketch of a person sitting fishing, in the background a house behind trees, and on reverse a portrait of an unidentified man in profile; studio full-length
portrait photograph of unidentified man.
Correspondents include: John Saul Howson, Dean of Chester (1867); F. W. Petter to [?Barnett] (1881; copy); Henry Smart to Rev. R. Brown Borthwick (1871); Gerard Moultrie (1872); John Eustace Prescott (1883); C. M. Yonge to F. Arnold; Samuel
Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester to ‘Bishop’ (1896); W[William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford]; John Abernethy ([before 1831]); Canon A. J. Mason to White, on Church Defence hymn (1888); William Walsham How, Bishop of
Bedford (1887); Rev. J. Wakefield to Rev. Canon [William Walsham] How (1877); J. J. Stewart Perowne, Dean of Peterborough (1881); Martin S. Skeffington (1887); Madame Albani Gye to Mrs Filden; Richard William Church, Dean of St Paul's (1880);
[?Godfrey] Thring.
Paper; leather 1 leather-bound file
ELT 2/1-2 1858-2009
Letters from hymn writers, arranged alphabetically then chronologically by writer, with date range of correspondence. Letters are addressed to John Ellerton unless otherwise stated.
1. Cecil Francis Alexander, 22 January 1876; with two colour print copies of portraits of C. F. Alexander hanging in the Chapter House at Londonderry Cathedral.
2. William Alexander, Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, 25 November 1879; with one colour print copy of a portrait of W. Alexander hanging in the Chapter House at Londonderry Cathedral.
3. Henry Alford to William Walsham How, 20 October 1869.
4-5. Henry W. Baker, 1873 and 1875.
6. Thomas J. Ball, 17 January 1879.
7. Sabine Baring-Gould, 11 September 1872.
8. Alfred Barry, Principal of King's College, London, 4 January 1872.
9. W. Bellars, 11 December 1886.
10. E. W. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, 14 April 1873.
11. E. H. Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter, 27 March 1890.
12. Frederic M. Bird, 29 April 1878.
13. Stopford Augustus Brooke, 20 July 1881.
14. Alwyne Compton, 17 August 1878.
15. John J. Daniell, 10 September [?before 1877].
16. Newman Hall, 27 October [before 1893].
17-35. William Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, 1873-1893; with printed copy of “Oh King of kings, Whose reign of old hath been from everlasting”, 1897; and research notes and correspondence relating to How,
1997-2009.
36. Thomas Hughes M.P., 3 April 1871.
37. Benjamin Hall Kennedy, 25 March 1869.
38. E. F. Leach, 12 February 1892.
39-40. Richard Frederick Littledale, 1867 and 1884.
41. William Dalrymple Maclagan, Bishop of Lichfield, 9 June 1886.
42. Jackson Mason, 5 June 1888.
43. John Monsell, 21 March 1872.
44. J. M. Neale, 2 November 1858.
45. Francis Palgrave, 19 December 1888.
46. T. B. Pollock, 5 July 1887.
47. J. E. Prescott, 28 May 1883.
48-50. William Pulling, April-July 1885.
51. George Rawson, 19 March 1888.
52. H. Byron Reed, 19 July 1879.
53. Athelstan Riley to John Carroll, Bishop of Shrewsbury, 4 May 1896.
54. Daniel Sedgwick, 14 May 1878 (introducing F. M. Bird).
55. John Stainer to F. G. Ellerton, 7 May 1900.
56. S. J. Stone, 8 January 1887.
57. Arthur Sullivan, 8 May 1869.
58. Edward Terry, 2 August 1883.
59. John Wakefield, 6 November 1877.
60-62. Alfred Warren, October-November 1880.
63-73. G. C. White, 1885-1892.
74. J. R. Woodford to William Walsham How, 16 March [before 1898].
75. Notes by Frank Ellerton on his father John Ellerton's involvement with Hymns Ancient and Modern 1889 supplement.
Paper 2 envelopes
ELT 3/1-2 1873-1880
Material relating to Missions undertaken by John Ellerton at the following locations and dates, and containing addresses, diaries, daily service notes, handbills and notices: Whittington (1873); Armitage (November 1873); Enfield (1874); Duffield
(1874); Potteries, Woolstanton (1875); Birmingham St Nicholas (1875); Cambridge (1880); Ely (1880).
Paper 2 volumes, multiple loose enclosures
ELT 4 1850-2010
Certificates and deeds of appointment for John Ellerton.
Parchment; paper 5m; 2f
ELT 4/1 24 February 1850
Certificate of ordination as deacon for John Ellerton at West Hampnett, Sussex, by Ashurst Turner, Bishop of Chichester.
Parchment 1m
ELT 4/2 15 June 1851
Certificate of ordination as priest for John Ellerton at Chichester Cathedral by Ashurst Turner, Bishop of Chichester.
Parchment 1m
ELT 4/3 9 June 1860
Licence of Rev. John Ellerton M.A. to the perpetual curacy of St Michael's Church, Crewe.
Parchment 1m
ELT 4/4 30 September 1892
Certificate of subscription of Rev. John Ellerton at St Albans Cathedral.
Parchment 1m
ELT 4/5 30 September 1892
Collation of Rev. John Ellerton to an honorary canonry in the cathedral church of St Albans.
Parchment; paper 1m; envelope
ELT 4/6 2010
Plan of the canons' stalls in the cathedral and abbey church of St Alban, with John Ellerton's stall indicated in manuscript.
Paper 1f
ELT 5 1844-2009
Miscellaneous original material, copies and modern research papers arranged chronologically and by places of residence of Ellerton during his lifetime:
Paper 9 envelopes
ELT 5/1 [c. 1990-1999]
Cumming Street, Pentonville.
Paper 5f
ELT 5/2 1844; 1990s-2004
King William College, Isle of Man (1838-1844).
Photographic paper; paper 2 photographs; 24f
ELT 5/3 1990s
Trinity College, Cambridge (1845-1849).
Paper 7f
ELT 5/4 [late 20th century-early 21st century]
Easebourne, West Sussex (1850-1852).
Photographic paper 2 photographs
ELT 5/5 1860; [late 20th century]-2000
Brighton, East Sussex (1852-1860).
Photographic paper; paper 2 photographs; 19f
ELT 5/6 1863-2009
Crewe Green, Cheshire (1860-1872).
Photographic paper; paper; magnetic tape 1 photograph; 50f; 2 booklets; 1 audio casette tape
ELT 5/7 1872-1874; 1996
Hinstock, Shropshire (1872-1876).
Paper 10f
ELT 5/8 1876-1883; 1980s-1990s
Barnes, Richmond (1876-1884).
Photographic paper; paper 4 photographs; 41f; 2 booklets
See ELT 1/16, 18
Pegli, 1884.
ELT 5/9 1886-1891; 1962; 1990s
White Roding, Essex (1885-1892).
Photographic paper; paper 15 photographs; 21f; 4 booklets; 1 magazine
ELT 5/10 1896; 1980s-1990s
Torquay, Devon (1893).
Photographic paper; paper 5 photographs; 5f; 1 booklet
ELT 6/1-3 June 1893
Letters of condolence received on Ellerton's death. Correspondents: Francis H. Murray; Edward Henry Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter; G. C. White.
Paper 6f
ELT 7 [1893]
Notices of death and obituaries.
Paper 14f; envelope
ELT 8 [1860 x 1871]
Original manuscript of
Church Hymns (Annotated).
Paper 1 box
ELT 9 1868-2002
Hymns and poetry by Ellerton, some in manuscript, with articles about Ellerton hymns; includes a “Master index of John Ellerton's hymns, original and translated”, compiled by Fabian Robertson.
Paper; photographic paper 1 envelope
ELT 10 August 2002
Hymns on Cyber Hymnal [now Net Hymnal] by John Ellerton: hymn texts.
Paper 1 booklet
ELT 11 June 2002
Hymns, original and translated by John Ellerton: photocopied hymn texts, some with music. Contents list is the “Master index of John Ellerton's hymns, original and translated”, compiled by Fabian Robertson.
Paper 1 booklet
ELT 12 [Early 20th century]
Collection of
Church Monthly articles by Ellerton. Photocopies.
Paper 1 booklet
ELT 13 1891-2005
Biographical articles, books, publications, sermons referring to John Ellerton.
Paper 1 envelope
ELT 14 1851
Sermons notebook.
Paper; leather 1 volume (2 loose enclosures)
ELT 15 [1861 x 1893]
Music manuscript book, containing hymns transcribed by John Ellerton.
Paper 44p; 1 enclosure
ELT 16 [1975 x 1978]
B.B.C. broadcast, ‘Sweet songs of Sion’, Sir John Betjeman: includes a concluding discussion of “The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended”; with broadcast extract transcript.
Paper; magnetic tape; plastic 1 audio cassette tape; 1f
ELT 17 [1845 x 1850]-[early 21st century]
Portraits and photographs of John Ellerton, members of his family, modern-day locations with which JE was associated, his christening mug, and grave at Torquay. Some additional images are filed at the end of the volume ELT 18.
Photographic paper; paper 22 colour and b & w photographs; 21f
ELT 18 February 2014
Index of John Ellerton Archive, formerly in custody of Fabian Robertson; includes some photographs not present in ELT 17.
Paper 1 booklet
