John R. Payne Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection includes two rare British manuscripts. The first is a legal document of indenture of property dated December 23, 1720, involving George Bright, the descendants of Frances Lyne, James Labe, William Walton and others. The document also mentions “William Pitt the Elder of Burley in the parish of Kingwood.” The handwritten document on vellum measures 9 x 20 inches. There is a transcript alongside the original. The second item in the collection is an Agreement of Three Annuities for the Joint lives of Sir Henry Peyton and the said Henry Peyton and Denise of Manors, dated February 9, 1850. The document is handwritten on six pages of vellum measuring 23 x 26 ½ inches.
Dates
- 1720, 1850
Conditions Governing Use
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
John R. Payne is a collector and appraiser of rare books, photographs, and archival manuscripts. His company, Payne Associates, is based in Austin, Texas. Mr. Payne has extensive experience as an appraiser of archival manuscript collections and is a former associate of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and a lecturer on historic manuscripts and rare books. Payne donated the manuscripts to the Mary Couts Burnett Library in 2014 along with 13 rare books. Over the years, he has donated dozens of rare books to the library’s Special Collections department.
Extent
0.25 Linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
Physical Location
Vault BF 2
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by John R. Payne, April 2014.
- Bright, George
- Indentures -- England -- 18th century Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Labe, James
- Legal documents Subject Source: {:aat=>"Art & Architecture Thesaurus", :cash=>"Canadian Subject Headings", :gmgpc=>"TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms", :ingest=>"Unspecified ingested source", :lcgft=>"Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms", :lcsh=>"Library of Congress Subject Headings", :lcshac=>"Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings", :local=>"Local sources", :mesh=>"Medical Subject Headings", :nal=>"National Agricultural Library subject headings", :ram=>"Répertoire d'autorités RAMEAU", :rbgenr=>"Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing", :rvm=>"Répertoire de vedettes-matière", :tgn=>"Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names"}
- Lyne, Frances
- Peyton, Henry , Sir
- Real property -- England Subject Source: {:aat=>"Art & Architecture Thesaurus", :cash=>"Canadian Subject Headings", :gmgpc=>"TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms", :ingest=>"Unspecified ingested source", :lcgft=>"Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms", :lcsh=>"Library of Congress Subject Headings", :lcshac=>"Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings", :local=>"Local sources", :mesh=>"Medical Subject Headings", :nal=>"National Agricultural Library subject headings", :ram=>"Répertoire d'autorités RAMEAU", :rbgenr=>"Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing", :rvm=>"Répertoire de vedettes-matière", :tgn=>"Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names"}
- Walton, William
- Title
- Guide to the John R. Payne Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Mary Saffell
- Date
- April 11, 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library Repository
TCU Box 298400
2800 S. University Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76129-0001
Fort Worth Texas 76129
(817) 257-4566
(817) 257-7282 (Fax)
LibSpecialCollections@tcu.edu
