Thomas Wilkinson Papers Mostly correspondence between Wilkinson and others, notably George Talbot, John Butt, and Herbert Vaughan. The letters cover a broad range of religious and political topics in the second half of the nineteenth century, including his father's attitude towards his conversion to Catholicism, the local Catholic community in Crook, support for the pope during the Risorgimento, a controversy between George Lane Fox and H.E. Manning, the non - Catholic university question, opposition to the Education Bill, protests against the papal decree on censorship, and other matters of episcopal administration. A number of letters also refer to Wilkinson's role as president of Ushaw College, most notably opposition to Herbert Vaughan's plans to reform Ushaw into a purely ecclesiastical seminary. The collection also contains a series of letters from his sister residing in the Convent of Perpetual Adoration in Taunton, as well as a series of letters and telegrams of condolences following Wilkinson's death. 1845 - 1909