Material relating to the death of Boucicault's eldest son, Dion William Boucicault, in a railway accident at Abbots Ripton, on January 21, 1876, including Material relating to the death of Boucicault's eldest son, Dion William Boucicault, in a railway accident at Abbots Ripton, on January 21, 1876, including. Item 1 -- a photocopied page (p. 309) from The History of the Great Northern Railway, 1845-1902, by Charles H. Grinling, H. V. Borley and C. Hamilton Ellis, Methuen, 1903, describing the Abbots Ripton accident;. Item 2 -- Barnett's Official Streetplan of Huntingdon and Godmanchester;. Item 3 -- a brochure about Abbots Ripton Hall Gardens, listing the plants in the gardens;. Item 4 -- a leaflet about Ramsey Rural Museum, not far from Huntingdon;. Item 5 -- 1 letter from the Huntingdonshire County Librarian and 7 letters from the Huntingdonshire County Archivist responding to an enquiry by Christopher Calthrop about the Abbots Ripton disaster; these mention an Illustrated London News article, dated 29th January 1876, about the disaster; possible efforts by Dion Boucicault to commemorate the accident in Huntingdon (including restoration of the old Grammar School, a drinking fountain, and a cross at the site of the accident); and Dion William's grave;. Item 6 -- 1 letter from the editor and 2 letters from the librarian of the Peterborough Citizen and Advertiser in response to an enquiry by Christopher Calthrop about the Abbots Ripton accident; these mention photostats provided to Calthrop, but there are not as many among these documents as are mentioned in the letters;. Item 7 -- photostat of a newspaper article describing the Abbots Ripton rail accident; it is not clear from which paper, possibly the Peterborough Citizen and Advertiser; the article is incomplete and partly illegible;. Item 8 -- 1 letter from the headmaster of Huntingdon Grammar School in response to an enquiry about Boucicault's efforts to commemorate Dion William and the Abbots Ripton accident; . Item 9 -- 1 letter from the editor of the Huntingdon newspaper The Hunts Post, saying they are unable to assist in Calthrop's research; . Item 10 -- 1 letter from a Cambridgeshire County Museums Officer requesting a picture of Dion and Dion William Boucicault and information about the restoration of the old Grammar School in Huntingdon, now the Cromwell Museum, in which Boucicault was involved;. Item 11 -- 1 letter from the archivist of the British Transport Historical Records office, informing Calthrop that he can find no reference to the memorial to Dion William which Calthrop had enquired about;. Item 12 -- 1 letter from a resident of Huntingdon, possibly from a family of stonemasons, informs Calthrop that he has no information about the Boucicault memorials, as his company's records don't go sufficiently far back;. Item 13 -- 1 letter from the British Railways Eastern Region Public Relations Officer in response to an enquiry by Calthrop about a memorial etrected by Boucicault near the Abbots Ripton crash site; . Item 14 -- 2 letters from a temporary curator of a Huntingdonshire museum in response to enquiries by Calthrop about the drinking fountain and restoration of the old Grammar School;. Item 15 -- 1 newspaper cutting from The Hunts Post, 6th February, 1969, showing a photograph of a white stone cross next to a railway track, accompanied by a letter from Christopher Calthrop asking the public for information on the whereabouts of the memorial since its removal;. Item 16 -- letters from 3 correspondents in response to Calthrop's letter to The Hunts Post;. Item 17 -- 4 letters from John Hadley, a Godmanchester resident, in response to Calthrop's letter to The Hunts Post; the correspondent includes a 5-page account of the Boucicault family's involvement in the rail disaster and Dion Boucicault's subsequent efforts to commemorate the incident; Hadley has also included a phtocopy of Plate 34 of A History of London Transport by T. C. Barker and Michael Robbins, showing a large hoarding around the Kings Cross Station construction site in 1862, with a playbill for THE COLLEEN BAWN;. Item 18 -- a list by Christopher Calthrop of steps taken to gather information about the Abbots Ripton incident and subsequent events;. Item 19 -- notes by Christopher Calthrop about the Abbots Ripton disaster and subsequent events, including excerpts from various newspapers and the "Annual Register" for 1876. 1.1876