The Davison collection contains handbills offering rewards in exchange for information from the public for anything from lost pets and stolen cattle, to the capture of thieves and murderers. This handbill reveals a tragic story. Two children, Master Field Flowers and his sister Fanny Maria, were travelling on the steamship Pegasus from Leith, near Edinburgh, to Hull, when it struck the Goldstone Rock, off the Farne Islands, about midnight on 26th July, 1843. The ship sank in only 30 minutes and the lives of 51 out of the 57 aboard were lost. One reason for the heavy loss of life was that there were only two lifeboats, one of which was swamped by panicking passengers, the other being overturned by the backwash from the steamer's own paddles. Although many bodies were found, this handbill is offering a reward for the recovery of the Flower children's remains. Eventually, the young boy's corpse was washed ashore, but there is no record of his sister's body ever being recovered.