 Some five years later he was appointed as a secretary of the Sheffield Sunday School Union.In 1825, Holland was appointed as editor of the "Sheffield Iris" by a new owner, John Blackwell.In 1832, he moved to Northumberland to edit the "Newcastle Courant", which Blackwell had bought, but returned to Sheffield in the new year and was elected curator of the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society, a position he held until his death.