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Author: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Item date: 1923
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £500
Institution: Holst Victorian House
Town/City: Cheltenham
County: Gloucestershire

Hand-typed autographed letter from composer Gustav Holst to photographer Herbert Lambert, 1923.

Author: John Britton (1771-1857)
Item date: 18th/19th century
Date acquired: 2020
Grant Value: £2,384
Item cost: £7,012
Institution: Historic Environment Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

This volume came to light during research for the Rosslyn exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland in 2002. It has 57 leaves and features drawings, engravings and letters collected by and sent to Britton.  He had commissioned plates of the chapel for The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain in 1812, and had also given a lecture on it to the Royal Institute of British Architects in January 1846.

Author: Caroline Herschel
Item date: 1783-1792
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £6,000
Institution: Herschel House Trust
Town/City: Bath
County: Somerset

On the 13 March 1781 William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus using a homemade reflector telescope from his home at 19 New King Street in Bath, now home of the Herschel Museum of Astronomy. This vellum-bound notebook was used by his sister Caroline Herschel to record visitors to the Herschels’ house in Datchet, where they moved in 1782 following William’s royal appointment.

Author: John Walker
Item date: 1616
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £3,000
Item cost: £3,000
Institution: Essex Record Office
Town/City: Chelmsford
County: Essex

The survival, discovery and purchase of this map is of great importance to the Essex Record Office; It is unlikely that the opportunity to acquire a map by John Walker will ever emerge again. Between 1584 and 1628 the Walkers produced some 35 beautifully coloured and surveyed maps. In the 1960s the County Archivist was at a loss to find any the whereabouts of the 27th in chronology of the 35 maps. In November 2020 it was revealed that the original map had been behind glass on the wall in the home of direct descendants of the Beckingham family and was now available for sale.

Author: William Hay
Item date: c.1750
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £3,000
Item cost: £4,050
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

William Hay (1695-1755) of Glyndebourne was an extremely interesting owner of the estate, the archive of which is held by the office, who overcame severe personal difficulties. Hay suffered considerably disability – he had been born a hunchbacked dwarf and stood under 5ft in height. Nevertheless, he went on to gain considerable acclaim as a writer and parliamentarian.

Item date: 1589-1834
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £1,750
Item cost: £1,750
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

Over 100 documents, mostly title deeds, ranging in date from 1589 to 1845. These represent many of Raper and Fovargue’s major clients. These join an earlier acquisition of material which had also been salvaged in about 1970 by the vendor, then a young articled clerk, from the stables in the office yard at Upper Lake, Battle.

Two years later the same vendor discovered a further deed box which he had overlooked and contacted ESBHRO with a view to negotiating a private sale instead of putting it up for auction. Then Covid-19 intervened, and it was not until the summer of 2021 that it was possible to inspect the new material, which was offered to the office for £1,750. We were delighted to receive the continued support of FNL for this purchase.

Item date: 19th/20th centuries
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £5,774
Item cost: £7,218
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset

Among these acquisitions was a letter, dated September 1927, by Florence Hardy to a Mr. Lea of Bockhampton portending Thomas Hardy’s death.  A set of two letters concerning the arrangements of the burial of the author in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey. Also purchased was the author’s proof copy of The Three Dorset Captains at Trafalgar by Broadley and Bartelot, published in 1906

Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £6,550
Item cost: £8,550
Institution: Derby Museums
Town/City: Derby
County: Derbyshire

Derby Museums already holds the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of work by Wright, including works on paper and oil paintings, and a small selection of archival material including some correspondence. The collection of ten publications enhances and complements these holdings, providing as they do a window into Wright’s friendships with numerous poets and writers of the late 18th century, many of whose works in turn influenced some of the choice and treatment of the artist’s paintings.

Item date: 16th to 18th centuries
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £1,000
Item cost: £1,560
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria

Robert Baxter, Senior Archivist, writes: The family was extant at Huddleston, Yorkshire in the mid 13th century.

Author: Euclid; translated into English by Sir Henry Billingsley.
Item date: 1570
Date acquired: 2021
Grant Value: £13,000
Item cost: £40,500
Institution: Christ Church, University of Oxford
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Euclid, The Elements of Geometrie.  Translated into English by Sir Henry Billingsley, with a preface by John Dee (London: John Day, 1570).