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670 letters to Gwen John from around 50 different correspondents and 400 draft letters from her. The most extensive correspondence is with her brother Augustus John and his first and second wives, though there are also 80 letters from the sculptor Auguste Rodin and her draft replies to him

530 autograph sheets and 260 typescript sheets of drafts of poems for The Anathemata; 1000 autograph sheets of poetry for The Roman Quarry; over 6,500 autograph sheets of drafts for prose works and letters; also some 1500 letters addressed to him.

Some of the lots were bought to provide evidence of the familys origins and letters from his father provide information about Leightons early life and relationship with his parents.

43 portraits of Charles II and his court in a contemporary binding

Working notebooks and written-up mathematical calculations in disciplines ranging from geometry to astronomy, from physics to trigonometry and from land-measuring to malting. This last in the form of an essay written by the young John Flamsteed, the future Astronomer Royal

Buxton was Wilberforces designated successor as leader of the parliamentary anti-slavery campaign. The MSS document the Buxton familys close involvement in the parliamentary campaign of 1833.

Diaries, photographs and letters concentrating on the period when Hore-Belisha was Minister of War 1937 - 1940 and particularly on the events surrounding the dismissal of Neville Chamberlain

Written from The Knoll, Ambleside to George Grote who was trying to help Martineau with money problems at The Westminster Review

Very detailed in the later years: no other such record is known for any other town of this period in the old county of Berkshire

As well as private correspondence of this properous silk merchant the collection includes Beuzevilles correspondence as Director and Joint Treasurer of the French Committee which was concerned from the reign of James II until Victorian times in distributing the Royal Bounty granted for the relief