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Thwaite, first an editor for the BBC, later literary editor of The Listener and The New Statesman became Larkins close friend and acted as editor and sounding board through much of Larkins life.

The material relates mainly to parishes near Chicksands and Shefford in central Bedforshire. As well as the usual estate papers there are papers concerning the sequestration of family estates during the Civil War and letters concerning the Spanish War in 1741 and 1743

The archive contains letters from Lady Gregory, WB Yeats, Lennox Robinson and GB Shaw. There are also unknown stage sets by Ulster artists Harry Morrow and William Conor. The archive sheds new light on the beginning of the modern theatrical tradition in Northern Ireland

An archive of exceptional importance.

Three minute books of the Wheal Friendship mine in Mary Tavy, Devon which mostly produced copper, but also a little silver, lead , tin and zinc. The books list investors, notes of costs and receipts and detailed annual reports on the mine and its working

Written when Barnes was 16 years old, an attempt at epic written on the back of two almanacs for the years 1813 and 14.

Groups of polemics on aspects of Franciscan order and social attitudes and behaviour. Bound in a contemporary blind-stamped binding by Wynkyn de Wordes binder. STC 17971.3

Many of the documents illustrate both the preparations and the course of the Civil War.

Records the annual rents received by William Fauconer from his Midlington estate, most of the properties being in the Soberton and Droxford areas. No other 15th century rentals are known for this estate

267 volumes of history, travel and devotional literature. Left to the church under the terms of Brewsters will, he stipulated that the books be chained. One of only three significant parochial libraries still in situ