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Author: Elinor Wight Gardner
Item date: 1937 - 38
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 580
Institution: Royal Geographical Society
Town/City: London

A series of letters giving an account of an expedition to Hadharamaut (modern Yemen) with Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Freya Stark, together with photographs of excavations at Bethlehem and some press cuttings

Item date: 1720s - early 20th century
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 800
Item cost: 11,000
Institution: Guildhall Library
Town/City: London

This archive forms an excellent record of the business of the oldest surviving firm of city solicitors. They appear to have been consistently at the very heart of commercial life of the city of London, with offices at 22 College Hill.

Author: Thomas and William Daniell
Item date: 1794 - 1803
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 242,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Reputedly coloured by Daniell himself. This is the first listed book in a collection of 319 books of topography and travel collected by Mason over 40 years.

Author: William Wilberforce
Item date: 1783 - 1830
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 73,677
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The diary together with a volume of autobiography gives a very detailed picture of the life thoughts and opinions of the great leader of the Evangelical wing of the Church of England and prime mover in the campaign for the abolition of slavery.

Item date: 14th & 15th centuries
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 195
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Includes grants of land in Barton Stacey to Mottisfont Priory, and others on the Isle of Wight including Freshwater

Author: John Baker Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield
Item date: 18th & 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 9828
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

Incoming letters to the Earl covering the whole period of his adult life. Also papers relating to the two regiments Sheffiled raised and his development of Newhaven as a port

Author: Richard Gifford
Item date: 1725-1807
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 57
Item cost: 230
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office

Several hundred letters addressed to Gifford by family and friends; also a manuscript journal of a journey from London to New York in 1793

Item date: 1894 - 1920
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 800
Institution: Coventry City Library
Town/City: Coventry
County: West Midlands

400 items, financial papers relating to the amalgamation in 1894 and the early development of this bicycle manufacturing firm, plus title deeds to the area of land where the factory was built

Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,530
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire

This group of deeds forms virtually all the known muniments of title of this small Augustinian House

Author: Edward Montagu, Lord Mandeville
Item date: 1630 - 38
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 45
Item cost: 180
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Remarkably detailed account, each charge for material being itemised with separate costs for making. The suits are described in great detail as are clothes for Mandeville's servants.