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Author: Gilbert White
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 111,500
Institution: Gilbert White's House
Town/City: Selborne
County: Hampshire

Gives new insight into the way White worked up personal letters into a form suitable for publication

Author: William Williams (Surveyor)
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 400
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire

Maps of the estate of Edward Williams of Plas Newydd, finely executed with decorative cartouches and interesting picture of Plas Newydd (Nerquis Hall)

Author: William Gilpin
Item date: 1809
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,250
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The 20 aquatint plates have been replaced with 23 wash drawings of which 3 were unpublished. These drawings appear to derive from Gilpins watercolour sketch book and are the originals from which the published plates were made

Author: Terence Rattigan
Item date: 1945 - 61
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: Deposited
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Both drafts with extensive alterations and additions were given by Rattigan to his secretary in fine bindings by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Deposited by Miss Herring at the Bodleian

Author: Anon
Item date: 1548
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

STC11383 presented by HW Pratley.

Item date: late 18th century
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire

229 folios with index. Most entries refer to the Wootton Basset and Swindon areas. The volume gives full details of the parties, their occupations, the properties concerned and the format of the deeds

Item date: 1681
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 27
Item cost: 111
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear

Authorizes the purchase of pasturage land outside the city by the Burgesses

Author: Edith Cavell
Item date: 1912
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 44
Item cost: 192
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

Written in Brussels, Cavell expresses pleasure at the appointment of a female director for the lay nurses at Sanos hospital, describes progress at her own hospital at St Gilles, and mentions the shortage of nurses in Belgium

Author: Thomas Yardley of Worcester, glover
Item date: 1693 - 1711
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 16
Item cost: 65
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire

Detailed accounts of the sale and despatch of skins and parcels of gloves mainly to retailers in London shops

Author: Sir John Cope
Item date: 1691-96
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 90
Item cost: 360
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Cope was MP for Oxfordshire and for Banbury, and he also owned the Bramshill estate in Hampshire which became the family seat after his death.