Search FNL grants since 1931

450 items; they show the origins, family histories and prevailing interests of a coherent group of middle class people in the Midlands

Includes court books and enclosure commissioners minutes. The Hemingford estate records consist of more than 2500 documents relating chiefly to the affairs of Captain Henry Sholto Douglas

Cummins wrote the first biography of Edith Somerville, based largely on 366 letters written to her by Somerville, now gathered into this collection together with Cummins own records of her visits to the Somerville household in Co. Cork.

570 letters bound into 11 volumes by the Chester bookseller J Seacombe shortly after Mrs Piozzis death. The Williams family were neighbours of the Piozzis in Wales and amongst their closest friends.

Queen Elizabeths original grant of Arms to the City of Westminster, followed the incorporation of the City as a seat of municipal government

A complete run of the magazine, an archive of MSS submitted for publication and corrected galley proofs. Letters and poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, letters and an article by Dylan Thomas and by Augustus John.

Rare early Dublin edition with significant textual variants

New York edition. Wants the title page but includes interesting leaf of advertisements by Naphtali Judah of 47 Water Street for books and paper. Presented by Jeff Gordon of New York

Lambeth Palace Library acquired 17 volumes of the Talbot Papers in 1696, with this purchase from the College of Arms it was possible to reunite the other portion of the collection, some 15 volumes to make it once again one of the most important Tudor archives in existence

First, rare, signed issue (of two); contains poems by Sassoon, Hardy , Graves, Beerbohm and Pearsall Smith