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Item date: 1695 - 1928
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 165
Item cost: 670
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

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

Author: Geraldine Cummins
Item date: 1916 - 1950s
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 3,000
Institution: Queen's University, Belfast
Town/City: Belfast
County: Antrim

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.

Author: Mrs Hester Lynch Piozzi
Item date: 1796 - 1821
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 30,000
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

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.

Item date: 1601
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 7,320
Institution: Westminster City Library
Town/City: London

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

Author: Miron Grindea (Editor)
Item date: 1941 - 1984
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: King's College London
Town/City: London

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.

Author: Laurence Sterne
Item date: 1760 - 67
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 660
Item cost: 660
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Rare early Dublin edition with significant textual variants

Author: Thomas Dilworth
Item date: 1793
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

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

Item date: 16th century
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 390,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

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

Item date: 1919
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

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

Item date: 13th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 600
Item cost: 16,000
Institution: North Yorkshire Record Office
Town/City: Northallerton
County: North Yorkshire

The largest single group of medieval deeds for a consolidatd area of the county, extensive mining records and an unbroken series of estate records, plus important papers relating to public affairs in the late 18th and early 19th centuries