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The first publication of Larkins own distinctive poetic voice after the juvenilia and The North Ship. Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies. Donation from the Philip Larkin Memorial Fund.

Larkin and Sutton met at school and remained close friends for years. This series of letters form the single most important body of evidence for Larkins formative years.

As well as the usual deeds , wills, marriage settlements and copyhold papers there are more than 30 fine 18th and 19th century maps of Norfolk parishes and estates

An elevation, basement and ground floor plans for a projected new house for George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton. They show the layout of the working part of the house with laundry and stable courts. The plans were not used

The surveys provide evidence for a vanished landscape, showing estates, buildings and fields which no longer survive and providing evidence for agricultural practises which have long disappeared.

The earliest known map of the area which is now the town of Worthing

The Sheldon family fortune was made in tapestry weaving. This account book records two years of travel and household expenses, losses at cards (20 in an evening) purchases of hawks, velvet collars for greyhounds and 10 paid for a suit of armour edged with gold lace. Illustrated at p.30 of AR

Covering a legal text (an abridgement of the Book of Assizes) this is the earliest datable English blind-stamped gothic binding. It is from the workshop of the Scales binder, so-called for his use of a tool depicting a pair of scales.

Set of first page proofs and revisions of the first volume of the History of Scotland.

Most of the letters date from before Lloyd George became Prime Minister, and contain comments on both personal and political matters, sometimes written in haste between cabinet meetings and giving his immediate thoughts on the political problems which confronted him.