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Author: William Gilpin
Item date: 1809
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,250
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
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The 20 aquatint plates have been replaced with 23 wash drawings of which 3 were unpublished.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: George Romney
Item date: 1786-96
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,210
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London

Contains over 500 entries (mostly in the hands of Romneys assistants Joseph Barker and R Williams) detailing prices charged, frame makers, dates of delivery and destination of pictures as well as interesting information about props and costumes

Author: Franz Kafka
Item date: 1916
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Town/City: London

Presented by Mrs Robson-Scott together with some 200 other volumes of major German authors ranging from Klopstock and Lichtenberg to Kafka and Benn. Includes large numbers of works by German expressionists including Georg Heym, Trakl and Jakob von Hoddis

Item date: 1570 - 1600
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Town/City: London

The deeds centre on Richard Tottell and Richard Grafton his brother-in-law and refer to land transactions in Buckinghamshire

Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Item date: 1849
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Lancaster University
Town/City: Lancaster
County: Lancashire

Presented by David Hall; the preface to this edition is Fitzgeralds first publication in book form

Item date: 1450 - 1850
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 4,500
Institution: Buckinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Aylesbury
County: Buckinghamshire

Almost 3000 items: title deeds to individual purchases, as well as settlements and papers from lands in other counties. Related families deeds also appear: the Wickhams, Garrards, Tyrwhitts and Stradlings

Author: Edward I
Item date: 1295
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 298
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Addressed to the Prior and Convent of Barnwell ordering them to account for a clerical subsidy for which they have been collectors.

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.

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

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