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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 Libraries
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 Archives
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

Item date: 13th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

An extremely rich and varied collection of over 800 deeds; no less than 72 rolls for the manor of Haveringland from 13th century onward. Also a group of East Dereham churchwardens account 1402-70, amongst the earliest known in Norfolk

Item date: 1860 - 77
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside

The senior partner of the company, GA Trenholm became Secretary to the Confederate States Treasury. The Liverpool branch of the firm then became banker to the southern States financing the supply of armaments in exchange for cotton.

Item date: 1925 - 1966
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 75
Item cost: 300
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside

The magazines form a popular encyclopaedia of engineering, industry and transport and cover an important field of social history

Item date: 1350 - 1400
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 11,250
Institution: Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire

Compiled over a period of about 50 years by at least six scribes at St Mary's Abbey, York. The MS has three sections, a miscellanea including the Anglo-Norman poem Des Grauntz Geaunts; a Brut chronicle in French up to 1333 and the Anonimalle Chronicle.