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44 volumes of manuscript journal, copies of 160 official documents and 13 bundles of private letters. The major part of the journals concern Nicholls four periods of service in India.

Rev John Newton, curate of Olney is best remembered today for his hymn Amazing Grace recording his dramatic conversion after a life as a slave trader. 120 letters, mostly unpublished at time of purchase; they give a vivid picture of the sources of Newtons religious belief

Presented with three volumes of Boileau Dezpraux, 1820 and the second edition in English of Voltaires Candide 1759 by Mrs Sigrid Oldman

The earliest book in a collection of 842 volumes on colour. Also includes Goethes Farbenlehre 1810, Newtons Optics 1704, Kunckels Ars Vitraria Experimentalis 1689 and Portals Symbolic Colours 1844.

James Hervey came under the influence of Wesley at Lincoln and was one of the first Oxford Methodists, though he came to disagree with Wesleys public preaching and evangelism. The se letters date from this later period of disagreement

Petty Officer Browning kept a diary during Captain Scotts second Antarctic expedition, recording every day events on board ship. He was part of the Northern party who passed the winter at Cape Adare. The diary ends before they had to pass another winter in an ice cave with very scanty food

Brownrigg was Quartermaster General and Military Secretary to the Duke of York, Commander in Chief. Almost 700 letters and documents.

A substantial collection of manorial documents of 16th and 17th centuries, 2,000 medieval deeds, and a large quantity of family papers, including the delinquency papers of the Second Earl during Commonwealth times

Includes Paston rentals for the mid -17th century

Many books extensively annotated by Percy and several have interesting associations with other members of the literary Club connected with Dr Johnson, such as Goldsmith.