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Author: Sir Basil Liddell Hart
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: King's College London
Town/City: London
7000 volumes, many of them annotated by Liddell Hart , which were used to form the nucleus of the Centre for Military Archives at Kings College.
Author: Virginia Woolf and her brothers
Item date: 1908 - 1939
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,800
Institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex
41 Letters from Virginia Woolf with 14 from her brother Adrian Stephen and two from her other brother Toby
Item date: 1180 - 1399
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
31 deeds, mostly grants of lands with many good seals still intact. 14 of the deeds relate to the Waleran family from the Uffculme area
Author: Alfred Tennyson
Item date: 1873
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 500
Institution: Lincoln Central Library, Tennyson Research Centre
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
An early draft of the later version of the poem, published in 1873 with numerous textual variants
Author: John Leighe
Item date: 1588-9
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 350
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
82 coloured coats of arms taken by Leighe from the stained-glass of All Hallows Church, Northampton, which was destroyed by fire in 1675. Hitherto the heraldry was known only in an uncoloured, undated version in the BL and Bodleian
Author: Sir Sydney Cockerell
Item date: 1920 - 1962
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 260
Item cost: 260
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
70 letters and postcards mainly relating to Cockerell and Millars shared passion for illuminated manuscripts. Add MS 58212
Item date: 15th century
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The Major part of the roll was already at the BL. It shows a lively series of coloured drawings of equestrian knights engaged in combat with sword and lance, their tabards and horse trappings dislaying their arms. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR
Author: Thomas Hardy (radical politician)
Item date: 1827
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Hardy was a bootmaker and promoter of parliamentary reform as early as 1792, he was tried for treason with Horne Tooke . Presented by John Ehrman
Author: Sir Richard Tempest
Item date: not known
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 220
Item cost: 220
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A defence of the Roman Catholic religion; not in Wing or Clancys English Catholic Books 1641-1700
Author: Lord Lyttleton
Item date: 1780
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
First edition, presented by John Ehrman