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Author: Charles Dickens
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 650
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The novels in their original parts in this collection were used by Hatton and Cleaver for their Bibliography.

Author: Sir Thomas Phillipps
Item date: 1818
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 110
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Sir Thomas Phillipps's copy of Collections for Wiltshire. containing autograph corrections and genealogies.

Author: Alfred Tennyson
Item date: 1865
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 20
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives, Tennyson Research Centre
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire

Finely bound copy with a double fore-edge painting depicting Somersby Rectory and Tennyson's house near Freshwarer, Isle of Wight

Author: David Hume
Item date: 1740
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 75
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

One of three copies of this 32 page pamphlet known to survive. An attempt by Hume to justify and commend the Treatise in the face of misrepresentation and neglect

Item date: 1350-1400
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 250
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

Welsh manuscr ipt of 234 pages written on vellum containing a text of the Welsh Laws. Rubricated with one miniature and several decorative capital letters in red or blue. Illustrated as plate II of AR

Author: Mir Hasan of Delhi
Item date: 1801
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 110
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London

Presented by FONL together with a Persian Manuscript, The Akbar-namah an epic poem compsed by Hamid Allah of Kashmir, 1844, recounting the muder of Sir William MacNaughten, British envoy in Kabul 1841 and the subsequent loss of the British army during the retreat to Jellalabad.

Author: Sir Charles Warre Malet
Item date: 1770 - 1813
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 500
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London

84 volumes and 20 loose items. They relate almost entirely to the period of Malets service as first permanent Residence at Poona and includes official and private correspondence, drafts of letters, accounts and historical notes

Author: Franciscus Philelphus
Item date: 1508
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

A French blind-stamped binding with panels of St John the Evangelist and four Biblical figures in compartments; presented together with an elaborately gold-tooled binding by Arthur J Gray, c.1915 on WA Clouston: A Group of Eastern Romances (1889).

Author: Joseph Farington
Item date: 1794
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Describes a tour in Kent made in September 1794 (Add. MS 57492) presented by Theodore Besterman together with a notebook containing correspondence between Robert Strutt, 4th Lord Rayleigh and Dr Besterman, relating to spiritualism, 1932 (Add MS 57729)

Item date: 1650 - 1720
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 70
Item cost: 300
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office

Over 500 estate papers including wills and inventories, household and estate bills