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Author: Henry Petrie
Item date: 1798-1800
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: Sussex Archaeological Society
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

363 watercolour drawings by the historian and antiquarian who was Keeper of Records in the Tower of London

Author: Denis Piramus
Item date: late 13th or early 14th century
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

An account in Anglo-Norman verse of the life and miracles of St Edmund, King of the East Angles; the original poem was written in the 12th century, this is one of only two copies known.

Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London

360 salt prints, a unique set of views of British keybuildings in Lucknow and Delhi, many portraits of civilians, soldiers and their families, Indian princes and others living in Lucknow at the time of the Mutiny

Author: Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Limpus
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,860
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

Limpus received many full and revealing letters from Admirals de Roebeck and Wemyss while he was Admiral Superintendent at Malta

Author: Field Marshal Sir John French, First Earl of Ypres
Item date: 1914-15
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 4,800
Institution: Imperial War Museum
Town/City: London

99 letters written by the Field Marshal to his mistress, revealing that French was affected by the heavy losses and was not as callous as had been formerly thought. He wrote in great detail about the conduct of operations under his command on the Western Front

Author: Francesco Petraca
Item date: 1473
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Printed at Strassburg by Adolf Rusch. Proctor *232, Hain *12796, Goff P-417 Presented by CA Webb together with Nicolaus: Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus, Gouda, 1482. Proctoer 8929, Hain-Copinger 6127, Goff N-154

Item date: early 15th century
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

A series of assessments for the collection of clerical taxation within the two archdeaconries of Suffolk and Sudbury.

Author: Viscount Palmerston
Item date: 1826
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

The letter is about a new prison to be erected at Cambridge. Presented by John Ehrman

Author: James I and VI
Item date: 1604
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 1,200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

King Jamess early attempt to unify the two kingdoms; it would not be until 1707 that the term Great Britain would receive the official recognition of Parliament. Printed in London by Robert Barker, 3 broadside sheets, printed on rectos only in black letter.

Author: Aelius Donatus
Item date: mid 9th century
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 7,500
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

24 leaves written in Carolingian script with titles of sections written in rustic capitals in the style of Tours. Bound in 18th century mottled sheepskin