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Author: Rev AJ Scott
Item date: 1805-1806
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 100
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Scott was Chaplain of The Victory, these letters are emotional accounts of Nelson's last hours and Scott's voyage home with the body to the State Funeral. Egerton MS 3782

Author: MR James
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Unpublished. Presented by TS Blakeney. Add MS 54351

Author: Dr John Haygarth
Item date: late 18th century
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Broadside, printed at Bicester. Presented by Peter Davies

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Item date: 1595
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 100
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

First posthumous edition in a red morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe

Item date: 1317, 1414
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 200
Institution: National Archives of Ireland
Town/City: Dublin City
County: Dublin

The roll of 1317-18 gives places of session at Dublin, Cashel, Tullow, Limerick and Kilmallock for pleas of the Crown before Edmund le Botiller, Justiciar of Ireland. The Roll from the reign of Henry V is the only known complete surviving example of a Common Bench roll from this period

Author: Archbishop William Howley
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 250
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Contain letters from literary figures of 19th century, including Wordsworth, and Southey. Also a lengthy account of a conversation with George IV in which the King expounded his views on Catholic Emancipation

Item date: 15th-16th centuries
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

Includes contemporary copy of a petition to the King by John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk asking to be restored to lands granted by Edward III; a note of the total value of the Duke's land holdings in Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex and Surrey in 1448

Author: Anon
Item date: 1705
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

13 pages, quarto, evidently written at the request of an MP, the first two pages contain information relating to the payments received by the Earl of Orford, Admiral of the Fleet, from naval funds

Author: Sir William Cope
Item date: 11865-75
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 100
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey

A large collection of papers used by Cope to write his History of the Rifle Brigade, plus a collection of about 100 autograph letters of Military and Naval Officers who served in the Crimea, together with about 70 photographs, portraits and caricatures

Author: Petty Officer Patrick Keohane
Item date: 1910-1913
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Keohane was a member of Scott's last expedidition and a member of the seach party that found the bodies of Scott and his companions in November 1913