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Author: Sir Arthur Sullivan
Item date: 1881, 1889
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

These orchestral scores are of particular interest as there is no published full score of either work. Some interesting musical variants in Patience. BL had no major Sullivan scores until this acquisition. Add MSS 53777 - 53779

Author: William Shakespeare
Item date: 1619
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 150

Second quarto edition, attributed to Shakespeare on the title pages of the 1608 and 1619 quartos. Play based on a real-life murder celebrated in pamphlet ballad and play

Author: Robert Bridges
Item date: 1880-1929
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Worcester College
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Letters contain much information about the Daniel Press and references to Gerard Manley Hopkins and the proposed publication of his poems

Author: John Tillison, clerk of the Works at St Paul s Cathedral 1665-1685
Item date: 1664-1683
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 2000
Institution: Guildhall Library
Town/City: London

For the period 1685-1683 apparently the only surviving record of the Royal Commission in charge of the rebuilding of the Cathedral. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR

Item date: 1483
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 300
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London

Contain reports of cases heard in the courts in 1455/6 and 1458/9 respectively. Printed by William de Machlinia in Holborn, the first book has the only known 15th century Holborn imprint. Very rare: only four other copies known of the first and only three of the second book. Duff nos.

Author: Sir Henry Strachey
Item date: 1764-1804
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 500
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London

The Papers of Henry Strachey, secretary to Robert Lord Clive 1764-67; his correspondence with Lord Clive as governor of Madras 1798 - 1803; the papers of John Carnac , commander at Patna in 1760; the papers of Edward Strachey, secretary to the Resident at Poona Sir Barry Close 1801-1804

Item date: 1671-1691
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: HM Customs and Excise Library
Town/City: London

Relate to customs revenues on French Spanish and other wines, Flanders lace etc. Presented by TS Blakeney

Author: Thomas Bewick
Item date: 1862
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Extra illustrated. Inscribed by Jane and Isabella Bewick to William Mackey 1871. Presented by RW Hale.

Author: Cardinal Pietro Bembo
Item date: 1539-43
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 350
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Sir Eric Miller gave 250 of the FONL grant. This exquisite example of fine italic script was bought with 3 other calligraphic manuscripts: J Ragona De artificiali memoria 1465; a miscellany of grammatical tracts, c.1480 and M Gualterius De re militari, late 15th century.

Author: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms
Item date: 1558
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Incomplete, wanting title and a number of other leaves, but only copy known to contain cancelled leaves O7-8. Presented by FS Ferguson