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Author: Hector Berlioz
Item date: 1837-1855
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 250
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

10 of the letters were unpublished at the time of purchase. Eight were written to his sister Nanci, two to her husband Camille Pal and two to his uncle Flix Marmion. They touch on concerts he is giving, his opinion of Liszts conducting as well as more personal feelings for Harriet Smithson

Author: Francesco Marcaldi
Item date: 1580
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Shows interesting evidence of an attempt to bring the plight of Mary Queen of Scots to the attention of prominent Italian political figures. Presented by Matthew Stirling

Author: John Buckler
Item date: 1810
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 100
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

Contains 72 fine drawings of North Wales with views of cathedrals, churches and castles, bound in contemporary russia, gilt

Author: Captain Dawtrey Cooper RN
Item date: 1628
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 300
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

A good day to day account of the Earl of Lindseys expedition to relieve the Hugenot defenders of La Rochelle. Purchased with The Journal of Jeremy Roch 1665-92 a naval captain who had many adventures including shipwreck and capture by French privateers.

Item date: 14th & 15th centuries
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire

Terrier of lands in Lincoln belonging to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral. A 15th century Psalter and a vellum roll of rental of lands belonging to the Guild of Corpus Christi, Boston, 1489

Item date: 1285-1325
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 150
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

This is the earliest survey of the temporalities of the See of Canterbury to survive and contains much matter copied from earlier, now lost, documents

Author: Leigh Hunt
Item date: 1853-8
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London

Presented by L McCormick-Goodhart with a holograph of Hotel Continental by Arthur Symons c.1924

Item date: late 14th century
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 100
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

4 leaves from the same Book of Hours, illuminated in the tradition of Niccolo di Bologna, were already in the possession of BL, donated by Professor Francis Wormald in 1943.

Author: PG Wodehouse
Item date: 1964
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Contains the entire mass of notes made for the novel together with the first typescript, heavily corrected and annotated. Add MSS 52774, 52775

Item date: 1559
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Quarto edition, one other copy known. This copy is a variant which includes the so-called Black Rubric at the end of the Communion Service