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Author: Fanny Burney, Mme DArblay
Item date: 1821
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Mrs EHN Wilde together with 6 other letters by Charles James Fox Sir Thomas Lawrence S T Coleridge and Chateaubriand. Add MSS 43688, ff.157, 158
Author: William Glass
Item date: 1831
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Family Bible of the British settlement on Tristan da Cunha
Author: Wilfred Owen
Item date: c.1911 -1918
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Practically the whole surviving manuscript of Owen's verse; the first purchase of a modern author's work by The Friends. Illustrated as plate IV in AR. Add MSS 43720, 43721.
Author: Sir John Paston & other family members
Item date: 15th century
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: 1600
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
155 letters, being the earliest part of the family archive now mostly at BL. Illustrated in plates II and III of AR. Add MSS 43488 - 43491
Item date: 4th century
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: 2150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Illustrated as Plate I of AR; one of the worlds oldest surviving Bibles, may have been made for the Emperor Constantine; described in separate pamphlet issued with AR. Add MS 43725
Author: Edward Lear (?)
Item date: not known
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
No date or publisher known, in style of Lear, presented by the Misses Martelli, illustrated as plate VI in AR
Author: William Durand, Bishop of Mende
Item date: 1494
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Author: Origen
Item date: 1522
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
2 vols printed in Paris in contemporary English binding; presented by RA Kirby, illustrated as plate VII in AR
Author: Paul Chevreux & Jules Vernier
Item date: 1911
Date acquired: 1934
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Portfolio of facsimiles of medieval charters in the archives of Rouen; presented by LC Loyd
Author: Robert Crowley
Item date: 1550
Date acquired: 1934
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Satirical verses, one other copy known, at Cambridge UL; presented by WA Marsden, illustrated as plate II of AR