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Author: George Hutchins Bellasis
Item date: 1815
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

6 plates of St Helena issued just before Napoleons exile, illustrated at plate IX of AR; presented by John G Gubbins

Author: Lord Byron
Item date: 1816
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Hitherto unrecorded piracy, presented together with 4 other books, listed in AR , by Miss Mary Holgate

Author: Harriet Martineau
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by the recipients daughter, Mrs E Holyoake Marsh. Add MS 42726

Author: Philip Henry
Item date: 1631-96
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Papers of a non-conformist divine & his family, presented by Rev E Rhys Jones

Author: William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
Item date: 1722
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Jesus College Oxford, together with 4 other works of 17th & 18th century theology, listed in AR; also presented 3 similar works to National Library of Wales, listed in AR

Author: Edward Riddle
Item date: 1849
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented together with other duplicates by Trinity House; other institutions also benefitted from this dispersal, especially the Science Museum, which got over 100 vols

Author: Anon
Item date: 12th & 14th centuries
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

3 charters are 12th century with fine seals, one is a late 14th century forgery of an earlier charter; presented by M r & Mrs Elmhirst. Add Charters 70691 - 70696

Author: Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Mr AL Marriott; long contemporary inscription on fly leaf given in full in AR

Author: Anon
Item date: 1584
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Gardiner may have been the original of Shakespeares Justice Shallow; presented by JC Whitebrook. Add Charter 70729

Author: Sir Benjamin Keene
Item date: 1697-1757
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Personal correspondence of 18th century diplomat in Spain, presented by Mrs Olive Ruck-Keene. Add MSS 43412 - 43443