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Author: Francis Bedwell
Item date: 1771-76
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Records Bedwells work as a locksmith at many royal residences; presented by EHW Meyerstein. Add <S 43679

Author: Laurence Olivier and others
Item date: 1930 - 1970s
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 75,000
Item cost: 1500000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The most extensive personal theatrical archive of the 20th century, for which The Friends gave the largest single grant to date from the Philip Larkin fund. Illustrated on p16 of AR

Author: PH Gosse & Sir Edmund Gosse
Item date: 1853-1880s
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Listed separately in AR; presented by Philip Gosse

Author: St Augustine
Item date: 1470
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

mall quarto of 8 leaves probably printed at Cologne; presented by Mr JH Burn.

Author: Charles Caesar
Item date: 1705
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Commonplace book of a Huntingdonshire squire largely composed of sermons. Presented by Mr Stonewall Jackson. Add MS 43410

Author: Charles FitzCharles, Earl of Plymouth
Item date: 1779-80
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by A Francis Steuart. Add MS 43688, ff.123 - 130

Author: Thomas Astle
Item date: 1798-9
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Copies in writers own hand of correspondence with Francis Freeling; presented by Warren R Dawson. Add MS 43688, ff.131, 133

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.