Peter King, later Lord Chancellor was Lockes cousin.
A series of letters giving an account of an expedition to Hadharamaut (modern Yemen) with Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Freya Stark, together with photographs of excavations at Bethlehem and some pre
Larkin and Sutton met at school and remained close friends for years. This series of letters form the single most important body of evidence for Larkins formative years.
Presented by Professor A F Pollard, illustrated in AR plate V, Add MS 42711, ff.122-123
Jeremy Mitchell, Chair of the Edward Thomas Fellowship and a Trustee of Petersfield Museum, writes: Since 2017 an extensive and important collection (g
Binyon was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at BL; Sadler was Master of University College Oxford. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith. Add MS 49997
20 long letters written from London, Oxford and the Continent. Presented by John Carter
Most of the letters contain exhortations and advice as to the boy's studies. Presented by John Ehrman
The Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading purchase of twenty-two rare agricultural pamphlets from the mid-19th century, which rel
Presented by Dr Theodore Besterman for the newly founded Voltaire Room in the Institution together with 367 French plays of the mid and late 18th century, plus the first four collected editions of
Written during his first two years at St Cyprians prep school, Eastbourne.
Includes Martin Luthers In Esa 1534, John Calvin Sermons 1583, Hugh Latimer 7 Sermons 1571; 23 of Bunyans works including a first edition of Hearts ease in hearts trouble; a first edition of Thomas