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This collection of over 150 letters and deeds dating from 1604-1777 relates to the Sandford family of Sandford Hall, Shropshire.

Whistler  was one of the most prolific, diverse and popular artists of the interwar years in England.

The two manuscripts now form the nucleus of a remarkable collection of literary and material objects the College has recently assembled relating to its most famous modern literary son.

At the heart of Northumberland Archives collections are estate and personal records of landed families.

John Wilson (1785-1854), the author and journalist, who usually wrote under the pseudonym ‘Christopher North’, was among the pre-eminent Scottish literary figures of his day. He is principally known as one of the founders of the right-wing Blackwood's Magazine and as a poet and literary critic, but was also Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh for over thirty years, an Advocate, orator and sportsman.

The material is of particular importance for the insight it provides into Wilson’s formative years and his relations with his family as well as his literary activities.

The National Library of Scotland has significant holdings of sources for Scottish military history, but most are the work of the gentry or aristocracy.

The most important contemporary account of the life of Archbishop Thomas Becket,  murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in December 1170 and canonised in April 1173, was written by his closest friend, companion and secretary, Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194).

The acquisition of this exceptional collection of letters from Iris Murdoch to Sir Leo Pliatzky, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Trade and knighted in 1977, will ensure that important documents illustrating the literary, political and philosophical zeitgeist of mid to late twentieth cent

Iris Murdoch wrote the 9 undated autograph letters to Wallace Robson, together with 11 poems, between March 1952 and March 1954. Murdoch met Robson in 1950 when he was Fellow in English at Lincoln College Oxford.

Iris Murdoch wrote the 9 undated autograph letters to Wallace Robson, together with 11 poems, between March 1952 and March 1954. Murdoch met Robson in 1950 when he was Fellow in English at Lincoln College Oxford.