The papers reflect the political interests of the family, particularly those of Sir Thomas, 1st Lord Dundas, who was an associate of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. They include over 150 business letters of 1789 and 1794 and a seven page letter concerning the operation of Dundas's Gre
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A book lost from the celebrated library at Sudbury Hall and now reclaimed. The library was largely assembled by the bibliophile 5th Lord Vernon. The present volume is in a contemporary pebbled calf binding, and has the Vernon bookplate.
Gwyneth Lewis is the first National Poet of Wales. This material includes her earliest poems and writings and documents her development as a writer, up until the mid 1980s. The archive also contains material relating to Sunbathing in the Rain and correspondence over a long period.
Only 34 copies are known of the 5th (2nd illustrated) edition of Paradise Lost , and its acquisition completes the Milton's Cottage Trust 's collection of 17th century editions of this work.
Lycidas first appeared in this memorial volume of 36 poems, the outpouring of Cambridge University's grief at the death of Edward King of Christ's College, drowned at sea in 1637.
John Keats (1795-1821) wrote this passionate letter to his fiancée Frances (Fanny) Brawne (1800-1865) in March 1820, when he was housebound in Hampstead with tuberculosis, and Fanny Brawne was living in the property adjoining Wentworth Place. The letter movingly demonstrates the intensity of t
The celebrated Colonna Missal was commissioned by Cardinal Pompeo di Girolamo Colonna (d. 1532) for use in the Sistine Chapel. It was written and illuminated c. 1532-35, and some of its decoration is contemporary with Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgment over the High Altar.
Surveyor’s reports to the General Purposes Committee concerning the upkeep of the fabric of the local area and its drains, sewers and roads. The volume complements Haringey Archive's continuous run of minutes of the Local Board of Health, 1850-95
An album of drawings of buildings and scenes in the west Hampshire village of Wellow by an unknown artist, c. 1846.
A hitherto unrecorded contemporary manuscript, finely bound in contemporary Dutch floral wrappers pasted onto boards with a calf backstrip. Written in three different hands, of which the two who copied the twelve arias from Alcina have been identified as 'S' and 'S3' using Larsen’s identificatio