Spielmann was editor of The Magazine of Art. Collection contains 52 letters from Ford Madox Brown, 80 from Watts, 13 from Holman Hunt, 103 from Frith and 21 from William Michael Rossetti
Presented by Andrew Stewart of the Press Club
A group of hitherto unrecorded charters for Great and Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire.
Also includes two long letters from Mrs George Villiers to her daughter Theresa Lister describing the circumstances of Mrs Fitzherberts marriage to the Prince of Wales
Miss Corlass was the friend and correspondent of both John and his parents.
300 letters are from Oates to his mother, the remaining 100 notes of condolence to Mrs Oates from her sons friends.
29 medieval deeds of Ludlow, 60 of Shropshire more generally; all seem to have been hitherto unknown
A fine representative selection of what were then contemporary composers works which had hitherto been lacking at the BL. Add MSS 59797 - 59814
12 books of his poems, a novel, an anthology, a libretto, a volume of criticism and the corrected typescript of his fictional autobiography A clip of steel. Presented by BC Bloomfield
Proof copies and first editions of his books, plus periodicals containing short stories and poems written by Johnson.
Presented under the will of Falconer Madan, the collection of pamphlets and books he formed in order to write a bibliography of the Sacheverell affair.
833 titles in 28 volumes. The only known set of patents from the footwear industry to be bound together as an accessible unit.