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The Gale Morant Jamaican plantation papers cover the period from the late 18th century to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 and beyond, when plantation owners were allowed to keep their slaves as ‘Apprentices’.

Seventeen boxes of papers of Alfred Wainwright, MBE, the fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator.

A tin trunk of documents formerly belonging to Thomas Peel (1768-1843) of Peel Fold, Lancashire, and Penzance and Trenant Park, Duloe, in Cornwall. He was the son of William Peel (1745-1791), a brother of textile manufacturer Robert Peel (1750-1830) , 1st Bt.

An important and hitherto unavailable collection of letters, programmes, talks, lectures and signed presentation copies of scores, including a substantial two-way correspondence between Rubbra and his publishers Lengnick,1946 - 64.

‘The Watsons’ is Jane Austen’s first extant draft of a novel in process of development, and one of the earliest examples of an English novel to survive in its formative state. 

Letters relating to the embassy of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, at Constantinople in the first decade of the 19th century.

The St Cuthbert Gospel is the earliest surviving intact Western book: it is in its original binding, and it has never been restored or resewn.

1. A rental of the Corfe Mullen estate of Sir John Coventry, 1859-1863. The Coventry family lived at Knowle House, near Wimborne, Dorset and this record of the estate rentals is a new source of information on the management of the property.

This is the only leaf known to survive from an otherwise lost 9th-century copy of Bede's Homilies on the Gospels.

A volume of over 400 pages, containing detailed maps of each farm on the estate (which extended to 4000 acres in half a dozen parishes, including those elements in Yorkshire and Ireland), cut from a book of over thirty surveys made by Edward Wakefield in 1814.