Collection largely consists of letters to David Roberts the celebrated painter and traveller, many connected with his travels in Spain, including long letters from British consuls and consular offi
84 volumes and 20 loose items.
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
Sir Gilbert Clayton was a distinguished soldier and diplomat, serving in North Africa and the Middle East.
A large archive of several hundred letters, notecards, etc., circa 1898-1948, largely comprising large bundles of autograph letters to Sydney Cockerell, or Wilfred Scawen Blunt. Their appeal
The Rev. George Armstrong was initially an Anglican clergyman who became an influential Unitarian minister and this collection of his letters is largely unpublished.
This substantial collection of manuscripts relating to the artist, engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) was amassed over a lifetime of research and scholarship by Iain Bain. It i
In 1960 the Shetland antiquary Edwyn Seymour Reid Tait (1885-1960) bequeathed his book and manuscript collections to the Shetland Library.
Pusey House is home to the principal Anglo-Catholic library and archive in the UK.
Kelly Strickland, Archivist, writes: These 12 letters were part of a larger collection of correspondence to Peter Winckworth, Governor of St Paul’s School an
Two bound volumes containing about 200 autograph letters exchanged between Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911), Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Dr Asa Gray (1810-88), a leading American b
Thwaite, first an editor for the BBC, later literary editor of The Listener and The New Statesman became Larkins close friend and acted as editor and sounding board through much of Larkins life.