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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.

Details: The library collections at Belton, Lincolnshire, are among the finest in any National Trust house. The Library and Study, each containing about 6,000 books, give an almost complete picture of book collecting over 350 years.

Peter Crosthwaite had a varied and extraordinary career as a navigator, excise agent, inventor, social reformer and entertainer. He was born in Keswick, joined the East India Company and worked his way from cabin crew to First Navigation Officer.

The Rice Archive is a comprehensive record of one of Kent’s substantial farming families, extending from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

Charles Grey was a London associate of a firm of Alnwick attorneys named Adams; the firm's papers were the subject of the above sale. His letter to an unnamed correspondent gives a rare and remarkable account of bodysnatching activity in Tottenham.