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A liturgical manuscript containing the text of the Day Office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None, recited by Carthusian monks in their cells. A rare survival, almost certainly from the London Charterhouse.

Iris Murdoch's letters to the French writer Raymond Queneau, mostly written 1946-75, contain her thoughts on her embryonic writing career, God, philosophy, her emotional state and much else, and are an invaluable source for tracking the influences that inspired and shaped her novels.

Jeff Nuttall, artist, poet, jazz musician, social commentator and teacher, disposed of most of his papers but retained the present collection, which he called 'The 60s Box'. The archives include literary and artistic works and many letters from notable poets, writers and artists.

These unpublished letters were part of the private collection of the late Paula Peyraud (b. 1947), a reclusive librarian from Chappaqua, New York, who assembled an outstanding collection of literary materials relating to the Bluestockings.

The mostly typed letters, written to an admirer in response to his questions about Rebecca, are a good source of information on the characters and topography of Daphne du Maurier's most famous novel.

An important addition to the Library's collection of early Scottish scientific papers, this manuscript, in a contemporary calf binding, includes sections on mathematics, law and astronomy, with notes and ex libris inscription indicating that it was the work of William Baird of Dysart, Fife.<

In 1768 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) became an excise officer in Lewes, where he lodged at Bull House with the nonconformist grocer Samuel Ollive, whose daughter Elizabeth he married in 1771. In 1774 the marriage broke up, Paine's business failed and he was dismissed from the excise service.

The Gaugains were a dynasty of minor painters and engravers of French origin but established in London by the mid-18th century. The present collection of letters of Philip Augustus Gaugain fl. 1783-1847) and other members of his family are of much interest for the history of the art trade.

A substantial group of 95 medieval deeds relating mostly to the Gore family. Thomas Gore, the antiquary and contemporary of John Aubrey, transcribed them for the manuscript history of his family, 'Syntagma Genealogicum', now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

A very early partly coloured map of part of the parish of Dormston, seen and copied by the Worcestershire antiquary Peter Prattinton in 1826, who described it as 'a very old rude map', and then lost to sight for 180 years.