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Gwyneth Lewis is the first National Poet of Wales. This material includes her earliest poems and writings and documents her development as a writer, up until the mid 1980s.

Only 34 copies are known of the 5th (2nd illustrated) edition of 'Paradise Lost', and its acquisition completes the Milton's Cottage Trust 's collection of 17th century editions of this work. Its companion between the covers, 'Paradise Regained', 3rd edition, is also a welcome new addition to our collections. It seems to have been planned as uniform with the 1688 edition of Paradise Lost, and is often found bound with it.

The book is the third most rare printing of Milton's poem, and the interest of the present exemplar is enhanced by a presentation inscription by the editor, John Alsop, a Fellow of Christ's College. On the 10th August 1637, Edward King, of Christ's College, Cambridge, drowned while crossing the Irish Sea. Lycidas first appeared in this memorial volume of 36 poems, the outpouring of the University's grief for the life of a promising and popular scholar cut short. W. R. Parker, Milton's biographer, observed that Milton's famous pastoral elegy 'has been called, and largely accepted as, the greatest touchstone of poetic appreciation in the English language, a masterpiece of scholarship wedded to art ... [and] one of the most profoundly original poems in the language'.

John Keats (1795-1821) wrote this passionate letter  to his fiancée Frances (Fanny) Brawne (1800-1865) in March 1820, when he was housebound in Hampstead with tuberculosis, and Fanny Brawne was living in the property adjoining Wentworth Place.  The letter  movingly demonstrates the

The celebrated Colonna Missal was commissioned by Cardinal Pompeo di Girolamo Colonna (d. 1532) for use in the Sistine Chapel. It was written and illuminated c. 1532-35, and some of its decoration is contemporary with Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgment over the High Altar.

Surveyor’s reports to the General Purposes Committee concerning the upkeep of the fabric of the local area and its drains, sewers and roads. The volume complements Haringey Archive's continuous run of minutes of the Local Board of Health, 1850-95

An album of drawings of buildings and scenes in the west Hampshire village of Wellow by an unknown artist, c. 1846.

A hitherto unrecorded contemporary manuscript, finely bound in contemporary Dutch floral wrappers pasted onto boards with a calf backstrip.  Written in three different hands, of which the two who copied the twelve arias from Alcina have been identified as 'S' and 'S3' using Larsen’s identifi

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.