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Mervyn Peake was one of those rare individuals who achieved eminence as both artist and writer.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), poet and courtier, was one of the most influential literary figures of the Elizabethan age. The pedigree, which was probably commissioned from Robert Cooke by his father, Sir Henry Sidney, is on a long (c.300 cm) vellum roll of five joined sheets.

Approximately 200 poetry manuscripts of varying dates and formats, written in Blunden's calligraphic hand on the versos of college announcements, together with exam papers, auction catalogues, posters, 19th century ledgers, received correspondence and compliments slips, etc.

Twenty-five letters from Disraeli to his loyal supporter Sir Henry Stracey, MP (1802-85), containing comments on current affairs, and exhibiting his consummate skills as a politician, party manager and judicious flatterer.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is an outstanding figure in post-1945 British and world theatre. He has written seventy-four full-length plays, and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and he is renowned as a gifted director of his own work and that of others.

This is a third tranche, added to Cheshire Archives' existing holdings of records of this important family, comprising court rolls of the Manor of Rixton with Glazebrook, 1717-1835, title deeds, a fine series of more than 300 leases from the 1620s onwards, estate accounts and vouchers, renta

The archive of the Enys family of St Gluvias, Penryn, on deposit at Cornwall Record Office for over 40 years, comprises 80 boxes of papers and c.

The autograph MS of Jude the Obscure, one of the greatest and most controversial of Hardy's novels, was presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by the author in 1911.

A map of the lands of Anthony Fowle in the parishes of Wythiham and Retherfield, in ink and colour on vellum. John Pattenden of Lamberhurst was a noted mapmaker in East Sussex and Kent.

Transcripts of rentals and custumals of manors in the barony of Lewes and other documents relating to Lewes, 1440, 1535-c.1635, compiled by John Rowe, a lawyer (d.1639). The book was published by the Sussex Record Society in 1928.