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75 pencil ink and watercolour sketches, mainly of Shropshire houses and scenes, by David Parkes (1763-1833). Parkes was a prolific artist and antiquarian, and his work documents changes and alterations to many important Shropshire buildings and churches in the late 18th-mid19th centuries.

A collection of the published works of Edwin Morgan (b.1920) assembled by Hamish Whyte, his friend, publisher and bibliographer over thirty years. Appointed Scots Makar by the Scottish Parliament in 2004, Morgan was a major Scottish poet of the later 20th century.

Literary, private and personal papers of Professor Douglas Dunn (b. 1942), Professor of English at St Andrew's since 1991 and one of Scotland's most eminent contemporary poets.

A presentation album of drawings by Samuel Wyatt (1737-1807), in their original binding, for a proposed rebuilding of Mere Hall, Cheshire. The house had been rebuilt in 1670 for Sir Peter Brooke, whose descendant Peter Brooke (1723-83) married an heiress.

A rare example of an architectural design by Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734), History Painter in Ordinary and Serjeant Painter to George I, and the leading decorative painter of his day. The drawing relates to a little-known commission by Thornhill for which apparently no other drawings survive.

The collection includes a contemporary copyist's manuscript of the Missa de Spiritu Sancto by Samuel Wesley (1766-1837), composed in 1784, with a dedication to Pope Pius VI; a copy of a keyboard fugue in D Major by his daughter Eliza (1819-95); and a copy by her brother, Samuel Sebastian Wes

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 botanist, together with 33 letters from Hooker to his wife, Hyacinth, 35 letters from Hooker to vario

The records comprise a Cost Book, 1846-7; a Petty Cash Book, 1854; a Ledger, 1846-54; and Quarry Receipts, mid-19th cent. They provide a valuable insight into the workings of the poorly documented granite quarrying industry, its costs, materials, labour and transportation

The earliest known record of a religious guild in Nottingham, listing 207 members of the Guild of St Mary, both men and women, from the parishes of SS Mary, Peter and Nicholas, Nottingham, and further afield. even from as far as York.

An outstanding archive of the Aynho estate papers, title deeds, together with personal papers of members of the Cartwright family in public life, including William Ralph Cartwright, MP for Northamptonshire (d.1847); his son Sir Thomas Cartwright, minister in Frankfurt 1830-38 and ambassador to S