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This collection of 31 letters includes letters from Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) and his artist wife, Margaret Macdonald Macintosh, to Jessie Newbery, the artist wife of the Director of the Glasgow School of Art.

Jean Hartley and her husband founded the Marvell press, which in 1955 first published poetry by Philip Larkin.

In 1789, Douglas made an advantageous marriage to Catherine North, the eldest daughter of the former Prime Minister. The letters contain much information about life at Court and Princess Caroline of Brunswick, to whom Lady Sheffield and Lady Glenbervie were ladies-in-waiting.

This collection of 35 letters by Bentham had been assumed to be lost. Leicester Stanhope was one of his closest friends and most trusted collaborators during the last decade of Bentham's life.

In 1927, the new diocese of Guildford was carved out of the huge diocese of Winchester. The competition for the design of the new cathedral was won by Sir Edward Maufe. Work began in 1936 and was finally completed in the mid 1960s.

These manuscripts complement the family archives of the Willughbys, Barons Middleton of Wollaton Hall, and particularly to Francis Willughby (1635-72) and John Ray (1627-1705).

Poole Pottery was established in the 1870s, and the collection includes the business records of the company and a representative series of working patterns from the 1920s to the 1990s.

The major part of the archive relates to the Hill family of Carwythenack and Trenethick, and other records relate to Helston borough, including pre-1834 poor law papers and election material.

Twelve deeds are for an estate in Caldecote of 1279-1539. The remaining records relate to Thriplow (1573-1652).

As the residue of the Shelley family archive, the Abinger collection comprises the papers of William Godwin and his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft; incoming letters and other papers of their daughter, Mary Shelley, and of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley; and further material of their family and circ