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The township of Forton, part of the pre-Conquest estates of Earl Tostig, passed to the newly-founded Premonstratensian Abbey of Cockersand in the late 12th century.

Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire, the ancestral home of the Massingberd family, housed an interesting library, of which, remarkably, many hundreds still survive in situ.

Wesley's composition was completed in 1799, but it did not receive its first performance until 1826. Some parts are in Wesley's own hand, others are the work of Samuel Coad and another unidentified copyist.

The political papers and correspondence of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), Home Secretary and Prime Minister, and some earlier family papers.

The letter-book contains copies of 87 of Pole's more important letters to popes, cardinals and sovereigns, including a moving letter written in 1541 after the execution of his mother, the Countess of Salisbury, in which he denounced Henry as another Nero, Herod or Caligula.

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These unpublished letters were part of the private collection of the late Paula Peyraud (b. 1947), a reclusive librarian from Chappaqua, New York, who assembled an outstanding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