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A substantial group of 95 medieval deeds relating mostly to the Gore family. Thomas Gore, the antiquary and contemporary of John Aubrey, transcribed them for the manuscript history of his family, 'Syntagma Genealogicum', now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Gaugains were a dynasty of minor painters and engravers of French origin but established in London by the mid-18th century. The present collection of letters of Philip Augustus Gaugain fl. 1783-1847) and other members of his family are of much interest for the history of the art trade.

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 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.

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.

A very early partly coloured map of part of the parish of Dormston, seen and copied by the Worcestershire antiquary Peter Prattinton in 1826, who described it as 'a very old rude map', and then lost to sight for 180 years.

A copy of the first edition of Coleridge's verse translation of his friend Hyman Hurwitz's Kinat Yeshurun', one of only five copies known in the UK.