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William Small was a painter and glazier in 19th century Salisbury, who wrote about his life, family and acquaintances and his home city. The memoir extends to 736 closely written pages, bound in two volumes.

Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-91), statesman and poet, was Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880. The 177 files inlcude his public and private papers from 1876-80 and his correspondence from his Private Secretary's Office.

This collection consists of 51 letters and 6 postcards written by Siegfried Sassoon to Vivian de Sola Pinto between January 1919 and December 1966.

Roger Robertson of Ladykirk, Berwickshire, made his Grand Tour in 1750-53 and bought pictures and prints in Italy. His letters home are long and detailed and he frequently assures his parents of the good sense with which he spends his time and his father's money.

Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1928) was the half-sister of the 6th Duke of Portland. In 1902 she married Philip Morrell in 1902 and until 1915, they lived in Bloomsbury where she established herself as a literary and political hostess. From 1915 they lived at Garsington Manor, near Oxford.

The archive comprises manuscripts and books from the family library, many of which have been annotated by Watt and his son, James Watt Junior.

This incunable is a popular devotional and moralising work, written in the vernacular, and printed in Vicenza by Johannes de Reno in 1476.

These deeds are strays from the main Vernon archive, which is divided between the Cheshire and Derbyshire Record Offices. They comprise the marriage settlement of the Hon.

The collection comprises about 3,100 photographs and 450 postcards and range in date from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1980s, and thus cover the heyday of the railways.

G. King & Son of Norwich (est. 1927) was the leading conservator of stained glass for much of the 20th century and Dennis King was closely involved with the Corpus Vitrearum project in England.