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Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 4,500
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire

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.

Item date: 19th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,900
Item cost: 9,200
Institution: Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral
Town/City: Ely
County: Cambridgeshire

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.

Item date: 13th to 19th centuries
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 472,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Northamptonshire Archives Service
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

This archive relates to a family, with all its marriage alliances, spanning 700 years. The core is the family and estate papers of Hattons of Kirby Hall and Holdenby, Northamptonshire.

Item date: 1791 to 1873
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,288
Item cost: 1,288
Institution: National Trust, Florence Court

The library of Florence Court was in the main collected by William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-86), an enthusiastic amateur scientist. The library was removed by his descendents, but the Trust has been able to buy nearly 500 back for the house.

Item date: 19th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 15,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Frederick Temple (1821-1902) and William Temple (1881-1944) were the only father and son who were Archbishops of Canterbury, respectively in 1896-1902 and 1942-44. This acquisition complements the Temple papers already held at Lambeth.

Author: Thomas Marchant
Item date: 1755
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 2,764
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

The map is the oldest known cartographic depiction of Hove and shows it when it was farmed as open fields or 'laines' before they disappeared under the 19th century development of Brighton and Hove.

Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 448,350
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

A magnificent series of medieval charters and deeds, including a series of 35 issued by native Welsh princes, many still retaining their equestrian seals. There are the detailed accounts of Sir Richard Wynn, treasurer and receiver general of Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I.

Author: Mungo Park and family
Item date: 1801 - 55
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 28,856
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

19 personal letters from Park to his wife Alison Anderson 1801 - 05 including his last surviving letter to her from Segou, in modern Mali.

Author: William Daniell
Item date: 1788 - 92
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 41,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

These four surviving volumes are the most important documents in the whole field of British art in India.

Author: Ted Hughes
Item date: 1969 - 98
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 55,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

This collection will provide scholars with a fascinating detailed and important commentary on the work of one of the most celebrated of late 20th century literary figures, giving direct insight into Hughes complex mind.