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This collection contains an archive of manorial records of Dullingham, near Newmarket covering the period 1630-1813 including substantial court rolls and books and minutes. Twenty deeds of the Hanger family of Little Raveley (1687-1799) was acquired at the same time.

The bifolium, which contains readings for Holy Week, comes from a magnificant gospel lectionary which is likely to have been owned by the Cathedral in the Middle Ages and dismembered in the Reformation. Canterbury Cathedral Archives already had a bifolium from this lectionary.

Stowell (1800-58) trained for the Congregational ministry at Blackburn Academy, served pastorates in North Shields and Masborough and became President of Cheshunt College in 1850. The manuscript contains 240 pages and is a substantial work of some 90,000 words.

This copy includes a set of interleaved drawings and a silhouette of Cowper by the original owner, John Higgins. He was an admirer of Cowper and a talented amateur artist.

This early 13th century manuscript Bible in one volume is one of about 250 medieval books lost from Durham Priory Library. Four inscriptions link the manuscript with named monks at Durham.

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.

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

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.

Elaine Feinstein's archive embraces the whole range of her literary output: poetry, fiction, prose, criticism, biography, translation and drama. It comprises manuscripts, annotated typescripts, marked proofs and correspondence with a large circle of writers including Martin Amis, A. S.

The Alanbrooke archive is primarily manuscript and large - 87 boxes. Alanbrooke's judgement was critical to the Allies' success in winning the Second World War and so these papers are of international repute and regularly consulted.