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Item date: 1557-60
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £25,000
Institution: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office
Town/City: Berwick-upon-Tweed
County: Northumberland

Account Roll of Sir Richard Ingleby, Treasurer of Berwick, compiled 1557-60, and 3 account books recording in detail expenditure at Berwick on the military establishment, fortifications &c, 1549-52

Author: Balthus (1908-2001), Francesco Clemente (b.1952), Robert Motherwell (1915-91)
Item date: 1987-1994
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: US$15,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library
Town/City: London

Artists' Books in limited editions.

Author: Robert Legard
Item date: 1747
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £1,200
Item cost: £3,500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

A previously unrecorded manuscript anti-Jacobite poem, 1747. Nothing is known of the author.

Author: Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (1930-2008)
Item date: 20th to 21st centuries
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £20,000
Item cost: £600,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Harold Pinter's entire extant archive of playscripts and film scripts. The archive joins Pinter's correspondence in the British Library, purchased in 2006.

Item date: 1774-1843
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 83,050
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

A very extensive archive of letters addressed to William Gunn (1750-1841) of Norfolk, art critic, collector and writer over half a century.

Author: Herbert Read
Item date: 1880 to 1975
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon

This collection comprises about 1,300 architectural drawings by the Exeter firm Herbert Read, predominantly of ecclesiastical woodcarving, mostly in Devon, together with a collection of order books and correspondence.

Author: William Croft
Item date: 1713
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,632
Item cost: 6,527
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Croft's working autograph manuscript (27 pages in his hand) with many revisions, deletions and inclusion of names of the singers.

Author: Archbishop Thomas Bradwardine
Item date: 1495
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 25,350
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury, died of the Black Death in 1349. His book on geometry, illustrated throughout with remarkable marginal diagrams, is thought to be the first printed book on mathematics by an Englishman.

Item date: 1946-69
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 4,200
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire

Five letters from Margaret Florence (Stevie) Smith to Dr Polly Hill, and 13 drawings by Stevie Smith to illustrate The Frog Prince, published in 1966.

Author: Archie Markham
Item date: 1970s to c. 2000
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire

This collection comprises proofs of the AUTHOR's short stories and letters. It joins the larger part of the Markham Archive, first purchased by Hull University Archives in 1996.