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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.

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.

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.

This is one of the most important keyboard music manuscript from 16th century England. It is the earliest of four surviving MSS of this time, the others being those of Thomas Weelkes and Will Forster (BL) and the Fitzwilliam virginal book (Cambridge).

Roget (1779-1869), best known for his Thesaurus, studied medicine at Edinburgh University. In 1795, he toured the Highlands with his uncle (Sir) Samuel Romilly, the lawyre and reforming politician.

The archive begins with John Coleridge, vicar & schoolmaster of Ottery St Mary, and his ancestors back to the 17th century.

This comprehensive collection, assembled over 20 years, comprises 1,628 printed works by Darwin (including first English editions of all titles and many foreign language editions); c.

This set of diaries provides a rare insight into the Evangelical work of the Mission in Plymouth. Many entries relate to the victims of the cholera ourbreak.

William Cole, 3rd Earl (1806-87), assembled a collection of over 10,000 fossils at Florence Court, sold to the British Museum in 1883.

This archive falls into two parts. The first is the surviving archive of the Rev. Philip Hunt, who was Lord Elgin's chaplain during his embassy (1799-1803).