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A series of 42 diaries together with nearly one thousand letters. Correspondents include the Coleridge family, William Gladstone, John Ruskin, Elizabeth Fry, Joseph Severn, JE Millais and Frederic, Lord Leighton.

A fine copy of this eight volume work bound in red morocco, gilt, owned by Samuel Pipe Wolferstan, who assisted Nichols in the collecting of information on the West Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire. The resulting correspondence is also preserved with the book

A vast archive of one of Kents great dynasties, providing a unique resource for researchers on a wide range of subjects from political and social to local history.

Five substantial court rolls complete the remarkable series of manorial records held by Hertfordshire Archives in almost unbroken series from 1399 to 1933.

Terrier compiled for Richard Payne Knight by James Sherriff, a land agent and landscape gardener, based in Birmingham. The volume contains 41 plans, all but one on vellum, with accompanying text.

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.

This set of an extremely rare botanical monograph contains 1,187 hand-coloured engraved plates and is bound in a contemporary half-leather binding. Volumes 1 to 2 were written by Vietz, an Austrian physician, who later became Professor of Forensic Medicine at Vienna University.

Edward Grigg, 1st Lord Altrincham (1879-1955) was a journalist, public servant and politician. The archive reflects all aspects of his life, including the India of his childhood, his period as a journalist with The Times, his service in the First World War and his political career.

Three incunabula (two English and one from Lyons) were bought by the British Library at the sale. The books are (i) John Alcock.

This is a diverse collection, which includes correspondence, property and administrative records, court papers and even recipes.