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The seven books from the Brontë family's library demonstrate the breadth of the Brontës' interests and abilities.

This is the first printed Christian scripture in Chinese. The Gospels were translated into Chinese by Johannes Lasser and Joshua Marshman. The volume was printed on Chinese paper at Serampore in 1810.

The 7 letters relate to Lutyens' designs for Crooksbury, near Farnham in Surrey, his first major commission as an independent architect and for a substantial country house for Sir Arthur Chapman.

The manuscript East End of Crowland Abbey by John Clare is significant as it is the first manuscript of this poem which was later published in The Rural Muse (1835). It is accompanied by the pen-and-ink drawing, which inspired the poem, by Francis Simpson (1796-1861).

This is the autograph draft of the last four pages, in full score, of Elgar's Cello Concerto, which the composer gave to Sir Edward Speyer. This concerto was Elgar's last major orchestral composition.

The gem of these maps depicts the Manor of Little Abington and was made in 1603 by John Norden, one of the foremost Elizabethan and Jacobean topographers.

Britten wrote Peter Grimes in 1944 to 1945 and the opera was first performed at the newly re-opened Sadler's Wells on 7 June 1945. The acquisition of these leaves sheds light on the gestation of the work and provide evidence of the composer's changes of mind.

A scarce book on dance deportment and etiquette privately published by Nivelon, a French dancing master in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

A complete record of presentments made at the manor court between 1754 and 1832, and 1836 and 1890. They are an invaluable source for genealogists since the names of all jurors are listed, and contain much for the social historian in the shape of local custom and land usage

Includes papers relating to Delderfields novels, including To Serve Them All My Days and the final novel in the Adam Swann trilogy, God is an Englishman