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The Argal Manor papers cover a wide range of documents, including estate maps, deeds, leases, a Penryn Borough document from 1498 and the Gweek Coal papers of the 19th century.

Richard 'Beau' Nash (1674-1762) arrived in Bath in 1705 and was quickly appointed Master of Ceremonies, with virtual control over all Bath's social life. This collection of 68 items mostly comprise letters written to Nash by Rowland Leffever, a fellow victim of gambling debt.

The collection consists of c. 105 architectural drawings by Philip Tilden (1887-1956), representing 20 schemes and including alterations to Stoke Edith, Herefordshire and Anthony House, Cornwall. Many drawings are annotated or signed by Tilden.

This substantial collection the surviving bulk of the working research papers and professional and personal correspondence of Ernest Martin (d. 2005), an important figure in North Devon and the West Country, who made a substantial contribution to social, agricultural and local history.

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

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.

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

Seven letters, two by Sir Robert Sale and five by his wife from 1842, which relate to the First Afghan War and the First Anglo-Sikh War.

Twenty-eight letters from Clive Bell to his mistress Bertha 'Lalage' Penrose containing much information about Bell himself, and illuminating Bloomsbury's relations with the French cultural world.

Mesens was a Belgian gallery director, curator, editor, publisher, musician, poet and artist. From 1936 until his death, Mesens was based in London where he was co-founder and partner with Roland Penrose of the London Gallery. He played a central part in Surrealism in Britain.