Presented by Sheriff Brown
A 'particular book' of James Nedeham, Clerk and Surveyor of the King's Works, 1539-40, recording detailed accounts for works at Greenwich, Westminster Hall, Windsor Castle, Woking Pa
The archive comprises manuscripts and books from the family library, many of which have been annotated by Watt and his son, James Watt Junior.
The novels in their original parts in this collection were used by Hatton and Cleaver for their Bibliography.
The Bodleian Library has acquired one of the last known volumes from the library of John Donne in private hands with the support of the Friends of the Nati
A copy of the second edition of Dryden’s seminal translation of Virgil.
Prior to its acquisition by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, John Keats’s letter to Thomas Monkhouse, dated 21 June 1818, had always been in private hand
Winchester has a special connection with John Keats, who spent two months in the city in the summer and autumn of 1819.
This edition of Tacitus’s Orationes Omnes, which once belonged to John Keats, was purchased with the generous assistance of a grant received by the Friends of the National Libraries and with
Two volumes of 18th century MS notes, complied firstly by John Le Neve (1679-c.1741) and relating to office holders of the Church of England; and secondly by Rev John Allen (1699-1778) relating to
190 volumes of detailed inventories and valuations dated between 1890 and 1966.
Liz Bregazzi, County Archivist, writes: We are grateful to the Friends of
