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Over 320 items of correspondence from Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo amongst others. The letters are rich in detail about each artists own work, their friends and families, and nicely complement the Gallerys holdings of material relating to Surrealism and British Modernism.

A highly important group of previously unknown letters, containing much new information on the lives and behaviour of Nelson, Fanny Nelson and Emma Hamilton.

An album measuring 11.1 x 8.8cm containing 42 images of individuals and groups, birds and flowers. At least 17 can be attributed to Mary Dillwyn and others are probably by other members of this pioneering family of photographers. Illustrated at p.24 of AR

A complete record of the activities of the Court, including names of the jury at each session, details of cases heard and of sentences propounded

A Bull granted by Pope Leo X permitting the marriage of Henry Somerset, Lord Herbert and Margaret Courtenay, overriding the prohibition based on their consanguinity.

This letter was bought together with an account of the trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots and a letter to Elizabeth I from the Earl of Kent, who had been heavily involved in Mary's prosecution, labouring under the Queens displeasure as she sought to wash her hands of responsibility.

Two limited edition works from the Red Hen Press in which Joness poetry is combined with mezzotint and relief etching in an artistic synthesis

Collection includes letters from Palmerston, Peel, Nassau Senior and James Mill. There is a particularly graphic letter from Edward Littlejohn describing Huskissons death at the opening ceremony for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with sketch of how the engine ran him over

Rawnsley was a co-founder of the National Trust and an important figure in the early history of landscape conservation, also founding the Lake District Defence Society. The photograph collection includes one of Rawnsley with Rupert Potter and his daughter Beatrix, illustrated at p.18 of AR

A large collection of manorial records, complementing the Musgrave family archive already in the Cumbria Record Office.