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An important collection of 366 letters to one of Sassoon's closest friends, full of details of daily life, sketches, caricatures, and with postcards, photographs and newspaper cuttings enclosed.

A pocket notebook (R102/042) kept by PC Jonathan Butcher, detailing his daily duties: patrolling, serving summonses, arresting vagrants and drunkards and attending the Sessions in Ely. A rare survival from a period where such records were routinely destroyed.

These 550 letters, together with those written to Venetias sister Sylvia Stanley, already at the Bodleian, are particularly valuable because the Prime Minister destroyed much of his personal correspondence.

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