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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.

29 vols of diaries, 20 vols of pocket notebooks and 13 vols of bank pass books. They reveal a great deal of Brunels journeys, meetings, observations, income and expenditure during his busiest and most creative years.

A major resource for scholars working in the field of modern English poetry and culture

Correspondence from composers commissioned to write works for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.

Keith graduated MA from Marischal College Aberdeen in 1712 and became its Chancellor.

CR Cockerell designed the Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Insitution in Oxford, the Hanover Chapel in London and the National Monument in Edinburgh. His correspondents included John Nash, Sir George Gilbert Scott, Robert Smirke, James Elmes, John Gibson and John Henning.

Collection of 800 drawings, one of the most comprehensive surviving sets of designs for any 19th century house. The evolution of the estate can be seen from initial notebook sketches to the highly detailed working drawings as Barry worked on his design for the Duke of Sutherland.

Lockhart is best remembered today as the biographer of Scott and for his biting attacks on the poetry of Leigh Hunt and Keats in Blackwoods Magazine, but in his youth he was also a spirited caricaturist, papering the walls of his rooms at Oxford with sketches of his friends and foes.