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Author: Ted Hughes
Item date: 1969 - 98
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 55,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

This collection will provide scholars with a fascinating detailed and important commentary on the work of one of the most celebrated of late 20th century literary figures, giving direct insight into Hughes complex mind.

Author: William Daniell
Item date: 1788 - 92
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 41,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

These four surviving volumes are the most important documents in the whole field of British art in India.

Author: Mungo Park and family
Item date: 1801 - 55
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 28,856
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

19 personal letters from Park to his wife Alison Anderson 1801 - 05 including his last surviving letter to her from Segou, in modern Mali.

Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 448,350
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

A magnificent series of medieval charters and deeds, including a series of 35 issued by native Welsh princes, many still retaining their equestrian seals. There are the detailed accounts of Sir Richard Wynn, treasurer and receiver general of Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I.

Author: William Gilpin
Item date: 1780s
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 48,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Four beautifully illustrated notebooks, containing a fair copy of the Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views ... illustrated by scenes of the New-Forest in Hampshire, published in 1791.

Author: J. Horsfall Turner
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 4,707
Item cost: 14,215
Institution: Brontë Parsonage Museum [Brontë Society]
Town/City: Haworth
County: West Yorkshire

The papers of J Horsfall Turner, an early Bronte scholar and founding member of the Bronte Society.

Author: Richard Davis, Surveyor
Item date: 1788 - 89
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 5,175
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon

34 maps surveyed by Richard Davis, Topographer to George III. All are coloured and elaborately detailed, and bound together, they have the appearance of a fair copy as opposed to a working survey. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Illustrated at p.30 of AR

Item date: 1210 - 1780
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 5,750
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset

62 medieval deeds and documents together with documents recording changes of ownership and management of the property in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 18,500
Item cost: 211, 070
Institution: Dorset County Museum
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset

Acquisitions include Hardys working drawings for family tombstones at Stinsford, the original Macbeth-Raeburn illustrations for the Osgood, McIlvaine Wessex Novels editions and 7 lots relating to national and Dorchester productions of Hardys dramatic works. Illustrated at p.34 of AR

Author: JA Froude
Item date: 1889
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 600
Item cost: 600
Institution: Exeter University Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon

Rowses working copy, together with his own copy of his edition of The Two Chiefs, 1969. They complement the copy of The Two Chiefs marked up for the press and the rest of AL Rowses literary papers already at the University Library