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One of the most famous literary exchanges of the 19th century. Southey wrote to Charlotte Bront Literature cannot be the business of a womans life and it ought not to be She replied meekly, promising to try to supress the desire to see her name in print.

Elgar was first Peyton Professor of Music in the University of Birmingham. The collection of 59 diaries comprises 10 by Elgar, 33 by his wife Alice and 16 by their daughter Carice.

As well as maps, plans, and factors accounts there are several groups of important correspondence. Letters from the Earl of Mar to Lord Fraser in the years before the 1715 rising, and letters of Simon Fraser, 12th Baron Lovat to some of his Fraser kinsmen.

Beattie was Alexander Gerards pupil and successor at Aberdeen. His lectures are particularly well documented through his own diary and student notes.

Gerard was Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in Marischal College, Aberdeen. This German translation was acquired together with 3 other works by Gerard in contemporary German translations: Versuch uber das Genie 1776; Gedanken von der Ordnung der philosophischen Wissensschaften ...

The earliest written example yet known of an English fairy story for children. Jane Johnson was a clergymans wife who wrote and devised a whole nursery library for her children, much of which is now in the Lilly Library, Indiana.

Hitherto unknown and unpublished verses Faded Delia four quatrians written on one side of a single leaf. Contains numerous points of interest relating to the writers literary technique and working methods

Over 8,000 architectural prints, mostly 19th century: steel and copper engravings, and lithographs, predominantly issued loose, i.e. not cut out of books.

453 letters, 121 letters to Newton, the remainder mainly to Bull, a Congregational Minister at Newport Pagnell. The writers include John Berridge, Claudius Buchanan, John Johnson, John Ryland, John Thornton, Hannah Wilberforce and George Whitefield.

Earliest map was drawn by Ambrose Cogger for Sir Robert Wildgoose in 1637, showing the estate iron works and attendant waterways.