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Author: John Claude Nattes
Item date: 1809 - 15
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 9,100
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

Acquired together with a sketch book with drawings by Lady Frances Elizabeth Compton, presumably the pupil of JC Nattes.

Author: Sir George Grove
Item date: 1895
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,443
Institution: Royal College of Music
Town/City: London

Previously unknown to scholars, this is the farewell address of the first director of the RCM, whose wise guidance from 1882 soon made the College an important part of the musical life of the nation

Author: Eugne Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Item date: 1867 - 68
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Lancaster University
Town/City: Lancaster
County: Lancashire

10 volumes, the major source and inspiration for Ruskins The Bible of Amiens, a combination of religious exposition and architectural history. This set was probably taken to France by Ruskin as there is a sketch of tracery in pencil on a flyleaf in volume 6, dated Beauvais 1888.

Item date: 1556 - 1847
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 275
Item cost: 1,100
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire

The two main series of these documents relate to the selection of MPs and to the water supply of the town. The records include agreements to construct conduits and details of the pipes to be laid during the mid-16th century

Author: JM Gandy
Item date: 1806
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 8,970
Institution: Sir John Soanes Museum
Town/City: London

31 sheets bound in marbled boards containing drawings and sketches relating to several aspects of Gandys work both as an architect and as an antiquarian. There are drawings taken at Storrs in Windermere, Roslin, Melrose, Newcastle, Lancaster Church and Castle and Shrewsbury Market House.

Author: Berthold Brecht
Item date: 1941
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 7,000
Institution: Bodleian Library, Taylor Institution
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

An edition of grreat rarity, published in Moscow; only one other copy known in Western Europe.

Item date: 1538 - 1598
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 157
Item cost: 630
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire

This account book is one of only three extant for rural parishes in Wiltshire dating from the reign of Henry VIII and it is by far the most detailed. The English reformation in microcosom is vividly documented in these pages.

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.