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The railway history of the County of Dorset begins with the Portland Railway Company, formed by a group of merchants to better transport Portland Stone from the quarries.

A hitherto unpublished early letter from Hardy, responding to a question from JH Nodal, Secretary of the English Dialect Society, about the dialects used in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Hand of Ethelberta and A Pair of Blue Eyes.

A uniquely important group of designs for tablewares produced by the Derby Factory, containing nearly 400 designs for plates and nearly 750 designs for cups.

Contains a quantity of religious and other verse, some in cypher, copies of letters sent to friends, family and lawyers and many pages of autobiographical information. Daniel came of an important Cornish merchant family, being himself a farmer and trader in timber and pilchards.

Four charters of confirmation by the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield of the appropriation by the Abbey of churches and chapels in Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire, dated 1277, 1282, 1316 and 1456.

Simon Lawrences Fleece Press specialise in the combined printing of letter press and woodblocks. The archive contains 50 boxes of material on each book produced with hand-crafted albums of proof pages.

An emigrants guide to the different states and territories of the US with much general advice, and advice about passage and settlement.

Letters written from Harcourt House in Cavendish Square to William Pierce, builder of Jermyn Street, concerning the Dukes house at 13 Hyde Park Gardens, which was being prepared for the storage of surplus family furniture, though no expense was being spared in the matter of water closets and plun

The archive of a working playwright, whose best known work A Day in the Death of Joe Egg , 1967, is still in production world wide.

An interesting collection of letters discussing German writers whose work might be suitable for publication by Faber and Faber.