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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.

30 notebooks of intensely reworked autograph drafts for Motions eight volumes of published verse, together with unpublished poems.

Papers relating to the conception, planning and construction of Thorp Arch Hall near Wetherby. Both sides of the correspondence between William Gossip and John Carr exist as well as Carrs notebook of floor plans, sketches and elevations.

Over 500 letters addressed to Bewick and to his daughters who continued his engraving business after his retirement in 1812. The letters cover all aspects of the business, including the offer of bird specimens for drawing, orders for work and books.

Eight parchment rolls dating from the episcopate of Geoffrey Blythe. They form an important addition to the pre-Reformation records of the episcopal estates held at the Record Office

A series of nine account books, complementing the large collection of Corbett family estate papers already held at the Record Office.

In 1602 William Shakespeare bought 107 acres of land in the open fields of Stratford for 320. This is the unsigned draft intended for Shakespeares signature (that signed by the vendors William and John Combe was already owned by SBT).

15 drawings of three London Churches: St Bartholomew, Sydenham by Lewis Vulliamy, St Philip Clerkenwell, by Edward Buckton Lamb and St Mary the Less, Lambeth by Fracnis Bedford. All the churches have since been demolished.

Two fine sketchbooks, prepared for important early patrons. The Castle in the Air is a fantasy house designed for his family friend Barbara Webb, who had introduced Lutyens to his first client, but who was now terminally ill.