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Correspondence from composers commissioned to write works for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.

Keith graduated MA from Marischal College Aberdeen in 1712 and became its Chancellor.

CR Cockerell designed the Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Insitution in Oxford, the Hanover Chapel in London and the National Monument in Edinburgh. His correspondents included John Nash, Sir George Gilbert Scott, Robert Smirke, James Elmes, John Gibson and John Henning.

Collection of 800 drawings, one of the most comprehensive surviving sets of designs for any 19th century house. The evolution of the estate can be seen from initial notebook sketches to the highly detailed working drawings as Barry worked on his design for the Duke of Sutherland.

Lockhart is best remembered today as the biographer of Scott and for his biting attacks on the poetry of Leigh Hunt and Keats in Blackwoods Magazine, but in his youth he was also a spirited caricaturist, papering the walls of his rooms at Oxford with sketches of his friends and foes.

Gillies was an impecunious editor, minor poet and translator who lived in Edinburgh 1788 - 1858.

A topographical and historical survey of Switzerland and adjoining regions, unusually in duodecimo format with 1090 pages and 109 plates, many folded. No copy listed in the NUC or the Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschen Schrifttums 1700 - 1910. Total price given is in DM, not sterling

Published by Thomas Jefferys, the large world map shows the track of Admiral Lord Ansons fleet which returned in 1743 laden with plunder from the captured Manila Galleon.

Archive includes multiple drafts and detailed working notes for all the published and several very interesting unpublished plays and translations; an unpublished early novel; correspondence with friends and theatre colleagues, agents and editors, files of minutes and papers for the council of the

Pole was the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterb ury. These letters date from the period at which Pole was a fugitive from Henry VIII on the continent trying to persuade the Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France to raise an army to restore England to the Roman obedience