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

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.

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.

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.

The book may in fact have been bound in Newcastle since the only other known example of the particular insect roll used on this binding is on a book printed in Newcastle. Illustrated at p.24 of AR

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

3,000 manuscript title deeds, 450 dating from before 1600, court rolls, rentals surveys and plans of the estate. Also an important archive of letters from the Commonwealth period when the estate was owned by Colonel Philip Jones, a trusted friend of Oliver Cromwell.

14 deeds relating to property in the area of Newland in the Forest of Dean; they help to reveal the areas early development with much topographical information, personal names, occupations and relationships.

Many documents concerning Admiral Sir Robert Brice Kingsmill (1730 - 1805) and his nephew John Woodham, later Sir John Kingsmill of Hermitage Park, Dublin. The Admirals papers contain letters on naval matters including secret instructions and reports and a personal signal book.

Many of the papers relate to the Bowreman family who held the manor from the 1390s to 1792