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254 volumes plus 12 printed or written after 1640. The importance of the collection is as an entity, a mirror of the intellectual life of Lord William and his circle. About half the collection are religious works, the most read book being a copy of Calvins Institutio Christianae Religionis.

Some 6,500 documents comprising deeds, estate papers and manorial records, plus papers of outstanding interest for the Civil War period when Sir Richard Vyvyan was responsible for the construction of Denis Fort on the Helford river and the documents include plans and sketches, lists of soldiers a

Probably written to the barrister John Gurney the letter concerns Priestleys continuing attempts to bring to justice the rioters that had burned down his house and library and destroyed the New and Old Nonconformist Meeting Houses in Birmingham in July 1791

Collection contains seven letters from Dr John Simon to his wife, from Brantwood in 1878 at the time of Ruskin's serious breakdown. There are 49 letters from Ruskin to John and Jane Simon, six letters from Margaret Ruskin to her son, and twelve from Maria La Touche, mother of Rose.

Sumptuous chromolithographed plates printed by Schenck and Ghemar of the exuberant Catholic chapel designed by James Gillespie Graham, and decorated by Pugin and Alexander Christie for William Drummond Stewart

One leaf from The Descent of Man and six from Insectivorous Plants. The leaf from The Descent is in the hand of an amanuensis but has corrections in Darwins hand. It was his practise to reuse paper and this passage is written on the back of the autograph draft of a letter.

Over 200 files of correspondence, with an estimated total of over ten thousand individual documents. As well as purely business transactions, there are letters from literary friends such as Grahm Greene, John Updike, Hugo Manning and Iris Murdoch together with copies of her replies

Seven of the eight letters known from Whaley to Walpole. Whaley was sevenyears Walpoles senior and preceded him at Eton and at Kings College Cambridge, where he became Walpoles tutor for part of the latters time at Univeristy. Five of the letters date from this period.

This vast collection of papers falls into three groups: Townleys own records, a huge correspondence with collectors and others and papers on classical sculpture and mythology by Pierre Hugues, better known by his self-conferred title of Baron dHarncarville whom Townley employed to catalogue his c

One of the many annuities charged by Emma Hamilton on Nelsons estate at Merton in an effort to stave off bankruptcy. This indenture supplies important information about the captial sums thus received by Emma Hamilton