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Author: Alexander Daniel
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 4,471
Item cost: 10,846
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

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.

Item date: 1277 - 1456
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,938
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire

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.

Item date: 1978 - 88
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 7,500
Item cost: 29,000
Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University, Library
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

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.

Author: ER Jones
Item date: 1880
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 285
Item cost: 285
Institution: National Museums Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside

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

Author: William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland
Item date: 1855 - 57
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 850
Item cost: 850
Institution: University of Nottingham
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire

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

Author: Peter Nichols
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 25,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

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.

Author: Stephen Spender
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

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

Author: Andrew Motion
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

30 notebooks of intensely reworked autograph drafts for Motions eight volumes of published verse, together with unpublished poems.

Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,471
Item cost: 2,671
Institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire

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.

Author: Thomas Bewick, engraver
Item date: 1795 - 1881
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 7,537
Item cost: 22,000
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear

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.