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Author: DH Lawrence
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 49,375
Institution: University of Nottingham
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire

27 items, including the heavily revised typescript of Wintry Peacock and the manuscript text of the play Touch and go. Page proofs include those for the collected poems Amores, 1916 and New Poems, 1918

Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 60,000
Institution: Lancashire Record Office
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire

Two thirds of the archive dates from before 1500 and represents one of the most significant collections of medieval deeds to survive for Lancashire.

Author: Samuel Johnson
Item date: 1784
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,200
Institution: Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire

Written five weeks before his death, Johnson writes to instruct Mrs White to wait on Strahan and collect three guineas for herself, Betsey Barber and Mrs Desmoulins. This is the only known letter to Mrs White, few Johnson letters to servants survive

Item date: 1687
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 1,050
Institution: West Sussex Record Office
Town/City: Chichester
County: West Sussex

Drawn by the Sussex Surveyor Robert Whitpaine for Sir Charles Tufton. Ink and wash on two vellum sheets. The only pre-19th century map of Shorehamthen held at Chichester

Author: Ford Madox Brown
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 32,110
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

An archive of outstanding importance for the study of the pre-Raphaelite movement and of British 19th century art in general.

Item date: 1816 - 75
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 1,230
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon

Three minute books of the Wheal Friendship mine in Mary Tavy, Devon which mostly produced copper, but also a little silver, lead , tin and zinc. The books list investors, notes of costs and receipts and detailed annual reports on the mine and its working

Author: James Watt and family
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 1,500,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands

An archive of exceptional importance.

Author: Rutherford Mayne (Samuel Waddell)
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Linen Hall Library
Town/City: Belfast
County: Antrim

The archive contains letters from Lady Gregory, WB Yeats, Lennox Robinson and GB Shaw. There are also unknown stage sets by Ulster artists Harry Morrow and William Conor. The archive sheds new light on the beginning of the modern theatrical tradition in Northern Ireland

Item date: 1499 - 1888
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Bedfordshire and Luton Archives Service
Town/City: Bedford
County: Bedfordshire

The material relates mainly to parishes near Chicksands and Shefford in central Bedforshire. As well as the usual estate papers there are papers concerning the sequestration of family estates during the Civil War and letters concerning the Spanish War in 1741 and 1743

Author: Philip Larkin
Item date: 1958 - 1985
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire

Thwaite, first an editor for the BBC, later literary editor of The Listener and The New Statesman became Larkins close friend and acted as editor and sounding board through much of Larkins life.