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

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

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

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

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

An archive of exceptional importance.

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

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

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.

These ledgers provide unique information on the development of the harp by Sbastien Erard, one of the most gifted inventors in musical history, who also devised the double escapement for the pianoforte as well as the single and double action harp.