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An important group of documents showing the development of the cotton-spinning complex on the River Dove at Tutbury into a plaster grinding mill.

Letters on theological and philosophical subjects and the politcs of Unitarianism. Martineau was Principal of Manchester College 1869 - 1885

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

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