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Author: David Roberts
Item date: 1846 - 64
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,300
Item cost: 3,055
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

20 good letters ; two in particular are packed with comment on the doings of contemporaries in the Royal Academy, to which Roberts had been elected as Associate in 1838 and as Academician in 1841. In another letter he writes of a picure he is painting of our dear little Queen.

Author: Muriel Spark
Item date: 1956 - 97
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 37,500
Item cost: 75,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Further correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and short stories and of a novel, Reality and Dreams. This supplements the major part of the archive acquired by NLS with the help of the Friends in 1992. Grant from the Philip Larkin Fund

Author: Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Item date: 1652- 72
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 84,630
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

Five volumes of letters received from ministers and a letter book 1656-69; they provide many insights into a soldier, politician, diplomat and naval commander who moved from one side to the other of the political divide.

Author: William Henry Millais and Sir John Everett Millais
Item date: 1852 - 53
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,792
Item cost: 3,528
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Sketches dating from a time when the two brothers were collaborating on some pictures. The fateful holiday in Scotland when Ruskins portrait was started and Millais relationship with Effie Ruskin began is recorded b y William in a sketch entitled Crossing the Border.

Author: William Harry Rogers and other members of his family
Item date: 1840 - 70
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 9,250
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Most of the collection is devoted to WH Rogers designs for publishers cloth bindings, with proof covers and proof engravings of titlepages.

Author: Antonio Canova
Item date: 1819
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 2,808
Item cost: 2,808
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Canova writes thanking Westmacott for the news that one of his sculptures has arrived safely in England and that it has met with the approval of the Prince Regent; this was probably the Naiade, now in the Royal Collection.

Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,550
Item cost: 1,550
Institution: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands

69 items representing the working library of the Birmingham industrial designer Reginald E Edgcombe, who was principal designer for Osler and Farraday, ranging from design theory, to practical handbooks and visual reference material.

Author: Woodrow Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The archive includes early diaries, manuscripts of his own writings, constituency papers and correspondence, papers, reports and accounts for his printing and publishing business, notes and working papers; letters from readers of his books and articles and appointment books and personal correspon

Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 130,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

The non-current papers of the Society, ranging in date from the 1820s to the 1990s. It includes registers, subscription lists, account books, and a very large accumulation of correspondence.

Author: Faith Jacques
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 6,300
Institution: Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children's Books
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear

Jacques was a prolific illustrator and her archive contains copies of all the books she illustrated, by some of Britains best known childrens authors including Henry Treece, Philippa Pearce, Nina Bawden, Leon Garfield, Ursula Moray Williams, Roald Dahl and Alan Ahlberg.