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15 drawings of three London Churches: St Bartholomew, Sydenham by Lewis Vulliamy, St Philip Clerkenwell, by Edward Buckton Lamb and St Mary the Less, Lambeth by Fracnis Bedford. All the churches have since been demolished.

In 1602 William Shakespeare bought 107 acres of land in the open fields of Stratford for 320. This is the unsigned draft intended for Shakespeares signature (that signed by the vendors William and John Combe was already owned by SBT).

A series of nine account books, complementing the large collection of Corbett family estate papers already held at the Record Office.

Eight parchment rolls dating from the episcopate of Geoffrey Blythe. They form an important addition to the pre-Reformation records of the episcopal estates held at the Record Office

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.

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.

30 notebooks of intensely reworked autograph drafts for Motions eight volumes of published verse, together with unpublished poems.

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

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.

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