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Author: GW Wilson
Item date: 1860 - 1908
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire

Mainly Scottish subjects with some English and one Irish; most of the prints are of outstanding quality. The English views are mainly from the early 1860s Cathedrals and Castles series. Most areas of mainland Scotland and some of the Inner Hebrides are also represented

Author: James Craig
Item date: 1786
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1650
Institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Craig designed the New Town of Edinburgh and this rare book is his attempt to formalise the approach to the New Town across the North Bridge in a series of grand crescents and squares with provision for new public buildings

Item date: 1805 - 1875
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 995
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

Mostly of the period 1830 - 60

Item date: 1568
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 450
Item cost: 3,850
Institution: Northumberland Archives Service
Town/City: Morpeth
County: Northumberland

Survey made for Sir Thomas Grey (d.1589) when he was in his minority following the death of his father Sir Ralph Grey in 1568.

Item date: 1943 - 88
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 33,525
Institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex

Editorial correspondence and in-house files, augmenting the papers of Kingsley Martin which have been held at Sussex since 1969. Correspondence includes EM Forster writing about the Warsaw Ghetto, Stephen Spender on Burgess and Maclean and Harold Wilson on post-war Russia.

Item date: 1563 - 1640
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham

254 volumes plus 12 printed or written after 1640. The importance of the collection is as an entity, a mirror of the intellectual life of Lord William and his circle. About half the collection are religious works, the most read book being a copy of Calvins Institutio Christianae Religionis.

Item date: 13th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

Some 6,500 documents comprising deeds, estate papers and manorial records, plus papers of outstanding interest for the Civil War period when Sir Richard Vyvyan was responsible for the construction of Denis Fort on the Helford river and the documents include plans and sketches, lists of soldiers a

Author: Joseph Priestley
Item date: 1793
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Birmingham University
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands

Probably written to the barrister John Gurney the letter concerns Priestleys continuing attempts to bring to justice the rioters that had burned down his house and library and destroyed the New and Old Nonconformist Meeting Houses in Birmingham in July 1791

Author: John Ruskin
Item date: 1819 - 1902
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 12,000
Institution: The Ruskin, Lancaster University (grant awarded to The Ruskin Galleries, I of Wight, and that collection is now owned by The Ruskin).
Town/City: Lancaster
County: Lancashire

Collection contains seven letters from Dr John Simon to his wife, from Brantwood in 1878 at the time of Ruskin's serious breakdown. There are 49 letters from Ruskin to John and Jane Simon, six letters from Margaret Ruskin to her son, and twelve from Maria La Touche, mother of Rose.

Author: Anon
Item date: 1850
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1280
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London

Sumptuous chromolithographed plates printed by Schenck and Ghemar of the exuberant Catholic chapel designed by James Gillespie Graham, and decorated by Pugin and Alexander Christie for William Drummond Stewart