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One leaf from The Descent of Man and six from Insectivorous Plants. The leaf from The Descent is in the hand of an amanuensis but has corrections in Darwins hand. It was his practise to reuse paper and this passage is written on the back of the autograph draft of a letter.

Over 200 files of correspondence, with an estimated total of over ten thousand individual documents. As well as purely business transactions, there are letters from literary friends such as Grahm Greene, John Updike, Hugo Manning and Iris Murdoch together with copies of her replies

Seven of the eight letters known from Whaley to Walpole. Whaley was sevenyears Walpoles senior and preceded him at Eton and at Kings College Cambridge, where he became Walpoles tutor for part of the latters time at Univeristy. Five of the letters date from this period.

This vast collection of papers falls into three groups: Townleys own records, a huge correspondence with collectors and others and papers on classical sculpture and mythology by Pierre Hugues, better known by his self-conferred title of Baron dHarncarville whom Townley employed to catalogue his c

One of the many annuities charged by Emma Hamilton on Nelsons estate at Merton in an effort to stave off bankruptcy. This indenture supplies important information about the captial sums thus received by Emma Hamilton

Bought together with Slingsby Bethel: The Interest of Princes and States, 1680, Cotton: Burlesque upon Burlesque, 1675; Guicciardini: Historie, 1618; Antonio Neri: The Art of Glass, 1662 and Arthur Wilsons The History of Great Britain 1653.

A large collection of papers: 3,600 documents relating to naval affairs between 1771 and 1782 with 70 notes and minutes of cabinet meetings and more than 300 letters from George III.

Includes maps by Josiah Ballard and William Deadman, which are both attractive and distinctive with much fine detail

679 drawings in three albums, mostly of British subjects but some from his only trip to Italy in 1847, these are detailed sketches of the medieval buildings from which Pugin drew his own inspiration. Illustrated at p. 18 of AR

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, the first edition of the Missal to be printed in England. Bought with 23 other volumes: 5 Books of Hours, 3 Primers, 2 Breviaries, 2 Manuals, a Processional, a Portiforium, a Hymnal, 2Psalters, and 5 Missals