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The earliest known map of the area which is now the town of Worthing

The surveys provide evidence for a vanished landscape, showing estates, buildings and fields which no longer survive and providing evidence for agricultural practises which have long disappeared.

An elevation, basement and ground floor plans for a projected new house for George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton. They show the layout of the working part of the house with laundry and stable courts. The plans were not used

As well as the usual deeds , wills, marriage settlements and copyhold papers there are more than 30 fine 18th and 19th century maps of Norfolk parishes and estates

Larkin and Sutton met at school and remained close friends for years. This series of letters form the single most important body of evidence for Larkins formative years.

The first publication of Larkins own distinctive poetic voice after the juvenilia and The North Ship. Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies. Donation from the Philip Larkin Memorial Fund.

An apparently unrecorded work, still in sheets, as delivered by the printer. A long duodecimo, the sheets would have simply been folded, unlike other kinds of the same format which require cutting first.

Maghen was a friend of Erasmus and produced manuscripts for the London market, in particular the small group of London humanists which included John Colet and Christopher Urswick

76 page notebook, diary entries from 5th September to 12 October 1854 with sketches and diagrams showing troop positions and orders of march. A detailed account of the early stages of the Crimean War, especially the Battle of the Alma.

18 page loose leaf manuscript, written hastily by Gordon with later annotations in red ink. A bald summary of his part in the campaign of supression of a rebellion against the Chinese Emperor, by a native force financed by the Shanghai merchants.