The Paston Letters

155 letters, being the earliest part of the family archive now mostly at BL. Illustrated in plates II and III of AR. Add MSS 43488 - 43491

Item author: Sir John Paston & other family members
Item date: 15th century
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 1600
Item cost pre-decimal: 3000
Item date acquired: 1933
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The largest surviving collection of 15th-century English correspondence. FNL grant to British Library 1993. Image by kind permission of British LIbrary.