Grants awarded in 1963

Key was author of The Star Spangled Banner. Presented by L. McCormick-Goodhart. Add MS 51020, f 43

Shows interesting evidence of an attempt to bring the plight of Mary Queen of Scots to the attention of prominent Italian political figures. Presented by Matthew Stirling

A n autograph fair copy of a sonnet of lament for the vanished liberties of the Genoese republic Genova bella, a cui laltiera voce. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith. Add MS 51020G

3 quarto volumes. Manuscript also contains drafts of reviews and articles some of which, like Joseph Conrad appeared in The Common Reader. Add MSS 51044-51046. Illustrated as plate I of AR

This collection is arranged alphabetically and covers the letters A - F only.

The Latin text with translation into French by Guy Jouvenaux, abbot of St Sulpice, Bourges. A fine copy with two large woodcuts, illustrated as plate II of AR

A good day to day account of the Earl of Lindseys expedition to relieve the Hugenot defenders of La Rochelle.

Presented by L McCormick-Goodhart with a holograph of Hotel Continental by Arthur Symons c.1924

Bound with Judiciarius ordo by the same author, also printed at Paris by the Printer of Ockam, 1476. The latter printer was not previously represented in BL collections.

This is the earliest survey of the temporalities of the See of Canterbury to survive and contains much matter copied from earlier, now lost, documents

A map of the Kingdom of Slavonia and the Duchy of Syrmia drawn after the signing of the Peace of Passarowitz, 1718, to depict territories annexed to the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the Turks.

First edition of this important work on English architecture, presented by Arthur Gimson

A splendid example of the binding work of the Devontional Binder in red morocco with drawer-handle and sunflower tools in black and slate grey. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

Terrier of lands in Lincoln belonging to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral.

A collection of 48 plans of towns in Scotland engraved or lithographed on large scales. The plans give the names of property owners and indications of land use.

10 of the letters were unpublished at the time of purchase. Eight were written to his sister Nanci, two to her husband Camille Pal and two to his uncle Flix Marmion.