Grants awarded in 1968

The gift of Henry Davis. The most important single gift since the Huth Bequest of 1910.

Broadsheet, presented by Peter Davies

The Empress Matilda's Charters are very rare and the present example which has a seal depicting her as Queen of the Romans is rarer still. Additional Charter 75724.

Miss Corlass was the friend and correspondent of both John and his parents.

Keohane was a member of Scott's last expedidition and a member of the seach party that found the bodies of Scott and his companions in November 1913

First posthumous edition in a red morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe

Unpublished. Presented by TS Blakeney. Add MS 54351

13 pages, quarto, evidently written at the request of an MP, the first two pages contain information relating to the payments received by the Earl of Orford, Admiral of the Fleet, from naval funds<

Contain letters from literary figures of 19th century, including Wordsworth, and Southey.

A large collection of papers used by Cope to write his History of the Rifle Brigade, plus a collection of about 100 autograph letters of Military and Naval Officers who served in the Crimea, togeth

Broadside, printed at Bicester. Presented by Peter Davies

Finely bound copy with a double fore-edge painting depicting Somersby Rectory and Tennyson's house near Freshwarer, Isle of Wight

Scott was Chaplain of The Victory, these letters are emotional accounts of Nelson's last hours and Scott's voyage home with the body to the State Funeral. Egerton MS 3782

The roll of 1317-18 gives places of session at Dublin, Cashel, Tullow, Limerick and Kilmallock for pleas of the Crown before Edmund le Botiller, Justiciar of Ireland.