14 grants for 1968.
The gift of Henry Davis. The most important single gift since the Huth Bequest of 1910. Includes a 15th century Canterbury blind-stamped binding, books from the libraries of Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Books bound by Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne.
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. Illustrated as frontispice to AR
Miss Corlass was the friend and correspondent of both John and his parents. Contains interesting information about Mrs Ruskin (JR's mother) and about his (John's) parents view of his marriage to Effie Gray
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Unpublished.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. Also a lengthy account of a conversation with George IV in which the King expounded his views on Catholic Emancipation
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, together with about 70 photographs, portraits and caricatures
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. The Roll from the reign of Henry V is the only known complete surviving example of a Common Bench roll from this period