14 grants for 1975.
Presented by Dr Theodore Besterman for the newly founded Voltaire Room in the Institution together with 367 French plays of the mid and late 18th century, plus the first four collected editions of the Works totalling 156 volumes.
Limpus received many full and revealing letters from Admirals de Roebeck and Wemyss while he was Admiral Superintendent at Malta
A series of assessments for the collection of clerical taxation within the two archdeaconries of Suffolk and Sudbury.
360 salt prints, a unique set of views of British keybuildings in Lucknow and Delhi, many portraits of civilians, soldiers and their families, Indian princes and others living in Lucknow at the time of the Mutiny
Includes eight poems by Byron composed in the period 1812-15, She Walks in Beauty among them described as Lines written by Lord Byron after seeing Mrs Wilmot at Lansdowne House). Presented by RG Powell in memory of Frank and Hilda Gordon. Add MS 58802
The letter is about a new prison to be erected at Cambridge. Presented by John Ehrman
363 watercolour drawings by the historian and antiquarian who was Keeper of Records in the Tower of London
Printed at Strassburg by Adolf Rusch. Proctor *232, Hain *12796, Goff P-417 Presented by CA Webb together with Nicolaus: Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus, Gouda, 1482. Proctoer 8929, Hain-Copinger 6127, Goff N-154
An account in Anglo-Norman verse of the life and miracles of St Edmund, King of the East Angles; the original poem was written in the 12th century, this is one of only two copies known. The other, a Cottonian MS has less text, by some 900 lines than this version which also has coloured drawings of incidents in the poem on 41 folios
Early autograph album of the Scots diplomat Sir Michael Balfour. Includes the signatures of James VI, Henry Prince of Wales, and Christian IV of Denmark with a series of watercolour sketches of scenes and characters in Padua and Venice
The book is entitled Poems, Epitaphs, Acrosticks and Elogies on several Occasions and Persons ... It contains verses of local interest and family arms
A memorandum of the observances at Beckets shrine written by two monks of Christ Church Canterbury, who were guardians of the shrine. Gives an overall picture of the cult of the saint with attendant religious and tourist industries
99 letters written by the Field Marshal to his mistress, revealing that French was affected by the heavy losses and was not as callous as had been formerly thought. He wrote in great detail about the conduct of operations under his command on the Western Front
Printed at Cologne by Ulrich Zel. Presented by CA Webb