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
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 tim
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).
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.
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.
Early autograph album of the Scots diplomat Sir Michael Balfour.
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.
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.
Printed at Cologne by Ulrich Zel. Presented by CA Webb