Grants awarded in 1985

Interleaved with MS notes, paper cuttings, early photographs, engravings pen and pencil drawings, 5 large coats of arms and 24 watercolours, some of them by William Wheatley

Accounts of John Randolph listing income and expenditure in the six forest bailiwicks together with similar accounts for the manors of Lyndhurst, Burghtone, Minnestoke and Ringwood

Folio, bound in reversed calf, with Phelips family crest stamped in gilt

Diaries, photographs and letters concentrating on the period when Hore-Belisha was Minister of War 1937 - 1940 and particularly on the events surrounding the dismissal of Neville Chamberlain

First edition, a fine copy in Taylor and Hesseys trade binding

Some of the lots were bought to provide evidence of the familys origins and letters from his father provide information about Leightons early life and relationship with his parents. The Museum was also able to buy a number of individual letters to Leighton from Dickens, Richard Burton, Wilkie Collins and Trollope

Written from The Knoll, Ambleside to George Grote who was trying to help Martineau with money problems at The Westminster Review

The author was born and died in Chester. On the accession of Queen Mary he joined the exiles in Strasburg. This work argues in favour of Wyatts rebellion and was secretly circulated in England

Contains a dedicatory poem by Wordsworth. The Duchess of Manchester was the principal subscriber: the list is only 66 names long

530 autograph sheets and 260 typescript sheets of drafts of poems for The Anathemata; 1000 autograph sheets of poetry for The Roman Quarry; over 6,500 autograph sheets of drafts for prose works and letters; also some 1500 letters addressed to him.

Grants that foreign merchants need not pay tolls to enter Warwick with their goods

Very detailed in the later years: no other such record is known for any other town of this period in the old county of Berkshire

Buxton was Wilberforces designated successor as leader of the parliamentary anti-slavery campaign. The MSS document the Buxton familys close involvement in the parliamentary campaign of 1833. The earliest pamphlet is dated 1772, amongst the collection there are a number of rare provincial imprints, particularly Liverpool

The Kingsmill familys considerable estates in several counties were all administered from Sydmonton Court and this collection of estate accounts, rentals, surveys, terriers, valuations and settlements gives a very full record of their affairs over several centuries. There are also 1075 charters, 667 of which related to Hampshire

670 letters to Gwen John from around 50 different correspondents and 400 draft letters from her. The most extensive correspondence is with her brother Augustus John and his first and second wives, though there are also 80 letters from the sculptor Auguste Rodin and her draft replies to him

Over 600 deeds, mostly for Northamptonshire

175 documents, mostly late-medieval title deeds for parishes all over Kent. Also includes 14 plea rolls for Dover Castle c.1337 - 1400

Earliest map was drawn by Ambrose Cogger for Sir Robert Wildgoose in 1637, showing the estate iron works and attendant waterways. The next map was drawn in 1750 by Christopher Mason with later maps showing how the estate divided up its land to form the various tenant farms, the boundaries being adjusted over time

43 portraits of Charles II and his court in a contemporary binding

141 items. Mostly printed, though a few are in MS, with annotations giving names of vendors, purchasers and sale prices

Working notebooks and written-up mathematical calculations in disciplines ranging from geometry to astronomy, from physics to trigonometry and from land-measuring to malting. This last in the form of an essay written by the young John Flamsteed, the future Astronomer Royal

440 boxes and volumes, as well as charters and deeds there are papers of notable Suffolk antiquaries, borough and manorial records, plans and surveys. There are also 78 boxes of papers of the Cornwallis family, from 13th century manorial deeds to an Indian letter book of an 18th century Earl Cornwallis, when Governor General of Bengal.

Fine copy of a Primer of the use of Sarum, printed in London by John Kyngston and Henry Sutton. STC 16080. Bought by FONL and presented to mark the retirement of Lord Kenyon as Chairman of the Friends

Notebooks of detailed inventories for probate insurance and valuations for sale; sales books with the names of buyers and prices paid; the firms letters books, office diaries, sale particulars and sale posters

Replies to letters from de Quincey already at Dove Cottage. The letters discuss a variety of subjects, including the printing of The Convention of Cintra, de Quinceys intended move to Grasmere, Coleridges The Friend, and family matters