19 grants for 1988.
The surveys provide evidence for a vanished landscape, showing estates, buildings and fields which no longer survive and providing evidence for agricultural practises which have long disappeared. William Figg the younger was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and preserved early maps iof East Sussex in large numbers.
Larkin and Sutton met at school and remained close friends for years. This series of letters form the single most important body of evidence for Larkins formative years. Topics covered include Larkins views on poetry, contemporary writers, jazz, family and friends and Larkins attitude to love and marriage. Donation from Larkin fund
In the Autumn of 1837 Pope discovered that James Watson had published an octavo edition of his Letters of Mr Pope and several of his Friends under the piratical imprint of Thomas Johnson at The Hague.
Many extremely rare pamphlets relating to County Durham, on topics such as parliamentary reform, local politics, harbour improvement, local antiquities and local printing
Bills of loading, posters for Shipping Lines advertising routes between Liverpool and Glasgow; 35 forms for various dates in 1881 and 1882 of the Consulate of the United States listing goods and prices and documenting the shipping process from manufacturer to export
The single most important book on clocks, by the inventor of the pendulum clock.
The Sheldon family fortune was made in tapestry weaving. This account book records two years of travel and household expenses, losses at cards (20 in an evening) purchases of hawks, velvet collars for greyhounds and 10 paid for a suit of armour edged with gold lace. Illustrated at p.30 of AR
93 quarto leaves, partly a notebook of Biblical quotations and prayers, but also containing accounts of the Fairfaxes and the Careys (his wifes family) during the civil war and Fairfaxs own involvement in the Restoration, and subsequent life as an Equerry of Charles II
As well as the usual deeds , wills, marriage settlements and copyhold papers there are more than 30 fine 18th and 19th century maps of Norfolk parishes and estates
460 medieval deeds and documents, seven albums of copy deeds, legal papers accounts and vouchers ranging from the 14th to the 19th centuries; eight pedigree rolls of the Leigh and related families c.1580 to 1816, and various other papers including correspondence between the Reverend Peter Leigh and George Ormerod, newspaper cuttings, transcripts
Boxes of deeds and papers relating to four main groups.
70 Privy Council letters to the Archbishops of Canterbury, many relating to a period when the registers of the Privy council are missing. Many letters to and from Burghley and Walsingham. The 17th century papers include a volume of letters on French affairs and particularly Buckinghams ill-fated expedition to La Rochelle.
350 letters from John, mainly to his second wife Dorelia, many of them with rapid pen and ink sketches.
The earliest known map of the area which is now the town of Worthing
Formerly part of the Graves Hamilton estate papers, this map drawn on parchment was sold separately from the main collection acquired with the help of FONL in 1987. It provides miniature elevations of the houses in the village, and a key provides the names of owners of each building or plot of land
Extensive correspondence , both letters received and carbon copies of those sent, with translators, literary consultants, editors, publishing houses, academics, funding bodies, the Arts Council and others.
A collection of prayers takenfrom Scripture, arranged by the days of the week. Extremely popular, it went through 17 editions, from 1579, all of which are extremely scarce, a sure sign of a books popularity as the copies were read until they fell to pieces. Two other copies known, at BL and Princeton. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
An elevation, basement and ground floor plans for a projected new house for George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton. They show the layout of the working part of the house with laundry and stable courts. The plans were not used
The first publication of Larkins own distinctive poetic voice after the juvenilia and The North Ship. Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies. Donation from the Philip Larkin Memorial Fund.