17 grants for 1990.
The only collection of Herrick letters known, they date from the period of his study at St Johns Cambridge; most of the letters to his guardian contain ingeniously phrased requests for money
Gunner was a childhood friend who made contact again late in life. The letters reveal much of Larkins political opinions. The collection also includes 31 letters and 22 carbon copies of letters from Gunner to Larkin. 250 of the grant was paid out of the Philip Larkin fund
Includes maps by Josiah Ballard and William Deadman, which are both attractive and distinctive with much fine detail
This is a handy ready reckoner for converting regnal years, used for dating most legal documents, to those of the Christain calendar. Only one other copy known of this edition, at Trinity Cambridge
Literary MSS, notebooks, correspondence with family and friends, contracts, tributes and other miscellaneous material, including the correspondence of his second wife Valda Trevlyn.
Two thirds of the archive dates from before 1500 and represents one of the most significant collections of medieval deeds to survive for Lancashire. There is a cartulary of the Edisford leper hospital 1317, an indulgence issued from Boston, printed by Pynson in 1519 and a subsidy roll for Lonsdale Hundred of about 1590
27 items, including the heavily revised typescript of Wintry Peacock and the manuscript text of the play Touch and go. Page proofs include those for the collected poems Amores, 1916 and New Poems, 1918
An important group of documents showing the development of the cotton-spinning complex on the River Dove at Tutbury into a plaster grinding mill.
Second edition of the Latin text, printed at Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz. Has extensive marginalia in a fine humanist hand , chiefly place names
The bulk of the collection is connected with the legal and business affairs of John Ludford and William Priest in the mid 18th century
The section from 1557 to 1575 appears to have been written from contemporary knowledge. The author may have lived in Edinburgh and been a minor official at Court
Written five weeks before his death, Johnson writes to instruct Mrs White to wait on Strahan and collect three guineas for herself, Betsey Barber and Mrs Desmoulins. This is the only known letter to Mrs White, few Johnson letters to servants survive
Williams was Solicitor General 1687 -88 and the papers in this collection refer to the great state trials held in the 1670s and 80s: the Rye House Conspiracy, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Algernon Sidney and the Seven Bishops. There are two volumes of contemporary pamphlets many extremely rare, probably forwarded to Williams for legal opionion.
Letters on theological and philosophical subjects and the politcs of Unitarianism. Martineau was Principal of Manchester College 1869 - 1885
Musical examples all printed from woodblocks. Bought with John Dowlands Second booke of songs or ayres of 2,4 and 5 parts, with tablature for the lute or orpherian with the violl de gamba, 1600.
Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, the first edition of the Missal to be printed in England. Bought with 23 other volumes: 5 Books of Hours, 3 Primers, 2 Breviaries, 2 Manuals, a Processional, a Portiforium, a Hymnal, 2Psalters, and 5 Missals
679 drawings in three albums, mostly of British subjects but some from his only trip to Italy in 1847, these are detailed sketches of the medieval buildings from which Pugin drew his own inspiration. Illustrated at p. 18 of AR