Grants awarded in 1991

Mostly of the period 1830 - 60

Craig designed the New Town of Edinburgh and this rare book is his attempt to formalise the approach to the New Town across the North Bridge in a series of grand crescents and squares with provisio

30 letters including ones from Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, Thomas Roscoe, Reginald Heber and George Jardine as well as Wilsons professors at Glasgow and Oxford.

Bought with six other medieval MSS all belonging to Coughton Court Library.

Includes the architectural and garden plans of James Paine, Richard Woods and Capability Brown for the new castle and grounds of about 1770.

Papers relating to the successive Earls of Carnarvon from the first creation in 1793 until the time of the 4th Earl in the late 19th century.

60 documents, mostly relating to local affairs in Gloucester with scathing verses composed by Counsel mostly about the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral

Mainly Scottish subjects with some English and one Irish; most of the prints are of outstanding quality. The English views are mainly from the early 1860s Cathedrals and Castles series.

One of the many annuities charged by Emma Hamilton on Nelsons estate at Merton in an effort to stave off bankruptcy.

Early prototype Book of Hours, excessively rare.

Montagu and Walpole first met at Eton and shared many tastes, this most significant collection of letters is remarkable for its literary quality and joie de vivre.

A series of manorial accounts remarkable for its continuity.

The collection of papers includes two volumes of letters from the Duke of Wellington written during the Peninsula campaign (Cotton was the leader of his cavalry force).

A large collection of papers: 3,600 documents relating to naval affairs between 1771 and 1782 with 70 notes and minutes of cabinet meetings and more than 300 letters from George III.

30 sketch books and 24 portfolios of plans elevations and miscellaneous sketches in ink watercolour and pencil.

Survey made for Sir Thomas Grey (d.1589) when he was in his minority following the death of his father Sir Ralph Grey in 1568.

Editorial correspondence and in-house files, augmenting the papers of Kingsley Martin which have been held at Sussex since 1969.

Samuel Cockerells design, commissioned in 1813 was never executed.

Official papers of Wodehouses fifty years service in government, together with a five volume journal of particular interest for events during the Gladstone ministry 1868 - 74.

Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith, fell out of a window, 2 days after making his will in 1592. Robert Herrick, the poet, was a child of 14 months at the time of his fathers death.