13 grants for 1992.
Over 200 files of correspondence, with an estimated total of over ten thousand individual documents. As well as purely business transactions, there are letters from literary friends such as Grahm Greene, John Updike, Hugo Manning and Iris Murdoch together with copies of her replies
One of the most comprehensive family estate archives. Title deeds from the late 12th century onwards, a fine series of estate accounts and rentals from c.1660 and many thousands of items of personal and official correspondence, plus a wide range of private papers including travel journals, printed pamphlets and political diaries.
Some 6,500 documents comprising deeds, estate papers and manorial records, plus papers of outstanding interest for the Civil War period when Sir Richard Vyvyan was responsible for the construction of Denis Fort on the Helford river and the documents include plans and sketches, lists of soldiers and weaponry, commissions and warrants
Collection contains seven letters from Dr John Simon to his wife, from Brantwood in 1878 at the time of Ruskin's serious breakdown. There are 49 letters from Ruskin to John and Jane Simon, six letters from Margaret Ruskin to her son, and twelve from Maria La Touche, mother of Rose.
One leaf from The Descent of Man and six from Insectivorous Plants. The leaf from The Descent is in the hand of an amanuensis but has corrections in Darwins hand. It was his practise to reuse paper and this passage is written on the back of the autograph draft of a letter.
Probably written to the barrister John Gurney the letter concerns Priestleys continuing attempts to bring to justice the rioters that had burned down his house and library and destroyed the New and Old Nonconformist Meeting Houses in Birmingham in July 1791
For the most part this archive comprises letters from John Holles third Duke of Newcastle and Thomas Pelham Holles, 4th Duke, to Sir Francis Molyneux.
Depicts the manor of Anstey in northern Hertfordshire belonging to William Robinson Lytton. It records field names and shows buildings in primitive perspective. Thomas Browne went on to become Garter King of Arms in 1774
This vast collection of papers falls into three groups: Townleys own records, a huge correspondence with collectors and others and papers on classical sculpture and mythology by Pierre Hugues, better known by his self-conferred title of Baron dHarncarville whom Townley employed to catalogue his collection.
Seven of the eight letters known from Whaley to Walpole. Whaley was sevenyears Walpoles senior and preceded him at Eton and at Kings College Cambridge, where he became Walpoles tutor for part of the latters time at Univeristy. Five of the letters date from this period. Four were written during Whaleys Summer Tour to the Peak District in 1735
Sumptuous chromolithographed plates printed by Schenck and Ghemar of the exuberant Catholic chapel designed by James Gillespie Graham, and decorated by Pugin and Alexander Christie for William Drummond Stewart
Bought together with Slingsby Bethel: The Interest of Princes and States, 1680, Cotton: Burlesque upon Burlesque, 1675; Guicciardini: Historie, 1618; Antonio Neri: The Art of Glass, 1662 and Arthur Wilsons The History of Great Britain 1653.
254 volumes plus 12 printed or written after 1640. The importance of the collection is as an entity, a mirror of the intellectual life of Lord William and his circle. About half the collection are religious works, the most read book being a copy of Calvins Institutio Christianae Religionis.