Grants awarded in 1996

Collection includes letters from Palmerston, Peel, Nassau Senior and James Mill.

CR Cockerell designed the Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Insitution in Oxford, the Hanover Chapel in London and the National Monument in Edinburgh.

Collection of 800 drawings, one of the most comprehensive surviving sets of designs for any 19th century house.

A major resource for scholars working in the field of modern English poetry and culture

Rawnsley was a co-founder of the National Trust and an important figure in the early history of landscape conservation, also founding the Lake District Defence Society.

A Bull granted by Pope Leo X permitting the marriage of Henry Somerset, Lord Herbert and Margaret Courtenay, overriding the prohibition based on their consanguinity.

A stock book for 1858 - 69 and ledgers which record all items published by the company between 1844 and 1897.

A document of great importance for Yorkshire history and the study of open field systems and land division. A secular cartulary, probably drawn up for Thomas Bank of Bank Newton, c. 1433.

A major collection of drawings of antiquities by the Wiltshire historian Colt Hoare. Illustrated at p.30 of AR

Manuscript estate account books and deeds for the late 17th century, together with a diary for 1715 - 22.

Court rolls, rentals, deeds, plans sales particulars and other material.

A complete record of the activities of the Court, including names of the jury at each session, details of cases heard and of sentences propounded

Two limited edition works from the Red Hen Press in which Joness poetry is combined with mezzotint and relief etching in an artistic synthesis

Extremely rare, with the leaf of preface in which Wordsworth stated that Coleridge had written Christabel for the volume.

Keith graduated MA from Marischal College Aberdeen in 1712 and became its Chancellor.

50 letters to and from Wyatt, 26 written by the Duke containing specific instructions for work at Apsley House.

29 vols of diaries, 20 vols of pocket notebooks and 13 vols of bank pass books.

A large collection of manorial records, complementing the Musgrave family archive already in the Cumbria Record Office.

Drawn up at Fountaines death by Captain William Price, the catalogue constitutes a major source for our knowledge of Fountaines collection and its display at Narford.

This letter was bought together with an account of the trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots and a letter to Elizabeth I from the Earl of Kent, who had been heavily involved in Mary's pro

Correspondence from composers commissioned to write works for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.

Over 800 letters from MacCaig (recipients not listed); they range widely over his life, work and his opinions of the work of other writers.

With MS addenda by William and Mary Wordsworth, who also wrote the introduction to the book, later published separately.

The largest extant collection of business papers relating to Serge Diaghilev, providing a unique insight into the daily running of the Company, its expenditure, income, administration, management s