36 grants for 1999.
Four persecution tracts bound in one volume.
The earliest known Norfolk swan roll, hitherto unrecorded before its appearance at auction.
This archive minutely documents the research and other activities of the British Surrealist Group.
An interesting collection of letters discussing German writers whose work might be suitable for publication by Faber and Faber.
Kirk was Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar and a major oponent of the Slave Trade.
10 volumes, the major source and inspiration for Ruskins The Bible of Amiens, a combination of religious exposition and architectural history.
A very rare and early contribution to the subject of determining longitude, written by an Englishman resident in Hamburg, but printed, as far as it is known, only in this German translation, which
This account book is one of only three extant for rural parishes in Wiltshire dating from the reign of Henry VIII and it is by far the most detailed.
Previously unknown to scholars, this is the farewell address of the first director of the RCM, whose wise guidance from 1882 soon made the College an important part of the musical life of the natio
The earliest map is the work of John Walker senior and his son for Thomas Mildmay, dated to about 1600.
An edition of grreat rarity, published in Moscow; only one other copy known in Western Europe.
A valuable source for the study of 19th century silverware, being 300 pages of designs for objects such as broth basins, claret jugs, ice pails, muffin plates, sauce boats and tureens.
190 volumes of detailed inventories and valuations dated between 1890 and 1966.
Number 84 of the edition of 142 copies signed by Bellmer with 15 of his mounted and hand-coloured photographs, with 14 prose poems by Paul Eluard written in response to the photographs 1938-39.
A rich literary archive with a full series of the poets work books from the 1950s to 1994, with articles, reviews, broadcasts and lectures and much correspondence, including letters from TS Eliot,
The archive of a working playwright, whose best known work A Day in the Death of Joe Egg , 1967, is still in production world wide.
30 notebooks of intensely reworked autograph drafts for Motions eight volumes of published verse, together with unpublished poems.
This document antedates the earliest surviving archives of Hastings Corporation by almost a century.
Manuscript deeds of various properties at Chawton 1304 - 1525, together with a volume of transcribed deeds for Chawton 1547 - 1621.
65 documents, many are letters addressed to Captain Thomas Brodnax of Canterbury and Godmersham Park, giving military commands and are signed by key figures including John Dixwell, one of the regic
The major part of the archive relates to the Henbury Hall estate, bought by Thomas Brocklehurst in 1875.
Book made up for Burges, elaborately bound in black morocco, gilt. In it he records all his commissions, giving details of date, work, contractor, cost and client.
Manuscript journal of two tours made by Bunbury to Rome and to Florence, before he became well known as a caricaturist in London.
Collection of over 400 letters. 260 letters are from Robert, first Earl of Lytton to Kent, author and journalist, who helped Robert publish the life of his father Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Letters patent, granting various properties in the parish of St Michael in Cornhill, London to Thomas Forster.
A remarkable series of 1285 letters, written by Masefield to Audrey Napier-Smith, violinist in the Hall orchestra, provides an invaluable record of the Poet Laureate in his last 15 years.
Molesworth was the founder of the philosophically radical London Review, which was supervised closely by Mill.
A volume of meditations and directions on the Christian life, written shortly before the Civil War with a series of 11 illuminated initials, incorporating droll faces, decorated with flowers, leave
Copes own assemblage of evidence to be used in his defence at the Board of Enquiry which met to investigate the disastrous engagement with the Jacobite army at Prestonpans, of which he had been the
Copy of an original map of 1652, since lost. Made for Samuel Dixon when he took on the lease of the Wallingtons estate from Magdalen College, Oxford.
An extremely rare account of the campaign of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V against the corsair Khair al-Din, better known as Banbarossa, written throughout in clumsy ottava rima.
Seven letters from Jeckyll to Green, which provide a fascinating insight both into the designers intentions and into his relationship with his client, as well as sketches of furniture and other det
Comprises a case book of male pauper lunatics 1873 - 75, and three volumes of post-mortem notes 1884 - 89, 1889 - 93 and 1900 - 02.
The two main series of these documents relate to the selection of MPs and to the water supply of the town.
Acquired together with a sketch book with drawings by Lady Frances Elizabeth Compton, presumably the pupil of JC Nattes.
31 sheets bound in marbled boards containing drawings and sketches relating to several aspects of Gandys work both as an architect and as an antiquarian.