23 grants for 2001.
This collection will provide scholars with a fascinating detailed and important commentary on the work of one of the most celebrated of late 20th century literary figures, giving direct insight into Hughes complex mind.
An autograph volume describing travels on the Upper Nile, three years residence in Ethiopia and return via Khartoum. Highly detailed on local cusoms and cultures: Parkyns married an Ethiopian during his travels.
130 pages written in pencil throughout, containing material for the poem Sponsa Dei, with prose aphorisms, notes to himself and snatches of verse
Acquisitions include Hardys working drawings for family tombstones at Stinsford, the original Macbeth-Raeburn illustrations for the Osgood, McIlvaine Wessex Novels editions and 7 lots relating to national and Dorchester productions of Hardys dramatic works. Illustrated at p.34 of AR
Record of Slinns business, including a scrapbook half bound in green leather containing letters of thanks and admiration for his work from the Sitwells and a catalogue of the exhibition of his bindings in the Central Library, Sheffield, 1946. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust
These two series of his work, represent Balzacs first significant attempt to impose a monumental order upon his hitherto rather random collection of publications. The Etude philosophiques is a pirated Belgian edition of 1836
First edition, hitherto unlisted in ESTC. Contains 60 copper plate engravings incorporating 180 designs. Several have been identified as being by leading London cabinet makers such as Ince and Mayhew, Robert Manwaring and Thomas Chippendale.
Contains fair copies of the despatches received and sent by Gambara whilst in London, a total of 694 folio pages. It covers a period of turmoil in Europe, dominated by war between Charles V and Francis I of France, the spread of Lutheranism and the Sack of Rome.
19 personal letters from Park to his wife Alison Anderson 1801 - 05 including his last surviving letter to her from Segou, in modern Mali.
Provides unsurpassed detail for the self-regulating life of a Wiltshire manor, overseen during this period by the Bayntun and then the Starkey families, most of the business being the management of the common land, before enclosure in 1814
62 medieval deeds and documents together with documents recording changes of ownership and management of the property in the 17th and 18th centuries.
These four surviving volumes are the most important documents in the whole field of British art in India. They are all that remain of the journals kept by William and Thomas Daniell on their epic journey round the subcontinent that was to result in the great aquatint series Oriental Scenery, published 1795 - 1808.
The papers of J Horsfall Turner, an early Bronte scholar and founding member of the Bronte Society. Papers include letters to and from Ellen Hussey, Charlottes closest friend and confidante, forty letters to Turner from various correspondents and other material; they help to confirm the provenance of items in the museums collections.
Four beautifully illustrated notebooks, containing a fair copy of the Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views ... illustrated by scenes of the New-Forest in Hampshire, published in 1791.
A rare glimpse of part of Walton-on-Thames pre enclosure (1802-4). As well as listing tenants, the number and variety of trees is indicated. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Illustrated at p. 52 of AR
18 boxes of Manuscript letters, journals and associated papers, relating to the life and work of the Rev. John Clarke and his circle of Baptist pastors and missionaries.
375 drawings, representing the bulk of Preedys output. He was the only 19th century architect of the gothic revival to be a competent designer and manufacturer of stained glass and he was used by William Burges and William Butterfield in their building projects. ILlustrated at p.46 of AR
34 maps surveyed by Richard Davis, Topographer to George III. All are coloured and elaborately detailed, and bound together, they have the appearance of a fair copy as opposed to a working survey. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Illustrated at p.30 of AR
Rowses working copy, together with his own copy of his edition of The Two Chiefs, 1969. They complement the copy of The Two Chiefs marked up for the press and the rest of AL Rowses literary papers already at the University Library
Rocque was a Frenchman who worked in England from 1709 and produced some of the most outstanding estate maps of the 18th century. These examples are of a very high quality; the High Ercall map includes a panorama of the village in the cartouche. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust
A collection of some 140 documents, title deeds, wills and a rental dated 1584. Most relate to the Harvey and Hanchett families. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Illustrated at p. 38 of AR
This previously unknown humorous drawing is one of the earliest depictions of barrow-digging known, and is unusual in concentrating on the diggers rather than the landscape. The clergyman with the pickaxe in the trench is probably a self portrait.
A magnificent series of medieval charters and deeds, including a series of 35 issued by native Welsh princes, many still retaining their equestrian seals. There are the detailed accounts of Sir Richard Wynn, treasurer and receiver general of Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I.
