Grants awarded in 2002

Includes papers relating to Delderfields novels, including To Serve Them All My Days and the final novel in the Adam Swann trilogy, God is an Englishman

Contains many letters from Richardson to his second wife the actress Meriel Forbes, some illustrated. There are also letters to the Richardsons from many notable theatrical names including Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Sybil Thorndike, Sir Alec & Lady Guinness and Sir John Gielgud. Grant from the Philip Larkin Fund

Complete literary output of one of Britains most distinguished and productive dramatists, together with working drafts and correspondence. The treaty sale price includes all future work by Rosenthal. Grant from the Philip Larkin fund

The most important archive of material relating to Walter Crane in existence. The artistic and design material is to be held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, the letters, account books and correspondence at the John Ryland s Library.

Four letter books from the period 1809 - 1814 when Campbell was Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar at the time of the Peninsula War, containing his correspondence with the Government in England and British interest in Cadiz and Ceuta.

A series of 42 diaries together with nearly one thousand letters. Correspondents include the Coleridge family, William Gladstone, John Ruskin, Elizabeth Fry, Joseph Severn, JE Millais and Frederic, Lord Leighton.

Over 320 items of correspondence from Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo amongst others. The letters are rich in detail about each artists own work, their friends and families, and nicely complement the Gallerys holdings of material relating to Surrealism and British Modernism.

The single most important source for the history of music in England during the 19th century. The archive includes the autograph manuscript of Mendelssohns 1st Symphony and a copyists score of Beethovens 9th Symphony, dedicated by Beethoven to the Society.

A family prayer book in its original binding with clasps and the remains of chain fastenings. Early memoranda in the book reveal the familys connection with Edmund Campion, the Jesuit executed in 1581 and with Robert Keyes, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators executed in 1605. Illustrated at p.34 of AR

A fine early example of a Cricket score book on pre-printed pages made by Seacome and Pritchard, a local bookseller in Chester. The scores of approximately 100 matches are given with details of oponents played and giving insight into the class and occupations of the players

Literary papers covering a span of 30 years, including manuscript drafts of the novels The Magic Flute and Way to Go, plus many playscripts and correspondence with other Scottish writers. Grant from the Philip Larkin fund

Collection largely consists of letters to David Roberts the celebrated painter and traveller, many connected with his travels in Spain, including long letters from British consuls and consular officials in Cadiz and Malaga, especially Sir John Brackenbury and Sir William Penrose Mark.

Five substantial court rolls complete the remarkable series of manorial records held by Hertfordshire Archives in almost unbroken series from 1399 to 1933. The rental of the Manor of Uphall, c.1461, gives much valuable detail of the house, barn and moat, together with field names and a previously unrecorded tile kiln

One of the few copies specially bound for presentation to royalty in full red morocco by J Smith of 49 Longacre. No copy had survived at the museum. Illustrated at p.50 of AR

A complete record of presentments made at the manor court between 1754 and 1832, and 1836 and 1890. They are an invaluable source for genealogists since the names of all jurors are listed, and contain much for the social historian in the shape of local custom and land usage

A fine copy of this eight volume work bound in red morocco, gilt, owned by Samuel Pipe Wolferstan, who assisted Nichols in the collecting of information on the West Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire. The resulting correspondence is also preserved with the book

A further instalment of Muriel Sparks working archive and general correspondence including letters from Christopher Fry, Gabriel Josipovici, Doris Lessing, John Updike and Gore Vidal, together with copies of Sparks outgoing letters and faxes. There is also the research material and drafts for Sparks twenty-first novel Aiding and Abetting.

Manuscript with 12 ink and wash plates depicting different views of activity in the centre of the earth and a map showing the world as described in the Old Testament. The work was probably inspired by the Lisbon earhquake of 1755 which killed 60,000 people. Illustrated at p.36 of AR

Contains the signature of Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the first practical atmospheric steam engine, acknowledging receipt of rental for one of his engines from Edward Short. This thus confirms that there was a Newcomen engine at Bilston at the very beginning of the industrial revoltion, a fact hitherto unproved

A highly important group of previously unknown letters, containing much new information on the lives and behaviour of Nelson, Fanny Nelson and Emma Hamilton. They will completely alter the accepted view of Nelsons wife as cold and unfeeling as they reveal how distraught she became at the time of the separation

An important collection of 366 letters to one of Sassoon's closest friends, full of details of daily life, sketches, caricatures, and with postcards, photographs and newspaper cuttings enclosed.

The letters describe many important military and diplomatic matters, especially the defeat of the French in Egypt and the granting of the momentous firman which allowed Lord Elgins group of artists in Athens to begin removing sculptures from the Parthenon.

These 550 letters, together with those written to Venetias sister Sylvia Stanley, already at the Bodleian, are particularly valuable because the Prime Minister destroyed much of his personal correspondence.

Map of Ham Place in Burwash drawn by Walter Gale, naming owners of the neighbouring land and showing house and outbuildings in considerable detail. Map of parts of the estate of John Roberts of Boarzell in Ticehurst, by Jonathan Harmer who undertook such work to augment his work as a mason and manufacturer of terracotta plaques

Terrier compiled for Richard Payne Knight by James Sherriff, a land agent and landscape gardener, based in Birmingham. The volume contains 41 plans, all but one on vellum, with accompanying text.

A vast archive of one of Kents great dynasties, providing a unique resource for researchers on a wide range of subjects from political and social to local history.

Lavish large folio illustrated account of the coronation, possibly the most significant pictorial record of an English coronation ever to appear. There are 45 hand coloured engraved plates and three architectural line drawings after drawings by James Stephanoff, Augustus Pugin, Charles Wild and others.