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.

Complete literary output of one of Britains most distinguished and productive dramatists, together with working drafts and correspondence.

The most important archive of material relating to Walter Crane in existence.

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 B

A series of 42 diaries together with nearly one thousand letters.

Over 320 items of correspondence from Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo amongst others.

The single most important source for the history of music in England during the 19th century.

A family prayer book in its original binding with clasps and the remains of chain fastenings.

A fine early example of a Cricket score book on pre-printed pages made by Seacome and Pritchard, a local bookseller in Chester.

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.

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 offi

Five substantial court rolls complete the remarkable series of manorial records held by Hertfordshire Archives in almost unbroken series from 1399 to 1933.

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.

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 Leicestershir

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

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.

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.

A highly important group of previously unknown letters, containing much new information on the lives and behaviour of Nelson, Fanny Nelson and Emma Hamilton.

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 enclose

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

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 corres

Map of Ham Place in Burwash drawn by Walter Gale, naming owners of the neighbouring land and showing house and outbuildings in considerable detail.

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.