24 grants for 2003.
The manuscript East End of Crowland Abbey by John Clare is significant as it is the first manuscript of this poem which was later published in The Rural Muse (1835).
The collection comprises about 3,100 photographs and 450 postcards and range in date from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1980s, and thus cover the heyday of the railways.
These deeds are strays from the main Vernon archive, which is divided between the Cheshire and Derbyshire Record Offices. They comprise the marriage settlement of the Hon.
This is the autograph draft of the last four pages, in full score, of Elgar's Cello Concerto, which the composer gave to Sir Edward Speyer.
The map of Toulston, near Tadcaster, adds to the records of the Fairfax family which are held by the Record Office.
The gem of these maps depicts the Manor of Little Abington and was made in 1603 by John Norden, one of the foremost Elizabethan and Jacobean topographers.
The library of Florence Court was in the main collected by William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-86), an enthusiastic amateur scientist.
Roger Robertson of Ladykirk, Berwickshire, made his Grand Tour in 1750-53 and bought pictures and prints in Italy.
This set of an extremely rare botanical monograph contains 1,187 hand-coloured engraved plates and is bound in a contemporary half-leather binding.
The archive comprises manuscripts and books from the family library, many of which have been annotated by Watt and his son, James Watt Junior.
Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1928) was the half-sister of the 6th Duke of Portland.
The Trust bought 10 lots at the sale, including letters of William & Mary Wordsworth to William's cousin Edward Ferguson of 1837 and books owned and annotated by the poet.
This collection consists of 51 letters and 6 postcards written by Siegfried Sassoon to Vivian de Sola Pinto between January 1919 and December 1966.
The map is the oldest known cartographic depiction of Hove and shows it when it was farmed as open fields or 'laines' before they disappeared under the 19th century development of Brighto
Mr Steven Hobbs writes: Personal accounts of the lives of working people are extremely rare in any century, and one of a painter and glazier in 19th century Salisbury, in two volumes running to 736
This incunable is a popular devotional and moralising work, written in the vernacular, and printed in Vicenza by Johannes de Reno in 1476.
Frederick Temple (1821-1902) and William Temple (1881-1944) were the only father and son who were Archbishops of Canterbury, respectively in 1896-1902 and 1942-44.
Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1928) was the half-sister of the 6th Duke of Portland.
Edward Grigg, 1st Lord Altrincham (1879-1955) was a journalist, public servant and politician.
Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-91), statesman and poet, was Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880.
Britten wrote Peter Grimes in 1944 to 1945 and the opera was first performed at the newly re-opened Sadler's Wells on 7 June 1945.
G. King & Son of Norwich (est.
This archive relates to a family, with all its marriage alliances, spanning 700 years. The core is the family and estate papers of Hattons of Kirby Hall and Holdenby, Northamptonshire.
Three incunabula (two English and one from Lyons) were bought by the British Library at the sale. The books are (i) John Alcock.