Grants awarded in 2009

Iris Murdoch's letters to the French writer Raymond Queneau, mostly written 1946-75, contain her thoughts on her embryonic writing career, God, philosophy, her emotional state and much else, a

A copy of the first edition of Coleridge's verse translation of his friend Hyman Hurwitz's Kinat Yeshurun', one of only five copies known in the UK.

Dr Bent Juel-Jensen, a former Medical Officer to the University of Oxford, was one of the principal book collectors of his generation and a generous benefactor to the Bodleian Library, to which he

A liturgical manuscript containing the text of the Day Office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None, recited by Carthusian monks in their cells.

A rare and important publication drawing attention to the close ties between the women's dress reform movements in Germany and Scotland.

Most of the deeds and papers, filling fifteen archive boxes, date from 1666-1927, when the Melton estate belonged to the Fountayne family, and from 1826 the Montagu family, following a change of n

50 deeds and documents, 15-16th cent,, relating to Mascy property, including deeds relating to the establishment and dissolution of the Hollinfare chantry chapel, and a court roll of the manor of G

The township of Forton, part of the pre-Conquest estates of Earl Tostig, passed to the newly-founded Premonstratensian Abbey of Cockersand in the late 12th century.

A substantial group of 95 medieval deeds relating mostly to the Gore family.

Scott's account of the rediscovery of the Scottish Regalia, which were sealed up in 1707 by order of the Treasury Commissioners, and kept in a chest in the Crown Room of Edinburgh Castle, lest

A previously unrecorded drawing for the south and west elevations of the Court House.

The Gaugains were a dynasty of minor painters and engravers of French origin but established in London by the mid-18th century. The present collection of letters of Philip Augustus Gaugain fl.

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was Clarenceux King of Arms, an office he claimed to have acquired 'in jest' when he resigned it in 1725.

The letter-book contains copies of 87 of Pole's more important letters to popes, cardinals and sovereigns, including a moving letter written in 1541 after the execution of his mother, the Coun

A volume of autograph contemporary copies of letters by Andrew Lumisden, antiquary and Secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, for the year 1763.

These unpublished letters were part of the private collection of the late Paula Peyraud (b.

An original court-book for Brough and Winton, 1705-1839, and transcripts of custumals, including indentured agreements between Philip, Lord Wharton, and his customary tenants of the manor of Rave

A very early partly coloured map of part of the parish of Dormston, seen and copied by the Worcestershire antiquary Peter Prattinton in 1826, who described it as 'a very old rude map', an

The mostly typed letters, written to an admirer in response to his questions about Rebecca, are a good source of information on the characters and topography of Daphne du Maurier's most famous

Jeff Nuttall, artist, poet, jazz musician, social commentator and teacher, disposed of most of his papers but retained the present collection, which he called 'The 60s Box'.

An important addition to the Library's collection of early Scottish scientific papers, this manuscript, in a contemporary calf binding, includes sections on mathematics, law and astronomy, wit

The papers are divided into eleven groups, ten of them comprising the accumulations of title deeds and other estate records of the successive families who owned the Aberglasne Estate, beginning wi

Paul Nash (1889-1946) spent more time and care on his illustrations of Sir Thomas Browne's famous work, first published in 1658, than on any other of his book projects. The present copy, no.

Wesley's composition was completed in 1799, but it did not receive its first performance until 1826.