British Library, Manuscript Collections: 1995 Accessions

British Library, Manuscript Collections

• Sir Roy Harrod (1900-1978), economist and biographer of Keynes: corresp and papers
• John Evelyn (1620-1706) diary and personal papers, family papers 16th-19th cents
• J R R Tolkien (1892-1973), author: letters (49) to his grandson Michael Tolkien (Add 71567)
• Lord Grenville (1759-1834), statesman: papers 1796-1812 (Add71587-71596)
• William Fox: Heraldic and antiquarian collections 1774-77
• Samuel Butler (1612-1680), philosophical writer: notebook 1883-84 (Add 71695)
• Princess Charlotte Augusta (1796-1817), daughter of George IV: letters to Margaret Elphinstone 1811-17
• Book of Hours, use of Sarum, London c1380 (Add 71638)
• Book of Hours, use of Rome, England c1425 (Add 7169?)
• Sir Charles Newton (1819-1894), archaeologist, first Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum: letters
• W H Haines, official of the House of Lords: letters of politicians and peers mostly rel to the legislative business of the House 19th cent
• Katherine Manners, Duchess of Buckingham: financial papers 1627-35 (Add 71601 A)
• Sir Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), playwright: manuscript of Ross
• George William Chad (1784-1849), diplomat: papers while ambassador at Dresden 1826
• Anne Dawson, daughter of a Nonconformist minister of Rochdale: diary 1721-22 (Add 71626)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), poet: manuscripts of poems c1890, nd (Add 71870)
• Anna Wickham (1884-1947), poet: papers (Add 71877-71896)
• T S Eliot (1888-1963), poet and playwright: letter to Mrs Hans Kurath and papers rel to a translation of his Murder in the Cathedral (Add 71581 G, 71694)
• Admiral George Keith Elphinstone (1746-1823), Viscount Keith: papers 18th-19th cents
• George Barker (b1913), poet: notebooks (Add 71696-71699)
• Corresp rel to Ouida (Marie-Louise de La Ramde) (Add 71581 J)
• Society of Clerks of Assize: minute book 1678-1984 (Add 71659)
• Aldhelm (640?-709), bishop of Sherborne: two leaves of the earliest extant copy of his De Virginitate 9th cent Latin with 10th cent Old English gloss (Add 71687)
• Sir William Boothby (1638?-1707), 2nd Bt, of Ashbourne: diary and letterbooks, particularly rel to his book-collecting 1676-89 (Add 71689-71692)