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British Library, Manuscript Collections: 2018 Accessions
British Library, Manuscript Collections
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- Hawksworth family of Farnley, Yorkshire: ms transcripts of family papers compiled by Walter Fawkes 1663-1668 (Add MS 89332)
- Powell family of Berkshire, Hampshire and Gloucestershire: family papers 1792-1990 (Add MS 89307)
- Charles Bacon (1784-1818), architect: architectural notebooks 1810-1817 (Add MS 89351)
- E T Bagley (fl 1875-1900): journal of a tour to Germany, incl pen and ink sketches 1888 (Add MS 89361)
- J H Barland (fl 1873), army officer: travel journal and commonplace book c1873 (Add MS 89359)
- James Berry (1924-2017), poet: papers c1901-2000 (Add MS 89353)
- Sarah Bunney (fl 1969-2015), scientist: working papers 1969-2015 (Add MS 89312)
- Henry Bynner (1773-1867), British Vice-Consul: account and letter books for the consulate of Trieste 1818-1833 (Add MS 89331)
- Lant Carpenter (1780-1840), Unitarian minister: 'Essay on the Association of Ideas, Glasgow College' 1801 (Add MS 89322)
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), poet, novelist and critic: poems, drawings and letters to Enid Mary Simon (1907-1991) 1917-1929 (Add MS 89336)
- Richard James Church (b1862), railway engineer, British East Africa and West Africa: diary extracts and letters, incl corresp with his wife, Christine 'Cissie' Master (b1877) and their children, and misc family papers c1896-1928 (Add MS 89338)
- John Theobald Clarke (1926-2013), director, producer, screenwriter and actor: collection of Graham Greene material c1953-1990 (Add MS 89295)
- William Hart Coleridge (1789-1849), Bishop of Barbados: papers incl corresp rel to the bishopric in Barbados 1820-1840 (Add MS 89334)
- William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), novelist and playwright: 'Portrait of a Young Person' ms extract from 'The Dead Secret', 1858 (Add MS 89341)
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), Baroness Burdett Coutts, philanthropist: letters (64), incl corresp with her husband, William Lehman Ashmead Burdett-Coutts, (1851-1921), politician 1846-1907 (Add MS 89321)
- Mary Ann Cross (1819-1880), novelist and poet: draft ms essay 'Notes on the Spanish Gypsy and Tragedy in General' c1868 (Add MS 89340)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Knight, author, physician and criminologist: autograph mss of Brigadier Gerard stories 1894-1895 (Add MS 89337)
- F Edwards (fl 1940), of north London: Second World War diary 1940 (Add MS 89362)
- Hannah Fenwick (1782-1801), poet: 'Miscellanies in Verse' 1796-1799 (Add MS 89324)
- Beryl Foster (fl 1968-1979), publisher and activist: archive, incl material rel to Notting Hill Press Ltd. 1968-2017 (Add MS 89305)
- Henry Reginald Holland Hall (1873-1930), Egyptologist: letters (29) to his friend Frank G Gordon (b1875) 1897-1930 (Add MS 89342)
- W Hearn (fl 1879-1880), diarist: diary of a tour to Italy 1879-1880 (Add MS 89360)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013), novelist: papers c1927-2000 (Add MS 89348)
- Charles Ritchie Kinnear (fl 1837-1855), naval surgeon: log book while on board HMS Rodney during the Crimean War 1853-1855 (Add MS 89303)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), author: ms draft of chapters 6-7 of 'Kim' c1900 (Add MS 89339)
- William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931), architect and historian: corresp rel to research into the history and construction of the Hagia Sophia, and Egyptian antiquities 1894-1907 (Add MS 89346)
- Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), member of London County Council, and official hostess to Ramsey MacDonald: papers c1900-1982 (Add MS 89304)
- Charlotte Malkin (fl 1794-1840), diarist and wife of Benjamin Heath Malkin, schoolmaster and antiquary: diary of a tour in Holland 1816 (Add MS 89328)
- Alfred Ogle Maskell (1845-1912), art historian and photographer: diary incl brief extracts from the diary of his father, William Maskell (1814-1890) 1861-1911 (Add MS 89315)
- Anthony John Charles Meyer (1920-2004), 3rd Baronet, MP: papers incl corresp rel to challenging Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) for the leadership of the Conservative Party 1983-2005 (Add MS 89310)
- Herbert Reginald Norbury (1876-1967), officer Royal Navy: naval log-book 1892-1895 (Add MS 89299)
- Frederick North (1766-1827), 5th Earl of Guilford: news of Europe, collection of political reports 1740 (Add MS 89320)
- Alan Penn (b1926), author: unpublished typescripts 2009 (Add MS 89355)
- David Plenderleath (fl 1750-1770), merchant: journals 1751-1771 (Add MS 89325)
- Samuel Prout (1783-1852), water colour painter: mss of 'Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition etc' c1801-1825 (Add MS 89358)
- John Purdy (1773-1843), hydrographer: corresp, with lieut John Evans (fl 1828-1835), Royal Navy, and lieut Bisschop Greevelink (fl 1837-1838), Dutch Royal Navy, rel to observations, charts and views for publication or incorporation in future editions of his charts and sailing instructions 1828-1838 (Add MS 89301)
- John Alan Redwood (b 1951), Conservative Party politician, MP for Wokingham: diaries 2006-2017 (Add MS 89308)
- Norman Sherry (b1935), author, professor of literature, biographer of Graham Greene: papers rel to The Life of Graham Greene Volume One: 1904-1939 1988-1989 (Add MS 89297)
- Peter Sterry (1613-1672), independent theologian and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell: �Severall discours�s of Mr Peter Sterry� c1650-1672 (Add MS 89319)
- Herbert Watney (1843-1932), physician: diary of a journey in China 1913-1914 (Add MS 89300)
- Joyce Watney (fl 1875-1900), diarist and daughter of Norman Watney, director of brewery firm Watney & Co Ltd: ms diary c1875-1900 (Add MS 89361)
- Luttrell Wynne (1739-1814), rector of St Erne: journals recording a tour across northern England and Scotland, incl sketches 1772 (Add MS 89333)
- Maggs Bros Ltd, antiquarian booksellers, London: archive 1881-1979 (Add MS 89311)
- US-UK Fulbright Commission: records 1945-2014 (Add MS 89316)
- Museum of Garden History: archive c1901-2000 (Add MS 89296)
- Oral History Society (OHS): records 1961-2009 (Add MS 89318)
- Women's Football Association: archive 1969-1993 (Add MS 89306)
- MS 'The daily and Monthly Pay of the Officers of ye Army, and of the Traine of Artillery under the Comand of his Excellency the Earle of Essex� 1643 (Add MS 89326)
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Southwark Hours'), with illumination attributed to the 'Ravenelle Master' c1390-1410 (Add MS 89309)
- Diary of an English governess in Russia 1850-1855 (Add MS 89329)
- MS of customs and proceedings of the Minstrels' court at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, with three addresses on music 1776 (Add MS 89350)
- Pre-Raphaelite autograph letters, incl corresp from Ford Maddox Brown (1821-1893), William Henry Hunt (1790-1864), William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Arthur Hughes (1831-1915) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) 1865-1900 (Add MS 89327)
- Unnamed diarist: journal of a continental tour 1815-1816 (Add MS 89302)
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