HENRY VIII. Secretariat document signed by Henry VIII, to the Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Lord Windsor, asking him to provide livery for six of the King's sackbut players. Includes Royal Signet seal. Creation date: 1533.
ORWELL, George. Autograph letter signed, to Anthony Powell. Written from 'the Cotswold Sanatorium'. Refers to the forthcoming publication of 1984 'in May or June, which doubtless means July'. Creation date: 2 February 1949.
MACLEAN, Sir Fitzroy (1911-1996). Professional and personal papers (1827-1996) of Scottish soldier, diplomat, politician, author and traveller. Creation dates: 1827-1996.
Bound together: 1. GORDON, Sir Alexander. Eleven autograph letters signed to Lady Bathurst, giving eye-witness accounts of the 1812 Peninsular Campaign. 2. WELLESLEY, Arthur, First Duke of Wellington. Thirty-five autograph letters signed (1819-50) to Lord, Lady Bathurst, and Lady Georgina Bath...
SASSOON, Siegfried. Thirty-one autograph letters signed (1935-67) to Edmund Blunden, and autograph poems (3 sheets). DOUGLAS, Keith. Sixteen autograph letters and airgraphs signed (1942-43) to Edmund Blunden, and typed and autograph poems (5 sheets). From the papers of Edmund Blunden. Creatio...
[LIDGBIRD COMMONPLACE BOOK]. 'Daily Observations and Meditations'. Manuscript commonplace book on paper, in a single but slightly varying hand: an assembly of English literary extracts from more than ninety printed books. Creation dates: c 1660-65.
SPENCER, Charles (Earl of Sunderland). Three letters to Charles Spencer, two of which are copies of letters sent to him by Col. Sharp ('President of the Council of Barbadoes') relating to 'the present disorders'; the third is a letter from four Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations introd...