2 letters of Charles Darwin to --, about his correspondent's experiments on phloxes and mimuli. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 17 June 1969, lots 438, 439 Creation dates: 1849
2 letters of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, to Francis Drake, British Envoy Extraordinary to the Elector of Bavaria, and (with his right hand) to General Comte Wallis, commander of the Austrian Army on the Italian mainland. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28-29 April 1969, lots 307, 308 Creation dates: 28...
Literary correspondence between Maria Edgeworth, her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, in Edgeworthstown, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld in Stoke Newington. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 23 June 1969, lot 186 Creation dates: 1799 - 1823
Edward Young, 'The Brothers'. Copy with autograph (?) corrections. The play was printed in 1753, but rehearsed as early as 1726 Creation dates: Circa 1730
Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards Piozzi; 'The Children's Book or rather Family Book begun 17 Sept 1766', continued to the end of 1768. Largely unpublished. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 23 June 1969, lot 174 Creation dates: 17 Sept 1766 - 1768
Elizabethan Poetry and Drama: 'A Register of all the noble men of England sithence the Conquest created', the names and arms (mostly in blazon, a few in trick) of all peers down to the Earl of Essex (1572), with the addition of the Earl of Nottingham (1597), with, at the beginning and end, a syn...