As well as estate material from the middle ages, there are nationally important papers of the first Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor at the beginning of the 18th century; papers of the 2nd Viscount Melbourne and his wife Lady Caroline Lamb; correspondence of Lady Desborough, two holograph copies of Julian Grenfells poem Into Battle and the complete text for the definitive modern edition of the poem The Civil War by Abraham Cowley. Illustrated at p.30 of AR
Item Provenance
Deposited by the family in 1953, acquired by private treaty