The Paston Letters

Item author: Sir John Paston & other family members
Item date: 15th century
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 1600
Item cost pre-decimal: 3000
Item date acquired: 1933
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

155 letters, being the earliest part of the family archive now mostly at BL. Illustrated in plates II and III of AR. Add MSS 43488 - 43491

Item Provenance
Given by Sir John Fenn to George III who gave them to Bishop Tomline, whose descendants sold them to BL in this transaction
The largest surviving collection of 15th-century English correspondence. FNL grant to British Library 1993. Image by kind permission of British LIbrary.
The largest surviving collection of 15th-century English correspondence. FNL grant to British Library 1993. Image by kind permission of British LIbrary.