English literature and history : Including the letter to Queen Elizabeth I instructing her Admiral, Howard of Effingham, to put to sea against the Spanish Armada; correspondence of Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia and her family; a fine collection of printed eighteenth-century English literature; the archive of the Lamb family of Melbourne Hall; books and fine bindings from the Library of the Duke of Wellington; a series of letters by John Ruskin about Rose La Touche; a collection of books and manuscripts by or relating to Oscar Wilde; books and papers from the family library of Gerard Manley Hopkins; books and papers of Samuel Beckett from the collection of John Calder; a collection of the earliest English Sale catalogues (catalogue of an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1990)