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Sepia toned photograph showing Uncle Viccy, Pat (inside car) and an unknown woman [possibly Arve], posed around a car. Annotated on reverse 'Phone 6/30'

A handmade Valentine's card, featuring both a typewritten poem and a manuscript message. Ruth Clemo has added manuscript contextual notes, including the date and a note that it was the 'last one ever', as Jack Clemo died on 25 July 1994.

[This is a free-swimming “sea-lily” (Crinoidea), probably Antedon. The weed seems to be a young Laminaria frond.]

[Fresh water bryozoan, with pictures of larval stages and ‘statoblasts’: disc-like resting stages from which new individuals develop.]

[Almost certainly Plumatella repens (Linnaeus, 1758).]

[This may not even be an animal]

Dr Segers identifies them as: (top right and lower left) two Macrochaetus collinsi, dorsal and lateral views; and three illustrations of Beauchampiella eudactylota; one dorsal, swimming; one lateral and one dorsal, contracted view.

[ Dr Hendrik Segers has identified them as follows. Centre: two Seison species. Left bottom: a Colurella species. Left top: a Dicranophoridae, probably Encentrum. Right bottom: a Synchaeta species. Right centre: Brachionus species. Top: Testudinella…

Photograph of man putting up the University of Exeter nameplate after the Charter was awarded in 1955.

Image from the 1971 University of Exeter campus development plan by Sir William Holford.

Photograph includes David Harrison (VC), Rev V White (Lazenby chaplain), John Stirling (University Librarian) and F Oliver (Marshall).

Manuscript letter proving an insight into everyday life on board of the troopship. Also including the poems 'Embarkation' and 'Island for Sale'.

Manuscript letter from a port providing an insight into aspect of his life in the army, censorship and how the British empire was perceived by the local population. Also mentioning the distance and the difficulties of communication by letter with his…

Sepia toned photograph of Uncle Viccy. [Prince Victor of Cooch-Behar]

Photograph of two students viewing the University of Exeter charter, 1955

Transcripts of 120 letters of the poet John Jarmain to his wife Beryl, with whom he regularly corresponded after travelling to North Africa and South Italy during the Second World War. The letters are dated from 17 June 1942 to 04 November 1943.…