Box 1

Scope and Contents Includes a news release and photograph related to the Appleby Rose Garden at Bury St. Edmunds (enclosed with letter of December 6, 1956) as well as correspondence with publishers G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., regarding Appleby's books Henry II, The Vanquished King, England Without Richard, 1189-1199, and The Troubled Reign of King Stephen. Also contains another photograph, presumably featuring...

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Incomplete research notes (1962) by Appleby presumably used for England Without Richard, 1189-1199 as well as a final draft of the work with minor corrections (1965).

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"Vita Sancti Thomae," a biography on Archbishop of Canterbury and Saint Thomas Becket by William Fitzstephen, transcribed by Appleby with handwritten in-line translations. Also a full handwritten translation of the work, which was presumably never published.

Scope and Contents A typescript draft of "Henry, Son of the Empress," which would eventually become chapter 1 of Henry II, The Vanquished King.Also contains appendices presumably not published with the text: Appendix A: The Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164; Appendix B: The Assize of Clarendon, 1166; Appendix C: The Ten Ordinances, 1169; Appendix D: The Inquest of Sheriffs, 1170; Appendix E: The Assize of Northampton; Appendix F: The Assize of Arms, 1181;...

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Includes incomplete handwritten notes comparing two extant versions--MS Cotton Domitianus A. XIII, ff. 70r-87r (British Museum) and MS 339, ff. 25r-43v (Corpus Christi College)--of the chronicle of Richard of Devizes as well as transcriptions of their text, presumably used for The Chronicle of Richard of Devizes of the Time of King Richard the First.