| Description | 1. 31 Oct 1950 Letter from the research laboratory, British Museum, London, to Miss Talbot, thanking her for a visit to Lacock. Enclosed were two brass clips from the Magna Carta case.
2. 11 Nov 1944 Cutting from the Wiltshire Times "A national treasure: Lacock handed to National Trust". The article quotes part of Lord Esher's speech: in it the he said that "in Tudor times Sir Thomas Cherrington had built a house" [it was in fact Sir William Sharington].
3. Oct 1945 Photograph of the Magna Carta by Percy Harris, when it was on show in the hall at Lacock.
4. (Sep 1965) Cutting from the Daily Telegraph about the Magna Carta being flown to America to be displayed in Washington and Atlanta. The 1225 Magna Carta was taken to St. Paul's Cathedral in June for the service commemorating the 750th anniversary of the sealing of the 1215 Magna Carta.
5. 4 pages of handwritten text for the "presentation of the Lacock Magna Carta" to the Library of Congress in Washington and 6 pages of the same typed version. It mentions the presence of Miss Talbot at the ceremony, underlining that she generously presented the 1225 Lacock Magna Carta to the British Museum.
6. The British Museum Quarterly, volume XVI No. 1, dated 1951. With a photograph of the Lacock Abbey Magna Carta in the frontispiece and the first chapter dedicated to it. Inside the British Museum Quarterly
6a. Typescipt extracts from "An Historical Essay on the Magna Carta of King John by Richard Thomson [1829], with translation of the 1225 Magna Carta.
7. Programme of the installation of the Lacock Magna Carta in the library of Congress, 15 Dec 1946: on the cover is a photograph of the Great Seal, and one of the Magna Carta itself inside, with the detail of the programme of the day, followed by the story of the Lacock Magna Carta on the back.
8. Translation of the Magna Carta of King John, from an original in the British Museum.
9. Transcription of the 1215 Magna Carta, from an original in the British Museum.
10. 31 May 1945 Letter from John Fardyke, director and principal librarian of the British museum, to Miss Talbot about the gift of the Magna Carta and confirming arrangements to have it collected.
11. 23 Oct 1947 Letter to Miss Talbot from E G Millar at the British Museum sending her a facsimile of the Lacock Abbey re-issue of the Magna Carta.
12. 14 Sep 1965 Letter from N Evans at the Public Record Office to Anthony Burnett-Brown giving details about their copy of Henry III's reissue of the Magna Carta.
13. 16 Jul 1945 Leaflet reprinted from the Times about the Magna Carta in its final form and encouraging people to follow Matilda Talbot's example by giving historical documents to national repositories to keep. |