Summonte's care in preserving his correspondence on artistic matters with the Venetian Marcantonio Michiel resulted in a precious archive mined by art historians.

On that occasion the library and the precious archives of sacred music were scattered.

But the existence of her precious archive was unsuspected until a suitcase containing about 450 glass negatives was discovered during a house-clearance at Ripon in 1988.

The letter begging this simple boon is one of the most precious archives of the College.

These are working copies of plans, run off from the DNA masters held in the cell's precious archives.

Nearly half of his precious literary archive was seized by Russian customs inspectors as it was smuggled out of Moscow; the rest now sits in a museum basement in Amsterdam.

Therefore its cumulative issues constitute a precious historical archive.

Over 40 years, Willy Reetz was a member of the artists organization "Malkasten" and saved its precious archives during the war.

(he was soon to die of a heart attack at the early age of 50- it was also thanks to Eisenstein that much of Meyerkhold's precious archive was preserved ).