• Acquired for £47,475 on Wednesday 12 June

The British Library has this week acquired one of just three journals kept by W H Auden. The journal, which provides a fascinating juxtaposition of personal and political preoccupations, gives an intimate insight into Auden during one of the most important periods in his life. Used by the celebrated poet between August and November 1939, the unpublished journal has been in private hands since Auden’s death in 1973 until last month when it was unearthed and put up for auction by Christie’s.

• Published on Wednesday 12 June 2013

This week the British Library publishes The Charleston Bulletin Supplements, Virginia Woolf’s last known unpublished work. Announced earlier this year by the Library, the Supplements reveal a unique collaboration between the celebrated writer during her most prolific years and her young nephew, Quentin Bell, in the form of a family newspaper produced between 1923 and 1927.