They are being protected well: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/i...protection.htm

And, getting them online for all to use before they are "worn out"/time destroys them has helped me no end. I've been studying my 3rd great grand aunt, Harriet, (1755-1813) and she had a female business partner, they owned/taught school together in and around London, Margaret Leech, who wrote a book of poems after Harriet died, dedicated them to Harriet (through their former students) and have been a wonderful resource for me (Margaret wrote my 4th great grandmother's will for her, which I have a copy of from the National Archives in the UK and Harriet left her most of her stuff in her own will and I have Margaret's will, etc.). I'm very grateful to the University of California, Davis for preserving her work and putting them online, both! It is so rare, they aren't elsewhere and experts I have consulted have no clue as to Margaret, I probably know more about her than anyone! That couldn't happen before.

http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/proje...leecmpoems.htm