As well as estate material from the middle ages, there are nationally important papers of the first Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor at the beginning of the 18th century; papers of the 2nd Viscount Melbourne and his wife Lady Caroline Lamb; correspondence of Lady Desborough, two holograph copies of Julian Grenfells poem Into Battle and the complete text for the definitive modern edition of the poem The Civil War by Abraham Cowley.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1280 - 1953
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: £50,000
Item cost: £500,000
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 16,250
Institution: Harris Public Library
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire
Collection also contains the working material for Meynells biography of Thompson. One of the 8 autograph note books contains the drafts of his most famous poem The Hound of Heaven
Item date: 1866 - 1960
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
Town/City: Smethwick
County: West Midlands
Includes cartoons of stained glass windows and other designs from various stages of the production process. Also includes a large number of g lass photgraphs, covering a variety of subjects such as landscape views to be used in designs or buildings for which windows had been commissioned
Item date: 1299 - 1907
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 675
Item cost: 2,700
Institution: Suffolk Archives
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
As well as the manorial deeds and rental books in this collection there are three court rolls for the special court known as the Hethewarmoot for 1422 - 1481.
Item date: 1440 - 1671
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 700
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Manorial rentals for the manor of Hollingrove in Brightling dated c.1440 and c.1550 and a bundle of court rolls of Lord Dacres manors of Herstmonceux, Gotham, Oldcourt, Buckholt and Berwick 1660 - 1671
Item date: 1579
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 1,800
Item cost: 3,600
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The only work printed by Giacomo Ruffinelli at Perugia, and the only known edition of Rastellis contribution to the reform of the outdated Julian Calendar, which by the 16th century was 10 days in arrears
Item date: 1599
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 5,175
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Translation into Latin of the Scottish mathematicians Astronomique discours, printed probably at Geneva by Jean de Tournes. One other copy known in the UK, at the library of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Item date: 1843 - 73
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 12,500
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Just over 250 letters written during the last 30 years of Landseers life to his friend and patron William Wells of Redleaf, Kent.
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 32,110
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
An archive of outstanding importance for the study of the pre-Raphaelite movement and of British 19th century art in general.
Item date: 1749 - 1906
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 200
Institution: Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Record Office
Town/City: Wigston Magna
County: Leicestershire
Title deeds relating chiefly to land in Belgrave but also land at Barrow on Trent in Derbyshire