Detailed family history covering the lifetime of the authors father (1787-1862) with details of the china clay industry he began near St Austell in 1831. Illustrated with watercolours, photographs prints and printed notices
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1864-5
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 200
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Item date: 1843
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 700
Institution: Derbyshire Library Service
Town/City: Matlock
County: Derbyshire
Also included in the sale was Briggs journal 1855 - 1875 relating to Melbournes natural history. (Briggs founded The Naturalist column in The Field in 1855)
Item date: 13th century - 1482
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 3,480
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
29 medieval deeds of Ludlow, 60 of Shropshire more generally; all seem to have been hitherto unknown
Item date: 1820 - 1855
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Eton College Library
Town/City: Eton
County: Berkshire
15 school text books published between 1820 and 1854, used by Sir Joseph while at Eton, 30 leaving books from his tutor another master and other boys at the school and 20 prizes won between 1849 and 1855. Presented by Sir Edward Warner
Item date: 1639 - 1658
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
254 issues running in date mainly from 1642 to 1649 and from July to November 1658. Contents are mainly political news and public events of the sort that could be published without government interferance or private resentment
Item date: 1610-1620
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Play is based loosely on the first part of Richard Johnsons short Arthurian novel Tom a Lincoln (1599) but with an added clown figure Rusticano.
Item date: 1762
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Seventh edition. Presented with six other books by John Fuggles
Item date: 1535
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Fine copy of the first French Protestant Bible in its original binding and with the title page and preliminary leaves often removed to delude officialdom and prevent confiscation
Item date: 1875
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
Published in the London Magazine November 1875, but never reprinted. Presented by Christopher Dobson, grandson of the poet
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 111,500
Institution: Gilbert White's House
Town/City: Selborne
County: Hampshire
Gives new insight into the way White worked up personal letters into a form suitable for publication