70 letters and postcards mainly relating to Cockerell and Millars shared passion for illuminated manuscripts. Add MS 58212
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1920 - 1962
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 260
Item cost: 260
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1588-9
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 350
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
82 coloured coats of arms taken by Leighe from the stained-glass of All Hallows Church, Northampton, which was destroyed by fire in 1675. Hitherto the heraldry was known only in an uncoloured, undated version in the BL and Bodleian
Item date: 1873
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 500
Institution: Lincoln Central Library, Tennyson Research Centre
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
An early draft of the later version of the poem, published in 1873 with numerous textual variants
Item date: 1180 - 1399
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
31 deeds, mostly grants of lands with many good seals still intact. 14 of the deeds relate to the Waleran family from the Uffculme area
Item date: 1690s - 1790s
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 500
Institution: Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Town/City: Belfast
County: Antrim
The letters contain much information, political and social, about England and Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Item date: 1645
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 60
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: Westminster Abbey
Town/City: London
Evidently produced for John Williams, Dean of Westminster and Archbishop of York.
Item date: 1428
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A memorandum of the observances at Beckets shrine written by two monks of Christ Church Canterbury, who were guardians of the shrine. Gives an overall picture of the cult of the saint with attendant religious and tourist industries
Item date: 1805 -48
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Includes eight poems by Byron composed in the period 1812-15, She Walks in Beauty among them described as Lines written by Lord Byron after seeing Mrs Wilmot at Lansdowne House). Presented by RG Powell in memory of Frank and Hilda Gordon. Add MS 58802
Item date: 18th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library, Taylor Institution
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Presented by Dr Theodore Besterman for the newly founded Voltaire Room in the Institution together with 367 French plays of the mid and late 18th century, plus the first four collected editions of the Works totalling 156 volumes.
Item date: 1881 - 83
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 40
Item cost: 55
Institution: The Ruskin, Lancaster University (grant awarded to The Ruskin Galleries, I of Wight, and that collection is now owned by The Ruskin).
Town/City: Lancaster
County: Lancashire
Two letters to W Marshall appear to have been addressed to the architect of the extensions Ruskin made to Brantwood. Other recipient unknown