Early autograph album of the Scots diplomat Sir Michael Balfour. Includes the signatures of James VI, Henry Prince of Wales, and Christian IV of Denmark with a series of watercolour sketches of scenes and characters in Padua and Venice
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1596 - 1610
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 450
Item cost: 4,200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Item date: 1908 - 1939
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,800
Institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex
41 Letters from Virginia Woolf with 14 from her brother Adrian Stephen and two from her other brother Toby
Item date: 1589
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 3000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
A record of the examination under torture of the printers of the Marprelate tracts, written in a rapid cursive hand with numerous deletions and additions. Signed on every page by the commissioners and Symmes, Tamlin making a mark only - eloquent testimony to what was being done to him
Item date: 1646
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 250
Institution: Bible Society
Town/City: Swindon
County: Wiltshire
Small 12mo in original binding, the earliest Bible published by the Stationers Company
Item date: 1870
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
Presented by CER Clarabut together with Park: Letters from Ladysmith, 1901 and Palliser: Historic Devices, Badges and War-Cries
Item date: 1811
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
Four page satirical pamphlet written during the Peninsula War and probably printed on an Army travelling press. Presented by John Ehrman
Item date: 1742
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Miss Squires method involved dividing up the night sky into over a million small quadrants, the stars located in each then having to be learnt by heart.
Item date: early 15th century
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,750
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Also contains Adam of Eynshams life of St Hugh of Lincoln. The MS was written in an English Charterhouse, probably that of London whose ex libris inscription dating from the early 16th century appears on the flyleaf
Item date: 1549
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Printed at Paris. Presented by CER Clarabut
A Comparative View of the Public Finances from the Beginning to the Close of the Late Administration
Item date: 1803
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by John Ehrman, together with two pamphlets: Report from the Committee appointed to Examine the Physicians who have attended His Majesty during his illness, 1789, and An Account of a Conversation between the Rt. Hon. Edm Burke and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Gibson, 1807