Sanders was one of the founders of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This letter refers to the rage for railroads that is becoming so great that many will be laid in areas where they will not pay
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1824
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 30
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library
Item date: 1545
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 500
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library
First edition, printed at Agen; a fine example of French provincial printing in a 19th century blue morocco binding with elaborate doublures, richly gilt
Item date: 1506
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 125
Item cost: 190
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
The deed appoints trustees of lands, out of the profits of which they are to appoint a priest to say Mass daily for Sir John Percyvale and Dame Thomasine, his wife. He is also to keep a grammar school in a house newly built for the purpose. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: King's College London
Town/City: London
7000 volumes, many of them annotated by Liddell Hart , which were used to form the nucleus of the Centre for Military Archives at Kings College.
Item date: 1860 - 1880
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
Contains contributions to magazine of 1860s and 1870s, and some unpublished immature work. Presented by CSA Dobson
Item date: 1847
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
A remarkable literary document of the Chartist Movement, written in Stafford Jail where Cooper was imprisoned on charges arising out of the riots of 1842. This is the second editionl issued in penny parts. Presented by John Ehrman
Item date: 1815
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
Map 54 x 66cm , prepared by a Belgian engineer WB Craan, engraved by G Jackowick. Presented by Lord Kenyon
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 1,600
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London
The pamphlets reflect the concerns of the East India Company between 1784 and 1858. Those by Francis carry his annotations
Item date: 18th & 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 11,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Includes important correspondence with Lord Grey at the time of the Reform Bill crisis
Item date: 1399-1413
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 1,815
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
This manuscript is the most important source for the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in England.