Collection of over 200 items, 75 being holograph. There are 40 scientific manuscripts including lectures and papers relating to Daltons discoveries, laboratory notes and meteorological observations
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1788 - 1844
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Translation by the Huguenot refugee de Rosemond. Presented by John Fuggles together with John Marsh: The great sin and danger of striving with God. A sermon preached against murder and suicide at the funeral of Lydia Beadle at Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 1783
Item date: 1712
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 7,350
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Possibly a proof copy of the extremely rare supressed edition, used by Halley as a working tool for his research. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 26,619
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Eleven volumes of manuscript music, including Duncan Burnetts book, a collection of 23 keyboard pieces by Scottish and English composers c.1600; Clement Matchetts book 1612, keyboard pieces containing amongst others the only known virginal piece by Willbye; Lady Jean Campbells book c.1635 of Scot
Item date: 1772 - 1885
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 576
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
The Yearly Meeting Advices of the Suffolk Society 1772-1858; a volume of minutes of meetings of the Suffolk Quarterly Meeting 1862-81 and a volume of minutes of ministers and elders of Woodbridge Monthly Meeting 1835 - 85.
Item date: 1374 - 1896
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 638
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Over 2000 items relating mainly to the Wyche family and their Norfolk estates; includes numerous bills for the services of tradesmen such as tailors, peruke makers and school masters
Item date: 1542-44
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 725
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire
Records proceedings of courts for manors formerly in the possession of Evesham Abbey, but distrained at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Item date: 17th - 20th century
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 120,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
Warwick Castle was granted to Fulke Greville in 1604; there are many court rolls of the manor and borough of Warwick; in 1642 the management of the familys considerable estates nationwide were amalgamated into a great series of account books that were continued in almost unbroken sequence into th
Item date: 1802- 1837
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 42,000
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
Amongst the collection are 31 letters dating from 1810 -12 between Mary and William Wordsworth, an early copy of the poem addressed to Sara Hutchinson by Coleridge published as Dejection: an Ode in the hand of MW and letters from Dorothy concerning the illness and death of the Wordsworths daughte
Item date: 1479
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Printed by William Caxton 24 March 1479. A religious treatise on the mutability of the world and the certainty of death. One of only three perfect copies known