Miss Corlass was the friend and correspondent of both John and his parents. Contains interesting information about Mrs Ruskin (JR's mother) and about his (John's) parents view of his marriage to Effie Gray
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1830 -63
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 40
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Item date: 1884 onwards
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
200 Letter Books from 1884 - 1930 containing copies of thousands of outgoing letters most of them by Herbert Thring, Secretary of the Society. Miscellaneous subject files dealing mostly with legal disputes and 1200 incoming letters from members of the Society.
Item date: 1137-1138
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
One of the most remarkable survivng documents of Stephens reign, written in the solemn elaborate language more usual in charters from before the Conquest. Has an added list of witnesses including the King, his wife Matilda and his son Eustance. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR.
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 650
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The novels in their original parts in this collection were used by Hatton and Cleaver for their Bibliography.
Item date: 1818
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 110
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Sir Thomas Phillipps's copy of Collections for Wiltshire. containing autograph corrections and genealogies.
Item date: 1865
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 20
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives, Tennyson Research Centre
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
Finely bound copy with a double fore-edge painting depicting Somersby Rectory and Tennyson's house near Freshwarer, Isle of Wight
Item date: 1740
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 75
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
One of three copies of this 32 page pamphlet known to survive. An attempt by Hume to justify and commend the Treatise in the face of misrepresentation and neglect
Item date: 1350-1400
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 250
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
Welsh manuscr ipt of 234 pages written on vellum containing a text of the Welsh Laws. Rubricated with one miniature and several decorative capital letters in red or blue. Illustrated as plate II of AR
Item date: 1801
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 110
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London
Presented by FONL together with a Persian Manuscript, The Akbar-namah an epic poem compsed by Hamid Allah of Kashmir, 1844, recounting the muder of Sir William MacNaughten, British envoy in Kabul 1841 and the subsequent loss of the British army during the retreat to Jellalabad.
Item date: 1770 - 1813
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 500
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London
84 volumes and 20 loose items. They relate almost entirely to the period of Malets service as first permanent Residence at Poona and includes official and private correspondence, drafts of letters, accounts and historical notes