300 letters are from Oates to his mother, the remaining 100 notes of condolence to Mrs Oates from her sons friends. The letters build up a convincing picture of an extraordinarily attractive personality
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1899 - 1910
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A fine representative selection of what were then contemporary composers works which had hitherto been lacking at the BL. Add MSS 59797 - 59814
Item date: 1713
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Presented by John Ehrman, this is one of some 557 items which formed the Broxbourne collection of type specimens and books of typographical interest. The type specimens were listed in The Book Collector for 1956.
Item date: 1200
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
In a magnificent jewelled binding from Trier (illustrated as frontispiece to AR) Presented by John Ehrman in memory of his father Albert Ehrman, creator of the Broxbourne Library, together with some 2,000 other examples of fine bindings one hundred manuscripts and approximately one hundred incuna
Item date: 1290
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 5,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A counter roll or check list kept by the Controller of the Wardrobe to monitor accounts of the Keeper. Lists expenses of the Royal Household of Edward I and Queen Eleanor. Purchased in memory of TS Blakeney, including 100 bequeathed by him and 100 donated by his friends
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 137
Item cost: 550
Institution: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Includes memorandum book of Edmund Morton Pleydell, a memorandum book of tithes for Milbourne 1807 - 13, correspondence with George IV and some two hundred letters between members of the family at home and abroad from 1760s to 1860s.
Item date: 1510 - 1825
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 2,057
Institution: Bristol Record Office
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon
270 items, mostly from the first half of the 17th century, relating to the activities of Thomas Smyth landowner and Royalist MP for Bridgwater in the period leading up to the Civil War.
Item date: 1649-53
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 42
Item cost: 169
Institution: Surrey History Centre
Town/City: Woking
County: Surrey
Comprises accounts for the repair and building work carried out by the Earl of Warwick who was Naval commander for Parliament throughout the Civil War. The house was famous for having the first Orange House in England.
Item date: 13th - 16th centuries
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 43
Item cost: 171
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
The late 13th century charter is a grant of land in Little Oxendon (a deserted medieval village). The Easter Books are of Brington 1585 -86 and are early examples of detailed accounts of one aspect of a rectors income
Item date: 1455
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 39
Item cost: 156
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Grant of lands by John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lyhert Bishop of Norwich and others to the Great Hospital Norwich