10 of the letters were unpublished at the time of purchase. Eight were written to his sister Nanci, two to her husband Camille Pal and two to his uncle Flix Marmion. They touch on concerts he is giving, his opinion of Liszts conducting as well as more personal feelings for Harriet Smithson
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1837-1855
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 250
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Item date: 1718
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A map of the Kingdom of Slavonia and the Duchy of Syrmia drawn after the signing of the Peace of Passarowitz, 1718, to depict territories annexed to the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the Turks. Presented by Arthur Gimson
Item date: 1818-1828
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 25
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A collection of 48 plans of towns in Scotland engraved or lithographed on large scales. The plans give the names of property owners and indications of land use. Very rare, no other copy known in an English library, four only in Scotland
Item date: 1853-8
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
Presented by L McCormick-Goodhart with a holograph of Hotel Continental by Arthur Symons c.1924
Item date: late 14th century
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 100
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
4 leaves from the same Book of Hours, illuminated in the tradition of Niccolo di Bologna, were already in the possession of BL, donated by Professor Francis Wormald in 1943.
Item date: 1701 - 5
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 50
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Merchant trading voyages to India via Grand Canary, to Oporto and to Jamaica via Madeira with much interesting detail of local conditions
Item date: 1745-6
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 300
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Fine example of a mosaic binding of white calf elaborately decorated with inlays of red blue green and citron morocco. Tooled doublures of red morocco and blue silk endpapers by Jacques-Antoine Derome the Elder. Illustrated as colour frontispiece of AR
Item date: 1558
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Printed by Paulus Manutius son of Aldus, at Venice. Bound in a leaf of a late medieval religious musical manuscript. Presented by WL Wood
Item date: 1770
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
10 vellum pages, coat of arms emblazoned in full colour; a fine example of a legal document of the Holy Roman Empire. Presented by WL Wood