3 quarto volumes. Manuscript also contains drafts of reviews and articles some of which, like Joseph Conrad appeared in The Common Reader. Add MSS 51044-51046. Illustrated as plate I of AR
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1923-24
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1587
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 600
Institution: Drake Museum
Town/City: Buckland Abbey
County: Devon
Includes Queen Elizabeths Letters Patent authorising the Cadiz expedition. H P Kraus gave 350 of the total grant
Item date: 1828
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library
231 drawings contained in 5 of the original 15 printed covers. 103 drawings were used in the published parts and later in the complete volume, 65 are alternative drawings that remained unused, 63 were not used or described. They are by Thomas Allport, RK Greville, Rebecca Miller and others.
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Correspondents include WH Frere and Christopher Wordsworth
Item date: 14th & 15th centuries
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 150
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
Court rolls, rental notices, and various deeds regarding the property of the Dering family in Kent
Item date: 1677-90
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
In a letter to Danby December 2nd 1688, Compton described the escape of Princess Anne to Nottingham
Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A fascinating record of exceptionally early date of a minor secular landowner. Add MS 54228
Item date: 1656-57
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The only surviving Minute book of the Committee for Discoveries, one of the many such committees set up by the Long Parliament in a desperate attempt to finance their war against the King. Add MS 54198
Item date: 1750
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 250
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham
About 800 pages of very varied material including notes for a second edition, never published, of the Original Theory of New Hypothesis of the Universe, plus astronomical tables and drawings of star maps
Item date: 1400
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 35
Institution: York Minster Archives
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire
In unusually good and complete condition. 19 initials illuminated in red, pink, organge, yellow, blue and green, with a generous quantity of gold and a little silver. MS Add 115