Letters detail the progress at Christ Church of Sidney's younger brother Robert and House Politics. The letters provide valuable evidence on the State of the House at this period
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1575
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 75
Institution: Christ Church, University of Oxford
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Item date: 1791
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Printed by Bodoni in a luxury binding , almost certainly commissioned by James Edwards of Pall Mall, by Staggemeier and Welcher. Citron morocco inlaid with black and red tooled in gilt. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
Item date: 1866
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A pamphlet dealing with the death of Bulkley Samuel Young in August 1866. Presented by TS Blakeney together with a n obituary brochure about John Doncaster Hoyland, killed in the Alps in 1934
Item date: late 12th century
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 200
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
Fine folio manuscript in double column written in an early Gothic hand with decorated large initial letters in red or blue. Bound by Hering in russia, gilt
Item date: 1885-1910
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 100
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Spielmann was editor of The Magazine of Art. Collection contains 52 letters from Ford Madox Brown, 80 from Watts, 13 from Holman Hunt, 103 from Frith and 21 from William Michael Rossetti
Item date: 1639
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Large illuminated initial opens the document with a half length portrait of Charles I painted in colours and enclosed in a yellow baroque frame. Presented by WL Wood
Item date: 1818
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Numbers 1 - 17 of this rare Irish periodic al, containing politcal articles plus original poems, comments on contemporary literature and a regular column on the theatre
Item date: 1625
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 178 10s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The binding on this book, with a posthumous portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, appears to be the earliest English trade binding designed to cover copies of a particular book
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
First edition of the Laws of the Island after it came into British possession in 1655, plus a short account of the Island and a map. 50 donation was given by Arthur Gimson
Item date: 1938-44
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Manuscripts of 45 poems, four with interesting marginal comments by TS Eliot, the original MS of his War Diary (published as From Alamein to Zem Zem) and a large number of drawings, paintings and sketches. Add MSS 53773 - 53776