Keene was Ambassador to Spain. Add MS 49621
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1752
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 15 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1599 - 1603
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 30
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Consists mainly of copies of royal warrants and letters of instruction from the Privy Council when Carey was Treasurer at War in Ireland. Sheds light on the period of the Tyrone rebellion. Add MS 49609
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The gift of a group of Conan Doyle enthusiastis in America together with the Sherlock Holmes Society of London to mark the centenary of CD's birth in 1959. Illustrated as plate I of AR. Add MS 50065
Item date: 1750-1790s
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by the British Records Association. A varied collection of family correspondence but with a portion related to the defence of the coasts of England and Ireland at a time when Townshend was Master-General of the Ordnance. Add MSS 50006 - 50012
Item date: 1199-1216
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Only Chartulary of the Abbey known to exist, the roll is over 20 ft in length and includes a catalogue of the library mentioning two books in English. Add MS 49996
Item date: 1420-1440
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 750
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Bought with 7 other manuscripts; 66 full page miniatures, style deriving from Van Eyck and his successors. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR. Add MSS 49999 - 50005
Item date: 1881
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Stoke on Trent College of Art
Town/City: Stoke-on-Trent
County: Staffordshire
Lecture delivered at Burslem Town Hall. Printed at the Chiswick Press using Morris' Golden type. Presented by EJ Nicol
Item date: 16th century
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Painted by an Italian artist; presented by TS Blakeney together with a collection of about 100 literary and political autographs of 19th and 20th centuries. Add MSS 49458, 49520
Item date: 1403
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A Gimson gave 40 towards the purchase of this manuscript
Item date: 1677
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Oxfordshire County Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Inscribed by RA Bathurst, Vice Chancellor of the University 1676. Presented by Group-Captain Arthur B Burdett