A volume of tracts containing nearly 50 poems in German or Latin on the death of leading citizens of Augsburg and othe related material. An important source of historical and biograhical information on one of 18th century Germanys leading commercial centres
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1711 - 1777
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: £920
Item cost: £920
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1790 - 1832
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 115,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
An important addition to the Mackintosh papers already held by the BL, containing autograph letters from Pitt, Fox, Perceval, Canning, Thomas Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Godwin, Malthus, James Mill and ST Coleridge
Item date: 17th & 18th Centuries
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 6,373,820
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Includes material concerning the dispute with Leibnitz over priority in the invention of the calculus
Item date: 1766 - 1772
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 338
Item cost: 1345
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Includes one hitherto unknown ms. The collection is of significance for the detailed descriptions of Cornish minerals and for information on Borlases important correspondents & contacts
Item date: 1264
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 883
Item cost: 883
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
A grant of land by Robert de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby with seal on its original silk cords. Presented by FONL; illustrated on p37 of AR
Item date: 12th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 250,000
Institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
As well as the usual series of title deeds & estate papers there are 2 letters from Sterne, naval log books & orders, 3 vols of London port books, plus fine collection of architectural drawings by Robert Adam Thomas Chippendale and James Wyatt amonst others. Illustrated on p52 of AR
Item date: 1903
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 630
Item cost: 1900
Institution: Walsall Local History Centre
Town/City: Walsall
County: West Midlands
Jerome was born in Walsall & there is a museum about him there. Illustrated in p 50 of AR
Item date: 1712
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 410
Item cost: 410
Institution: Stevenage Museum
Town/City: Stevenage
County: Hertfordshire
Jane Wenham was the last woman to be condemned to death for witchcraft in England - she was later pardoned by Queen Anne. Presented by FONL
Item date: 1868-73
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 500
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
Architectural watercolour of his design for a country house for the lawyer, later Lord Chancellor, Sir Roundell Palmer. Illustrated on p46 of AR; presented by FONL
Item date: 1892
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: Merton College
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Essays on ancient historical & philosophical subjects plus lecture notes and 9 full page pen and ink cartoons, plus other thumbnail sketches of Merton dons