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
Search FNL grants since 1931
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
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
Item date: 2000
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 700
Item cost: 2,800
Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University, Library
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Edition limited to 45 copies with 5 artists proofs; the library owns 13 of Campbells 25 books to date in this genre
Item date: 16th & 17th centuries
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Contains papers of Selden and Hale, the latters work on magnestism as well as legal papers
Item date: 1721-23
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: £350
Item cost: £350
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
Accounts of the executrix of the estate of Dr Thomas Tooke. The accounts present an interesting picture of the finances of an early 18th century school & the economy of Bishops Stortford. Presented by FNL.
Item date: 1792-1882
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 25,000
Item cost: 129,500
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Includes letters from Bewick, Peel, Cox, Fuseli, Malthus, Wilkie Collins, Wilberforce, Millais, and Constable, much correspondence from Samuel Palmer, together with Linnells journals, cash books & autobraph autobiography.
Item date: 1903
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 248
Item cost: 248
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Detailed inventory of Hares extensive collections at the time of his death with details of bequests. Presented by FONL