Gwyneth Lewis is the first National Poet of Wales. This material includes her earliest poems and writings and documents her development as a writer, up until the mid 1980s. The archive also contains material relating to Sunbathing in the Rain and correspondence over a long period.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: to mid 1980s
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £4,000
Item cost: £37,000
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
Item date: 1692
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £2,750
Item cost: £2,750
Only 34 copies are known of the 5th (2nd illustrated) edition of Paradise Lost , and its acquisition completes the Milton's Cottage Trust 's collection of 17th century editions of this work.
Item date: 1638
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £75,000
Institution: Milton's Cottage Trust
Town/City: Chalfont St Giles
County: Buckinghamshire
Lycidas first appeared in this memorial volume of 36 poems, the outpouring of Cambridge University's grief at the death of Edward King of Christ's College, drowned at sea in 1637.
Item date: 1820
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £80,000
Institution: Keats House
Town/City: London
John Keats (1795-1821) wrote this passionate letter to his fiancée Frances (Fanny) Brawne (1800-1865) in March 1820, when he was housebound in Hampstead with tuberculosis, and Fanny Brawne was living in the property adjoining Wentworth Place. The letter movingly demonstrates the intensity of t
Item date: 1532-1555
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £7,500
Item cost: £188,750
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
The celebrated Colonna Missal was commissioned by Cardinal Pompeo di Girolamo Colonna (d. 1532) for use in the Sistine Chapel. It was written and illuminated c. 1532-35, and some of its decoration is contemporary with Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgment over the High Altar.
Item date: 1883-87
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £220
Item cost: £220
Institution: Bruce Castle Museum, Archives & Local History Service
Town/City: London
Surveyor’s reports to the General Purposes Committee concerning the upkeep of the fabric of the local area and its drains, sewers and roads. The volume complements Haringey Archive's continuous run of minutes of the Local Board of Health, 1850-95
Item date: 1846
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: £12,000
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
An album of drawings of buildings and scenes in the west Hampshire village of Wellow by an unknown artist, c. 1846.
Item date: 1733
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £11,250
Institution: Foundling Museum
A hitherto unrecorded contemporary manuscript, finely bound in contemporary Dutch floral wrappers pasted onto boards with a calf backstrip. Written in three different hands, of which the two who copied the twelve arias from Alcina have been identified as 'S' and 'S3' using Larsen’s identificatio
Item date: Late 18-19th century; 17-19th century
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £7,000
Item cost: £24,000
Institution: Exeter University Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
The Gale Morant Jamaican plantation papers cover the period from the late 18th century to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 and beyond, when plantation owners were allowed to keep their slaves as ‘Apprentices’.
Item date: 1907-91
Date acquired: 2011
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £135,000
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria
Seventeen boxes of papers of Alfred Wainwright, MBE, the fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator.