Mary Hamilton, courtier and bluestocking, held a post in the household of George III's daughters, and her diaries and correspondence offer wonderful insights into royal, aristocratic and literary circles.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: Late 18th and early 19th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £123,500
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Item date: 1807-48
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £624
Item cost: £1,247
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire
The Sierra Leone papers relate to the activities of George Rickards, who came to Freetown aged 13 in 1802, was engaged as a clerk in the Sierra Leone Company, appointed Secretary to the Governor and Council of Sierra Leone in 1808, held various other posts, and returned to England in 1811.
Item date: 1918-20
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £865
Item cost: £865
Institution: Holst Victorian House
Town/City: Cheltenham
County: Gloucestershire
(1) A letter from Holst to Raymond Bantock, son of the composer Granville Bantock, with a message in astrological symbols, written not long before the first full performance of The Planets, 15 September 1920 (2) Two letters from Holst to the pianist and composer Katherine Eggar, the first invitin
Item date: 1633
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £0
Item cost: £0
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
A large (5ft 3 x 7ft inches, 180 x 215 cm), finely drawn and lightly coloured map of the town and manor of Weston, part of the possessions of Sir Thomas Puckering, Bart., and the manor of Lannock, part of the possessions of William Hale, Esq., by Henry Lily, 1633.
Item date: 1854-60
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £750
Item cost: £950
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
11 autograph letters from Rosina Bulwer Lytton to Alfred Edward Chalon, portrait and subject painter, 1854-60.
Item date: 1441
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £447
Item cost: £447
Institution: Bruce Castle Museum, Archives & Local History Service
Town/City: London
Release by John Fray Alexander and Anne and John Combe to John Gedeney, citizen and alderman of London, of all their rights in the manor of 'Mokkynges' in Tottenham, Middlesex, 18 December 1441. On vellum with fragments of seals.
Item date: 14th-19th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £4,875
Item cost: £19,500
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
Over 1,100 documents relating to the Hanbury and Tracy estates inherited and acquired by Charles Hanbury Tracy (1778-1858), 1st Baron Sudeley, who created the family's principal seat at Toddington Manor, Gloucestershire.
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £60,000
Institution: Glasgow University Library
Town/City: Glasgow
About 450 letters from Lord Kelvin, the mathematician and physicist, to his brother James; his business partner, Fleeming Jenkin; his aunt, Mrs Gall; and his nephew James. There are also incoming letters from these correspondents, and drafts or copies of outgoing letters.
Item date: 1930-33
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £450
Item cost: £450
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Robert Dobson, following a multifaceted career as a soldier-poet, employee of the Ministry of Information in New York, Professor of English at Tokyo Imperial University and literary adviser to Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Item date: 1950 onwards
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £25,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £300,000
Institution: Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
A comprehensive archive maintained by Tony Harrison, the poet, since 1950, comprising 200 large bound notebooks and many other manuscripts, typescripts and annnotated proofs of his work, together with extensive files relating to the development and realisation of his theatre, opera, film and tele