Thomas Cecil Howitt (1889 - 1968) was one of the leading provincial architects of his day.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1920s - 1970s
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £1,265
Item cost: £5,063
Institution: Nottinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
Item date: 16th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £25,000
Item cost: £2,850,000
Institution: Southampton University
Town/City: Southampton
County: Hampshire
The 4,000 boxes containing the Broadlands Archives, dating from the 16-20th centuries, are one of the UK’s most important family and estate collections.
Item date: 1670, 1675
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £300
Item cost: £500
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
A printed map of the River Tyne from Heddon on the Wall to the sea in two sections, evidently produced in connection with a disputed proposal to erect a ballast shore at Jarrow Slake. No other copy of the 1675 section appears to be known.
Item date: 1315-1637
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £1,250
Item cost: £7,638
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire
Wiltshire Archives purchased a number of Alderton deeds at the 2009 auction, with help from the Friends of the National Libraries. They were unable to secure the above lots at the time.
Item date: 1767-77
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £1,200
Item cost: £1,200
Institution: Wallace Collection
Town/City: London
A volume containing seven very rare catalogues for art sales which took place in the Low Countries between 1767 and 1777, as well as extracts in manuscript for three further sales.
Item date: 1840
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £2,800
Item cost: £8,245
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
These two unpublished letters give fresh insights into different stages of Wordsworth’s life.
Item date: 1817
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £11,000
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
A copy of the first edition of Coleridge's verse translation of his friend Hyman Hurwitz's Kinat Yeshurun', one of only five copies known in the UK.
Item date: 1231-1927
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: £6,000
Institution: Doncaster Archives
Town/City: Doncaster
County: Yorkshire
Most of the deeds and papers, filling fifteen archive boxes, date from 1666-1927, when the Melton estate belonged to the Fountayne family, and from 1826 the Montagu family, following a change of name.
Item date: 1632-1839
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £2,500
Item cost: £7,300
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria
An original court-book for Brough and Winton, 1705-1839, and transcripts of custumals, including indentured agreements between Philip, Lord Wharton, and his customary tenants of the manor of Ravenstonedale, 1579/80.
Item date: 1754
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £1,500
Item cost: £15,000
Institution: Hounslow Local Studies Service
Town/City: London
Hogarth wrote to John Kirby on 7 June 1754 advising him on handling a controversy about perspective, a subject on which Kirby, an artist, architect and topographical draughtsman, was an expert. Autograph letters of Hogarth are extremely rare.