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Author: Michael Fry
Item date: 1934
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £570
Item cost: £570
Institution: Weiner Library
Town/City: London

A rare book by the journalist Michael Fry describing his experiences in Germany up to 1934. It contains an analysis of Nazism, the role of Hitler, and observations on 'The Jewish Question' and concentration camps.

Author: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Item date: 1800
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £8,000
Item cost: £42,100
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

An inscribed presentation copy of the second edition, containing Wordsworth's preface and a cancel rectifying the omission of fifteen lines of Wordsworth's 'Michael' from the book. Only eight copies of the second edition with the cancel are known to exist.

Author: Robert Adam and associates
Item date: 1771
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: 1000
Item cost: 6695
Institution: National Archives of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

A previously unrecorded drawing for the south and west elevations of the Court House. Robert Adam was Kinross County's MP 1768-74; the Court House was the major public building in his constituency, and he paid for the improvements in the south and west elevations himself.

Item date: 15-16th centuries
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £903
Item cost: £3,360
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire

50 deeds and documents, 15-16th cent,, relating to Mascy property, including deeds relating to the establishment and dissolution of the Hollinfare chantry chapel, and a court roll of the manor of Glazebrook, 15th cent. The collection supplements the Mascy deeds bought with FNL help in 2008

Item date: 1640-1875
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £1,000
Item cost: £10,000
Institution: Carmarthenshire Archive Service
Town/City: Carmarthen
County: Carmarthenshire

The papers are divided into eleven groups, ten of them comprising the accumulations of title deeds and other estate records of the successive families who owned the Aberglasne Estate, beginning with the Rudds, who acquired the estate from the Thomases in the 17th century.

Author: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £25,000 (£10,000 from the Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £1,250,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Siegfried's son George Sassoon sold many of his father's papers, some of which were acquired by Cambridge University Library; the 'Remaining Archive' of papers in his possession at his death in 2006 include a series of war diaries and notebooks, 1915-19, containing journal en

Item date: 17-18th centuries
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £46,750
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Papers mostly relating to the 17th-century Fen Drainage Project accumulated by Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Bart. (1563-1645), his son Sir Miles Sandys and the elder Sir Miles's great-nephew, Col Samuel Sandys (d.1685).

Item date: 17-19th centuries
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £87,775
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Dr Bent Juel-Jensen, a former Medical Officer to the University of Oxford, was one of the principal book collectors of his generation and a generous benefactor to the Bodleian Library, to which he made outstanding gifts of books in his lifetime.

Author: Sir Walter Scott
Item date: 1819
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £700
Item cost: £1,500
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire

Scott's account of the rediscovery of the Scottish Regalia, which were sealed up in 1707 by order of the Treasury Commissioners, and kept in a chest in the Crown Room of Edinburgh Castle, lest the sight of them should inspire separatist sentiment.

Author: Anna Muthesius
Item date: 1903
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £1,000
Item cost: £3,493
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

A rare and important publication drawing attention to the close ties between the women's dress reform movements in Germany and Scotland. It is a significant addition the Museum's holdings on these movements.