Twenty-five letters from Disraeli to his loyal supporter Sir Henry Stracey, MP (1802-85), containing comments on current affairs, and exhibiting his consummate skills as a politician, party manager and judicious flatterer.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1860-75
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £2,280
Item cost: £6,276
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Item date: 1915-98
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £200,000
Institution: York University Library and The Borthwick Institute for Archives
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire
Sir Alan Ayckbourn is an outstanding figure in post-1945 British and world theatre. He has written seventy-four full-length plays, and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and he is renowned as a gifted director of his own work and that of others.
Item date: 17-19th centuries
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £3,500
Item cost: £14,250
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
This is a third tranche, added to Cheshire Archives' existing holdings of records of this important family, comprising court rolls of the Manor of Rixton with Glazebrook, 1717-1835, title deeds, a fine series of more than 300 leases from the 1620s onwards, estate accounts and vouchers, renta
Item date: 1298-1940
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £252,000
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
The archive of the Enys family of St Gluvias, Penryn, on deposit at Cornwall Record Office for over 40 years, comprises 80 boxes of papers and c.
Item date: 1895
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £30,000
Item cost: £176,000
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
The autograph MS of Jude the Obscure, one of the greatest and most controversial of Hardy's novels, was presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by the author in 1911.
Item date: 1638
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £250
Item cost: £250
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
A map of the lands of Anthony Fowle in the parishes of Wythiham and Retherfield, in ink and colour on vellum. John Pattenden of Lamberhurst was a noted mapmaker in East Sussex and Kent.
Item date: c.1635
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: £8,000
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Transcripts of rentals and custumals of manors in the barony of Lewes and other documents relating to Lewes, 1440, 1535-c.1635, compiled by John Rowe, a lawyer (d.1639). The book was published by the Sussex Record Society in 1928.
Item date: 1920s
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £900
Item cost: £11,624
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
Designs, patterns and other papers relating to the Poole Pottery from the 1920s, complementing the main Poole Pottery Archive held by the Dorset History Centre.
Item date: 1705-1824
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £4,325
Item cost: £1,416,433 (part of a hybrid acceptance-in-lieu arrangement)
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
The political papers and correspondence of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), Home Secretary and Prime Minister, and some earlier family papers.
Item date: 1800-21
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £2,875
Item cost: £7,750
Institution: Barrow-in-Furness Archive
Town/City: Barrow-in-Furness
County: Cumbria
Nine quarto volumes of diaries and commonplaces of William Fleming of Rowe Head, Pennington (1770-1829), a prosperous and literate yeoman farmer living in a small village near Ulverston, Lancashire.