Literary, private and personal papers of Professor Douglas Dunn (b. 1942), Professor of English at St Andrew's since 1991 and one of Scotland's most eminent contemporary poets.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £20,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £100,000
Institution: St Andrews University
Town/City: St Andrews
County: Fife
Item date: c. 1783
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £1,500
Item cost: £10,500
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
A presentation album of drawings by Samuel Wyatt (1737-1807), in their original binding, for a proposed rebuilding of Mere Hall, Cheshire. The house had been rebuilt in 1670 for Sir Peter Brooke, whose descendant Peter Brooke (1723-83) married an heiress.
Item date: 1720
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £750
Item cost: £2,000
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
A rare example of an architectural design by Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734), History Painter in Ordinary and Serjeant Painter to George I, and the leading decorative painter of his day. The drawing relates to a little-known commission by Thornhill for which apparently no other drawings survive.
Item date: Late 18th and early 19th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £1,150
Item cost: £2,400
Institution: Royal College of Music
Town/City: London
The collection includes a contemporary copyist's manuscript of the Missa de Spiritu Sancto by Samuel Wesley (1766-1837), composed in 1784, with a dedication to Pope Pius VI; a copy of a keyboard fugue in D Major by his daughter Eliza (1819-95); and a copy by her brother, Samuel Sebastian Wes
Item date: 12th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £15,000
Item cost: £150,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
The bulk of this large family archive consists of deeds of the family estates, centered on Warwick and Lillington, dating from the 12-19th centuries.
Item date: 12th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £72,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
The records of a Warwickshire landed family extending over 800 years, comprising a large number of medieval deeds, including significant numbers for the estates of Bordesley Abbey; estate and household account books from 1662 to the 20th century; and over 2,000 items of correspondence, including
Item date: 1690-1974
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £1,637
Institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Family and business records of John Shaw and Sons, woollen manufacturers, of Brookroyd Mills, Stainland.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: £7,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Publications and ephemera relating to Stefan Lorant (1901- 97), the pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author, collected by Michael Hallett, Lorant's biographer, between 1990 and 2007; and Michael Hallett's own collections relating to other photojournalists ac
Item date: 1760-1800
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £3,582
Item cost: £7,163
Institution: Bath Record Office
Town/City: Bath
County: Somerset
Over 500 letters received by John Jefferys, lawyer and Town Clerk of Bath, 1760-1800. As well as letters dealing with Corporation business, there many letters from his private clients engaged in the financing of building and development projects in Bath, most notably William Pulteney
Item date: 1678
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £1,500
Item cost: £4,389
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
A catalogue of the antiquities and ethnological remains assembled by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, the foundation of the Jesuit Roman College's famous Museum.