The major part of the archive relates to the Hill family of Carwythenack and Trenethick, and other records relate to Helston borough, including pre-1834 poor law papers and election material.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 18-19th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 1,232
Item cost: 2,979
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Item date: 1279-1652
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 1,400
Item cost: 3,959
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Twelve deeds are for an estate in Caldecote of 1279-1539. The remaining records relate to Thriplow (1573-1652).
Item date: Early 19th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 3,850,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
As the residue of the Shelley family archive, the Abinger collection comprises the papers of William Godwin and his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft; incoming letters and other papers of their daughter, Mary Shelley, and of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley; and further material of their family and circ
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 15,000
Institution: Birmingham University
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh (1909-94) was Principal Private Secretary to Anthony Eden and Under-Secretary in charge of Middle East Affairs at the Foreign Office.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
The archive documents Professor Hill's activity as an independent photographer, AUTHOR, teacher and lecturer from the 1970s to 2004.
Item date: 19th and 20th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 8,000
Item cost: 45,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
This is a collection of diaries, correspondence, drafts and calligraphy of Edward Johnson, the renowned calligrapher and designer of lettering.
Item date: 1806 to 1843
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 58,647
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
The Trust bought 10 lots at the sale, including letters of William & Mary Wordsworth to William's cousin Edward Ferguson of 1837 and books owned and annotated by the poet.
Item date: Early 16th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: US$350,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The Sforza Hours, a small volume designed for private devotion, is one of the most lavishly illustrated books of the Renaissance. It was illuminated first in Milan around 1490 and later in Ghent after 1504. In all there are 64 full page miniatures and 140 pages with small miniatures and borders.
Item date: 1979
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 1,700
Item cost: $12,000
Institution: Exeter University Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
The autograph manuscript of 'Under the North Star' was written by Ted Hughes (1930-98) in 1979 for children and was illustrated by the artist Leonard Baskin. The manuscript consists of 29 pages of autograph text abd illustrations.
Item date: 1713
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 195
Item cost: 195
Institution: Faversham Society
Town/City: Faversham
County: Kent
The book was lost from the Parochial Library of Doddington in Kent, formed by Daniel Somerscales, vicar (1694-1737). It is a variant issue from the three recorded in ESTC.