A volume of meditations and directions on the Christian life, written shortly before the Civil War with a series of 11 illuminated initials, incorporating droll faces, decorated with flowers, leaves, acorns, grapes and ears of wheat in a charming naive style reminiscent of Stuart needlework.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1636
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 5,577
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1642 - 95
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 7,450
Item cost: 14,900
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
65 documents, many are letters addressed to Captain Thomas Brodnax of Canterbury and Godmersham Park, giving military commands and are signed by key figures including John Dixwell, one of the regicides.
Item date: late 19th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
A valuable source for the study of 19th century silverware, being 300 pages of designs for objects such as broth basins, claret jugs, ice pails, muffin plates, sauce boats and tureens. The drawings are very detailed, and are accompanied by brief written descriptions and prices
Item date: 1866 - 76
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,250
Item cost: 10,500
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Seven letters from Jeckyll to Green, which provide a fascinating insight both into the designers intentions and into his relationship with his client, as well as sketches of furniture and other details.
Item date: 1875 - 81
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 4,750
Item cost: 9,500
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Book made up for Burges, elaborately bound in black morocco, gilt. In it he records all his commissions, giving details of date, work, contractor, cost and client. His two principal clients at this time were the Marquess of Bute and himself.
Item date: 1524
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Letters patent, granting various properties in the parish of St Michael in Cornhill, London to Thomas Forster.
Item date: 1949
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 14,000
Institution: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Town/City: Edinburgh
Number 84 of the edition of 142 copies signed by Bellmer with 15 of his mounted and hand-coloured photographs, with 14 prose poems by Paul Eluard written in response to the photographs 1938-39. Illustrated at p.25 of AR
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 15,000
Institution: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Town/City: Edinburgh
This archive minutely documents the research and other activities of the British Surrealist Group. Includes a significant body of correspondence with Sir Roland Penrose and the poet David Gascoyne who were the prime movers in bringing Surrealism to Britain
Item date: 1950 - 95
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A rich literary archive with a full series of the poets work books from the 1950s to 1994, with articles, reviews, broadcasts and lectures and much correspondence, including letters from TS Eliot, Hugh MacDiarmid, Neil Gunn, Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean, Iain Crichton Smith and many other poets
Item date: 1842 - 1920
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 105,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Kirk was Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar and a major oponent of the Slave Trade.