Roger Robertson of Ladykirk, Berwickshire, made his Grand Tour in 1750-53 and bought pictures and prints in Italy. His letters home are long and detailed and he frequently assures his parents of the good sense with which he spends his time and his father's money.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1750 to 1753
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 17,625
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Item date: 1908 to 1937
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 40,000
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London
Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1928) was the half-sister of the 6th Duke of Portland. In 1902 she married Philip Morrell in 1902 and until 1915, they lived in Bloomsbury where she established herself as a literary and political hostess. From 1915 they lived at Garsington Manor, near Oxford.
Item date: 18th to 19th centuries.
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: £139,270 (tax remission)
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
The archive comprises manuscripts and books from the family library, many of which have been annotated by Watt and his son, James Watt Junior.
Item date: 1476
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 2,438
Item cost: 13,186
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
This incunable is a popular devotional and moralising work, written in the vernacular, and printed in Vicenza by Johannes de Reno in 1476.
Item date: 1851 and 1852
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
These deeds are strays from the main Vernon archive, which is divided between the Cheshire and Derbyshire Record Offices. They comprise the marriage settlement of the Hon.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 4,500
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
The collection comprises about 3,100 photographs and 450 postcards and range in date from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1980s, and thus cover the heyday of the railways.
Item date: 19th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,900
Item cost: 9,200
Institution: Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral
Town/City: Ely
County: Cambridgeshire
G. King & Son of Norwich (est. 1927) was the leading conservator of stained glass for much of the 20th century and Dennis King was closely involved with the Corpus Vitrearum project in England.
Item date: 13th to 19th centuries
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 472,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Northamptonshire Archives Service
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
This archive relates to a family, with all its marriage alliances, spanning 700 years. The core is the family and estate papers of Hattons of Kirby Hall and Holdenby, Northamptonshire.
Item date: 1791 to 1873
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,288
Item cost: 1,288
Institution: National Trust, Florence Court
The library of Florence Court was in the main collected by William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-86), an enthusiastic amateur scientist. The library was removed by his descendents, but the Trust has been able to buy nearly 500 back for the house.
Item date: 19th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 15,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Frederick Temple (1821-1902) and William Temple (1881-1944) were the only father and son who were Archbishops of Canterbury, respectively in 1896-1902 and 1942-44. This acquisition complements the Temple papers already held at Lambeth.