Kirk was Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar and a major oponent of the Slave Trade.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1842 - 1920
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 105,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 1770
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 400
Institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Copy of an original map of 1652, since lost. Made for Samuel Dixon when he took on the lease of the Wallingtons estate from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Item date: 1952 - 67
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 13,500
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
A remarkable series of 1285 letters, written by Masefield to Audrey Napier-Smith, violinist in the Hall orchestra, provides an invaluable record of the Poet Laureate in his last 15 years.