This collection will provide scholars with a fascinating detailed and important commentary on the work of one of the most celebrated of late 20th century literary figures, giving direct insight into Hughes complex mind.
Search FNL grants since 1931
These four surviving volumes are the most important documents in the whole field of British art in India.
19 personal letters from Park to his wife Alison Anderson 1801 - 05 including his last surviving letter to her from Segou, in modern Mali.
A magnificent series of medieval charters and deeds, including a series of 35 issued by native Welsh princes, many still retaining their equestrian seals. There are the detailed accounts of Sir Richard Wynn, treasurer and receiver general of Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I.
Four beautifully illustrated notebooks, containing a fair copy of the Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views ... illustrated by scenes of the New-Forest in Hampshire, published in 1791.
The papers of J Horsfall Turner, an early Bronte scholar and founding member of the Bronte Society.
34 maps surveyed by Richard Davis, Topographer to George III. All are coloured and elaborately detailed, and bound together, they have the appearance of a fair copy as opposed to a working survey. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Illustrated at p.30 of AR
62 medieval deeds and documents together with documents recording changes of ownership and management of the property in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Acquisitions include Hardys working drawings for family tombstones at Stinsford, the original Macbeth-Raeburn illustrations for the Osgood, McIlvaine Wessex Novels editions and 7 lots relating to national and Dorchester productions of Hardys dramatic works. Illustrated at p.34 of AR
Rowses working copy, together with his own copy of his edition of The Two Chiefs, 1969. They complement the copy of The Two Chiefs marked up for the press and the rest of AL Rowses literary papers already at the University Library