A hitherto unpublished early letter from Hardy, responding to a question from JH Nodal, Secretary of the English Dialect Society, about the dialects used in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Hand of Ethelberta and A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1876
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 339
Item cost: 1,351
Institution: Dorset County Museum
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
Item date: 1780 - 1810
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 7,500
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: Derby Museums
Town/City: Derby
County: Derbyshire
A uniquely important group of designs for tablewares produced by the Derby Factory, containing nearly 400 designs for plates and nearly 750 designs for cups.
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 4,471
Item cost: 10,846
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Contains a quantity of religious and other verse, some in cypher, copies of letters sent to friends, family and lawyers and many pages of autobiographical information. Daniel came of an important Cornish merchant family, being himself a farmer and trader in timber and pilchards.
Item date: 1277 - 1456
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,938
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
Four charters of confirmation by the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield of the appropriation by the Abbey of churches and chapels in Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire, dated 1277, 1282, 1316 and 1456.
Item date: 1978 - 88
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 7,500
Item cost: 29,000
Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University, Library
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Simon Lawrences Fleece Press specialise in the combined printing of letter press and woodblocks. The archive contains 50 boxes of material on each book produced with hand-crafted albums of proof pages.
Item date: 1880
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 285
Item cost: 285
Institution: National Museums Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside
An emigrants guide to the different states and territories of the US with much general advice, and advice about passage and settlement.
Item date: 1855 - 57
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 850
Item cost: 850
Institution: University of Nottingham
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
Letters written from Harcourt House in Cavendish Square to William Pierce, builder of Jermyn Street, concerning the Dukes house at 13 Hyde Park Gardens, which was being prepared for the storage of surplus family furniture, though no expense was being spared in the matter of water closets and plun
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 25,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The archive of a working playwright, whose best known work A Day in the Death of Joe Egg , 1967, is still in production world wide.
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
An interesting collection of letters discussing German writers whose work might be suitable for publication by Faber and Faber.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
30 notebooks of intensely reworked autograph drafts for Motions eight volumes of published verse, together with unpublished poems.