Five volumes of letters received from ministers and a letter book 1656-69; they provide many insights into a soldier, politician, diplomat and naval commander who moved from one side to the other of the political divide.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1652- 72
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 84,630
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Item date: 1956 - 97
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 37,500
Item cost: 75,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Further correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and short stories and of a novel, Reality and Dreams. This supplements the major part of the archive acquired by NLS with the help of the Friends in 1992. Grant from the Philip Larkin Fund
Item date: 1846 - 64
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,300
Item cost: 3,055
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
20 good letters ; two in particular are packed with comment on the doings of contemporaries in the Royal Academy, to which Roberts had been elected as Associate in 1838 and as Academician in 1841. In another letter he writes of a picure he is painting of our dear little Queen.
Item date: 1787
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 6,750
Item cost: 6,750
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
This edition of Richard III is the first real translation of Shakespeare into Russian. The identity of the translator, who was probably working from the French of Pierre Prime Flicin Le Tourneur has not yet been established
Item date: 1638 - 39
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 8,234
Institution: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Town/City: Stratford
County: Warwickshire
The list records a total of 24 performances before the King and Queen, presented by the Kings company over a nine month period.
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 650
Item cost: 650
Institution: Royal College of Music
Town/City: London
First produced about 1722, this is a set of vocal and orchestral parts, copied in part by James Lewis on 13th February 1758, whose annotations reveal them to have been used at the last recorded performance on 28th December 1786.
Item date: 1820
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,736
Institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh
30 letters including ones from Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, Thomas Roscoe, Reginald Heber and George Jardine as well as Wilsons professors at Glasgow and Oxford.
Item date: 1820s-30s
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 325
Item cost: 325
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
60 documents, mostly relating to local affairs in Gloucester with scathing verses composed by Counsel mostly about the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral
Item date: 18th - 19th century
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 18,000
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Papers relating to the successive Earls of Carnarvon from the first creation in 1793 until the time of the 4th Earl in the late 19th century.
Item date: 1593 - 1602
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Record Office
Town/City: Wigston Magna
County: Leicestershire
Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith, fell out of a window, 2 days after making his will in 1592. Robert Herrick, the poet, was a child of 14 months at the time of his fathers death. Two of the documents are inventories of household goods, his stock in trade and his trade debts.