Collection contains seven letters from Dr John Simon to his wife, from Brantwood in 1878 at the time of Ruskin's serious breakdown. There are 49 letters from Ruskin to John and Jane Simon, six letters from Margaret Ruskin to her son, and twelve from Maria La Touche, mother of Rose.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1819 - 1902
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 12,000
Institution: The Ruskin, Lancaster University (grant awarded to The Ruskin Galleries, I of Wight, and that collection is now owned by The Ruskin).
Town/City: Lancaster
County: Lancashire
Item date: 1850
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1280
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
Sumptuous chromolithographed plates printed by Schenck and Ghemar of the exuberant Catholic chapel designed by James Gillespie Graham, and decorated by Pugin and Alexander Christie for William Drummond Stewart
Item date: 1871 - 75
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
One leaf from The Descent of Man and six from Insectivorous Plants. The leaf from The Descent is in the hand of an amanuensis but has corrections in Darwins hand. It was his practise to reuse paper and this passage is written on the back of the autograph draft of a letter.
Item date: 1941 - 89
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 5000
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Over 200 files of correspondence, with an estimated total of over ten thousand individual documents. As well as purely business transactions, there are letters from literary friends such as Grahm Greene, John Updike, Hugo Manning and Iris Murdoch together with copies of her replies
Item date: 1735 - 44
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 1,200
Item cost: 1,200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Seven of the eight letters known from Whaley to Walpole. Whaley was sevenyears Walpoles senior and preceded him at Eton and at Kings College Cambridge, where he became Walpoles tutor for part of the latters time at Univeristy. Five of the letters date from this period.
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 209,081
Institution: British Museum
Town/City: London
This vast collection of papers falls into three groups: Townleys own records, a huge correspondence with collectors and others and papers on classical sculpture and mythology by Pierre Hugues, better known by his self-conferred title of Baron dHarncarville whom Townley employed to catalogue his c
Item date: 1807
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,200
Institution: Wimbledon Society Museum
Town/City: London
One of the many annuities charged by Emma Hamilton on Nelsons estate at Merton in an effort to stave off bankruptcy. This indenture supplies important information about the captial sums thus received by Emma Hamilton
Item date: 1701
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 1000
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: Thomas Plume's Library
Town/City: Maldon
County: Essex
Bought together with Slingsby Bethel: The Interest of Princes and States, 1680, Cotton: Burlesque upon Burlesque, 1675; Guicciardini: Historie, 1618; Antonio Neri: The Art of Glass, 1662 and Arthur Wilsons The History of Great Britain 1653.
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 7,000
Item cost: 700,000
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
A large collection of papers: 3,600 documents relating to naval affairs between 1771 and 1782 with 70 notes and minutes of cabinet meetings and more than 300 letters from George III.
Item date: 18th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,805
Institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Includes maps by Josiah Ballard and William Deadman, which are both attractive and distinctive with much fine detail