Drawn up at Fountaines death by Captain William Price, the catalogue constitutes a major source for our knowledge of Fountaines collection and its display at Narford.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1753
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 2,901
Item cost: 5,802
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Item date: 1908 - 29
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 155,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
The largest extant collection of business papers relating to Serge Diaghilev, providing a unique insight into the daily running of the Company, its expenditure, income, administration, management structure and back-up services.
Item date: 1768 - 76
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 532
Item cost: 1,762
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
Keith graduated MA from Marischal College Aberdeen in 1712 and became its Chancellor.
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 16,883
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Correspondence from composers commissioned to write works for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 8,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
A major resource for scholars working in the field of modern English poetry and culture
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 28,732
Institution: Bristol University Library
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon
29 vols of diaries, 20 vols of pocket notebooks and 13 vols of bank pass books. They reveal a great deal of Brunels journeys, meetings, observations, income and expenditure during his busiest and most creative years.
Item date: 17th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 12,000
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria
A large collection of manorial records, complementing the Musgrave family archive already in the Cumbria Record Office.
Item date: 1880 - 1920
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 3,000
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria
Rawnsley was a co-founder of the National Trust and an important figure in the early history of landscape conservation, also founding the Lake District Defence Society. The photograph collection includes one of Rawnsley with Rupert Potter and his daughter Beatrix, illustrated at p.18 of AR
Item date: mid 19th century
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 2,056
Item cost: 4,183
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
Collection includes letters from Palmerston, Peel, Nassau Senior and James Mill. There is a particularly graphic letter from Edward Littlejohn describing Huskissons death at the opening ceremony for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with sketch of how the engine ran him over
Item date: 1837 - 1952
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 475
Item cost: 950
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
A complete record of the activities of the Court, including names of the jury at each session, details of cases heard and of sentences propounded