The non-current papers of the Society, ranging in date from the 1820s to the 1990s. It includes registers, subscription lists, account books, and a very large accumulation of correspondence.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 130,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Item date: 12th century - 1962
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 32,800
Institution: Doncaster Archives
Town/City: Doncaster
County: Yorkshire
As well as the usual estate manuscript deeds and accounts the collection includes documents relating to the remodelling of Cusworth Hall by James Paine and the design of the gardens by Richard Woods.
Item date: 1785
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1400
Item cost: 1400
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Seven ink and watercolour estate plans with accompanying reference tables for lands in St Clements and other parishes. Cartography of the highest quality, meticulously surveyed and finely drawn with many maps embellished with decorative cartouches and drawings. Illustrated at p.29 of AR
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 29,406
Institution: Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children's Books
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
3,000 volumes, comprising Webbs collection of Puffin and other childrens books and reference works.
Item date: 1778
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 600
Institution: Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library
Town/City: Canterbury
County: Kent
Two volumes of notes compiled for Hasteds history of Canterbury to be included in his History of Kent, volume IV, inc luding prints, engravings and stories with a local connection.
Item date: 1923
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 2,535
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
A well-thumbed and slightly shabby notebook containing amended copies of 22 poems written between November 1923 and February 1924, shortly before Audens 17th birthday.
Item date: 1935
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 2,200
Institution: Birmingham University
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
A four page letter in response to one sent by Flandin in April 1935 to congratulate Chamberlain on his recent budget (he was Chancellor of the Exchequer at this time).
Item date: 1923 - 50
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 7,500
Item cost: 30,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Includes letters from Blanche Patch, Shaws secretary and Charlotte Shaw. In 1929 Shaw and Barry founded the Malvern festival and the correspondence contains a detailed discussion of the staging of Shaws plays.
Item date: 1661
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 500
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
Bought to reunite with the rest of the Bibliotheck of Kirkwall now held at Aberdeen University Library. Bequeathed to the town of Kirkwall in 1683 by William Baikie , the 160 volumes became one of the earliest public libraries in Scotland.
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,125
Item cost: 6,250
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Manuscript journals of a journey to Vienna in 1851 and a journey to Palermo in 1868. The former includes autograph letters from Herbert Minton, Coles travelling companion as well as maps, ephemera, bills and receipts.