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.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1661
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 500
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
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: 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
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: 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: 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: 1785
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1400
Item cost: 1400
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
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: 12th century - 1962
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 32,800
Institution: Doncaster Archives (City of 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: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 17,500
Item cost: 210,000
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
Together with the usual rentals, accounts and plans for the familys estates, there are diaries and correspondence of family members.
Item date: 1548
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 7,500
Institution: Royal Agricultural College
Town/City: Cirencester
County: Gloucestershire
Bound with Fitzherberts Surveyinge, 1546 nad A Treatise of householde, 1534, a translation of Xenophons Oeconomicus by Gentian Hervet. The three works, each complementing the other, singly represent almost the earliest printed texts on agriculture and land management in the English language.