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.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1778
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 600
Institution: Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library
Town/City: Canterbury
County: Kent
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.
Item date: 1352
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 700
Item cost: 1,410
Institution: The National Archives
Town/City: London
An official record of the parliament held at Westminster between 13th January and about 11th February 1352. It is independent of the main formal parliament roll, held at PRO (ref C65/15), but apparently in an official Chancery hand.
Item date: 1773
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 2,625
Item cost: 10,500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
One of only two multi-volume works known to have been bound by Scott, arguably the finest bookbinder ever to have worked in Scotland.
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.