The bulk of the collection is connected with the legal and business affairs of John Ludford and William Priest in the mid 18th century
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 4,200
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 250
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
An important group of documents showing the development of the cotton-spinning complex on the River Dove at Tutbury into a plaster grinding mill.
Item date: 1872 - 1886
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 816
Institution: Manchester College
Letters on theological and philosophical subjects and the politcs of Unitarianism. Martineau was Principal of Manchester College 1869 - 1885
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 49,375
Institution: University of Nottingham
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
27 items, including the heavily revised typescript of Wintry Peacock and the manuscript text of the play Touch and go. Page proofs include those for the collected poems Amores, 1916 and New Poems, 1918
Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 60,000
Institution: Lancashire Record Office
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire
Two thirds of the archive dates from before 1500 and represents one of the most significant collections of medieval deeds to survive for Lancashire.
Item date: 1784
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,200
Institution: Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
Written five weeks before his death, Johnson writes to instruct Mrs White to wait on Strahan and collect three guineas for herself, Betsey Barber and Mrs Desmoulins. This is the only known letter to Mrs White, few Johnson letters to servants survive
Item date: 1687
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 1,050
Institution: West Sussex Record Office
Town/City: Chichester
County: West Sussex
Drawn by the Sussex Surveyor Robert Whitpaine for Sir Charles Tufton. Ink and wash on two vellum sheets. The only pre-19th century map of Shorehamthen held at Chichester
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 32,110
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
An archive of outstanding importance for the study of the pre-Raphaelite movement and of British 19th century art in general.
Item date: 1816 - 75
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 1,230
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
Three minute books of the Wheal Friendship mine in Mary Tavy, Devon which mostly produced copper, but also a little silver, lead , tin and zinc. The books list investors, notes of costs and receipts and detailed annual reports on the mine and its working
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 1,500,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
An archive of exceptional importance.