The archive includes early diaries, manuscripts of his own writings, constituency papers and correspondence, papers, reports and accounts for his printing and publishing business, notes and working papers; letters from readers of his books and articles and appointment books and personal correspon
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
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
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.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 6,300
Institution: Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children's Books
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
Jacques was a prolific illustrator and her archive contains copies of all the books she illustrated, by some of Britains best known childrens authors including Henry Treece, Philippa Pearce, Nina Bawden, Leon Garfield, Ursula Moray Williams, Roald Dahl and Alan Ahlberg.
Item date: 1277 - 1456
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,938
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
Four charters of confirmation by the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield of the appropriation by the Abbey of churches and chapels in Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire, dated 1277, 1282, 1316 and 1456.
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 4,471
Item cost: 10,846
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Contains a quantity of religious and other verse, some in cypher, copies of letters sent to friends, family and lawyers and many pages of autobiographical information. Daniel came of an important Cornish merchant family, being himself a farmer and trader in timber and pilchards.
Item date: 1780 - 1810
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 7,500
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: Derby Museums
Town/City: Derby
County: Derbyshire
A uniquely important group of designs for tablewares produced by the Derby Factory, containing nearly 400 designs for plates and nearly 750 designs for cups.
Item date: 1876
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 339
Item cost: 1,351
Institution: Dorset County Museum
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
A hitherto unpublished early letter from Hardy, responding to a question from JH Nodal, Secretary of the English Dialect Society, about the dialects used in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Hand of Ethelberta and A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Item date: 1825 - 1972
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 12,000
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
The railway history of the County of Dorset begins with the Portland Railway Company, formed by a group of merchants to better transport Portland Stone from the quarries.
Item date: 1715 - 17
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 4,100
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham
Papers dealing with the security measures taken in northern England at the time of the 1715 Jacobite Rising.
Item date: 1770 - 80
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,408
Item cost: 3,881
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Two designs for fire grates, two designs for a garden temple and plans and an elevation of houses for the Genovese recorded as a design for a building in the park.