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: 1,550
Item cost: 1,550
Institution: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
69 items representing the working library of the Birmingham industrial designer Reginald E Edgcombe, who was principal designer for Osler and Farraday, ranging from design theory, to practical handbooks and visual reference material.
Item date: 1819
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 2,808
Item cost: 2,808
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Canova writes thanking Westmacott for the news that one of his sculptures has arrived safely in England and that it has met with the approval of the Prince Regent; this was probably the Naiade, now in the Royal Collection.
Item date: 1840 - 70
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 9,250
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Most of the collection is devoted to WH Rogers designs for publishers cloth bindings, with proof covers and proof engravings of titlepages.
Item date: 1852 - 53
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,792
Item cost: 3,528
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Sketches dating from a time when the two brothers were collaborating on some pictures. The fateful holiday in Scotland when Ruskins portrait was started and Millais relationship with Effie Ruskin began is recorded b y William in a sketch entitled Crossing the Border.
Item date: 1652- 72
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 84,630
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Five volumes of letters received from ministers and a letter book 1656-69; they provide many insights into a soldier, politician, diplomat and naval commander who moved from one side to the other of the political divide.
Item date: 1956 - 97
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 37,500
Item cost: 75,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Further correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and short stories and of a novel, Reality and Dreams. This supplements the major part of the archive acquired by NLS with the help of the Friends in 1992. Grant from the Philip Larkin Fund
Item date: 1846 - 64
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,300
Item cost: 3,055
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
20 good letters ; two in particular are packed with comment on the doings of contemporaries in the Royal Academy, to which Roberts had been elected as Associate in 1838 and as Academician in 1841. In another letter he writes of a picure he is painting of our dear little Queen.
Item date: 1787
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 6,750
Item cost: 6,750
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
This edition of Richard III is the first real translation of Shakespeare into Russian. The identity of the translator, who was probably working from the French of Pierre Prime Flicin Le Tourneur has not yet been established
Item date: 1638 - 39
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 8,234
Institution: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Town/City: Stratford
County: Warwickshire
The list records a total of 24 performances before the King and Queen, presented by the Kings company over a nine month period.