Written during his first two years at St Cyprians prep school, Eastbourne. They show a cheerful uncomplicated boy enjoying life - a very different picture to the one Orwell later chose to give in Such, Such were the Joys, 1968. Illustrated at p.20 of AR
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1911 - 12
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: University College London
Town/City: London
Item date: 1778 - 92
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 3,250
Item cost: 3,250
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
49 working drawings for the austere neoclassical mansion designed by Wyatt for Sir Thomas Frankland, which was demolished in 1927. Many of the drawings bear instructions to workmen about the domestic fittings such as flues, water closets, drainage, window shutters and library furniture.
Item date: 1797 - 1834
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 10,500
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
The ledgers are day books with invoices transcribed in chronological order, each describing individually the pictures worked on.
Item date: 1550
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 12,958
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Written by the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. Acquired at the Goyder sale withJohn Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury: The true copies of the letters betwene ... Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D.
Item date: 1641 - 49
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 16,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
These newsbooks were in effect the earliest English newspapers. This collection is of extreme value to historians since it contains Rushworths manuscript annotations commenting on the accuracy, or lack of it, in his contemporaries versions of events
Item date: 1881
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Contains notes on Jean Cavalier, leader of the Protestant Camisards of the Cvennes in their revolt against Louis XIV after the revocatin of the Edict of Nantes. RLS had intended to write a novel on this subject but the ideas in this notebook were never fully developed.
Item date: 1764
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
An album or scrap book compiled by a bear-leader - a man who conducted young gentlemen on the Grand Tour of Europe. It is a serious record of his scholarly, artisitc and topographic interests and witness to his wide circle of antiquarian contacts
Item date: 1701 - 14
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 5000
Item cost: 181,250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A most important, and very engaging collection of letters from Englands leading statesman and general during the War of the Spanish Succession to the Dutch head of state. This acquisition complemented the Blenheim papers, already in BL which contains some of Heinsiuss replies to Marlborough
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 315
Item cost: 315
Institution: University of Nottingham
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
For the most part this archive comprises letters from John Holles third Duke of Newcastle and Thomas Pelham Holles, 4th Duke, to Sir Francis Molyneux.
Item date: 12th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 220,000
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
One of the most comprehensive family estate archives.