A series of nine account books, complementing the large collection of Corbett family estate papers already held at the Record Office.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1820 - 50
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
Item date: 1505
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 770
Item cost: 770
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
Eight parchment rolls dating from the episcopate of Geoffrey Blythe. They form an important addition to the pre-Reformation records of the episcopal estates held at the Record Office
Item date: 1795 - 1881
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 7,537
Item cost: 22,000
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
Over 500 letters addressed to Bewick and to his daughters who continued his engraving business after his retirement in 1812. The letters cover all aspects of the business, including the offer of bird specimens for drawing, orders for work and books.
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,471
Item cost: 2,671
Institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Papers relating to the conception, planning and construction of Thorp Arch Hall near Wetherby. Both sides of the correspondence between William Gossip and John Carr exist as well as Carrs notebook of floor plans, sketches and elevations.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
30 notebooks of intensely reworked autograph drafts for Motions eight volumes of published verse, together with unpublished poems.
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
An interesting collection of letters discussing German writers whose work might be suitable for publication by Faber and Faber.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 25,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The archive of a working playwright, whose best known work A Day in the Death of Joe Egg , 1967, is still in production world wide.
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: 1890
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
Drawn up by the Town Surveyor, these plans were rejected, perhaps because of the catholicty of the design - there are gothic, byzantine, italianate and regency features
Item date: 1701 - 54
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 80
Item cost: 350
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire
Both men farmed at Jaggards in the parish of Corsham. Meticulous farming and housekeeping accounts with details of all building work carried out on the estate, plus some personal and family memoranda