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.
Search FNL grants since 1931
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
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30 notebooks of intensely reworked autograph drafts for Motions eight volumes of published verse, together with unpublished poems.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
Item date: 1940s - 1970s
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 250,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Literary MSS, notebooks, correspondence with family and friends, contracts, tributes and other miscellaneous material, including the correspondence of his second wife Valda Trevlyn.
Item date: 17th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 55,000
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
Williams was Solicitor General 1687 -88 and the papers in this collection refer to the great state trials held in the 1670s and 80s: the Rye House Conspiracy, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Algernon Sidney and the Seven Bishops.
Item date: 1613 - 17
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 90,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
The only collection of Herrick letters known, they date from the period of his study at St Johns Cambridge; most of the letters to his guardian contain ingeniously phrased requests for money