The collection of papers includes two volumes of letters from the Duke of Wellington written during the Peninsula campaign (Cotton was the leader of his cavalry force).
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 800
Item cost: 15,500
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 7,000
Item cost: 700,000
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
A large collection of papers: 3,600 documents relating to naval affairs between 1771 and 1782 with 70 notes and minutes of cabinet meetings and more than 300 letters from George III.
Item date: 1786
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1650
Institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Craig designed the New Town of Edinburgh and this rare book is his attempt to formalise the approach to the New Town across the North Bridge in a series of grand crescents and squares with provision for new public buildings
Item date: 1860 - 1908
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
Mainly Scottish subjects with some English and one Irish; most of the prints are of outstanding quality. The English views are mainly from the early 1860s Cathedrals and Castles series. Most areas of mainland Scotland and some of the Inner Hebrides are also represented
Item date: 1813 - 28
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,028
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
Samuel Cockerells design, commissioned in 1813 was never executed. When the house was inherited by Gibbs Crawford Antrobus in 1827 he turned to Lewis Wyatt for an entirely new house in the Jacobethan style.
Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 200,000
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
A series of manorial accounts remarkable for its continuity. There are a large number of papers relating to the priory of Tywardreath and its possessions, and plans and papers concerned with mining and the production of tin and copper in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Item date: 17th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 200,000
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire
Includes the architectural and garden plans of James Paine, Richard Woods and Capability Brown for the new castle and grounds of about 1770. The total purchase pric e is for the entire collection split between the Cornish and Wiltshire record offices
Item date: early 13th century
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 90,000
Institution: National Trust, Coughton Court
Town/City: Alcester
County: Warwickshire
Bought with six other medieval MSS all belonging to Coughton Court Library. The collection also included Peter Lombards Commentary on the Psalms, three Books of Hours and a Sarum liturgical Manual of about 1450. Illustrated at p.18 of AR
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 41,000
Institution: Dumfries Museum
Town/City: Dumfries
County: Dumfriesshire
30 sketch books and 24 portfolios of plans elevations and miscellaneous sketches in ink watercolour and pencil. Each facet of Newalls work is represented from middle class houses to farms, churches, schools, bridges, greenhouses and tombs.
Item date: 1820
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,736
Institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh
30 letters including ones from Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, Thomas Roscoe, Reginald Heber and George Jardine as well as Wilsons professors at Glasgow and Oxford.