76 page notebook, diary entries from 5th September to 12 October 1854 with sketches and diagrams showing troop positions and orders of march. A detailed account of the early stages of the Crimean War, especially the Battle of the Alma.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1854
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 800
Item cost: 13,226
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
Item date: 1863 - 64
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: Royal Engineers Museum
Town/City: Gillingham
County: Kent
18 page loose leaf manuscript, written hastily by Gordon with later annotations in red ink. A bald summary of his part in the campaign of supression of a rebellion against the Chinese Emperor, by a native force financed by the Shanghai merchants.
Item date: 1739
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 900
Item cost: 1,800
Institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
The inscription in this book reveals that far from being deadly rivals, Douglas was on cordial terms with the Adams family
Item date: 1649 -1717
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 1000
Institution: National Trust, Dyrham Park
Town/City: Bath
County: Somerset
Contains six views of rooms and staircases at Het Loo, where Blathwayt had a permanent apartment since he was Secretary at War and Acting Secretary of State to William III. The Dutch architecture influenced his rebuilding at Dyrham 1691 - 1701
Item date: 13th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 70,000
Institution: Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Record Office
Town/City: Wigston Magna
County: Leicestershire
As well as a fine series of title deeds there are manorial records, bailiffs accounts from 1277 to 1425, court rolls 1481 - 1849 a custumal and surveys of the 16th and 17th centuries. Plans of the second and third Halls survive together with plans for gardens
Item date: mid 18th century
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 60
Item cost: 242
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Almost certainly the work of William Godson and drawn up for the Sheldon family; drawn and hand coloured, 27 double page spreads including two maps
Item date: 1929
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 1250
Institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh
Murrys attempt to reconicle Science and Religion, important, now, for his autobiographical passages
Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 28,500
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria
Collection contains 20 charters granting lands in and around Kirkby Thore to the Cistercian Abbey of Holm Cultram and 22 medieval deeds c oncerning land transactions in the Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby and Ousby districts.
Item date: 1792
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,633
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
Plates of Roman remains at Pozzuoli. Also bought at this time were Antonio Plo y Camin: El arquitecto practico, civil, militar, y agrimensor, second edition, 1793; Antoine Marie Peyre: Projets darchitecture, 1812; ACQ de Quincey: Lettres crites de Londres Rome ...
Item date: 1908 - 11
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 700
Item cost: 3,245
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
350 working drawings for the RAC by Mews and David, mainly pen and ink and pencil with some hand-coloured on paper, linen and tracing paper. The plans show elevations, sections and details with a complete set of floor plans, designs for sky-lights and other details.