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: 1280 - 90
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Early prototype Book of Hours, excessively rare.
Item date: 1862 - 1902
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 48,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Official papers of Wodehouses fifty years service in government, together with a five volume journal of particular interest for events during the Gladstone ministry 1868 - 74.
Item date: 1736 - 70
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 7,000
Item cost: 60,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Montagu and Walpole first met at Eton and shared many tastes, this most significant collection of letters is remarkable for its literary quality and joie de vivre.
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 4,200
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
The bulk of the collection is connected with the legal and business affairs of John Ludford and William Priest in the mid 18th century
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 250
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
An important group of documents showing the development of the cotton-spinning complex on the River Dove at Tutbury into a plaster grinding mill.
Item date: 1872 - 1886
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 816
Institution: Manchester College
Letters on theological and philosophical subjects and the politcs of Unitarianism. Martineau was Principal of Manchester College 1869 - 1885
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 49,375
Institution: University of Nottingham
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
27 items, including the heavily revised typescript of Wintry Peacock and the manuscript text of the play Touch and go. Page proofs include those for the collected poems Amores, 1916 and New Poems, 1918
Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 60,000
Institution: Lancashire Record Office
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire
Two thirds of the archive dates from before 1500 and represents one of the most significant collections of medieval deeds to survive for Lancashire.
Item date: 1784
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,200
Institution: Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
Written five weeks before his death, Johnson writes to instruct Mrs White to wait on Strahan and collect three guineas for herself, Betsey Barber and Mrs Desmoulins. This is the only known letter to Mrs White, few Johnson letters to servants survive