Search FNL grants since 1931

60 documents, mostly relating to local affairs in Gloucester with scathing verses composed by Counsel mostly about the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral

Papers relating to the successive Earls of Carnarvon from the first creation in 1793 until the time of the 4th Earl in the late 19th century.

Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith, fell out of a window, 2 days after making his will in 1592. Robert Herrick, the poet, was a child of 14 months at the time of his fathers death. Two of the documents are inventories of household goods, his stock in trade and his trade debts.

Mostly of the period 1830 - 60

Survey made for Sir Thomas Grey (d.1589) when he was in his minority following the death of his father Sir Ralph Grey in 1568.

Editorial correspondence and in-house files, augmenting the papers of Kingsley Martin which have been held at Sussex since 1969. Correspondence includes EM Forster writing about the Warsaw Ghetto, Stephen Spender on Burgess and Maclean and Harold Wilson on post-war Russia.

One of the many annuities charged by Emma Hamilton on Nelsons estate at Merton in an effort to stave off bankruptcy. This indenture supplies important information about the captial sums thus received by Emma Hamilton

This vast collection of papers falls into three groups: Townleys own records, a huge correspondence with collectors and others and papers on classical sculpture and mythology by Pierre Hugues, better known by his self-conferred title of Baron dHarncarville whom Townley employed to catalogue his c

Seven of the eight letters known from Whaley to Walpole. Whaley was sevenyears Walpoles senior and preceded him at Eton and at Kings College Cambridge, where he became Walpoles tutor for part of the latters time at Univeristy. Five of the letters date from this period.

Over 200 files of correspondence, with an estimated total of over ten thousand individual documents. As well as purely business transactions, there are letters from literary friends such as Grahm Greene, John Updike, Hugo Manning and Iris Murdoch together with copies of her replies