530 autograph sheets and 260 typescript sheets of drafts of poems for The Anathemata; 1000 autograph sheets of poetry for The Roman Quarry; over 6,500 autograph sheets of drafts for prose works and letters; also some 1500 letters addressed to him.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 120,000
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 7,572
Institution: Leighton House Museum
Town/City: London
Some of the lots were bought to provide evidence of the familys origins and letters from his father provide information about Leightons early life and relationship with his parents.
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 7,250
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London
43 portraits of Charles II and his court in a contemporary binding
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 13,800
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Working notebooks and written-up mathematical calculations in disciplines ranging from geometry to astronomy, from physics to trigonometry and from land-measuring to malting. This last in the form of an essay written by the young John Flamsteed, the future Astronomer Royal
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 18,500
Institution: Rhodes House Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Buxton was Wilberforces designated successor as leader of the parliamentary anti-slavery campaign. The MSS document the Buxton familys close involvement in the parliamentary campaign of 1833.
Item date: 1937 -40
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 18,000
Institution: Churchill College
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Diaries, photographs and letters concentrating on the period when Hore-Belisha was Minister of War 1937 - 1940 and particularly on the events surrounding the dismissal of Neville Chamberlain
Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 143.75
Item cost: 143.75
Institution: Armitt Museum and Library, Ambleside
Town/City: Ambleside
County: Cumbria
Written from The Knoll, Ambleside to George Grote who was trying to help Martineau with money problems at The Westminster Review
Item date: 1699 - 1738
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 450
Item cost: 450
Institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Very detailed in the later years: no other such record is known for any other town of this period in the old county of Berkshire
Item date: 1784 - 1848
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 492
Institution: Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Town/City: London
As well as private correspondence of this properous silk merchant the collection includes Beuzevilles correspondence as Director and Joint Treasurer of the French Committee which was concerned from the reign of James II until Victorian times in distributing the Royal Bounty granted for the relief
Item date: 1539
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 850
Item cost: 8,500
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Rare second edition, the first to develop Calvins ideas on the Trinity and with new chapters on repentance and justification by faith