Grants awarded in 1933

20 grants for 1933.

Account book

British Library

Records Bedwells work as a locksmith at many royal residences; presented by EHW Meyerstein. Add <S 43679

Acting editions of plays

Victoria & Albert Museum

46 vols given to the Enthoven collection of theatrical material in the Dept of Engraving Illustration and Design. Presented by Mrs RM Hill

Codex Sinaiticus

British Library

From the British Library: "Codex Sinaiticus, written in Greek in the fourth century, is the oldest surviving complete New Testament and one of the two oldest manuscripts of the whole

The 'Codex Sinaiticus'.

Commonplace Book

British Library

Commonplace book of a Huntingdonshire squire largely composed of sermons. Presented by Mr Stonewall Jackson. Add MS 43410

Faerie Queene

Southampton University

6 vols, presented by Miss E Fothergill

Four manuscripts

Natural History Museum

MSS of The Infusoria of Britain; Nereis Prolifera; Exuviation of Prawn; Notebook on the culture of various plants. Presented by Philip Gosse

Holy Bible

British Library

Family Bible of the British settlement on Tristan da Cunha

Manuscripts of poems

British Library

Practically the whole surviving manuscript of Owen's verse; the first purchase of a modern author's work by The Friends. Illustrated as plate IV in AR. Add MSS 43720, 43721.

Wilfred Owen 'Anthem for a Doomed Youth'.  FNL grant 1933. Image courtesy of the British Library and by permission of the Estate of Wilfred Owen.

Opera

National Library of Scotland

2 vols printed in Paris in contemporary English binding; presented by RA Kirby, illustrated as plate VII in AR

The History of a Quartern Loaf

Victoria & Albert Museum

Presented with 6 other 19th century childrens books; listed separately in AR ; by the Misses Martelli

The Paston Letters

British Library

155 letters, being the earliest part of the family archive now mostly at BL. Illustrated in plates II and III of AR. Add MSS 43488 - 43491

The largest surviving collection of 15th-century English correspondence. FNL grant to British Library 1993. Image by kind permission of British LIbrary.

Three autograph letters

British Library

Copies in writers own hand of correspondence with Francis Freeling; presented by Warren R Dawson. Add MS 43688, ff.131, 133

Two autograph letters

British Library

Presented by Mrs EHN Wilde together with 6 other letters by Charles James Fox Sir Thomas Lawrence S T Coleridge and Chateaubriand. Add MSS 43688, ff.157, 158