Grants awarded in 1973

11 grants for 1973.

120 manuscript poems

University of London

Contains contributions to magazine of 1860s and 1870s, and some unpublished immature work. Presented by CSA Dobson

Heraldic Manuscript

Northamptonshire Record Society

82 coloured coats of arms taken by Leighe from the stained-glass of All Hallows Church, Northampton, which was destroyed by fire in 1675.

Map of the battlefield of Waterloo

National Army Museum, Sandhurst

Map 54 x 66cm , prepared by a Belgian engineer WB Craan, engraved by G Jackowick. Presented by Lord Kenyon

Political correspondence

National Library of Scotland

Includes important correspondence with Lord Grey at the time of the Reform Bill crisis

The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-Rhyme

Cambridge University Library

A remarkable literary document of the Chartist Movement, written in Stafford Jail where Cooper was imprisoned on charges arising out of the riots of 1842.