Grants awarded in 1981

21 grants for 1981.

Das Urteil: eine Geschichte

University of London, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Presented by Mrs Robson-Scott together with some 200 other volumes of major German authors ranging from Klopstock and Lichtenberg to Kafka and Benn.

Manuscript bill from his tailor

Cambridgeshire Archives

Remarkably detailed account, each charge for material being itemised with separate costs for making. The suits are described in great detail as are clothes for Mandeville's servants.

Manuscript bill from his tailor. FNL grant 1981. Image courtesy of Cambridgeshire Archives.

Manuscript ledger

National Portrait Gallery

Contains over 500 entries (mostly in the hands of Romneys assistants Joseph Barker and R Williams) detailing prices charged, frame makers, dates of delivery and destination of pictures as well as i

Manuscript letters and papers

Derbyshire Record Office

Several hundred letters addressed to Gifford by family and friends; also a manuscript journal of a journey from London to New York in 1793

Rudge-Whitworth papers

Coventry City Library

400 items, financial papers relating to the amalgamation in 1894 and the early development of this bicycle manufacturing firm, plus title deeds to the area of land where the factory was built