Grants awarded in 1991

Mostly of the period 1830 - 60

Craig designed the New Town of Edinburgh and this rare book is his attempt to formalise the approach to the New Town across the North Bridge in a series of grand crescents and squares with provision for new public buildings

30 letters including ones from Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, Thomas Roscoe, Reginald Heber and George Jardine as well as Wilsons professors at Glasgow and Oxford.

Bought with six other medieval MSS all belonging to Coughton Court Library. The collection also included Peter Lombards Commentary on the Psalms, three Books of Hours and a Sarum liturgical Manual of about 1450. Illustrated at p.18 of AR

Includes the architectural and garden plans of James Paine, Richard Woods and Capability Brown for the new castle and grounds of about 1770. The total purchase pric e is for the entire collection split between the Cornish and Wiltshire record offices

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. The later letters add more information to the harrowing record of the murder of the 4th Earls cousin, Edward Herbert who was taken hostage with three others by Greek brigands near Marathon in 1870

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

Mainly Scottish subjects with some English and one Irish; most of the prints are of outstanding quality. The English views are mainly from the early 1860s Cathedrals and Castles series. Most areas of mainland Scotland and some of the Inner Hebrides are also represented

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

Early prototype Book of Hours, excessively rare.

Montagu and Walpole first met at Eton and shared many tastes, this most significant collection of letters is remarkable for its literary quality and joie de vivre. The FONL were instrumental in raising 40,000 of the purchase price through appeals for grants to bodies such as The Esme Fairbairn Trust and the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust

A series of manorial accounts remarkable for its continuity. There are a large number of papers relating to the priory of Tywardreath and its possessions, and plans and papers concerned with mining and the production of tin and copper in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The collection of papers includes two volumes of letters from the Duke of Wellington written during the Peninsula campaign (Cotton was the leader of his cavalry force). There is also a volume of papers relating to Bhurtpore 1825-6 containing copies of Combermeres dispatches to Lord Amherst during the siege

A large collection of papers: 3,600 documents relating to naval affairs between 1771 and 1782 with 70 notes and minutes of cabinet meetings and more than 300 letters from George III.

30 sketch books and 24 portfolios of plans elevations and miscellaneous sketches in ink watercolour and pencil. Each facet of Newalls work is represented from middle class houses to farms, churches, schools, bridges, greenhouses and tombs. He also designed extremely ambitious buildings for which he had received no commission.

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. It consists of a formal and detailed description of the domains, boundaries, castles tenants freeholders and rental values of the baronies of Wark and Wooler and other towns in northern Northumberland

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.

Samuel Cockerells design, commissioned in 1813 was never executed. When the house was inherited by Gibbs Crawford Antrobus in 1827 he turned to Lewis Wyatt for an entirely new house in the Jacobethan style.

Official papers of Wodehouses fifty years service in government, together with a five volume journal of particular interest for events during the Gladstone ministry 1868 - 74. The official correspondence relates to his time as Secretary of State for the Colonies and for India and during his time as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1864-6

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.