Grants awarded in 1992

Over 200 files of correspondence, with an estimated total of over ten thousand individual documents.

One of the most comprehensive family estate archives.

Some 6,500 documents comprising deeds, estate papers and manorial records, plus papers of outstanding interest for the Civil War period when Sir Richard Vyvyan was responsible for the construction

Note that the Ruskin Galleries no longer exists.  The Whitehouse Ruskin Collection is now owned by the University of Lancaster's The Ruski

One leaf from The Descent of Man and six from Insectivorous Plants. The leaf from The Descent is in the hand of an amanuensis but has corrections in Darwins hand.

Probably written to the barrister John Gurney the letter concerns Priestleys continuing attempts to bring to justice the rioters that had burned down his house and library and destroyed the New and

For the most part this archive comprises letters from John Holles third Duke of Newcastle and Thomas Pelham Holles, 4th Duke, to Sir Francis Molyneux.

Depicts the manor of Anstey in northern Hertfordshire belonging to William Robinson Lytton. It records field names and shows buildings in primitive perspective.

This vast collection of papers falls into three groups: Townleys own records, a huge correspondence with collectors and others and papers on classical sculpture and mythology by Pierre Hugues, bett

Seven of the eight letters known from Whaley to Walpole.

Sumptuous chromolithographed plates printed by Schenck and Ghemar of the exuberant Catholic chapel designed by James Gillespie Graham, and decorated by Pugin and Alexander Christie for William Drum

Bought together with Slingsby Bethel: The Interest of Princes and States, 1680, Cotton: Burlesque upon Burlesque, 1675; Guicciardini: Historie, 1618; Antonio Neri: The Art of Glass, 1662 and Arthur

254 volumes plus 12 printed or written after 1640. The importance of the collection is as an entity, a mirror of the intellectual life of Lord William and his circle.