Grants awarded in 1997

21 grants for 1997.

Album of Caricatures

National Library of Scotland

Lockhart is best remembered today as the biographer of Scott and for his biting attacks on the poetry of Leigh Hunt and Keats in Blackwoods Magazine, but in his youth he was also a spirited caricat

Archive of books and correspondence

Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children's Books

3,000 volumes, comprising Webbs collection of Puffin and other childrens books and reference works.

Archive of the Battie-Wrightson family

Doncaster Archives (City of Doncaster Archives)

As well as the usual estate manuscript deeds and accounts the collection includes documents relating to the remodelling of Cusworth Hall by James Paine and the design of the gardens by Richard Wood

Correspondence

Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham

Includes letters from Blanche Patch, Shaws secretary and Charlotte Shaw.

Estate Plans, mapped for Samuel Thomas

Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)

Seven ink and watercolour estate plans with accompanying reference tables for lands in St Clements and other parishes.

Manuscript letter books

National Library of Scotland

Gillies was an impecunious editor, minor poet and translator who lived in Edinburgh 1788 - 1858.

Manuscript letters and financial papers

National Library of Scotland

Six autograph letters some of substantial length, several being addressed to his difficult step-daughter and her husband with copies of others and transcripts and drafts of replies to his relations

Manuscript notebooks

Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library

Two volumes of notes compiled for Hasteds history of Canterbury to be included in his History of Kent, volume IV, inc luding prints, engravings and stories with a local connection.

Manuscript score of the Masque in Oedipus

Royal College of Music

First produced about 1722, this is a set of vocal and orchestral parts, copied in part by James Lewis on 13th February 1758, whose annotations reveal them to have been used at the last recorded per

The boke of husbandry

Royal Agricultural College

Bound with Fitzherberts Surveyinge, 1546 nad A Treatise of householde, 1534, a translation of Xenophons Oeconomicus by Gentian Hervet.

Timberlake Wertenbaker Archive and papers

British Library

Archive includes multiple drafts and detailed working notes for all the published and several very interesting unpublished plays and translations; an unpublished early novel; correspondence with fr