Grants awarded in 1998

15 drawings of three London Churches: St Bartholomew, Sydenham by Lewis Vulliamy, St Philip Clerkenwell, by Edward Buckton Lamb and St Mary the Less, Lambeth by Fracnis Bedford.

Eight parchment rolls dating from the episcopate of Geoffrey Blythe. They form an important addition to the pre-Reformation records of the episcopal estates held at the Record Office

Jacques was a prolific illustrator and her archive contains copies of all the books she illustrated, by some of Britains best known childrens authors including Henry Treece, Philippa Pearce, Nina B

The archive includes early diaries, manuscripts of his own writings, constituency papers and correspondence, papers, reports and accounts for his printing and publishing business, notes and working

Collection contains 8 unpublished plays and novels written either by Orton or by Orton and Halliwell, as well as Ortons own typescripts of all his published plays, and annotated production scripts;

The railway history of the County of Dorset begins with the Portland Railway Company, formed by a group of merchants to better transport Portland Stone from the quarries.

The non-current papers of the Society, ranging in date from the 1820s to the 1990s. It includes registers, subscription lists, account books, and a very large accumulation of correspondence.

Simon Lawrences Fleece Press specialise in the combined printing of letter press and woodblocks.

Two fine sketchbooks, prepared for important early patrons.

A series of nine account books, complementing the large collection of Corbett family estate papers already held at the Record Office.

Two designs for fire grates, two designs for a garden temple and plans and an elevation of houses for the Genovese recorded as a design for a building in the park.

Sketches dating from a time when the two brothers were collaborating on some pictures.

Most of the collection is devoted to WH Rogers designs for publishers cloth bindings, with proof covers and proof engravings of titlepages.

Four charters of confirmation by the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield of the appropriation by the Abbey of churches and chapels in Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire, dated 1277, 1282, 1316 an

Papers relating to the conception, planning and construction of Thorp Arch Hall near Wetherby.

Canova writes thanking Westmacott for the news that one of his sculptures has arrived safely in England and that it has met with the approval of the Prince Regent; this was probably the Naiade, now

Further correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and short stories and of a novel, Reality and Dreams.

Contains a quantity of religious and other verse, some in cypher, copies of letters sent to friends, family and lawyers and many pages of autobiographical information.

Letters written from Harcourt House in Cavendish Square to William Pierce, builder of Jermyn Street, concerning the Dukes house at 13 Hyde Park Gardens, which was being prepared for the storage of

A hitherto unpublished early letter from Hardy, responding to a question from JH Nodal, Secretary of the English Dialect Society, about the dialects used in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the M

Papers dealing with the security measures taken in northern England at the time of the 1715 Jacobite Rising.

Over 500 letters addressed to Bewick and to his daughters who continued his engraving business after his retirement in 1812.

20 good letters ; two in particular are packed with comment on the doings of contemporaries in the Royal Academy, to which Roberts had been elected as Associate in 1838 and as Academician in 1841.

Bales was the greatest English calligrapher of the Elizabethan age, and these Latin verses are a fine example of his exquisite penmanship.

A slim unpretentious volume of tile designs is one of only three known survivng examples of Mintons first trade catalogue.

Five volumes of letters received from ministers and a letter book 1656-69; they provide many insights into a soldier, politician, diplomat and naval commander who moved from one side to the other o

This edition of Richard III is the first real translation of Shakespeare into Russian.

An emigrants guide to the different states and territories of the US with much general advice, and advice about passage and settlement.

69 items representing the working library of the Birmingham industrial designer Reginald E Edgcombe, who was principal designer for Osler and Farraday, ranging from design theory, to practical hand

In 1602 William Shakespeare bought 107 acres of land in the open fields of Stratford for 320.

Pole was the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterb ury.