35 grants for 2013.
Artiglieria Veneta racolta, e fatta incider in rame dal Sopraintendente ora inspector general Domenico Gasperoni l'anno Domini 1782
a late autograph draft manuscript of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ celebrated poem 'Binsey Poplars'.
This handwritten receipt by Thomas Gainsborough is for the sum of 15 guineas received for a half-length portrait (which was 50 x 40 inches canvas).
This substantial collection of manuscripts relating to the artist, engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) was amassed over a lifetime of research and scholarship by Iain Bain. It i
This edition of Delightes is bound with another slim household recipe book, A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, which is anonymous but may also be one of Plat’s works--the two certainly w
This volume from the library of William Beckford (1760-1844) is bound with the distinctive Beckford Fonthill binding, which combines two motifs from Beckford’s coat of arms on the spine.
The National Library of Scotland has significant holdings of sources for Scottish military history, but most are the work of the gentry or aristocracy.
The Lacock Abbey Archive was on deposit at the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, but the owner wished to sell the collection.
Laurie Lee is perhaps the most famous of the numerous writers who have made the Stroud Valleys their home over the years. The public venue of the museum service, the Museum in the Park, Strou
Coleridge wrote this letter to his brother George while he and Wordsworth were staying in Kendal. It can be fairly described as a manifesto issued at a turning point of his life: after his re
Iris Murdoch wrote the 9 undated autograph letters to Wallace Robson, together with 11 poems, between March 1952 and March 1954.
Iris Murdoch wrote the 9 undated autograph letters to Wallace Robson, together with 11 poems, between March 1952 and March 1954.
Hester Lynch Piozzi (formerly Thrale, née Salusbury) is well known as the friend of Dr Samuel Johnson, and the hostess of a brilliant literary circle.
The sequence of letters to Rachel Fenner comprises about 215 autograph letters, together with 85 autograph postcards and other notes from Iris Murdoch written between 1964 and 1993.
The acquisition of this exceptional collection of letters from Iris Murdoch to Sir Leo Pliatzky, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Trade and knighted in 1977, will ensure that important docu
A grant from the Friends of the National Libraries enabled Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service to purchase this rare item, issued only a few months into Edward's reign.
John Wilson (1785-1854), the author and journalist, who usually wrote under the pseudonym ‘Christopher North’, was among the pre-eminent Scottish literary figures of his day.
The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by William, Percy and Sydney Spencer, three of the brothers of Stanley Spencer, the artist, mostly written to their sister Florence Image (aun
Dr Christine Faunch writes: Malcolm Elwin was born in 1903, the son of a Nottingham businessman.
an important collection of military diaries, memoirs and letters written by two generations of the Morant family from 1845 to 1919.
This archive had been held on deposit with West Glamorgan Archives Service for more than twenty years and, as a rare survival of engine
An edition of the complete works of the Latin grammarian Priscian, whose writings were used as the basis for the teaching of Latin grammar until the fifteenth century and as a source for extracts f
The previously unknown proof with extensive autograph revisions would have been intriguing enough for the Tennyson Research Centre in Lincoln, where there are 200 sets of proofs of Tennyson's poems
A copy of this book is listed in the first catalogue of the Plume Library, 1704, but it subsequently went missing.
At the heart of Northumberland Archives collections are estate and personal records of landed families.
Recueil de gravures d'après les vases antiques la plus part d'un ouvrage grec.
Whistler was one of the most prolific, diverse and popular artists of the interwar years in England.
Haringey Archive includes a significant collection of manorial documents and court rolls for the Manor of Tottenham.
The most important contemporary account of the life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in December 1170 and canonised in April 1173, was written by his closest frie
The family and estate archive of the Pendarves family had been held on deposit at Cornwall Record Office in Truro since November 1953.
The Friends have continued their generous assistance to Aberdeen University Library, and in particular the enhancement of our Bernard C. Lloyd Collection on Sir Walter Scott.
Dr Francesca Galligan writes: In 2012 the Bodleian Libraries were presented with an opportunity to save for the nation the last significant portion of material in private hands relating to
This collection of over 150 letters and deeds dating from 1604-1777 relates to the Sandford family of Sandford Hall, Shropshire.
The two manuscripts now form the nucleus of a remarkable collection of literary and material objects the College has recently assembled relating to its most famous modern literary son.
In February 1842, Charlotte and Emily Brontë became students at the Pensionnat Héger in Brussels.
