Grants awarded in 2018

Mark Dorrington, Keeper of Manuscripts and Special Collections, writes: Ada Clarke was the younger was the sister of D.H.

Winster is a beautiful and historic village in the Peak District National Park.  In the mid-18th century it was a prosperous lead mining town but when the mines flooded

Cambridge University Library is very grateful for a grant from the Friends of the National Libraries’ Breslauer Fund, which enabled us to acquire an exceptionally rare artis

In 2007 Shropshire Archives acquired, with support from the V&A Purchase grant fund and the Friends of the National Libraries, as well as local fundraising,

The Library was very pleased to acquire a substantial manuscript commonplace book by Richard Fry (1759-1842)  largely dating from the early 19th century.

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was the son of a soldier in the army and was born in Clonmel, Co.

The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture (RSA) has acquired this rare and significant Scottish anatomical volume with the support of the Friends of the National

Ted Hughes Animal Poems, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his son

John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1486 until his death in 1500, a cardinal (from 1493) and ecclesiastical lawyer, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chancellor of England

The letter concerns Duveen's translation of Vile Bodies and contains a potted autobiography of his life as well as an inscribed portrait after Henry Lamb.

Clavering is a small parish in high North-West Essex, once the tiny capital of the Half-Hundred of Clavering but now known mainly for picturesque views and for a certain cel

The unpublished letter, written in 1755, and the only known correspondence with Traill, concerns Hume’s recent reading of a sermon by Traill where he confronts Hume’s dispar

Our purpose-built archive holding Records of the Marriott Family of Cotesbach (GB3069CEA) was the principal driver behind the Heritage Lottery Fund award to restore estate b

The Institution of Civil Engineers was lucky to be able to purchase six signed drawings at an auction at Bonhams Knightsbridge in with a grant for half the amount from the F

A generous grant from the Friends of the National Libraries helped us to secure four preparatory drawings by Winifred Knights (1899-1947).

The Cornwall Record Office was offered, early in 2018, via David Lay’s Penzance Auction House, a collection of three boxes of Cornish archive material mainly relating to the

Cambridge University Library is very grateful to the Friends of the National Libraries for generously supporting the purchase of an

Idylls of the King is one of the most famous 19th-century collaborations between a poet and a photographer and a rare and invaluable source for the stu

Prior to its acquisition by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, John Keats’s letter to Thomas Monkhouse, dated 21 June 1818, had always been in private hand

Campion Hall, University of Oxford, is grateful for a generous grant from the Friends of the National Libraries, which has enabled

In about 1970 a young articled clerk at a solicitor’s firm in the Sussex market town of Battle was required by his principal to clear old papers from a room above the stable

A letter written by the American poet Robert Frost to Gloucester solicitor J W Haines, a mutual friend of both Robert Frost and Edward Thomas.

On 20 June 2018 a significant collection of personal correspondence belonging to John Wilton Haines (1875 – 1960) was auctioned at Bonhams in London.

Constantine Ionides was one of a family of art collectors and patrons of Greek origin in Victorian London.

Books once owned by William Beckford reveal key information about his interests and collecting habits and this information is enhanced when volumes contain Beckford’s own an

In May 2018 the Bodleian purchased an interesting manuscript journal of three 18th-century journeys from Devon to London.

These two previously unknown items were listed on eBay in November 2018.  The seller’s memory was that they had come from a house clearance about 20 years ago.

The National Library of Wales is grateful to have received generous support from the Friends of the National Libraries to purchase a small, yet important group

These papers are derived from the activities of the Hastings mercantile and political family of Milward, whose prominence in the town was further enhanced by the marriage in

Dorset History Centre (DHC) is extremely grateful for the assistance provided by FNL in the purchase of two separate sets of Poole Pottery designs [see separate entry on the

Dorset History Centre (DHC) is extremely grateful for the assistance provided by FNL in the purchase of two separate sets of Poole Pottery designs [see separate entry on the

The Visitor Book of the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth, which contains a treasure trove of signatures from the Victorian world including Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred

London Metropolitan Archives is grateful to have received the support of the Friends of the National Libraries to purchase a rare stereoscopic daguerreotype of a City of Lon

Durham University is grateful to the Friends of the National Libraries for their support for the University’s purchase of this archive.

The British Library is grateful to have received the support of the Friends of the National Libraries, in the form of a grant of £15,000, towards the purchase of the archive

Herbert Read studied at the University of Leeds, during which time his passion for art and literature flourished at the Leeds Arts Club.

Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the National Libraries we have been able to acquire a significant quantity of papers of John ('Jack') Wilton Haines (1875-1960), d

The National Trust is very grateful to the Friends of the National Libraries for a grant that enabled us to repatriate this volume back to the shelves of Gunby Hall, Lincoln

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) Library is grateful to have received the suppo

A unique copy of Voltaire’s epic French poem in ten cantos written in alexandrine couplets, bound with a previously unknown letter from Voltaire to Queen Caroline.

Voyages to Madagascar; also, a history thereof during the reign of Radama and notes made on a voyage to the island of Mombassa in HM ships Phaeton

Library staff at Glasgow School of Art were thrilled to receive a grant from the Friends of the National Libraries towards the purchase of 57 issues of the rare Dutch art, d