Projects
Copt Hall Estate, Essex
Acquisition of Copt Hall estate: 399 acres of farmland and SSSI (Sites of Special Scientific Interes
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Acquisition at auction of bound manuscript copy of the first instalment of 'Confessions of an Englis
Village of Jedburgh by Girtin
Acquisition of watercolour, Village of Jedburgh by Thomas Girtin (1775-1802).
William Cowper Papers
Acquisition of twenty letters and verses of William Cowper (1731-1800), poet, to William Bull (1738-
Preservation of National Film Archive film Application 7
Re-processing 5 colour films on nitrate stock: The Drum (1938); Thief of Baghdad (1940); Blanche Fur
Fairhurst Papers
Acquisition of the Fairhurst papers, comprising: a) Papers of the Tudor and Stuart Archbishops of Ca
Young Apprentice Newlyn Copper Works, by Stanhope Forbes
Acquisition of painting, oil on canvas by Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947), entitled 'The Young
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Armchair (Hill House)
Acquisition of an armchair designed for Hill House by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and specifically fo
Paxton House, Berwick, Contents and Endowment
Acquisition of part contents and endowment of Paxton House, a Palladian mansion with service wings,
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Architectural Drawings (47)
Acquisition of a collection of forty-seven architectural designs comprising twenty by Charles Rennie