Royal Literary Fund Annual Register of Grants Volume 1
Scope & Content:
Contains records of every grant made by the Literary Fund between 1790 and 1891, arranged chronologically by the date of the meeting at which the grant was agreed. Includes totals of grants per year, a running total of monies disbursed by the Fund and occasional notes on exceptional cases.
Royal Literary Fund Annual Register of Grants Volume 2
Scope & Content:
Contains records of every grant made by the Literary Fund between 1892 and 1951, arranged chronologically by the date of the meeting at which the grant was agreed. Includes a running total of monies disbursed by the Fund and occasional notes on exceptional cases.
Royal Literary Fund Alphabetical List of Subscriptions, Donations, and Legacies, as entered in the Receipt Book from 1882 to 1894
Scope & Content:
Contains an alphabetical record of subscriptions, donations and legacies to the Royal Literary Fund paid between 1882 and 1894. This book is custom-printed and is marked on the front as Vol. VIII; however, no other similar volumes were to be found in 2013.
Carbon copy letter book employed by Arthur Llewelyn Roberts, the Fund’s Secretary, who served between 1884 and 1919. The earliest letter in the volume is dated 5 January 1887; the latest (which is on page 34 of the 740 numbered pages in the volume) is dated 28 April 1898. Those written to incl...
Details the Royal Literary Fund’s cash transactions between January 1894 and June 1905. Volumes I and II were not found in the archive in 2013. The volume is indexed to ledgers which were also not found in 2013.
Details cash transactions made by the Royal Literary Fund between June 1905 and April 1920. A letter from Coutts & Co dated 8 February 1906 is inserted at the fourth opening.
The Annual Reports contain information regarding the Literary Fund's finances, subscribers and officers. They also contain varying additional documentation, including descriptions of the Fund's work, copies of its charter and statistical tables. Also present are materials relating to the Fund's ...
The first report is very short: 1792 (8 pp.): 'Constitution of a Society to Support Authors in Distress'; List of Officers and Subscribers (with amounts donated) All subsequent reports in this volume contain an 'Account of the Institution of the Society for the Establishment of a Literary Fund...
Bound volume containing the reports for 1807-1813 inclusive. Also included at the beginning is an additional 41 pp. pamphlet of subscription lists and accounts prepared in April 1807, probably due to the previous report (1805/1806) being a combined one. Reports contain an 'Account of the Instit...