Contains extensive records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held in 1862 and 1863. The records are organised by year. For each year, there are a number of folders detailing different aspects of the dinner: these include correspondence on the selection of the chairman, letters accepting s...
Contains records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held between 1864 and 1869. These files are generally less detailed than those for previous years, with many letters that were formerly kept instead being abstracted and listed. The records are organised by year. For each year, there a...
Contains records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held between 1870 and 1874. The records are organised by year; for each year, there are a number of folders detailing different aspects of the dinner; for most years there are two, the first containing correspondence regarding the chairm...
Contains records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held between 1875 and 1881. The records are organised by year; for each year, there are two folders, the first containing correspondence regarding the chairman, the second containing administrative records, correspondence and copies of t...
Contains records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held between 1882 and 1889. The records are organised by year; for each year, there are two folders, the first containing correspondence regarding the chairman, the second containing administrative records, correspondence and copies of t...
Contains detailed records of the Royal Literary Fund’s Centenary Dinner in 1890, which was attended by over seven hundred people. The records consist principally of letters and administrative documents, but also include materials such as table plans, menus and newspaper reports. The contents o...
Contains records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held between 1891 and 1899. The records are organised by year; for each year, there is a single folder containing documents relating to that year’s dinner, principally letters, administrative documents and stationary such as tickets and ...
Contains records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held between 1900 and 1908. The records are organised by year; for each year, there is a single folder containing documents relating to that year’s dinner, principally letters, administrative documents and stationary such as tickets and ...
No records relating to the Royal Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners between 1909 and 1914 or to the dinner of 1920 were to be found in 2013 (no dinners were held between 1915 and 1919 due to the First World War). This record exists to register this gap in the hope that these documents might subs...
The Literary Fund’s Annual Dinners ceased during the First World War, before being revived in 1920. This box contains records of the Literary Fund Anniversary Dinners held between 1921 and 1924. These files are generally less clean and systematic than the pre-war records. The records are organis...