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Contains a single sub-committee report related to the granting of pensions to the widows of deceased authors, with a note by Octavian Blewitt stating that no record of this being taken forward can be found in the minutes of the General Committee of the Literary Fund.
Contains a letter from William Tooke to John Bowyer Nichols with a copy of a petition presented to George IV on behalf of the Royal Society of Literature soliciting a charter of incorporation.
Contains a letter from the Clerk to the Charity Commisioners to the Secretary of the Literary Fund (13 May 1836), a response from Cusack Patrick Roney (23 May 1836), a copy of Octavian Blewitt's response to a Charity Commission enquiry (24 Mar 1869) and a further note to Blewitt (6 Dec 1872).
Arrangement & Adoption of the new list (of members for the Annual Reports) in 1840
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Contain correspondence, much of it undated, principally between Octavian Blewitt and officers of the Litearry Fund relating to compiling the details of members of the society for its Annual Reports. Correspondents include John Bowyer Nichols, Edward Foss, John Thomas Hope, John Britton, Thomas C...
Contains a letter from John Bruce to Octavian Blewitt on changes made to the proposed Form of Application for the Literary Fund, and a printed copy of the form.
Papers relating to the British Literary & Scientific Life Assurance Co.
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Contains letters from C. Douglas Hope to William Tooke and Thomas Crofton Croker on the British Literary and Scientific Life Assurance Co., with copies of their replies (Jul 1842), and correspondence on excising mentions of the Literary Fund from the Assurance's promotional materials between Crok...
Contains a letter on Literary Fund donations from Edmund Baker to Richard Yates (8 Aug 1805) with an 'Alphabetical List of persons relieved by the Literary Fund', as well as one letter to Yates from Robert Gray (17 Apr 1823) and three from Francis Dawes Danvers (11 Oct 1823; 11 Oct 1824; 13 Apr 1...
Literary Fund Corporation Documents (1844-1904) & Resolutions of Thanks to Officers of the Fund (1828-1882)
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Contains two groups of documents. The first group relate to the administration of the Literary Fund - to financial matters, governance and interactions both with government and with other societies. The second group consists of a series of brief resolutions made by the Committee of the Literary ...
Resolution of thanks to Sir James Clark, Baronet, M.D. for his services obtaining the Title of Royal & the Grant of the Imperial Crown for the Corporation
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Contains two groups of letters. The first, containing documents dated between 1843 and 1845, includes Fund resolutions and letters from Sir James Clark relating to Clark's successful attempt to obtain for the society the right to add 'Royal' to its title. The papers in the second group, dated bet...
Advertising Donations in London & Provincial Papers
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Collection of documents and correspondence centring on the Literary Fund's secretary, Octavian Blewitt, relating to the distribution of advertisements detailing the recent donations the Fund had received and the nature of the Fund's work. Includes letters from Charles Wentworth Dilke, responses f...