Contains numerous documents detailing the costs of printing the Literary Fund's Annual Reports and the associated discussions. Includes communications with other societies and with printers, reports from sub-committees on costs, and papers relating to a motion put forward by Anthony Trollope in ...
Petition to Parliament for a Remission of the Legacy Duty
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Contains letters and drafts of a petition to Partliament relating to the possibility of abolishing the Legacy Duty in the case of organisations such as the Literary Fund.
Petition to Parliament against the Charitable Trusts Bill
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Contains details of two attempts to petition against Charitable Trust Bills in Parliament. The first (from 1852) is represented by a draft petition from the Literary Fund and press clippings from The Times and the second (from 1881) consists principally of printed letters from John Derby Allcrof...
Contains letters from correspondents including Samuel Berry, Peter Rasbotham and Henry Robert Addison relating to an amateur theatrical performance for the benefit of the Literary Fund, which took place on 18 Mar 1853. Also contain two clippings from the Guardian anticipating and reviewing the pe...
Sir Richard P. Jodrell's Offer of a Prize of £50 for a Poem on the Visit of the Queen of England to the Tomb of Napoleon I
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Correspondence between Sir Richard Paul Jodrell and Octavian Blewitt regarding Jodrell's offer to set up a poetry prize to be administered by the Literary Fund.
Contains various communications between other societies and the Literary Fund, mostly addressed to the Fund's secretary, Octavian Blewitt. Contains a series of communications relating to an abortive 1863 proposal to extend income tax to charitable funds, tranches of communications with the Guild ...
Draft of a letter to the King and to various livery companies seeking aid in making up a shortfall between monies incoming and those being paid out to authors by the Literary Fund.