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Contains documents relating to the leasing and upkeep of the Literary Fund’s first house, 36, Gerard Street in Soho, the leasing of which was made possible by a donation from the Prince of Wales. Includes 1805 letters from Edmund Baker to David Williams, Thomas Dale, Benjamin Hobhouse and Richa...
Contains three reports and related correspondence relating to whether a separate House Fund should be used to meet the expenses of the Fund’s accommodation. The first report, by Richard Yates, is from 1808 and accompanied by a letter from Charles Monro. The second, by the Treasurers and Audito...
Contains correspondence relating to organisations wishing to use or given permission to use the Literary Fund’s premises. The file includes correspondence and documentation relating to successful applications from the John Locke’s Monument Committee in 1808, the Prayer Book and Homily Society i...
Contains a letter from John Britton to Benjamin Hobhouse suggesting new premises and offering to superintend the Fund’s house, with a letter from Hobhouse to Richard Yates on his delayed response, asking Yates to thank Britton.
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s short residence at 69, Great Queen Street including letters from the apartment’s owner, C L Birch, and from Daniel Moore, Henry Rhodes and James Christie, as well as a list by Benjamin Ellis of items taken from 36, Gerard Street to 69, Great Que...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s residence at 4, Lincoln’s Inn Fields between 1820 and 1840. Includes letters from John Britton, Henry Leave, William Mountford Nurse (the property’s owner), James Christie, Philip Reeve, G. Buxton (a neighbour) and Charles Berkeley. Also inclu...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s twenty-one year lease of 72, Great Russell Street, which commenced in 1840. Includes a copy of the agreement, correspondence from John Mickle (the property’s owner), a solicitor’s letter on the agreement, extracts from the Minutes relating to t...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s searches for premises or to offers made regarding properties. The 1840 search for premises in central London is documented in letters from correspondents including Octavian Blewitt, John Newman, George Byrom Whittaker, William Kingdom, John Stew...
Contains documents relating to the Literary Fund’s leasing ‘the drawing-room floor’ at 4, Adelphi Terrace between 1860 and 1872. Contains 1860 letters from George Godwin, Thomas J. Foord (the owner of the property), Tooke, Hallows & Price Octavian Blewitt as well as the contract, a schedule...
Application to the Government for Rooms in Burlington House
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Contains a proposal from George Godwin and William Frederick Pollock that rooms be sought in Burlington House, a letter from Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, to Octavian Blewitt enclosing a letter from Lord John Manners to Stanhope (characterised as ‘not at all encouraging’), a letter on th...