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Contains letters to Octavian Blewitt and Arthur Llewelyn Roberts from William Telfe (for Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Earl Cairns), Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Earl of Dufferin, Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, [J W Williams?], John Murray, Arthur Sammarez (for Stafford Henry Nor...
Letters to Octavian Blewitt and Arthur Llewelyn Roberts relating to the appointment of auditors for the Literary Fund from John Thomas Hope, Joseph Gwilt, Bolton Corney, Theodore Martin, Sir Samuel Birch, Edward Foss, James Craigie Robertson, Christopher Knight Watson, Charles Shaw, William Smit...
Contains documents dealing with the handling of the Literary Fund’s finances, including an 1816 correspondence detailing the transfer of the Fund’s financial affairs to Davison & Co. to Thomas Coutts & Co., two 1830s receipts for Ransom & Co. for a ‘tin box’ and a ‘japann’d box’, a r...
Letters relating to the appointment of the Literary Fund’s Honorary Architects, including correspondence from those appointed: Henry Rhodes, John Newman, John Godwin and Philip Charles Hardwick. Also includes letters and notes written by Octavian Blewitt, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Newman and Edw...
Letters relating to the appointments and duties of the Literary Fund’s Honorary Physicians, including letters from those who held the post in the nineteenth century, Patrick Smith Fraser, Benjamin Ward Richardson and John William Ogle, and correspondence relating to these from Octavian Blewitt, ...
Letters on the appointments and duties of the Literary Fund’s Honorary Solicitors, including letters from appointees – Daniel Moore, William Tooke, William Ouvrey, William James Farrer and Frederick Willis Farrer – and related correspondence from Literary Fund officials: Octavian Blewitt, Willia...
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Committee, Council, Treasurers and Registrars
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Contains documents relating to appointments to the Committee of the Literary Fund, as well as to the Council, Treasurers, Registrars and Anniversary Committee in the nineteenth century, with one small file of later documents relating to the 1920s and 1930s. While these files mostly contain lette...
Contains a letter from French Laurence regretfully declining a post on the Committee of the Literary Fund and a letter from Charles Burney on an illness that prevented him from meeting the Fund’s subscribers.
Contains an 1802 letter from John Williams accepting an invitation to join the Committee of the Literary Fund and an 1806 resignation letter from William Boscawen.
Contains an 1810 letter from Anthony Highmore resigning from the Committee of the Literary Fund, written on a printed meeting reminder, an 1816 letter from James Christie accepting an invitation to join the Committee and an 1817 resignation letter from John Fuller.