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78261. Loan 96 RLF 5/5/14

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/5/14
Title:
Anniversary Committee, 1873-1886
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence relating to the Anniversary Committee of the Literary Fund, which co-ordinated the Anniversary Dinners, written by Edward Thomas, Charles Lewis Gruneisen, Charles John Leaf, John Mitchell, William Bodham Donne, Frederick Locker, George Godwin, Octavian Blewitt, John Murra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873-25 Feb 1886
Extent:
1 file (14 documents)

78262. Loan 96 RLF 5/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6
Title:
Literary Fund Documents Regarding Officers: Clerks, Secretaries and Collectors
Scope & Content:
Contains documents relating to Literary Fund’s Clerks, Secretaries and Collectors. The Clerk (later the Secretary) ran the day-to-day affairs of the Fund, the position becoming increasingly important as the nineteenth century progressed. This box contains nine folders relating to these positions...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797-1919
Extent:

1 box (17 files)

78263. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/1
Title:
Collector (later Clerk) – Mr Edmund Baker
Scope & Content:
Contains documents relating to the tenure of Edmund Baker as Collector and Clerk of the Literary Fund, between 1800 and 1807. These include letters from Baker to Thomas Dale, Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham, the Committee of the Literary Fund and Richard Yates detailing his work collecting and encou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1801-12 Dec 1835
Extent:

1 file (24 documents)

78264. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/2
Title:
Assistant Collector (later Collector and Clerk) – Mr Charles Lamborn
Scope & Content:
Contains application letters for the post of Assistant Collector from Charles Oliver, William Burt and James Salmon and a Treasurer’s Report by John Reeves, George Ranking and Richard Yates on the candidates for the position, which resulted in the appointment of Charles Lamborn. Also contains a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1804-22 Aug 1821
Extent:

1 file (9 documents)

78265. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/3
Title:
Clerk and Collector – Mr Henry Leave
Scope & Content:
Includes a correspondence between Henry Leave and John Britton with respect to the position of Collector for the Literary Fund, a letter from Charles Monro to Richard Yates and two documents relating to Leave’s Bond, all from 1819. Also includes correspondence from 1821 and 1822 relating to Leav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1819-23 Apr 1822
Extent:

1 file (19 documents)

78266. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/4
Title:
Clerk and Collector – Mr Joseph Snow
Scope & Content:
Contains applications for the office of collector from Charles Payne, Charles Berkeley, R Kennerley, Thomas Bedder (with recommendation letters from William Frend and William Sixmore) and Joseph Snow (with recommendation letters from Charles Kemble and George Yeats), with related letters from Ow...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1822-16 Dec 1839
Extent:

1 file (22 documents)

78267. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/5
Title:
Secretary – Mr Cusack Patrick Roney
Scope & Content:
Contains applications for the post of Secretary of the Literary Fund from George Miller (two letters, with a printed list of testimonials), Thomas Harral (four letters, with a later note from Octavian Blewitt on Harral’s deserting his family), Edward Kempson, Octavian Blewitt (three letters, wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1835-25 Feb 1837
Extent:

1 file (17 documents)

78268. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/6
Title:
Secretary – Offers of Gratuitous Services
Scope & Content:
Contains an 1836 letter from William Moxon to the Committee of the Literary Fund offering his services as Secretary gratuitously, a pair of similar 1837 letters from Francis Mahoney to Thomas Crofton Croker and two 1855 letters from a Miss Howard, with responses from Octavian Blewitt and Charle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1836-12 Apr 1855
Extent:

1 file (7 documents)

78269. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/7
Title:
Secretary – Reverend Whittington Henry Landon
Scope & Content:
Contains letters of application for the post of Secretary of the Literary Fund from John Van Horn (with printed affidavit), H W Dewhurst, Octavian Blewitt, G.H. Smith, Whittington Henry Landon (recommended by William Jerdan) and James Stennett (with recommendation letter from Wieles Leigh Cliffe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1837-9 Feb 1839
Extent:

1 file (17 documents)

78270. Loan 96 RLF 5/6/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan 96 RLF 5/6/8
Title:
Secretary – Mr Octavian Blewitt
Scope & Content:
Contains letters relating to applications for the post of Secretary of the Literary Fund from George Miller, William Freeling Jerdan (supported by his father, William Jerdan) and Octavian Blewitt (with picture). Blewitt was appointed, with sureties provided by William Tooke, George Herbert and E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1839-16 Jul 1888
Extent:

1 file (56 documents)