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Contains a letter from William Behnes to Joseph Snow on producing a bust of Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, and a later correspondence between Octavian Blewitt and Behnes on this bust.
Portrait of Sir John Soane, V.P. and its Destruction
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Contains correspondence relating to the commissioning of a portrait of Sir John Soane from Daniel M’Clise. This portrait so offended its subject that William Jerdan took it upon himself to save the Literary Fund Committee from embarrassment by breaking in to the Fund’s house at night cutting th...
Contains letters relating to the Literary Fund’s portrait of Richard Yates from John Bowyer Nichols, [?] Rogers, Daniel [?] and Robert Cradock Nichols.
Engraved Portrait of the Marquis of Bute, 1st President
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Contains letters relating to an engraving of John Stuart, Marquess of Bute, from John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln, Octavian Blewitt and John Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of Bute.
Contains a correspondence between Octavian Blewitt and Charles Beaumont Phipps and resolutions of Committee of the Literary Fund relating to obtaining engraved portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Contains documents relating to formal addresses made by the Literary Fund to members of the Royal Family, influential aristocrats and foreign leaders and dignitaries. Also contains four files of acknowledgements from representatives of the Royal Family and Leopold II, King of Belgium. - Addre...
Contains two addresses to Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of Hastings, together with copies of details from the Minutes with cross-references and correspondence from Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, James Christie, Richard Yates and Hastings himself.
Address to the King on the Death of the Duke of Kent
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Contains documents relating to the death of the Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, including a newspaper clipping from the London Gazette on the Literary Fund’s address to him, printed prospectuses and subscription lists for a ‘Public Tribute to the Memory of the Duke of Kent’ , a letter to the Treasu...