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Contains a letter from Sir Benjamin Hobhouse to Richard Yates on the propriety of the Literary Fund addressing George IV on his accession, drafts of the resulting address, a copy of the London Gazette dated 30 Mar 1820 containing numerous such addresses, including the Literary Fund’s, and a lett...
Contains a draft of an address by the Literary Fund to ‘the Ambassador from the State of Tripoli to the Court of G.B.’, with a note addressed from Charles Symmons to John Bowyer Nichols, and a letter from Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, enclosing the Ambassador’s reply, a letter tran...
Contains drafts of an address by the Literary Fund to William IV on his accession to the throne, as well as correspondence relating to this from Joseph Snow, Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, John Ilderton Burn, John Caley, John Britton, John Bowyer Nichols, George Woodfall and Edward ...
Contains three letters from Edward Adolphus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, to Whittington Henry Landon relating to the Literary Fund’s address to Queen Victoria on her accession, and a response from Whitehall thanking Somerset for the address.
Address to the Duchess of Kent, on the Queen’s Marriage
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Contains a copy and drafts of an address made by the Literary Fund to Princess Marie Luise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent, with related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, John Bruce, Henry Ellis, John Bowyer Nichols and Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne,...
Address to the Queen & Prince Albert, on their Marriage
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Contains drafts of an address from the Literary Fund to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their marriage, a press clipping detailing the speech and related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, Edward Raleigh Moran, William Jerdan, Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne, and Wil...
Contains a draft of an address from the Literary Fund to Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough, with related letters to Octavian Blewitt from James Emerson Tennent and F N Waterfield.
Address to the Queen & Prince Albert, on her escape from the attempt of John Francis
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Contains a draft of an address to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert after an assassination attempt by John Francis, with related correspondence from Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne to Octavian Blewitt and from George Edward Anson and [?] Graham acknowledging the address.
Contains an address to the King of Prussia from the Literary Fund, drafted by John Britton, related correspondence from Octavian Blewitt, Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne and Britton and three letters from the 1850s by and on behalf of Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen to Ble...