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Mr C Edwards Lester’s Proposed Contribution from the United States
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Contains three letters regarding a scheme by C Edwards Lester to raise support and money for the Literary Fund in the United States, and a cutting detailing his speech at the Fund’s 1848 dinner.
Contains letters, printed documents and receipts relating to donations to the Literary Fund from the Percy Society on its being wound up. Also contains lists of the society’s members and publications and details of its accounts.
Contains ‘correspondence relating to a portion of the Fund raised at Liverpool at the celebration of the Shakespeare Tercentenary’ from Henry A Bright.
Donation from the Society for the Relief of Prisoners for Small Debts
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence relating to a donation to the Literary Fund from the Society for the Discharge and Relief of persons imprisoned for Small Debts.
Contains correspondence from Clement Shorter, J A Burrell, W Hugh Spottiswoode, A George Jolley and Farrer & Co. relating to the Dickens Centenary Fund, which the Literary Fund was asked to consider administering. The role was found to be incommensurable with the charter.