Resolution recording the sorrow of the Committee of the Literary Fund on the death of Emily Harriet, Countess Stanhope, with a letter from Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, to Octavian Blewitt, asking him to thak the Committee for their sympathy.
Report of the President, Registrars & Treasurers on the Re-investment of the £10,000 Land Securities to Debenture Bond
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Contains a report by the President and Treasurers of the Literary Fund (at this time Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, John Manners, George Godwin and Samuel Birch) on reinvesting part of the Fund’s resources, accompanied by letters from William Smith, Henry Hucks Gibbs, Reginald Laurence Ant...
Address to the Queen, on the Marriage of the Prince of Wales
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Contains a draft of an address to Queen Victoria on the marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, with a letter of acknowledgement from Sir George Grey to Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope.
Report of the Treasurers on the Re-investment of a Portion of the Funded Property
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Contains a report by the Treasurers of the Literary Fund (at this time John Manners, George Godwin and Samuel Birch) on reinvesting part of the Fund’s resources in different stocks, with two letters from Birch. Arthur Llewelyn Roberts has noted on the folder that the recommendations in this rep...
Appeal on behalf of Sarah Fell and her children to the Committee of the Literary Fund, with supporting note signed by Robert Baldwin, Thomas Davison, Nat Atcheson, John Nichols, John Harris, Thomas Dale, Charles Baldwin, [?], White, Cochrane and Co and A P Arch, with second note by Thomas Dale